Scott Walker lost control of his state supreme court yesterday when commie pinko JoAnne Kloppenburg defeated conservative David Prosser’s bid for re-election, though the race will probably end in a recount. How on Earth could a shoo-in for easy re-election like a supreme court justice with no real scandals on his record lose? WELL IT’S NOT SCOTT WALKER’S FAULT, IF THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE ASKING! The Republican Party of Minnesota is doing just fine! It’s the fact that Wisconsin VERY SUDDENLY has major cities that’s the problem. “You’ve got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of Wisconsin,” he said. Secession time!
Scott Walker will take the parts of the state that don’t hate his guts (i.e. nowhere) and turn them into a beautiful Wisconsin utopia where there are no such thing as workers’ rights or benefits.
“For those who believe it’s a referendum, while it might have a statewide impact that we may lean one way or the other, it’s largely driven by Madison, and to a lesser extent Milwaukee,” the governor said. “But those Senate recall elections on both the Democrat and Republican side aren’t being held in Madison, they aren’t being held in Milwaukee.”
Actually, the state senators subject to recall elections are still in real trouble, based on the margins of yesterday’s election in their districts, and based on the fact that, well, they’re going to be put up to a recall vote. Even if he’s right about control of the state senate, Scott Walker will still have to face the same statewide voters in his own recall vote. And unlike this Prosser guy, he’s well known for being an actual terrible asshole!
But Scott Walker can remain delusional for however long he can hold onto power if he wants to. What else does he have to do with his time on the throne? [WisPolitics]
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Walker is holding onto power by a Koch.
Isn't it really is a blessing when the evil mongers of our country have a name like Koch? It would not be nearly as much fun if their name was Smith, Jones or Willberry.
Willberries are usually right next to the Koch.
"Scott Walker will still have to face the same statewide voters in his own recall vote"
So, when IS his recall vote?
November/December of this year is the earliest that the recall process can begin. Begin it shall young master, begin it shall, and nought that Koch money can buy can stop it. Sealed is Scooter's fate.
Too bad it can't happen a bit sooner.
They're complying with state law. Go figure.
It's like Pol Pot without all the Sartre-reading.
and Pol Palin. You know she would just love to round up a bunch of non REAL Mericans and put them to "work" in some camps somewhere. By work I mean exterminate, just to be clear. Her hatred for others is like one of those big klieg lights at a Hollywood premier. Just being near one will sear your skin in seconds.
Possibly the most underrated despot. Hitler, especially on the internet (see Godwin), & Stalin, at the Teabaggings, get almost all the ink, with a little left over for Castro, Ayatollah Ruhollah "Back" Khomeini, Noriega, Mugabe, & Laurent Kabila, but Pol Pot, for my money, can beat them all. The Duvaliers & their voodoo, & Mao & his "five years plans", can match Pol for crazy & genocide, respectively, but the Khmer stand alone.
It's time to teach those bastards from Rock Ridge, er, Madison a lesson.
Walker: I got it! I got it!
Hedley Koch: You do?
Walker: We'll work up a Number 6 on 'em.
Hedley Koch: [frowns] "Number 6"? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one.
Walker: Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into Madison, a-whompin' and a-whumpin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the pets, of course.
Hedley Koch: You spare the pets?
Walker: Naw, we rape the shit out of them at the Number Six Dance later on.
Hedley Koch: Marvelous!
Win!
'Scuse me while I whip this out.
Tell me, Cowboy, is it twoo what they say about [redacted]?
Can we get Angela Merkel to play Lili von Schtupp?
When I think Teutonic Titwillow, Angela Merkel is not the first person I think of.
Walker: Union busting, false flag tricks, cutting the budget and union busting.
Hedley Koch: You said union busting twice.
Walker: I like union busting.
Well, can't you see that's the last act of a desperate man?
I don't care if it's the last act of Henry V, I'm running for President!
Thanks for the laugh Jack. I never thought I'd see the words beautiful Wisconsin utopia strung together in the same sentence.
Ha ha dickhead. Same people will be voting on your recall come January. If it weren't for the fact that you have actually factored such an outcome into your business model (that much faster access to lucrative sinecure) I would be gearing up for Shadenfreudepalooza 2012.
"Shadenfreudepalooza 2012."
The politics in our tiny corner of the world are currently insane just like the politics the teevee brings me. I just saw Avenue Q so Schadenfreude is bouncing around (musically) in my head. Schadenfreudepalooza, therefore, suits my mood completely.
Also, I took three kinds of over the counter medicine about 3:00 AM to stop my coughing and can't really wake up, the hope 2012 will be just as described above may give me enough hope and energy to get my lazy self going this morning. Oops. This afternoon.
