BREAKING NEWS: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survives recall effort, NBC News projects
 

Choke on it Wi dems. :)

I had the news on in the background. I figured he would survive, but what is amusing me is in the republican presidential primaries there are five states voting today. In a few of them Santorum is getting between 5-12% of the vote. That has to feel bad for Romney to know that 5-12% of the those in his party would rather have the guy who is no longer running than him.

Right now the republicans are dominating all the senate recalls as well. As the numbers come in there is close to a 20% lead in every race. Obama won Wi. in 2008. Today he would lose badly if the trend here holds.

Six months ago it looked like Obama was unbeatable. Now he is very much vulnerable and if he economy doesn't do some serious improving in the next four months he might just find himself among the unemployed. I don't think the republicans will do any better, but sometimes just changing the leadership is enough of a spark to get things going.

Keep your eye on job growth in Wi, now. I know a lot of business people that have been standing pat on hiring until this recall election was over. As much as democrats seem to hate business people here,it's those people that create the jobs.

I can't believe that prick is winning. Unbelievable.

The power of $34 million in campaign cash for GOP.

Anyone involved in porn that supports the GOP is like a chicken supporting Colonel Sanders.

Job Creation
 

Looks like Gov. Walker might have a new job, making license plates

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If you mean someone that believes that union bosses shouldn't be running the states finances into bankruptcy is a prick then you must be a union member or uninformed.

If you are at the bottom of the food chain I would agree. However,not everyone here is at the bottom. We actually run profitable businesses. And whether it's adult entertainment or manufacturing aircraft engines. The same regulations apply.

I guess it's equally fair to all parties, but something seems wrong about an excess of campaign money flowing in from outside the state, to determine the outcome of state politics.

FTFY, buddy.

I agree :thumbsup

I am not bitter about the whole democratic party. Only here in Wi. They lost 2 years ago,and the first piece of legislation that comes up they don't like they all leave the state and hang out in Illinois for a month so they won't have to vote. Then immediately they start recalls against a group of republican state senators, then after that failed they launched these recalls against more state senators and the governor. The democrats in this state are nothing but pathetic.

Yeah, after all, republican president Bill Clinton just would not give up unconstitutional censorship - CDA, CDA II, COPA ...

What's that you say? Clinton, the only president to try to censor online porn is a DEMOCRAT? Never mind then.

My point was that this race has far reaching national implications; not that you are a raging Dittohead.

Another corporate shill bought and paid for by the millionares and billionares of Wisconsin. How any fucking normal, working-class citizen can vote for this guy is beyond me. But, hey, the Republicans won't be satisfied until the middle-class quality of living in America is on a scale similar to that of fucking Pine Bluff, Arkansas, or some other poverty-stricken, backwards-ass right to fire state. Fuck Scott Walker in the ass with a rusty, AIDS covered hatchet. You know what Union leaders need? Union leaders need some good old-fashioned shop guys like Jimmy Hoffa who aren't afraid to strong-arm some fucking people to get what they want, that's what they need. Torch a couple shops and the "job creators" will fall in line. Too bad America is undergoing this pussification where everybody just passively accepts getting fucked in the ass with all these increasingly shitty deals.

I do think it was foolish to mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers to support a guy who lost by double digits to Walker in 2010; so even as a socialist pinko liberal, I'm not especially fond of Wisconsin Dems either.

Fixed that for ya, too.

That works both ways... Let us know when they find Jimmy Hoffas body.

I think it's laughable how the dems are now trying to say that Walker has been given a strong message by this. Thats baloney. He doesn't give a rats ass about any strong message. It's winner take all.
Can the loser talk, dems. You had a good chance, but put up such a dud that he could never have won.

Wish it had worked, but I still don't even know the democrat dudes name because I dont have cable tv or a desire to look it up.

Maybe the leaders need to end up like good old little jimmy hoffa did... Have nice day idiot..

It was a pretty classic Democratic circular firing squad, unfortunately. I'm thinking of switching my registration to Republican just so I can gloat once in a while...

He's Canadian.

By the way I think it's pretty sad that they got over twice the needed signatures to do the recall, but couldnt keep up the momentum to overcome what was an obvious pile of GOP money and effort to keep this jack wad in power. Sorry if jack wad offends anyone. I'm only referring to him, not you.

