Friday, June 21, 2013

Bucky As Walker's Pawn

Republican legislators are sending Scott Walker a budget and related bills that suit his handlers, water-carriers, and funders at the expense of everyday Wisconsin voters, and especially low-income residents, women and public school children.

We're in for months of carefully-crafted spin by and for Walker as he tries to turn modest tax cuts favoring the wealthy  - - though a deficit and tax increases are projected - - and dictated medical procedures on women - - into a gubernatorial reelection campaign next year and a presidential run in 2016 where Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum left off.

It's hard to behave more cravenly - - to use and abuse huge numbers of people to serve one person's insatiable, self-centered ambition - - but Walker is off and running doing just that, and it's up to the rest of us to sound the alarm.

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe he Recall effort and embarassing disorderly conduct by the Recall supporters around the state firmed a resolve by Republicians to ignor any middle ground with legislative democrats.

Democrats screwed themselves.

Spankings are meant to hurt. The intent is to remind the recipient exactly who's in charge.

Keep your eye on the pen with the label: line item veto.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

That "disorderly conduct" you mention? It's called participatory democracy. Sorry it offends you so.

Spankings are meant to hurt. The intent is to remind the recipient exactly who's in charge.

So you're admitting that Walker and the Republicans are governing out of spite and with a desire to injure?

The authoritarian mindset is kind of an ugly thing, dude.

Anonymous said...

"That "disorderly conduct" you mention? It's called participatory democracy. Sorry it offends you so."

Rioting and mob rule comes to mind. They did take over the Capital building illegally with complete disregard for law and acts of destruction of beautiful architecture.

"So you're admitting that Walker and the Republicans are governing out of spite and with a desire to injure?"

As I've read on this blog,"...because they can.".

Anonymous said...

"Take back Wisconsin"

Jake formerly of the LP said...

And you wonder why those of us with IQs over 80 think 262 trailer trash like you live in a bubble? Clueless fool. With power should come discretion on how to use it...and not to use it. Your type has simply abused it.

So enjoy the ride down, kid. Especially as it picks up speed in the next 18 months.

cr8f said...

Sorry but the recall opposers are the ones committing crimes, but if you watch Fox you know less after watching than before.

The recall failed because dems didn't make the case that Wa;lker lied to get elected and then attacked innocent union members to hand out huge tax cuts to the wealthy.

The cuts in wages to teachers hurt businesses because spending (you know supply & DEMAND) went down.

cr8f said...

RW'ers read the constitution on protests

WI state constitution: article 1 section 4:

"the right of the people to peaceably assemble, to consult for the common good, and to petition the government, or any department thereof, shall never be abridged."

Anonymous said...

As I remember the news footage shown nation wide, Senator Glenn Grothmann was being surrounded by drum beating protesters like a seagull cry to attack. Had it not been for a Demoncratic legislator telling the rioters to stop, and very wisely so with the cameras rolling, who knows what would have happened? Didn't those peaceful assemblers also defame and damage the capitol and force unlawful entry by breaking a window?
Sounds like rioting. Looked like rioting.

Get's me angry just thinking about all the money wasted on that fraudulent recall. At least everyone knows who signed the petitions.

Time to start the re-election campaign for Governor Walker.
Excuse me while I go write a contribution check. It's somewhere here in my trailer.

Anonymous said...

Read up on the history of the struggle for labor rights and union organizing. What happened in 2011 in Madison was about as peaceable as it gets.

And as a 262er, we're not all trailer trash...but I'm a transplant, so maybe I don't count.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

and acts of destruction of beautiful architecture.

There was no destruction. That was a lie and the cleanup was drastically overblown.

Your threshold for defining a 'riot' is pretty damn low, there.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

As I've read on this blog,"...because they can.".

Along with assaulting disabled people in wheelchairs? Is there no act of brutality committed by Walker's goons that you won't defend?

Anonymous said...

Jake said, "And you wonder why those of us with IQs over 80 think 262 trailer trash like you live in a bubble? Clueless fool. With power should come discretion on how to use it...and not to use it. Your type has simply abused it."