Wait, did the whole "declining to prosecute child molesters" thing not rate as a scandal?
Actually the molested dude came forward and complained of the politicization of his case, and overtly backed Prosser. Hey, altar boy, how's that Stockholm-y Syndromy thing workin' for ya –wink–?
Mayfield did a complete 180 on this because he is now suing the church and has to act like Prosser did everything he could to help.
paraphrasing Thurber:
"He's a naive domestic burgher with no brainpower, but I think we'll continue to be amused by his presumption."
Governor McCheese?
http://www.facebook.com/AngryYoungMenltd#!/photo….
Governor Stumbles
"How on Earth could a shoe-in for easy re-election like a supreme court justice with no real scandals on his record lose?"
Aside from calling the Chief Justice a bitch?
And threatening her, and saying that it was OK to call her that because she is a bitch when asked to apologize.
And contending that if elected he will consciously be working to advance the Governor's agenda, ideology and interests?
No activist judges!
Holy shit. I had to look that up. I'm glad to see that the Republican Party is still using the "but she asked for it" excuse for nearly everything they do.
When they are not using the "It was a joke. You liberals have no sense of humor." excuse.
Hey, he just used a little bad judgment, that's all.
Bitch set me up.
Hey Scott — remember that Henry Ford said to never apologize and never explain? He would've added never make dumbass excuses that don't make any sense, but he didn't count on idiots such as yourself coming to power.
That was Hank the Deuce. Scott Walker doesn't listen to him, because he was not nearly as insane and fascist as his old man.
???
I thought it was Winston Churchill.
Google shows me that people variously attribute it to Francis Bacon, Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill, and Henry Ford II. It's the title of a biography of Ford, though, plus he was a U.S. American, so I will go with him.
Little known but true. Hank II had the worst breath in the history of the species. I could not figure that one out. All that money and Oh. My. God. I used to have to interview him from time to time (press gaggle) and I thought the dude was going to melt my microphone and the hand which was holding it. Sweet Jesus…
Dude, don't be buying any green bananas for the governor's mansion. You probably won't be around when they ripen.
Texas has the same problem, city folk, what with their cornputers, fancy edumacation, and 'science' are always voting for the Demo-rat party!! Until we can get Amurica back to the country-livin'/slave days of the foundling fathers, this countree with cuntinue to be The Soviet Union of the West!!!
i lived in College Station for five years. i didn't even bother voting. it seriously would've been a waste of time on my part. it's certainly no Austin.
And I would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling Madison kids!
Billy Madison? John Wilkes Madison?
This coincides with recent data that says the younger, more educated you are, the more likely you are to live in an urban area.
And, if things haven't changed, more likely to vote for Democrats. If we could limit the franchise to people who have at least a Bachelor's degree at a university accredited by a national association like, in my college days, the North Central A.A., and who never go to church, we could completely remake this country into the western European style socialist country we all pine for.
Or just limit it to people who can read a page-long essay without moving their lips. That would help, too.
Don't worry Scott, South Carolina will welcome you with open arms….
Clemson's football team can always use another tackling dummy.
If there's a federal penitentiary in SC, I do hope the guards are union.
Actually, the open arms are in Argentina.
So everything would be fine in Wisconsin if weren't for all those, you know, urban people; nice dogwhistling for your base asshole. But good to see a wingnut admit that yes, they just want to fuck over the cities and run everything to the advantage of the hicks.
In the last days of Apartheid, as the government was being dismantled, Afrikaaner white separatist douchebags were walking around with rifles drawn and wading in among the throngs of recently legitimized poor blacks like they were going to put this nonsense to rest once and for all. I remember ABC showing footage of a particularly stupid one who had been injured and was sitting on the road in all his finery complaining of how long it was taking for an ambulance to come. Within a few minutes a group of black vigilante's came along and shot him dead where he sat, as if they were putting down an injured horse.
Scott Walker seems to be operating at about this level of cognitive dissonance.
You mean the places where the most people actually live might have some kind of impact on election outcomes?
Well root my toots, Clem! That there sounds logical!
That's another thing Governor Walker has in common with Pol Pot.
considering Walker used to hold office in Milwaukee…yeah, he didn't treat it like he loved it from what i hear. but i hear there are some Nazi groups around Green Bay. he should look into that.
People with porcelain shitters leave Scott Walker alone!
Walker should get off his bike and introduce a measure that would ban sharia law forever in the cheesehead state. Only then will I rest easy.
Obviously, the solution to this problem is to have a second, separate governor who would actually consider the residents of Madison and Milwaukee as among his or her constituents.