They ran a loser against a winner, fucking idiots.

Yeah I heard that Obama wasn't going to campaign for him because if/when he lost, it would only hurt Obamas campaign. Good call there I'd say.

Yeah, but at the end of the day, you live in Wisconsin :1orglaugh

Bama's guys are smart. He'll win this thing in November, but he'll be out of breath. I think the debates will be interesting, watching Thurston Howell the 3rd talk shit to Ba-lack Obama in person will be a damn sight different than making silly speeches.

I heard that a shitload of private sector union members turned out for Scott Walker; which, if it's true is fucking crazy. If his divide and conquer tactic works they're heads will be the next on the chopping block out there.

Do you know how many signatures were required? Chump change . . . .

True...but I live quite well.

That does put it into perspective.:thumbsup

That was a risk he might regret. It won't take a lot of democrats that lost enthusiasm for him to lose this state in November.

Yes, compared to # of voters, but it's still not very common for recall petitions to circulate and get twice the needed number. I was trying to use that to say the dems had momentum that fizzled short of their goal. They put up some guy who seems like the principal from welcome back kotter.

Maybe they didn't think it was right for people to be forced to join unions, or forced to have union dues taken out of their pay checks.....


...or to have their tax dollars cover 95% of someone else's retirement, when they are forced to pay for 100% of their own retirement....



:2 cents:

Still, beyond various idealogical descrepancies, Scott Walker is just a generally bad choice for any voter... wtf is wrong or the logic behind voting for the guy?!?

:D

I grew up in Wisconsin - and attended its state university for two degrees - and was so deeply involved in its politics to have been elected a Republican committeeman there when I was 18 years old. My family has been there so long that some of my relatives held office in Milwaukee in the Nineteenth Century. When I grew up in Wisconsin, it was a state with a proud tradition of open government, honesty, integrity, and a strain of progressive legislation that inspired the rest of the country. (Worker's Compensation laws, comparative negligence in tort law, and unemployment compensation all started there along with many other innovations that are commonplace throughout the country today.) Fightin' Bob LaFollette, and all that. And it's a state that produced - and survived Fightin' Joe McCarthy, too. Significant chunks of the people who founded and ran the John Birch Society came from Wisconsin, too.

It saddens me beyond belief to see what Wisconsin has become during the past two years - Governor Walker has ripped this state in half as though with a butcher knife and it will bleed profusely for a long time to come. It historical legacy as a laboratory for the idealistic exploration of new public policy to better serve society is already gone. It has become a place of political brutality, the battleground of a war paid for by the infusion of tens of millions of dollars from outside the state, and its people have become pawns in a battle being stage-managed in corporate board rooms across the country.

What troubles me more is that people I knew and grew up with, in what seems to me to be another lifetime ago in the Young Republicans, are at the center of this self-destruction. I distanced myself from them long ago, sensing something about them even then that troubled me, a certain meanness and recklessness and eventually I stopped being a Republican at all. It now embarrasses me that I was ever part of that.

This election has resolved nothing; it has made the rupture a semi-permanent feature of the Wisconsin landscape just as much as the ruins and residue of World War II bombing survived in European cities for decades after the war. The good people of my home state will some day begin to pick up the rubble and rebuild. But before that happens, the war must come to an end, and I see no signs of that taking place for a very long time. If you have a religious bent, pray for Wisconsin, because even harder times and harsher treatment of workers there seems quite inevitable from yesterday's result.

You clearly have a flare for the dramatic..
I grew up in WI too. Graduated from the UW-Madison in the 70's. What you failed to mention is that those same democrats allowed the state to flounder in debt of over $3b.
The property tax rate is one of the highest in the nation along with the state income tax.
Yet with all that assumed income the dems still drove us to the brink of bankruptsy.

No one here is happy about what is going on politically. But without some serious and immediate changes in the ridiculous entitlements that existed here things were only going to worsen. We as a state realized how bad things were and elected someone that promised to fix the problems. Not simply identify them and make wonder speeches.

I don't understand why it's so difficult for democrats in Wi. to understand you can't continue to spend more than you make.