That's quite convincing articulation toward achieving middle ground political cooperation. Was that the example set by Jim Doyle?

You've made the brilliant case, Jake.

Hold the fort there Jake. Residency rules are about to sunset and about the only thing going down, oh bright star, are home values in your community.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Was that the example set by Jim Doyle?

No, it's the standard set by Mike Ellis.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Residency rules are about to sunset and about the only thing going down, oh bright star, are home values in your community.

Way to support your fellow Wisconsinites in Milwaukee by hoping for economic devastation in urban locales.

You are clearly just as hate-filled as Mike Ellis. It's an ugly way to live, my friend.

Anonymous said...

Zombie said:
"Way to support your fellow Wisconsinites in Milwaukee by hoping for economic devastation in urban locales."

Zombie, economic devastation beset Milwaukee decades ago by the ever expanding and unaffordable social and fiscal policies. Lifting the residency rules will prove one of two things; public employees agree with those policies and stay in Milwaukee, or they will disagree and leave. They will soon have free will, just like you.

Nothing hate filled about that, friend.

Anonymous said...

The problem with Milwaukee Democrats is perfectly editorialized in the JS today by Christian Schneider.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/dems-clout-deficit-their-own-fault-b9938792z1-212571461.html

It may be decades before Democrats regain control of the legislature.

Jake formerly of the LP said...

What are you talking about bubble-boy? Jim Doyle wasn't middle ground? That'll come as news to a whole lotta us liberals, who knew Doyle as someone who usually chose cuts to state workers over making corporations pay their fair share.

And I don't know where you think I live, bubble-boy but my community in Madison has homes selling after 2 days on the market. Funny how talent chooses to live in liberal areas that have a high quality of life and respects their public schools.

By comparison, your suburban cesspool is going to have its home values go down the drain because of the defunding of public schools. Sorry kid, but as someone who grew up there, people didnt move to the 262 for its great strip malls.

Jake formerly of the LP said...

Did that same footage include palm trees, bubble-boy? What's it like to be such a gullible SUCKER. Enlighten us

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

They will soon have free will, just like you.

As people like you often point out, they already HAVE free will to not take a job that is financed by the taxes of the people in the municipality.

But I guess further bleeding of urban cores is consistent with the bleeding of industrial jobs for cheaper third world death factories.

Anonymous said...

"Funny how talent chooses to live in liberal areas that have a high quality of life and respects their public schools."

I watched that talent pool in action during the storming of the Capital building.

Bright bunch they were to have such an impact on the state budget.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I watched that talent pool in action during the storming of the Capital building.

Bright bunch they were to have such an impact on the state budget.

Wow, you have an active fantasy life.

"storming"

and the cost to perform maintenance on the building, supposedly damaged irreversibly, was overstated by a factor of 15. The original figure, which I am sure is what you are referring to, was derived by someone writing down two figures that seemed large enough to be politically damaging to the protesters, then adding them together. No contractors or architects were consulted to obtain those figures, and when they were, the damage observed was negligible and the maintenance costs were revised downward. By a HUGE amount.

So, the Walker administration was LYING. Again. For political gain. Again.

Jake formerly of the LP said...

Chrissy Schneider??? Speaking of bubble boys...

Then again 3/4 of you losers think 44th out of 50 means you're doing just fine. Outside reality isn't your strong suit is it?

Anonymous said...

Zombie, you and Jake need to get together over coffee to better define a liberal. You both speak about social justice, one from a suburb and one from an urban area.

It appears that your urban positions are not in alignment with Jake whom lives in a suburb of Madison and preaches from on high.

I, a conservative, live in an urban area with a public elementary school of which 80% qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Our urban community has an industrial job base which continues to expand. Some companies pay $25 per hour and darn good benefits and are looking for help.

Not sure why Milwaukee continues to bleed, but don't blame everyone else just because we want to keep the money we work hard for.

Jake formerly of the LP said...

What are you talking about, bubble-boy? I live in the great city of Madison, like a lot of intelligent people my age have CHOSEN to. And like a lot of us in Madtown, we grew up in suburban cesspools, know how much they suck, and I know how clueless the people are (as you have proven with your lame trolling of this article).