Wisconsin to Kochs: KISS OUR DAIRY AIR!
I was so hoping that they would put that on the license plate, but every time it came up they kept rejecting it.
Sniff or gtfo.
it’s largely driven by Madison, and to a lesser extent Milwaukee
Leaving…what? Eau Claire? Waukeesha? The dairy cows?
Damn those large cities where large numbers of voters live. Scott Walker would be really popular if it weren't for all those damn voters pissin' on his parade.
Do they have many
urbancity folk up there in whiter-than-a-bleached-sheet-in-a-blizzard WI?Kochsucker blues.
You mean city-folk get to vote in Wisconsin? Even the coloreds? What kind of fucked up democratic process are they running over there?
Just can't trust them cities. Too urban.
NOoooo, fetal recall efforts have RIGHTS!!1!
Its not the REAL MERKINs voting against me…
Glenn Beck gets fired… Koch bribe money gets a negative return… Unions get reinvigorated… House Rethuglicans get shown for the corporate shills they are… dare we hope?
Nothing like pissing off your major population centers to guarantee future political success.
Oh, and Heil to you too Scott.
Hey Scott,
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, my friend
(and by friend I mean you fucking asshat)
I think the problem for the GOP in Wisconsin isn't Madison or Milwaukee or even Green Bay. It's teeth.
Now hear me out here. People in cosmopolitan areas tend to have better dental hygiene and therefore more teeth than those in the boonies. So the GOP doesn't need less unions in Wisconsin to prevail, it needs less teeth in order to prevail.
DAMN I'M ONE SMART COOKIE!
I am so looking forward to hearing him say, "to spend more time with my family".
Or, Föx News contributor, Scott Walker.
Or, "spend more time with the Kochs."
Tough shit Walker. The voters have sent a message. And if you don't like democracy, get out of the kitchen.
Guys like Snotty think that it's "the will of the people" only when the vote goes in their favor.
The Democrats will figure out a way to fuck this up by 2012.
Shhh — we're having a moment, dammit.
Only if Walker stops saying stoopid shit (e.g., see quote above).
I want you to know that I *did* upfist your comment, but I wasn't entirely happy about it.
I'd give my right nut to see a movement like the one in Wisc. or even Ohio in South Carolina. It would Just. Make. Too. Much. Sense. But no, the people who need health care, education, and good jobs the most are convinced that the only way to get there is to…get rid of the first two.
Just saw that our lovely Union Thug Judge is up by a few more votes in the latest count, now over 300 ahead.
Can Walker go straight to the SCOTUS to get the recount stopped? It worked once…
If he stops the recount, the Union Thug Judge still wins! Moohoohahahahaha….
Sorry, it's the schadenfreude. Makes me go all supervillain for some reason.
"Moohoohahahahaha…. "
A dairy-related pun in an evil laugh? Awesome!
I've heard those evil, plotting cows laugh like that. It is some seriously scary shit.
Haw! This was my 666th comment! Go evil!!
But it looks like 20,000 vote from the burbs are about to bury here.
Oh well Union money can’t buy everything can it……The thugs are going Down..
I'll be happy when Walker and Company want their life back.
I didn't know that Madison and Milwaukee between them touched 19 different counties in Wisconsin…you're so fucked Scotty!
Those damn city-dwellers! Subsidizing the country folk and all! I say we cut off them damn bucolics from the government teat!
No big deal. Gov. Wanker is just having a few "creative differences" with the Wisconsin electorate.
Well, he's still a giant sack of class warfare-waging, oligarch-blowing, loser shit. But his gubernatorial HoveRound is pretty sweet.
"Oh My GAWD Gubbnerr! The Voters are Near!" Gabby McMushmouth, Republican Strategist, Walker administration.
So La Klop has at least 50% of the vote, but that 50% all came from Madison? Madison must be bigger than it appears on the map.
Screams of "dead people voting" in 3, 2, 1……
Those city slickers in (to a lesser extent than Madison) Milwaukee have turned on you, eh Scotty? You mean the same voters who elected you County Executive? The same voters who broke BIG for the new Demon-crat who stole your old office by getting a lot more votes?
Elections have consequences, and so does being a backstabbing Koch-slurping tool. Bitch.
So I guess no one in Madison or MIlwaukee actually voted for the guy last year. And wasn't he an elected executive from Milwaukee before he was governor?
I reckon when he leaves office, he'll move back to the old place down on the farm with Maw and the kids. I can see him now. He'll trade in the Harley for an old pickup. He'll work stackin hay in the afternoon. Then, he'll sit out on the porch of an evenin' chawin tobaccer, spittin, whittlin, and whistlin Dixie. Yee-haa!
