The hysterical right wing promised America a front row seat to fire, brimstone, rivers of blood, looting, rampaging, crying babies, sirens, thieves, chainsaws turning on by themselves, ski masks and eternal night in Wisconsin once these recall elections got under way, and probably if you drop enough acid and look very hard, all of those things are happening right behind this kindly hippie bagpipe player standing in the street in Madison last night, which is the “craziest” thing we have spotted so far. Or maybe that is just the fever dream of a Fox News editor who is wishing desperately to run footage of the crazy London riots behind Steve Doocy’s aneurism-inducing hate-froth about unions (which may yet “accidentally” happen, and if so, we called it first). Oh well, missed opportunity. Instead, here is the Netroots live coverage of the votes, which are seeking to recall six incumbent Republican state senators who voted for Scott Walker’s infamous pro-poverty union-busting bill.
Here is another fun photo diary of Wisconsin voters gathering on election eve.
Mother Jones has a piece on the GOTV effort that has been taking place in the lead-up to the recall votes:
Officials with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW), labor unions, and other left-leaning groups say they never anticipated such an outpouring of energy in an off-year election, in the dead of summer, and in mostly Republican-leaning districts. “We haven’t hit our volunteer numbers like this since the Obama campaign in 2008,” says Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the state Democratic Party.
The numbers tell the story. This past weekend, 8,234 people volunteered for the state Democratic Party to support the Democratic challengers in Tuesday’s recalls. Volunteers made contact with nearly 785,000 voters last weekend alone, according to the Dems’ estimates. All told, the party says total voter contacts have surpassed 2 million. We Are Wisconsin, the coalition of labor unions that’s been a powerful force in the recalls, said it knocked on nearly 200,000 doors over the weekend—40 doors a minute statewide—and deployed hundreds of volunteers. “To have mobilized so many ordinary citizens, many of whom have never been involved in politics, to stand up and take their government back from Scott Walker and his enablers in attacking Wisconsin’s working families is nothing short of astounding,” says Kelly Steele, a We Are Wisconsin spokesman.
No more free Koch-aine, suckas! [Dane101.com/ Mother Jones]
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I thought the election wasn't until Thursday.
Only for the republicans.
Only if you're brown.
Don't forget to bring cash for the poll tax, too.
Think that may have pissed some folks off?
WOOOOLVERIIIINESBAAAAADGERRRRS!!!!!9!!!1!!!1!!!They are estimating at least 80% voter turnout. Yeah, I'd say they pissed some folks off.
Yeeeeaaaaah… I'll believe that 80% number after the dust settles.
It takes two stalled wars and a presidential election to break 60% in this country. And that's 60% of the asshats who bothered to register.
Wisconsin is a high turnout state in Presidential contests (70% + in 04 and 08), and they have same day registration (or at least for general they do). So 80% is too high, but not by as much as you'd think based on national trends.
Is the proposed new state motto "Eat Cheese or Die!" on the ballot too?
Scott Walker could be the next Ronald Reagan. Remember that Reagan, a one-time union activist, was a Borax-pushing, carpet-munching thespian. But look what he did for the country.
Reagan? Didn't he play second banana to a monkey once?
He learnt his shit-flinging from the best.
No, that's Dick Cheney.
Reagan was a lesbian?
Strange things happen when the mind starts to go.
He & his namesake could pass for Sapphos.
I believe the theatrical expression is "scenery chewing". A little carpet munching, with its trace elements of zinc replacing the heavy metal pollutants in our diet, might have restored his sanity and saved us all a world of grief.
What, exactly, did he do for the country? Other than starting this whole bullshit about "trickle-down," or as his Veep called it, "voodoo economics"?
(fingers crossed for democracy)
This comment is 100% snark free
Who's version? (Also snark free, almost.)
Humankind's version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly
I join you in this sentiment.
Don't you cross your fingers when you lie?
For luck… that you don't get caught lying.
Cheers to that, Baconz.
I hope WI voters start a tidal wave of similar actions in this country. I have a few legislators here in Texas I would like to toss out.
Oh wait, I live in Texas – outside Austin and Lubbock no one gives a shit. Disregard.
london calling!
And I was there too.
They couldn't have picked a better thing to do on the anniversary of Jerry Garcia's passing than to vote those Koch-suckers outta office.
