Glenn Grothman

On December 26, Ann Coulter wrote an anti-Kwanzaa column, Kwanzaa: Holiday Brought to You by the FBI, that is remarkably similar to the the anti-Kwanzaa press release State Sen. Glenn Grothman sent out two days later.

Coulter starts out by explaining that Kwanzaa is a fraud holiday that was invented by Ron Karenga:

There must be a lot of anti-recall money at stake, because Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican cronies in the legislature are moving at breakneck speed to pass a bill to take away the rights of children poisoned by lead paint from collecting from the paint companies who manufactured the stuff, as we reported here.

On exactly 24 hours notice, the State Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Jan. 19, only on SB-373, the bill that would overturn a State Supreme Court decision allowing the victims to sue paint manufacturers.

TV news had a brief field day covering a supposed near-assault on a GOP state senator yesterday, but Glenn Grothman's ill-advised journey out a door at the Capitol and into the protest crowd was a mess of his own making. With some help from Gov. Walker, as it turns out.

Protesters surrounded Grothman and began shouting at him, although no one did anything physical. Some protesters actually shouted "Peaceful! Peaceful!" to remind everyone to stay cool. The crowd did press in, though, and Grothman at some point decided discretion was the better part of valor. He tried to re-enter the Capitol. But he couldn't. Why?

BECAUSE THE WALKER ADMINISTRATION HAD LOCKED MOST OF THE DOORS AND WINDOWS TO KEEP THE PUBLIC OUT.

Without comment, excerpts from two news stories this week.

The AP reports:

[State Sen. Glenn] Grothman issued a statement saying Wisconsin has seen two consecutive colder-than-average winters and the panels should suspend their work for two years until global warming is proven.

The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show.

The agency also found that 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005.