Comments on: Wisconsin. You blew it.

By: this

this — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:49:39 +0000

Wisconsin was the testing ground for the ability of outside untraceable $$ to win an election
It was an even greater ‘david v goliath’ setup. I read in only one commentary (but seen many refernceselsewhere) that WI election law allows unlimited donation to recall edfendant, but challenger is limited to the usual 10k/donor.
Really, this election was poorly armed town’s people vs the megalithic war machine. So, considering the election was hugely rigged in Koch/Walker’s favor, it didn’t do very well.

red wave across Americia and the game will be so rigged everywhere there is a complete GOP majority that the Democratic party will never get back in again in those areas.
No, the teafascists will destroy themselves. (‘absolute corruption’.. isn’t attainable, but almost absolute corruption… etc) Destructiveness is innate to their aggregate ‘personality’. Simultanously, more of their common victims will be come unable to remain snoring sheep.

By: this

this — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:37:05 +0000

why they even held this election at this time instead of working to replace Walker this November.
Some from vague memory: Walker elected to gov Nov 2010. WI allows recall sig collection to begin min 1 year later. But the next regular gov election will be Nov 2014. So successful recall would have cut about two years off the Koch/Walker dictatorship.

By: this

this — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:32:19 +0000

Wisconsin blew it now, perhaps the DNC will do a bit more work there in helping the Wisc Democrats get some ground back.
It seems that Koch/Walker’s most parasitic wetdreams have been halted. But I expect WI state legislators will repeal much of the more fascist legislation within 20 years.

By: this

this — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:27:53 +0000

I don’t think a civil war would end in your favor.
They “have the guns”. We have the brains, electronics (eg, surveillance, controls) savvy, bots, and more of the vets than the Liberal Media likes everyone to believe.
Think: artillery (eg, assad, quakdaffi) against ak-47s, but well past ww2 technology.
They want more Catholics!
Rapture fodder (eg, iraq-iran war, 1980s)
But, we don’t need civil war.

By: this

this — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:26:59 +0000

IRQVet1999, Scott Walker is a purer corporate socialist than obama is.
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i don’t see the recall outcome as completely awful. If the Koch cabal must spend at 7:1 for all elections, soon they’ll run out of other people’s money. (Unfortunately they know they don’t need to, and so won’t spend at that ratio)

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:29:29 +0000

SDSanders @ # 27: Our country was first hi-jacked by the Supreme Court when they ruled for the Citizen’s United garbage.

Ahem. The Supreme Court’s first hijacking of this country occurred in December 2000 when they ruled for the Bush/Cheney garbage.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:54:32 +0000

And the Assembly has a lopsided Republican majority, besides. Wisconsin blew it now, perhaps the DNC will do a bit more work there in helping the Wisc Democrats get some ground back.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:50:50 +0000

Okay, so the Senate is in Democratic control. For how long? Here is the schedule for the current elected body, and there is another election this November and we don’t know how that will turn out for the 2013/2014 Senate. If the new Senate is seated for 6 days, what can the Democratic Senate accomplish? What could the Democratic governor have done with no legislature?

I am not sure why they even held this election at this time instead of working to replace Walker this November. It would have been more of a symbolic victory than anything else. Am I wrong?

By: Stevarious

Stevarious — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:08:50 +0000

A powerful message was sent out today. “Democracy – Yeah, You Can Buy That Here Too. – America, Inc.”

By: mxh

mxh — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:52:47 +0000

@SDSanders

Our country was first hi-jacked by the Supreme Court when they ruled for the Citizen’s United garbage. Then we were hi-jacked by the Koch Brothers and their gazillion dollars and mindset to rule the country.

Exactly. Citizen’s United has made it possible for one or two people to affect the election of a state of 5 million+ (and soon, a country of 300 million +). It is probably the most undemocratic practice in the country and there is no way it will be reversed anytime in the next few decades. We’re all screwed.