In WI, budget & economy stalled. In Iowa, Walker showing off

Literally:

...he wore jeans, a leather Harley jacket, motorcycle boots, fingerless gloves and a mirrored helmet. He showed off his Harley-Davidson wallet to reporters.

Skillfully using photo op minutiae to mask the bigger picture, and the troubles he's left for others to figure out while he's playing in Iowa:

So the state budget has stalled for now, weighed down by GOP differences over roads, the Milwaukee Bucks arena and minimum wage requirements for construction workers on public projects. The difficulties come as Walker is in the midst of traveling to five states in support of his all-but-certain presidential run and is preparing for a trade mission to Canada next week.

Also: the headline chosen for the linked story in the Journal Sentinel online right now that leads off this posting is beyond ironic, given that Walker is not home managing and grappling with his stalled budget and a stagnant economy his three budgets have made less successful through enforced austerity, downward wage pressure, a failed WEDC job-creating agency and ill-timed-and-placed tax breaks that favored ideology over intelligence:

Scott Walker should feel at home at Harley ride in Iowa today

And you can stretch out the analogies based on his show-boating in Iowa.

For example, the costuming still doesn't get him past "the emperor wears no clothes."

And I'm reminded of that Capital One tag line - - "what's in your wallet?"

If we're talking lost Medicaid dollars, rejected Amtrak funding, transportation budgets - - the answer is "not much."