The Wisconsin Wrap
I got most of the gloating out of my system last night on Twitter. Jokingly, I asked where all my vile prog followers had gone. Well, it turns out the progs were in force — slapping Mayor Barrett, making death threats, praying for unlikely indictments against Governor Walker, and doing all the crybaby loser things progs do when they don’t get their way.
Fact is, Walker saved teaching jobs. He protected schools. He protected kids. And he did it while balancing his state’s serious out-of-whack budget. The recall election was about undoing all of those things. The public sector unions are aiming, on purpose, to turn Wisconsin into another Michigan. Because progressivism isn’t about protecting anybody. It’s about accumulating money and power into vile prog hands. And we witnessed in Wisconsin just how far they’ll go, just how low they’ll stoop, to accomplish their vile prog goals.
The prog left poured in money, resources, and even voters from out-of-state. And so it’s with a Full Nelson Muntz that I tell you Walker won handily with over 53% of the vote. That’s a landslide by most anyone’s definition. And so Wisconsin now has a chance to avoid Michigan’s fate.
I say “a chance,” because no matter what else you might read tonight, public sector unions are not doomed. Bill Frezza writes:
Public sector unions have reached their high water mark. Let the cleanup begin as the red ink recedes.
Despite a last-minute smear campaign accusing Scott Walker of fathering an illegitimate love child, the governor’s recall election victory sends a clear message that should resonate around the nation: The fiscal cancer devouring state budgets has a cure, and he has found it. The costly defeat for the entrenched union interests that tried to oust Walker in retribution for challenging their power was marked by President Obama’s refusal to lend his weight to the campaign for fear of being stained by defeat.
Yes, the unions were hurt in Wisconsin last night, and in San Diego and San Jose, too. But they still have money and they still have organization and they’re still possessed of a viciousness almost unprecedented in American politics. Drop your guard for a moment, and they’ll be back like kudzu.
Frezza does have a good question about Obama’s hands-off policy. Staying away from Wisconsin might have spared him from throwing away some political capital he can’t afford to lose, but
We’ll see how well this strategy of opportunistic detachment serves in the fall as Obama reaches out to unions for support.
Not so sure about the non-event around the Walker investigation. I was wondering what Schultz was whining about last night. I found a HuffPo (Yeah, I know–consider the source) article that doesn’t paint a great picture of what happened while Walker was County Executive in Milwaukee. He could be clean, but his staff sure seems to have made a mess of things.
I’m hoping it’s a non-issue, and that the article is blowing up what were in reality small problems. Walker seems like he has potential to be a big player nationally. And if an indictment is brought down on him prior to November, then it’s a sure fire guarantee that the Dems and the MSM (BIRMS) national news.
In the meantime–gloat away. The unions dumped millions into this recall, and at best flipped a senate that won’t be in session for the rest of the season. Well played, suckers. Well played.
That’s what I don’t get. Why do recalls for a senate that isn’t going to meet anymore. Governor & Lt. G. make sense, grab control and do things administratively (or force the governor to stay in state all the time.) But they wasted cash and energy that could be used in November on something meaningless.
I’m just worried about how desperate they are, and to what lengths they’ll go.
I suspect it was to provide them a firewall. The governor can call the legislature into session before the scheduled session next year. The Republicans control both the Wisconsin House and the governorship. Assuming a recount doesn’t change anything, the Democrat-controlled Senate will make sure that Walker can’t accomplish anything more until at least next January.
I suspect it was this, combined with “In for a penny. In for a pound.”
They’d already tried recalls on Judge Posner, as well as … four(?) state legislators last year. They didn’t get enough wins to flip the senate then, and decided to keep that aspect of their recall effort going this year, regardless of the overall impact.
Yes, they get to put whatever brakes they feel necessary on Walker over the next five months. And I’m sure at least some of the brain trust in the union shops thought they had a chance to boot Walker, as well. Which would have given them an outside shot at gutting some of his reforms, if they had combined that with a D-led senate.
But the overall effort was just sophomoric and nonsensical, in the end (and the beginning and middle, as well!). There really appears to be no adults in charge on the Left any more.
Which is a cryin’ shame, I’m tellin’ ya….