Yes. And, they couldn't have picked a better thing to do.
oh shit. Now I has a sad.
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
– Jerry Garcia
The 23% who are doing quite well are all in the Tea Party where insanity is less noticeable, or at least doesn't stand out so much.
They are not out on the streets — yet.
Haven't seen the latest Newsweek cover yet?
Tonight we can all sing "He's gone" together
How so? Can't seem to find any connection between Jerry Garcia and politics, or even social justice.
Garcia's got his own Ben & Jerry's flavor, for god's sake!
And it is even tastier than 15 minutes of posthumous fame.
You know this won't have a happy outcome. The Koch folks must have this rigged already. I'll be happy to be wrong.
I'm guessing they have some plans to screw with the results to ensure the right results–i.e., the one that means no unions, no livable wages or working conditions for the poors, and continued corporate/Koch control of WI. Because that is freedom.
You mean like, oh…. I don't know… "discovering" 15,000 "votes" just after Election Day?
I was thinking along similar lines.
Darling's counting on it.
Kathy Nickolaus, don't fail her now.
Trying to remain positive. Of course the Kochs will try to pull something, but hoping the folks of Wisco are out in such numbers that the Koch-rigging doesn't begin to touch a resounding mandate for the rethugs to go fuck themselves with samurai swords. Rose colored glasses I wear.
Let's put the "mad" in "Madison" and send these thieving Kochtards back to greasing their glory holes for their corporate masters, back into obscurity and shame, where they can't do any more damage to the poor and middle class. Then we'll see how much the Rethuglicans keep crowing about who sent whom a mandate about what, when.
Apparently, the free market is full of freedom crushing donors, Home Depot, Wholefoods, Murdoch publications, Sam's Club, Walmart, Target and now freakin homemaker's paradise Michael's are corporate sponsors of privacy stealing/women/union/immigration-hating legislation in every State.
Must we suffer poor quality toilet paper, sheet-rock, silk flowers and limit our sexting to make a stand for our freedoms?
Let's start a new corporation: Toilet Paper for Lefties. We'd be able to sell to all the progressives, as well as the left-handed Tea Partiers.
Print the faces of prominent teatards on it, and It'll sell like crazy.
I want to see news reports of just how vicious badgers can be tonight on FOX.
On Wisconsin! Get yer butts out to the polls.
Let's just hope honey badger gives a shit this time.
As of last night, they are estimating at least 80% voter turnout. Let's hope they are correct.
Fox's headline will be "Fraud at Polls!"
Wow. Seems "Yes we can" is back!!
With regards to Obama, I think it's time to change that to "No he won't."
More like "Oh no he did-int!"
If he abided the Theory of the Unitary Executive as much as G-Dub, I think a public option, et. al., would have been pushed thru. But Barry chose to put himself at the mercy of the separation of powers & the desire of the Congressional (namely, Senate) Dems (not) to affect change.
It almost feels like 2008 again, as in I'm thinking "oh sweet jeezus, please don't let this end badly."
Happy 37th anniversary of Nixon resigning everyone!
Damn, I forgot to get a card. Where is my brain?
For some reason, my employer at the time, after the Saturday Night Massacre, had a problem with my "Impeach The Cox Shucker" bumper sticker.
+++ for the Archibald Cox reference
The dude could rock the righteous bow tie.
Like to see Ken Starr try to pull that shit off.
Those were all the rage back then. My favourite was "Fire the Cox-sacker."
And don't forget how clueless Ben Stein, then one of his speechwriters, was about why Nixon was resigning.
Anybody who couldn't figure out why Nixon resigned is too fucking stupid have his political opinions published.
He plays an intellectual on TV, and writes in praise of Creationism.
I just interviewed a job applicant who referenced Stein's "movie" in an attempt to curry favor with me.
. . .
I can't even.
EPIC INTERVIEW FAIL
I have the same reaction when an applicant references their Facebook page when asked for a resume.
Remember back when the worst thing about Republicans was only being led by a highly intelligent sociopath?
"Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine."
–Hunter S. Thompson, "Presenting: The Richard Nixon Doll (Overhauled 1968 Model)," Pageant, July 1968
Oh, Hunter, I LOVE when you talk dirty to me!
Still waiting to get a Democratic president to the left of Nixon. Also.
