Yup. He flushed Virginia and Colorado right down the drain, Possibly Ohio as well, and gained himself nothing at all.
But, of course, when the Kochs have their collective hand jammed up your ass, operating your mouthparts, all of these are major wins, because, after all, who doesn’t hate them yooyins?
Exactly right.
Only a party as incompetent as the DWS-run Dimocrats could let a “leading” GOP candidate promise to go to war against working folks and not paint the entire GOP in steaming shit that would render them repugnant to all but the basest of the base.
Walker needs to get over the “unintimidated” trope. He ran away from questions like: Do you believe in Evolution? Should we get rid of birthright citizenship? Does Obama love America? The real gotcha questions that only a brave presidential candidate can answer when he isn’t totally pandering to his far-right base and billionaire buddies.
It’s really all he’s got isn’t it?
I mean, could he run on diverting millions of tax dollars away from schools in order to build a new stadium for the Milwaukee Bucks?
Or stripping professors of their tenure?
Don’t get me wrong, these are certainly issues of both merit and pressing national importance.
And just wait until he launches his foreign policy platform. Klingons everywhere shudder in their metallic boots!
They’re already fucking stupid enough to be GOP-supporting union members, so yes.
Naked Fascism on the campaign trail.
Who else blamed Unions, Intellectuals (Teachers), “The Government”, and the entire concept of Diplomacy for all their nation’s woes and promised to “take the Nation back to it’s Traditional Values” and was supported by wealthy Plutocrats?
Hmmmm, 1922 Italy? 1932 Germany? I just can’t put my finger on it…
Trying to Out-Trump Trump. That will fail. He does not know how to “play to the gallery” like The Trumpster can.
The “Debate” will be very interesting Wed. night as EVERYBODY piles on Trump and he will fight back with all his blustery glare and bombastic “You’re a LOSER!” shouting.
What a side show.
Walker carved around the law enforcement unions in Wisconsin when he knifed the others. I expect that he will also later propose such an exception – and MSM will depict the move as realistic and moderate. The Ayn Randian and libertarian default positions are that providing a police force and a military are the only legitimate purposes of government. Consider that SCOTUS has not dismantled gun laws as it has dismantled laws to regulate money in politics. The ueber-rich, who will inherit and exploit their pieces of this earth, don’t want the aggrieved hoi-polloi to be an armed threat to their dominion, so the police and military will finally confiscate the weapons by force that “liberals” couldn’t formerly do by law.
Wisconsin Scott Walker just went Full Federal Scott Walker. You never go Full Federal Scott Walker.
I’ve said before that Scott Walker is the most dangerous republican in the field of many dangerous people. Not only is he not intellectually qualified to be President, he has lied on many occasions only to turn around and do the opposite of what he promised to do or not do. It is great comfort to many that he has dropped like a rock and looks desperate. He is a desperate excuse for a human being.
As a former government employee, what Walker’s statements say to me is how ignorant Walker is about government service. It appears to me that Walker is confusing “employee unions” with “civil service”.
The first point is that within the federal government unions are very limited and cannot strike or even negotiate wages or benefits. Federal employees unions like AFGE are almost all about workplace conditions. For example the agency I worked for had a union because several years before I was hired a manager woke up one morning and decided that all the employees who liked to work out of town would work in town and vice versa. There was an older man with a sick wife and was not in the best of health himself who would have to leave town and his wife. Because the manager gave the employees less than a week before implementing the change the employees were unable to make even the most basic adjustments including medical. As it turned out the person’s wife was not the only one in bad health. The following Monday the man left town for work and was dead by Thursday. The manager issued a memo stating the man had died and “he will not be misses as he was not good at his job anyway.” The surviving employees responded by forming a union to challenge workplace conditions.
Civil Service protection for federal employees is what I suspect Walker is really after. The protections make it more difficult to fire federal employees. The purpose of the Civil Service employment is to protect employees and the taxpayer against the winds of politics. That is they prevent a new administration from firing federal employees and replacing them with their own people. That is Civil Service protection keeps the federal workforce from becoming just another political base of whoever is in office at the time. It is absolutely necessary for the federal workforce to impartially perform its duties.
To this I can speak from experience having found a federal contractor overcharging the taxpayer tens of millions. Management that had an ear to politics tried to bury me along with the finding. Because of civil service protections that made it difficult to fire me for running afoul of politics and the union that negotiated workplace conditions, we were actually able to recover most of the money. I suspect that is really why Koch sucker Walker is for changing, Civil Service protection for federal workers from politics.
Rudy Giuliani: “A noun, a verb, and 9/11”
Scott Walker: “Something, something, break unions.”
Very probable. But that’s not what he is saying here; he is advocating for destroying all unions everywhere, starting with unions for federal employees.
Which is another problem with this approach. He has to go big, with huge sweeping blanket statements, otherwise he won’t get the pop he needs. And once he starts to trying to introduce nuance into the conversation “well, police officers get an exemption because blah, blah, blah”, he loses the audience, which has no patience for nuance.
Walker wants to tank the US economy the same way that he tanked Wisconsin’s. Fiorina touts her business expertise, which is well documented, unfortunately the facts tell a different story (getting fired isn’t exactly a good thing on a resume). Trump … well if he’s such a brilliant financial expert, why all of the bankruptcies on the back of his investors, as well as his obvious debacle with the beauty pageant “industry.” There are some semi-serious Republican candidates, but these (along with Carson) are the ones who are leading?
…including the union bosses and the politicians they puppet…
Sez the Koch puppet…
Projection, thy name is Republican.
Him and the Koch brothers whose cocks he’s sucking.