**NOTE: The PJM servers appear to be slammed at the moment, Steve. Everything’s crawling.
I don’t think it’s wise to say “the overall effort was just sophomoric and nonsensical”. It may have been mistaken, perhaps it was doomed, but it was serious. There were some very serious resources poured into it on both sides, and Walker only did a little better than in 2010. That was quite a success for him, and for the GOP in general, because it *was* serious. It was a test case for how to win in a thugged-up PAC-laden environment, which is what November will be in the key states.
But take it seriously, because the stakes are extremely high.
Oh, I’ve known many sophomores over the years (myself included) who were dead serious in their efforts.
That didn’t make said efforts any less sophomoric and nonsensical.
We haven’t broke their will, but we have planted seeds of doubt in their minds while we have shown the weak and vacillating parts of our line, that we really can win. The Republicans defended territory deep inside their territory – and won. What took a shellacking last night was the leftist sense of inevitability. This psychological shift is the cornerstone to every victory in history. When you “break their lines”, you are just a short distance away from a rout.
Enjoy it, but don’t for a second think this is over. We have a hundred of these to go through between now and November.
The most interesting part of last night was how all the pre-election and exit polls performed against actual results. Going into the election, only a few showed a victory for Walker that was anywhere near the results of 8 points and the Exit polls? Thats the “neck and neck” thing they keep talking about on CNN. The other thing they are touting is that the exit polls show “strong support for President Obama”.
Now, hang on just a second folks…
If you do a poll and the actual results are very different from what was projected in the poll, there’s only one conclusion that you should reach, your method of sampling for the poll – sucks.
Ladies and Gentleman, last nights results show us that the polls really are showing a reporting bias towards Democrats. Most people on the Republican side of the argument have suspected this for years, but last nights data shows this phenomenon in clearly written, block font, day-glo orange letters.
In my opinion, this is not part of a nefarious plan on the part of Democrat Party so much as it is an exercise in human social behavior. Its my observation that people who are Democrats cant wait to tell other people about their political choices( witness the neighborhood volvo/subaru/prius-covered-with-every-leftist-bumper-sticker-there-is phenomenon), whereas Republicans have learned to keep their opinions to themselves. The result of this phenomenon is that far more often than pollsters would like, Republicans don’t answer polls and Democrats do.
The one clear conclusion that you should take away last nights election is that if the Polls are showing Obama and Romney within the margin of error, then get the champagne on ice, because its going to be a 10pt blowout for Romney.
Republicans don’t answer polls and Democrats do
Actually, most Republicans worry about the only “polls” that matter, the ones that are visited on election day by “likely” voters!
Which is why the left’s campaign to invaidate your vote with:
- “absentee” voters, who vote “early and vote often”
- voters who register the day of the election,
- voters without ID
- dead voters still on the state’s voter rolls,
- illegal alien voters,
- voters being intimidated at the polls by NBPP / union goons
worry me so much, and it should worry any person who believes in the validity of our republic!
You cannot blame the poll takers. They can only “sample” those who have time to sit around the phone. Sure they get some Conservatives at times, but most real Americans are working which leaves democrats oversampled.
as of an hour ago, the republicans trailed by 800 votes, with all precincts reporting,in state senate district 21. that loss will give the dems control of the senate. so perhaps i am looking too hard for the dark cloud and not paying enough attention to the silver lining, but the dems loss is not the devastating thing being ballyhooed if they get the senate back.
oops. totally overlooked the fact that the senate isn’t scheduled to be in session again. pesky siver lining was shining in my eyes.
Plus the fact that redistricting is probably going to give 1-2 of those districts back to the Republicans in November. On top of any additional wins they may rack up (I think I remember 11 of the 33 districts are being contested this fall). So, it looks like the unions literally blew millions of dollars on absolutely nothing but symbolism.
Works for me.
Suckers.
Well, jw, at least you’re an honest illusionist. Still deluded (if you support today’s democrat party), but honestly deluded.
i believe you misunderstood me. i am most assuredly not a dem.
“The times they are a-changin’.”
Interesting how that famous counter-culture song still works even though the counter-culture is now US.
You know, I’ve started making somewhat the same argument. For a while now, Classical Liberalism and libertarianism have been equated to “New Conservatism” by some of the right-of-center thinkers. Personally, I’ve believed that you are much more likely to find people of CL or libertarian bent in the Republican party than the Democrat party.
And analogously, liberals are now the “reactionaries”. They are very wedded to preserving or “conserving” their necrotic, death-dealing system. They are anything but “progressives”. They’re committed to the status quo, and keeping and expanding the bureaucratic nightmare that is our federal government.
