Believe it or not, Walker challenges Barrett to write a fantasy 2011 budget. Seriously?

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Scott Walker's swagger and arrogance knows no bounds in this grating look at our sniveling governor. The idea that we're re-doing anything, is a misdirection play.

Walker, Rep. Robin Vos and Sen. Alberta Darling all have made a ridiculous request of Barrett; go back and write an old budget so they can compare the two. They assume Democrats are as dumb as their low information voters.

Things to keep in mind, Walker trashes Barrett's jobs numbers that spanned the Great Recession, which would make anyone look bad, and it all happened during Walker's own time as Milwaukee County Executive. But that's all too complicated for conservative voters. All they know is the lousy jobs numbers put the state on the right path...I guess. WKOW:



Walker's new strategic angle; claiming a "surplus" by the end of June 2013, so I guess we should wait? But that surplus only exists if Walker continues to blow people off Badgercare:

jsonline: Coming less than four weeks before Walker's June 5 recallelection, the projections take the state from a previously estimated $143million budget deficit in its main account through June 2013 to thesurplus.

But almost half of the surplus is realized by delayingpayments that will ultimately cost taxpayers more in interest. The projectedsurplus includes $78 million that was acquired by restructuring debt. A smallamount of that comes from getting lower interest rates, but most of it comesfrom pushing off payments and allowing long-term interest costs to rise.

But taking any of that supposed “surplus,” and applying itto the budgets shortfall, oddly is completely out of the question.

The budget numbers do not account for a sizable shortfall inthe state's health programs for the poor that Walker's administration says itwill deal with through increased efficiencies and spending cuts.
What would a phony announcement like this be without acompletely out of place comment from the snakiest guy in the Assembly:

"This is a great example of how honest budgeting paysoff," said Rep. Robin Vos. 

As the Hulk would say, Smash Walker, with his own words, "divide and conquer."

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Scott Walker's idea of governing Wisconsin is to divide and conquer."

According to Russ Feingold's ProgressivesUnited email:

Unbelievable. The new footage of Scott Walker telling a billionaire donor about his plan to "divide and conquer" in Wisconsin leaves no doubt: This is the work of a dishonest governor and a national corporate agenda.

This is politics at its worst. Help end Walker's brutal agenda today.

Oh boy, Scott Walker's got some explaining to do, and Tom Barrett has a few incredible ads to run.

jsonline: A filmmaker released a video Thursday that shows Gov. ScottWalker saying he would use "divide and conquer" as a strategy againstunions.

It'll be interesting to finally get a glimpse into the character of conservative voters, to see if this sits well with them. When a billionaire is more concerned about making Wisconsin a red state, the first thing she brings up with Walker, it's hardly a matter of just "job creation." As you will see in the videos below, they want to bring one party rule to Wisconsin, and the reasons for that are pretty clear. Here's the short video:

Walker made the comments to Beloit billionaire DianeHendricks, who has since given $510,000 to the governor's campaign - making herWalker's single-largest donor and the largest known donor to a candidate instate history.

In the video shot on Jan. 18, 2011 - shortly before Walker'scontroversial budget-repair bill was introduced and spawned mass protests -Hendricks asked the governor whether he could make Wisconsin a "completelyred state, and work on these unions, and become a right-to-work" state. Walkerreplied that his "first step" would be "to divide andconquer"

Documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein is nowpromoting his finished documentary, "As Goes Janesville," which isexpected to be shown at film festivals and on PBS stations this fall.

This clip is from the documentary, at 371 Productions, and really explains what is happening in Janesville. Even worse, Hendricks is part of Rock County 5.0, a group of businesses dedicated to bring jobs to Janesville. At the cost of labor of course;



Just a note: I talked to my conservative friend a few moments ago and asked him how he felt about Walker's comment, and he said, "It was no secret, of course he wants to divide and conquer. That's politics." Ends justify means.

Professional Recall group Suspends action against Sen. Bob Jauch!

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Recalls only work when people turn out and demand it. And that ain't happening when it comes to Sen. Bob Jauch.

Looking at this story either way, it doesn't speak well of the current administration. We can assume there wasn't a real need to recall Jauch in the first place, and it also appears there's real trouble for Walker in Jauch's district. 

Wheeler Report: CRG Network affiliate “Northern CRG,” headquartered in Hayward,WI, has announced it will temporarily suspend its recall action againstWisconsin State Senator Robert Jauch. The group intends to focus its resources to retain Governor Scott Walkerand Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch in the upcoming recallelections.  The committee is will releaseplans with respect to resuming the Jauch recall after the June 5th election.

Still, I thought Wisconsin was tired of constant recalls and wasting of taxpayer money holding these tantrum induced do-overs?

Walker's "Divide and Conquer" hits the Media!!

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It was a big night on MSNBC.

Scott Walker let the cat out of the bag, on camera no less, to yet another billionaire. First he got caught talking with the fake David Koch, now Diane Hendricks. What arrogance, and what a plan; divide and conquer Wisconsinites.

First up Michael Eric Dyson, who talks to John Nichols about Walker's comment, but not before playing a familiar clip that directly contradicts his real intentions.

Walker: "Despite a lot of the rhetoric we've heard over the past eleven of days, the bill I put forward isn't aimed at state workers, and it certainly isn't a battle with unions."

I'm thinkin' lie...?



Here's Chris Matthews with Mayor Tom Barrett and Harold Schaitberger, President of the International Associations of Firefighters. Matthews had a field day with Walker's comments.

Matthews: "We've got hard evidence I'd say, of bad will ... You must be thanking Santa Claus now ... You have got this guy caught red handed ... Now it turns out, his number one goal in cutting the budget was to screw the unions ... he's caught red handed Mr. Mayor, you got him."

