Frank Lasee Douchebag of the Month Award: September

It's that time of the month: We get to present the Frank Lasee Douchebag of the Month Award for douchebaggery in Wisconsin politics again!

As some of you may know, JP likes to dabble in commenting on Frank Lasee's blog (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here) and so I feel like I have a lot of knowledge about his platform. By platform, I'm of course not referring to something that holds any weight, but the political notion of having a consistent ideology... fuck, ok, I'll come back to this problem later.

Anyways, the folks over here at Seriatim are proud to announce that Frank Lasee has won the Frank Lasee Douchebag of the Month Award: September! *frenetic fanatical applause* This month, Frank, it's for your repeated posting on long wait times in other countries with centralized health care.

Missing from any of this brilliant prose is (1) any discussion of the conversion process from private to public health care; (2) any discussion of economic factors that could arise as a result of public health (e.g., funding more doctors) that we could implement to alleviate some of the problems in other countries; (3) any consideration of the fact that, right now, there are lots of people that don't even have delayed health care (they don't have any).

Basically, Frank decides what would make everyone sufficiently similarly situated to Frank Lasee (white, employed, philanderer, crook, selfish, pure blood American) happy, and then he invents some cockamaymee excuse that supposedly justifies it. I don't feel this Dbag award would be complete without touching on the metaphor Frank used this week to say... well, if I knew, I'd tell you:

The Senate Democrats and the Governor want to do the budget either all or nothing. They want the entire budget or they say they are going to let our property tax bills go up. All property taxpayers will pay if they refuse to act.

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It is a lot like owning a home with the roof leaking, the exterior paint peeling and the yard in disrepair, and saying we won’t work on any of it unless we can fix all of it. The Senate Democrats argue that if we fix the leaky roof, we will never get around to painting or mowing. The Assembly Republicans wisely see the storm on the horizon (increasing property taxes) and want to fix the leaky roof before our looming deadline.

What the hell are you talking about, Frank?

For your extreme douchebaggery in Wisconsin politics, Seriatim presents to you the Frank Lasee Douchebag of the Month: September.

Previous Winners:
July - Frank Lasee
August - Frank Lasee