As a Classical Liberal/libertarian, I think of myself as much more progressive than most liberals I know. I believe a free-market-based economy, with limited government free of crony-capitalism, is much more likely to bring about “progress” in our society. It is much more likely to promote economic stability and expansion. It is much more likely to promote dynamic social structures. It is much more likely to promote healthy, happy families, because the wage-earning abilities of the bread winners will be enhanced.
We are stuck in old thinking, perpetuated by the Left and the MSM, of course. This is one of those meme-battles that we need to start engaging in, forcefully. If we change the language, we change the rules of the game. In our favor.
There is nobody more reactionary than an environmentalist.
I think a less polite word would be “luddite.”
Environmentalists make reactionaries look positively modern, by comparison.
The only thing the modern left is progressing towards is a police state. In that respect, they are quite “progressive”.
It is a glorious day here in Wisconsin…Paul Ryan said it best, “On Tuesday we will save Wisconsin. In November, Wisconsin will save America”…well Wisconsin = saved, next up ‘Merica!
I was in Madison attending the University of Wisconsin when all the crazy union lackeys showed up and trashed the Capitol building…I am relieved to see that the rest of the state agreed with me and how pointless those protest were…If there was a clip that only showed the Scut Farkcus clip from A Christmas Story right before Ralphie beat the living daylights out of him I would post it on every MSNBC talking head’s Twitter…”What are you gonna cry now?” < the rights slogan moving forward.
You mean this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvijyBIgazE&feature=youtube_gdata
Scut Farkus is emblematic of the Democrat party. Schoolyard bullies with lots of banter until they’re exposed for the cowards they are.
Farkus for DNC Chairman!
Yes, the unions were hurt in Wisconsin last night, and in San Diego and San Jose, too. But they still have money and they still have organization and they’re still possessed of a viciousness almost unprecedented in American politics. Drop your guard for a moment, and they’ll be back like kudzu.
Frezza does have a good question about Obama’s hands-off policy. Staying away from Wisconsin might have spared him from throwing away some political capital he can’t afford to lose, but
We’ll see how well this strategy of opportunistic detachment serves in the fall as Obama reaches out to unions for support.
Stephen, we should feel good about holding off the Workers Party assault. However, seeing this as a victory is like a hockey goalie stopping one slapshot and declaring the game in the bag.
This is a piece of a whole war game. We stopped them from stealing back an election we already won. We OUGHT to win those…it was an outrage to begin with.
They have planted small c communists in every nook and cranny of our national governing bodies and state and city and every municipality. The OWN the mass media. We can’t get the truth out without a massive struggle. We are the resistance, not an equal army. They have better weapons, have knocked out our communications and will not fight by any conventions, they will break every rule.
And NO MAJOR NEWS OUTLET WILL HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE IN PRINT, IN MAGAZINES, OR ON FREE TV.
Second, Obama NEVER gets his hands dirty. Read Stanley Kurtz Radical-In-Chief when he describes the assault on bank executives…Obama never shows up.
He is a Fabian. He keeps his camouflage on at all times and never steps into the trenches. In order to keep up the facade of not being a small c communist himself, he ALWAYS let’s others do the front line stuff.
Hardcore Workers Party types are just OWS in hard hats.
Reagan Democrats need to be told the truth…but getting the truth out there is a tough road to hoe. The Propaganda and Lies Ministry will bury every story, distort all evidence, cheat, lie, steal, hold information hostage.
Last night helped and I don’t want to take anything away from that. But our DOJ is riddled with traitors. Voting in this country is not what it used to be. Neither is news, information and communication. We need to see the big picture and connect the dots. We need to root out all the traitors. That is a monumental task.
CF,
” We need to see the big picture and connect the dots. We need to root out all the traitors. That is a monumental task”
True that is, and its a hellava fatiguing one.
Teachers in my district are on strike AGAIN, second time this year, holding kids college plans hostage this late in the school year.
They average 100k a year for 183 work days. Free healthcare coverage. Automatic 3K “longevity” raises for each service year after 10 (like, thats difficult with tenure after 2 years?) or they can just retire at 10 years with full (unfunded) pensions and lifetime, no-contribution, unobtainium healthcare.
They are all moaning over the Walker Victory today, but how much can we really thwart them? They already get everything I’ve described (and more), and are striking FOR EVEN MORE. Even if we hold them to “zero” (which is impossible) its still an entrenched and unaplogetic Criminal Enterprise thats going to destroy us, someday.