Amazing!



Here's great coverage from Tony Galli at WKOW 27, with a clip of Walker claiming he didn't remember the "particulars:"

Prosser and other Activist conservative State Supreme Court Justices retaliate against Chair of Judicial Commission. Not Republican enough.

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Justice David Prosser is "mad."

In this twisted radicalized conservative world we’re living in now, authoritarian rule is the name of the game, and anyone who doesn’t fall in line, is out. So goes the partisan activist conservative Supreme Court. It's a shot across the bow, and a gut check for anyone else who might want to keep their job on the Judicial Commission.

jsonline: Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and two colleagues protested a decision by the court's conservative wing to reject the reappointment of the chairman of the Judicial Commission … Abrahamson and Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and N. Patrick Crooks (wrote) that the decision not to reappoint John Dawson - known in the legal community as a conservative - to the agency that handles judicial ethics came "over our objections" … the letter stated "In your case, the court is deviating from its practice."

I’ve written about this before, but it’s no secret to anyone who's been watching, something is terribly wrong deep inside the paranoid mind of David Prosser:

The letter drew an immediate rebuke from Justice David Prosser, who faces an ethics charge through the Judicial Commission. "Well, sure there is friction," Prosser said. "It's because the chief justice basically insisted that John be reappointed. And it's as if we didn't reappoint him, anybody who didn't vote for him was corrupt. And that word was used. It was basically a threat: If we didn't vote for John Dawson, the chief justice was going to expose this to the world."

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Hansher, a past chairman of the Judicial Commission, protested the high court's decision. "I find it appalling and unprecedented for the Supreme Court not to reappoint him to the Judicial Commission," said Hansher, who added that he was a supporter on Prosser's campaign committee in the race against JoAnne Kloppenburg last year. "I feel they have no shame."

It's pure retaliation:

Dawson said Friday that he had not seen the letter. Asked if he felt the Prosser case had played a role in the court's decision not to reappoint him, Dawson said he didn't know.

"I hate to think so," he said. "I can't speculate on that. And if I could, I wouldn't."

Embarrassing!!! Walker Stumbles, Bumbles to Explain Dividing and Conquering Wisconsinites.

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The cool, calm, collected, and trance like look on Scott Walker's face, as he tries but fails to explain away any possible reason why A GOVERNOR would think to divide and conquer the very people he represents, is another example of his sociopathic behavior. Walker's mantra, "What, me worry?"-Alfred E. Neuman.

In the Fox 6 piece below, 371 Productions Brad Lichtenstein comments, and Walker blissfully thinks he's actually answering the question "why." Sadly, the media may just find his bumbling inadequate responses acceptable, and move on.



TMJ4 gets right to the question, and again, Walker struggles and fails to explain the indefensible. Great stuff. Here's a condensed example:

Walker: "That's a conversation that is consistent with...the public employee unions in the state made it very clear in December of 2010 when they tried to ram through...for too long I saw as a local government official that a handful of special interests..."

...no friggin' answer!!!



The fact that "stand with Walker" supporters don't find this latest condescension appalling, says a lot about why the party has become radicalized. The conservative voting public is already buying into the idea that they need the help of "courageous" tight fisted "leaders" to bring them some level of control.

Like my conservative friend told me, "what's new?"

In the clip, Gov. Walker said, “Well we’re going to start ina couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. the first step is, we’re goingto deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because youuse divide and conquer.”

Documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein says his film tellsthe story of the decline of the auto industry in Janesville. The videographerof the documentary says he traditionally supports Democratic candidates.However, in the documentary, he says he pushed his personal beliefs aside todocument the economic challenges of Janesville. Gov. Walker talked about thefilm clip at an appearance in Burlington Friday. “Certainly the reforms Italked about at that time or the reforms. I’ve talked about since, the reformsthat helped us save more than a billion dollars for taxpayers in this state,but it’s interesting that some want to go back and replay that and undo thosereforms. we want to continue to move on and move forward,” said Gov. Walker.

There was a reason Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch ran as the invisible candidate....a win for challenger Mahlon Mitchell

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Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch had no response when confronted with Gov. Scott Walker's "divide and conquer" comment. Nothing. All she had were off topic comments and an unconvincing denial. Oh sure, it's like nothing happened in the state that resulted in the Capitol protests or the massive recall response for her and Walker . Upfront with Mike Gousha:

Kleefisch: "I don't think a divide and conquer strategy is anywhere close to what we have done in Wisconsin, what has happened in Wisconsin ... I don't think that's the strategy that was pursued..." 

Challenger and firefighter Mahlon Mitchell would not move off the divide and conquer topic. He even brought up Walker's "drop the bomb" reference. And I was almost dizzy watching Kleefisch rock her body back and forth while batting her eyes like a young Beaver Cleaver. Her response to Walker's outrageous past statements...

Kleefisch: "I don't think rhetoric at this point is helpful at all..." 

"Becky" got here jobs numbers wrong, and Gousha corrected her, which did not stop her from repeating the incorrect number again. Wow. I've superimposed the actual numbers:



Here Mahlon Mitchell defends high speed rail, and reminded Kleefisch that bashing employment numbers in Milwaukee is not helping create jobs there. He could have easily brought up the latest Walker ad portraying Milwaukee as a drag on the state, and subtly slipping in a racial element as well.

Mitchell: "We've got to remember Milwaukee is in the state of Wisconsin."

Kleefisch: "...we've got to stop rooting against Wisconsin, against Milwaukee...and stop criticizing our great state."

Where has Kleefisch been for the last 15 years, when Republicans bashed Wisconsin 24/7 as a bad place for business.