More Endorse: Sixteen state lawmakers have gotten on the Barack Obama Bandwagon this week in anticipation of the Feb. 19 primary. Among them, from Milwaukee, are state Reps. Pedro Colon; Jason Fields; Tamara Grigsby; Christine Sinicki; Tony Staskunas; Barbara Toles; Annette "Polly" Williams and Josh Zepnick.

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson, coming up for air from his many tasks in corporate boardrooms, endorsed John McCain this week.

Get Ready for Prosperity: Conservative glad-handing and mantra chanting will be the theme this weekend at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "Defending the Dream Summit" in Waukesha County.

"In Wisconsin, the voices of taxpayers are being drowned out by lobbyists and special interests. The result: policies that are threatening to destroy the American Dream -- higher taxes, government-run health care, out-of-control government spending, job-killing regulations, and endless red-tape," reads the invite. Pretty standard GOP fare.

But the funny thing is that the speakers' list seems pretty standard Republican fare, as well, including: Congressmen Paul Ryan and Jim Sensenbrenner; WISN talker Vicki McKenna; state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen; Supreme Court candidate Mike Gableman; Milwaukee County Exec Scott Walker; Waukesha County Exec Dan Vrakas and Milwaukee's Republican-Democrat Sheriff David Clarke.

The group sounds quite Reaganesque in its platform and in fact has a massive headshot of Ronald Reagan as the banner on its Web site. On its national agenda:

• A Taxpayer's Bill of Rights to protect the economic interests of citizens by making it harder to raise taxes and waste scarce tax dollars on frivolous programs.
• Cutting taxes and government spending in order to halt the encroachment of government in the economic lives of citizens by fighting proposed tax increases and pointing out evidence of waste, fraud and abuse.
• Tax and spend limitations to promote fiscal responsibility.
• Removing unnecessary barriers to entrepreneurship and opportunity by sparking citizen involvement in the regulatory process early on in order to reduce red tape.
• Restoring fairness to our judicial system by stemming the tide toward "over-criminalization" of economic activity spurred by over-active attorneys general.
• Working with well-known businessman and free-market advocate Herman Cain to expand all of these projects to even more states across the country in their recently-launched "State Prosperity Expansion Project." Cain is a talk-show host who was formerly the CEO of Godfather's Pizza.

The event is scheduled for all day Saturday at the Country Springs hotel. For more information, visit www.DefendingtheDream.org/WI.