Will raises that equal 2 times the rate of inflation, instead of their usual 4, make us more solvent?
Will the Federal Dollars that make up 1/3 of their budget be any less debt driven?
Will a property tax increase of 10% be a “windfall” for me, when 12 or 15% was a possibility?
We have beaten them in the voting booth, but in the Pocketboot they still kill us, hands down.
Even if we could take back 10-15, even 20% tomorrow, theyre STILL overpaid, underperforming SCOAMF’s bankrupting us….laughing in our faces that NOTHING short of violent insurrection can ever change the fact they have us over a barrel….and we simply will not do the “Palestinian in the pizza shop” suicide vest trick in the middle of their picket lines.
Yes, we gave them a bloddy nose, and might even bloddy Dear Leaders nose in November…but its a big fight we’ve been on the losing end of at the local level, all of my life (born in ’63)
Kick ‘em while they’re down. Pour it on. I just did a blog post on some of the info Obama’s administration has leaked to the detriment of our national security. If you can add more please let me know. David Limbaugh has just finished his book, The Great Destroyer, which is a compilation of everything Obama has done to damage the country. It’s a good reference to use when battling your lib friends and family.
http://dunellanoestachato.blogspot.com/2012/06/obama-crows-intel-goes.html
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Destroyer-Barack-Republic/dp/1596987774/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338998977&sr=1-2
Thanks for the book info!
An item to add to your list: Holder releasing memos that detailed US interrogation techniques early in Obama’s presidency: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/us/politics/17detain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Thanks Lizzy, I’ll add that!
We will win in the “Maldives/Falklands” too.
And we will get the vote of the minority speaking Austrian.
Don’t you mean the “Malvinas”?
Oh, haha, never mind. Lost track of all the off-prompter gaffes.
One day someone will make the millions by putting together the quotations from Baghdad Bob, Chin-Up-In-Chief, Biden, the regime media, and Axelrod.
“2003-2012, the Golden Years of Comedy”
(Pelosi will do the marketing: blank cover, with one line: “You must buy this book before you are allowed to know what’s about”).
As I recall the remark it was “we’ve (the campaign) have been to 57 states and have, I belive, one more to go, and Alaska and Hawaii we weren’t allowed to go to.” That makes 60 states, not even including Puerto Rico’s 3 electoral votes that Al Gore was cheated out of.
Canada has 10 provinces so, if Obama thought that Canada had been annexed by the United States and the Canadian provinces became American states, that would give exactly 60 states.
Should we warn the Canadians that Obama wants to annex them?
There is NO better expression than “We knocked their dicks in the dirt.” I use it once a month, but this may be the first time I’ve seen it in print. Kudos all around!
Talked to a couple of my uber lib friends in the last couple of days. Usually when I mock Obama I get a strong reply. This time I was met with silence from both of them.
“So don’t let up the pressure. Don’t let up the mocking. We’ve got five months until November, and a lot of hard work to do. And the absolute best thing you, personally, can do, is convince a prog that all is already lost. Convince him that his best course of action is to stay in the basement on election day and spare himself the pain and humiliation of having voted for this SCoaMF a second time.”
Darn right. Right after Pickett’s disastrous charge at Gettysburg, as hundreds of southerners lay dead or dying in the field, the defending union soldiers rose up and shouted, “Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg!” To the union soldiers at Gettysburg, destroying Pickett and his men was payback for the terrible defeat the Union Army suffered at Fredericksburg, and those Union troops were not about to let the Southern troops, what was left of them, forget it.
So it should be with us. In their defeat, we should all be shouting at the liberals at the tops of our lungs, “McCain, McCain!” and let it be known that this is in some small way payback for the terrible disaster we endured back in 2008. We will also make a magnificent statement in November and the mainstream media will be left sitting there scratching their heads saying, “But our exit polls said it was going to be a close race. How did Obama lose by 10 points?”
It can be so, folks, it can be so. All we have to do is get out there and make it so. And we will. We are pumped and we’re ready to go. Take the war to them and let our battle cry be, “Remember 2008!”
This is one of the few times I’ve seen a key contributor on a conservative blog actually say it like it is. Thanks.
But although we should rub their faces in the humiliating defeat, we shouldn’t even begin to think that it’s anything but a baby step in a multi-decade hard slog.