Name the city where you're living in where this alleged "job and wage growth" is happening. You don't seem to have the guts to put your name on your trolling posts, so I bet you won't do it here either.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I, a conservative, live in an urban area with a public elementary school of which 80% qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Our urban community has an industrial job base which continues to expand. Some companies pay $25 per hour and darn good benefits and are looking for help.

the word "some" is doing an AWFUL lot of work in that statement.

Congrats on the one elementary school that feeds kids. Dunno what it has to do with anything.

And I think Jake and I are pretty aligned in our ideas of what constitutes a liberal. The suburb/urban/rural divides are not necessarily definitive. After all, I grew up in a suburb. Still turned out liberal. Go figure, huh?

Until I hear evidence to the contrary, I figure our new Nonnie Mouse is just RD who figured out how to use a proxy.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Name the city where you're living in where this alleged "job and wage growth" is happening. You don't seem to have the guts to put your name on your trolling posts, so I bet you won't do it here either.

Also, the "skilled jobs that can't find takers" story is bull. I posted a link a couple of days ago to an article that debunked this story as so much hooey. Turns out the jobs are mostly imaginary, made up by business owners to serve their political goals and trotted out for the gullible media. And what few jobs there ARE are wish-lists of dream candidates that don't exist, for a wage that is quite a bit below the going rate.

Anonymous said...

@Zombie,

Sorry, not RD.

"Congrats on the one elementary school that feeds kids. Dunno what it has to do with anything."

Point is Milwaukee is not the only urban or suburban community with communities of poverty.

The pity card no longer works because everyone else seems to have figured out a way to make communities stronger and better functioning. Just read whiner Senator John Lehman's blog on Patch as he crys about Racine. What the heck has he ever done to create jobs for his community?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Point is Milwaukee is not the only urban or suburban community with communities of poverty.

No, it's the only one that people like you insist that those communities of poverty must be punished.

When you manage to eliminate the anti-poverty programs in your own community, THEN start meddling in someone else's.

Anonymous said...

"When you manage to eliminate the anti-poverty programs in your own community, THEN start meddling in someone else's."

Poverty cannot be eliminated, Zombie and you know it.

I'm saying that In Milwaukee, it's gotten much worse over the last 3 decades. Milwaukee tried in the 40's and 50's to be a compassionate city. Compassionate to the point that it became a magnet for those in other states where povery and despair were far worse. Poverty became an unsustainable and socially objectional financial burden because it was so easy to collect benefits.

The system has become gamed by the users for decades and nobody wants to pay for able bodied people who can work, but find it's much easier to mooch.




zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Poverty cannot be eliminated, Zombie and you know it.

read what I said again, your comprehension sucks.

I said eliminate the anti-poverty PROGRAMS.

Sheesh. You're gonna have to clean up all that straw your own damn self.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

'm saying that In Milwaukee, it's gotten much worse over the last 3 decades. Milwaukee tried in the 40's and 50's to be a compassionate city. Compassionate to the point that it became a magnet for those in other states where povery and despair were far worse. Poverty became an unsustainable and socially objectional financial burden because it was so easy to collect benefits.

The system has become gamed by the users for decades and nobody wants to pay for able bodied people who can work, but find it's much easier to mooch.


You can say whatever you want. Every sentence in that drivel is wrong, starting with the "Welfare Magnet" bullshit, which has been debunked over and over again. Never does seem to make a dent in the "it stands to reason' folks like you though.

Anonymous said...

It's sad to see Walker's "Divide and conquer" play out in these posts. He is destroying our state - OUR state, and WE (and I mean everyone who posted here) will be left holding the bag and cleaning up his mess. Walker is not acting in the best interests of the citizens of Wisconsin - he could care less about us. He's out to make some "really serious money", and will do whatever it takes to do so. How did someone with so little going for him end up in the Governor's chair?

Anonymous said...

Zombie, you have all the answers.

Blame Bush.

Blame Walker.

Doyle was too conservative.

Conservatives are all assholes.

Try yoga.

You're a very bitter man.