This wonderful photo of all the Democratic Gubernatorial candidates meeting calmly the morning after the election sitting in Tom Barrett's kitchen is circulating on Facebook.
Contrast its tone to the description of the fateful January, 2011 get together at the Governor's Mansion Scott Walker described to the fake David Koch in the infamous taped prank call. We don't have any pictures, but there is audio and a transcript:
Walker: This is an exciting
time. This is — you know, I told my cabinet, I had a dinner the
Sunday, or excuse me, the Monday right after the 6th. Came home
from the Super Bowl where the Packers won, and that Monday night I
had all of my cabinet over to the residence for dinner. Talked
about what we were gonna do, how we were gonna do it. We’d already
kinda built plans up, but it was kind of the last hurrah before we
dropped the bomb. And I stood up and I pulled out a picture of
Ronald Reagan, and I said, you know, this may seem a little
melodramatic, but 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan, whose 100th birthday
we just celebrated the day before, had one of the most defining
moments of his political career, not just his presidency, when he
fired the air-traffic controllers. And, uh, I said, to me that
moment was more important than just for labor relations or even the
federal budget, that was the first crack in the Berlin Wall and the
fall of Communism because from that point forward, the Soviets and
the Communists knew that Ronald Reagan wasn’t a pushover. And, uh,
I said this may not have as broad of world implications, but in
Wisconsin’s history — little did I know how big it would be
nationally — in Wisconsin’s history, I said this is our moment,
this is our time to change the course of history.
Far Right Republicans are light-years away from the compassion for ordinary people of liberal Democrats. It's a difference in spirit.
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