He was Milwaukee County executive; he ran for Governor against the city of Milwaukee's Democratic mayor and won by endlessly rehashing suburbs-vs.-city local issues that nobody in Madison, or in farming counties, or Up North, really gave a shit about.
Don't forget Ogdensburg.They've got a population of 202 (well 203 if you count that Elise Williamson is pregnant… again, and not by the same father I might add, but it's not my place to talk).
Bless her heart
(or is that only a Southern thing?)
I expect to hear this verbatim on A Prairie Home Companion.
Really, can you blame him for saying this? After all, Lou Sarah told us where the
REAL AMERICANS live, and it ain't in Madison….
Reminds me what old Grandad used to say: "The only thing bad about country livin' is livin' 'round country folk"
And the only thing wrong with Texas is it's full of Texans. (Except all you weirdos in Austin.)
Um what? Milwaukee is about three times the size of Madison and most of the counties that voted for Kloppenburg are rural ones in northern and western Wisconsin. Douchebag doesn't even know his own state.
Haha, fuck you Walker, you abominable chud. I'm going to start blaming Boscobel, WI for everything that happens that I don't particularly like.
"I hate these potholes on my drive home. Their existence is largely driven by Boscobel, and to a lesser degree, Waupun. Damn their oily rural hides!"
DeLay said Austin, Texas was in the most liberal county in the United States.
You really can't make this shit up.
Not to pick nits or defend that piece of shite exterminator, but I'd wager Travis County is top 5….
Yes we are a liberal county. And we're damn glad the Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County DA and the jury served DeLay with a 3 year prison term. Unfortunately, I suspect Gubnor Big Hair Perry will pardon him before he steps foot in a Texas prison. Still, the beauty is that the former pest control technician turned politician is now a felon and cannot vote in Texas. Happy Fuck You Thursday to Tom DeLay.
Texas, the state of Ann Richards and Molly Ivins will return!
Fancy-pants Madison, where they drink their Miller Lite from bottles and eat their cheese curds with a knife and fork …
The downfisting trolls are back! Good morning Bitches!
To paraphrase Jesus…the downfisting trolls will be with us always.
They take away our imaginary internet points, but give us something else to mock!
That's a fair trade. Thanks, bros.
And truly we are rich rich Wonketteers, for when else in history have we had so much to mock?
The days of Late Night Shots?
(Psst. That was Obi Wan Kenobi talking about the Force, dude.)
No way, mister. You got it all wrong. After he died, Ben was worried Luke would fuck up at the first dinner party he went to. So, when Luke was using his knife to eat, Ben called from the dead, "The Fork…Luke, use the Fork
Back?
It leaves?
♫♪All my friends are so small town
My parents live in the same small town
My job is so small town
Provides little opportunity
Educated in a small town
Taught to fear Jesus in a small town
Used to daydream in that small town
Another born romantic that's me♪♫
To be fair, blaming the voters in the liberal, more populous parts of the state is at least more honest than blaming ACORN and the New Black Panthers for stealing the election.
I think the fault lies in WI voters with functioning brains (including reasonable Down Syndrome'd folk).
Actually, it's 'largely driven' by Walker being a Douchey McDouchebag.
A world driven by Madison?
Hey, I saw "Splash." Scott! Mermaids did not swing this election, no matter how pretty Daryl Hannah was!
I said from the very beginning he had NO idea what he was stepping into with Madison. We would protest a ham sandwich if we thought it looked at us crooked.
Curse those city folk with their fancy edumacation, exposure to diversity, and broader life experience!
He's got a point, you know. Has anyone looked at a map of Wisconsin? The place is huge, its just enormous, but those cities, they are tiny, just little dots on the map. The overwhelming majority of the state is country, not city. What kind of democracy is this, where a tiny elite minority gets to ram its turgid, throbbing liberal commie fascism down the throat of the overwhelming majority of the State? Where did this liberal commie urban fascist notion come from, that elections should be determined by people, and not land area?
The only solution is to give them country folks 2 votes each*.
*If'n they's white, that is.
I know you're joking, but that's really how this rubes think. Take a look at the last Electoral College Vote Map and imagine the same argument: "More of the country is Red and voted for McCain so how did the Democrats steal the election?"
Joking?
Property ownership as a basis for secular authority? Haven't we tried that…?
Tried it? We fought a revolution over it.
"a tiny elite minority gets to ram its turgid, throbbing liberal commie fascism down the throat of the overwhelming majority of the State"
Now I'm feeling squirmish.
The States need to give disproportionate representation to rural yokels, just like the Senate!
I think Walker just called half of Wisconsin "lactose intolerant".