Remember, taking money from you is their JOB. It’s how they make their living. They will go to the mat to protect their franchise. Don’t ever forget it.
I say: Screw that. We knocked their dicks in the dirt last night, and we ought to act like it. Yes, Walker should keep the attitude low-key. But those of us on the blogs, in the trenches, on the news — we should be rubbing their noses in their own filth and swat them on their asses. Bad proggies, bad.
O.H. Y.E.A.H.
I gotta disagree here. I loathe gloating, because it indicates more of a desire for victory over another than a desire to accomplish a goal.
I understand this was an important victory. I dissent on gloating. You never rub an opponent’s face in the dirt. That’s the way to make an enemy of them.
I also understand the desire to gloat. But we all learned in grade school how to be a good winner.
They are our enemies, by their own declaration long ago. It’s time we acted accordingly.
Treat our enemies accordingly? You mean love them?
Peace, Stephen.
Love your ‘tude. There really isn’t more to be said right now. Action, action, action is what counts. On to November. Same result.
Congratulations to Scott Walker and his supporters! Let’s hope it doesn’t always take 88% of the money to get 53% of the vote. Once the “people” start realizing that it was school teachers, cops, and janitors (and brown people, gays, and women who use contraception) who really caused our financial and economic problems, we won’t need to spend any money at all – they will come flocking! Congratulations!
Brutus, I’ll put this delicately: You’re a lying piece of progressive crap.
Walker saved jobs for teacher, cops, and janitors. And he protected WI taxpayers in the process.
But I do appreciate you playing the race/gay/woman card so soon in the game. You really are out of ammo.
Ouch! But I’ve called crap before. Indeed, public employees unions are the problem, not the banks, the out-sourcers, or the defense industry, but teachers, cops, and janitors. Everyone knows that public employees should have it as bad as employees in the private sector. Mr. Walker traded cuts to public worker benefits for tax cuts for the big earners. That is simply a fact. Wisconsin had no budgetary problems until Mr. Walker created it with tax cuts. A pity he’ll probably be indicted.
Et tool, Brutus?
I called you a lying piece of crap, because you lie.
Walker inherited a multi-billion dollar deficit, which he fixed — while cutting taxes and protecting public service jobs and keeping open schools.
The mess he “inherited,” as Teh Won likes to whine, was going to require massive layoffs and closings. Walker deftly cleaned up that mess.
You’re just mad because doing so required putting the public unions in their place. You’re mad because he fixed his state by starving the beast that was strangling it. Because that’s what progs do — they suck all the life out of a state, then move on to the next victim. Witness, please, Michigan and California.
And I won’t let my site be a prop for your lies. You’re banned, prog.
Well put Stephen. Just having soaked up Democratic Underground’s deliciously suicidal posts of these 24 post-election hours , I have to give Brutus credit. He’s the only prog now not standing on a cliff/building precipice or sizing up a final OD of acid.
They are hurting so exquisitely I think they secretly enjoy it.
Please support your 88% assertion with, you know, facts. And be sure to include the $20+ million spent by the unions. And all the outside money that came in to support the recall. (George Soros anyone?)
Source materials required. Otherwise, bugger off.
88% of the money? Sounds like another Democrat trying to do higher math to me. You don’t start with the answer you want and then supply the numbers. Sheesh. ABO2012
Time for some serious nuking of the death squad proggy posts – those boys think they’re b-a-d but nothing puts the fear out there like a locked and loaded already gone to hell up yours – so, see you on the front lines of prog heaven – to mess with the gnat minds and chicken hearts and let them know that if they seriously want blood, they’ll get it…
Fantastic post. “Bad proggies, bad” I love it. I won’t acronym it. I laughed out loud. Keep up the good work. Cheers…
What if WI was just a “test” to show the lib-liars the gaps in their cheating so they can correct them by Nov? I too am having trouble trusting anything. We need to celebrate the freedom lovers’ victory in WI for a day, then take off our party hats, put on our hard hats, and work against voter fraud with every breath in our bodies.
My opinion. The more we hold the Dem’s noses in their WI defeat, the more
they are likely to use voter fraud and intimidation at the polls in November.
Walker’s win without out-of-state voters may well have been much more than
53%. In every state there should be voter ID laws, and a close watch on each
location where voting is held. Military personnel overseers where states request it. If we can’t cook their goose, we can at least scald it.