Sweet 8 pound baby jesus will protect him!
…and another head up on WI's electoral chopping block.
what a
gracefulloser you are scott walker.Fixed.
i.e. The parts of the state not controlled by the Posse Committatus.
Bosnia had the same problem and look what the rurals did to Sarajevo.
Not Fond du Lac?
Never been Fond of that place.
Why not? What does it lac?
Heute Madison, morgen die Welt!
One person, one vote? James Madison comes back from the grave to fuck Scott Walker, and not in a good way.
"It’s the fact that Wisconsin VERY SUDDENLY has major cities that’s the problem."
Shorter: Only the inbred, toothless hicks are the REAL citizens of [place name].
Translation: Only inbred, toothless hicks with no options in life can be duped by our loathsome ideologies.
I'm afraid his Daddies, the Kock's, will have to take him out behind the woodpile and spank him, country style. They might all enjoy it, actually.
There's a difference between A bitch and MY bitch.
I guess Scott Walker has forgotten about the people from Janesville, Beloit, or Kenosha that have had their well-paying union jobs ripped from them in recent history.
Scott Walker will take the parts of the state that don’t hate his guts (i.e. nowhere)
Hey, I grew up in Nowhere (Door County), Wisconsin! I'd feel insulted if it wasn't so very true.
Scotty have a huge fence post "driven" up his butt??
god I hate this fucking clown. and every damn day he opens his fucking mouth and says something else stupid and gives me a whole new reason to hate him.
He speaks his mind, because he has nothing to loose.
Nice of Snot Wanker to ride a Road King, built by UAW workers in
Milwaukee WIYork PA, at least for the last 40 years.If I were sort of actually awake today, I would try to find some news comparing the chances of the Recall against the Democrat(s) versus Republitards but I'm not so I won't, and therefore depend on one of my trusty wonkeratti colleagues to update me.
Again, thanks to the wonkeratti who gave me Republitard. I use it on my facebook page, specifically to scare the unbelievably nerdy creep from high school who saw me on the HS reunion facebook page and friended me into unfriending me. He's grown into an unbelievably nerdy right wing creep who serves in the state House of Representatives. I hope to make him regret sending that friend request as fast as I can. He'll probably do have an exorcism done of his computer. PC, I'm sure, not a cool Mac.
This monkey doesn't know when he just got his ass kicked. Good keep doubling down won't be long until your next.
Governor Walker can now declare victory, resign by saying Wisconsin doesn't want a lame-duck governor, and move his craziness over to Fox News. Worked for Lou Sarah.
not that Scooter deserves this, but many rural counties in WI also voted for Kloppenburg including Ashland county (which is in the extreme north on Lake Superior and went 70-30 for K.) and Crawford county where just over 4,000 people voted and went 60-40 for K and Iowa county with about 6,000 votes and went 62-38 for K. These are not liberal bastions. They're just places where reasonable people live and know bullshit when they smell it. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011...
What do you expect him to say? If he doesn't stay ideologically pure, he'll be summarily Second-Amendeded by the Tea Party.
Did I hear that right? Did Scott Walker just say "Fuck Madison and Milwaukee!"? Why, yes, I do believe he just did.
[deep, sexy voice a la Barry White]
Awwww, yeah!
Walk nasty for me, Babeh!
Haha, remember when Scott Walker was the chief executive of Milwaukee, a city?
Apparently he hated cities then, too, because he cut funding across the board and fucked everyone. Surprise!
He is not the governor of Madison and Milwaukee residents?
Shows us what thugs and Union money can do – but it ain’t over yet.
Once people realize that some of the clowns with the Cadillac benefits don’t deserve em the picture could change…..
Still got a recount coming
New numbers, but I supose we can expect more of the same.It's gone back and forth all day, it seems.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/kloppe...
God bless recall votes!
"Fuckin' cities, how do they work?"
Well you know some of us fancy-ass city slickers here in Madison, with our "A Vote for Prosser is a vote for Walker" signs, have been on the "anybody but Prosser" train since January due to the fact that he is a terrible judge and former Assembly speaker . . .
Riding a motorcycle without a helmet = LULZMONGER APPROVES.
Oh jesus…and then there was this: 10,859 votes "discovered" for douchebag mcgoo/ sexy child molestor glasses Prosser in Waukesha county…oh good god, someone tell me these aren't going to be admitted….I was so happy to see that walking shitbag reduced to a pile of whiney, wingnut dingbat postule that he is….and yet, he may still triumph. (assuming this isn't cheating, which I suspect it is…GOP beotch says "oopsie") besides…how can 14,000 people live in Waukesha county?
Bad cow disease.
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