Jimmy Carter was pretty left; that's why they destroyed him.
Republicans have been known to suppress voting by reducing the number of voting machines in Democratic-leaning areas, but the lines won't be that long.
Oh, I hope the lines are like I like my men. Veeeeeeeeeerry Long.
And thick?
Frothy!
This is Wisconsin. Of course the voters will trend toward fat.
Workers of the world unite.
Someone ought to write a Manifesto!
Groucho Marx?
All Hail Marx and Lenin!
Here's the one you want: All Hail Marx and Lennon
Because we need more schooling, for more students, for Morescience High School. And we're not afraid of it, are we?
Way ahead of their time.
And yet there were three different presidential candidates on my '08 ballot whose party had "Socialist" in the name. And that's not even counting the Greens!
"Workers of the world unite."
I'm feeling a little Wobbly right now..
har!
Is the little Wobbly enjoying it as much as you?
You have nothing to lose but the Kochs.
Wait, let me re-phrase that…
The peasants are revolting!
Finally!
Go peasants!
seriously, i keep wondering when america is going to go all guns of brixton.
then i remember we are fat, diabetic and fox news watching.
That's only in "real 'merka"…I know lots of folks who vote and dont require a mobility scooter to do it. And, who tote guns and support teachers/firefighters/cops…all those damn unionized public service jubs. Sorry for the optimism, but I just need so badly to believe the teatards are going to get bitch-slapped and maybe the tide can turn towards sanity.
No, the right is revolting. The peasants are just reclaiming what they won through decades of effort.
"They certainly are!"
-Groucho
Go Wisconsinites — give those bastards the thumping they deserve. I hope the Republicans' biggest achievement over the past year is to ensure that they never get elected to public office again. But of course I thought that was true after Dubya's fucking reign of error as well.
Seriously. I'm amazed that the entire republican party of idiots didn't jump off a cliff in shame after his reign of stupidity.
Assholes did what assholes do. Deny any responsibility for anything, double down on the the fucking crazy and blame the dusky. It's all they know. That and y'know, tax cuts.
jump off a cliff in shame
Unfortunately, the shameless never have an issue with raising the shame ceiling.
Katy Perry's dad Rick is hoping you're wrong!
Yeah I thought that too. Then started hearing say that the reason they got driven out was because they weren't far enough right, and I made the mistake of thinking they were slitting their own throats.
I underestimated the stupidity of the voting public.
Cut their taxes, and they'll follow you anywhere.
The Republicans are still running their voter suppression drive but without the rallies and cool signs.
And fire-hoses.
Pull out the Kochs!!!
See what I did there?
Now I do.
Isn't that the Palin plan for fighting teen pregnancy?
That always makes me sad.
Oh Lizzie, this new "Coupon Suzy" is competing with you for my erotic reverie time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTiYmsf4wJQ&pl…
I do have a "type", don't I?
Not kidding, we have identical bodies, I am not as blonde, but other than that…she could be my younger sister.
OMG!
Um … excuse me, I must, ahem, repair to the small room.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Yeah, I went there. First.
And Warren Jeffs just got sentenced to life in prison — I hope today is a bad day for everyone who thinks The LORD gave them permission to visit horror and misery upon the innocent — like Scott Walker and his cronies.
Scott Walker: My god, the drooling stinking ignorant fatass peasants are revolting!
Scott Walker's Ball Washer: Sir! Those are our supporters!
Doesn't make them any less revolting.
Revolting? Or Revolting!
According to FOX, those union thugs in Madison are rioting and destroying the city. They even showed footage of it; strangely enough the Wisconsinites all had English accents.
Yeah. Either that or the footage Fox used last time with palm trees.
Could you pick up the phone? It's London Calling.
Put on your steel toe work boots and kick their Kochs 'til they see stars.
Stars are pretty. How 'bout we settle for them seeing red!!
Stars are pretty. How 'bout we settle for them seeing their withered manparts turned to jelly!!
/fixed
Maybe they should riot. That seems to be the only thing that gets covered by awful cable newz, as I've seen NOTHING about our beloved Wisco except on the commie, radical far left blogs. Show em' a little of that "union thug" we've heard so much about.
Yet a teabagger rally attended by dozens gets feverish coverage.
More feverish coverage than baggers. Yay! Librul media!
Hey, shit, the last such rally held by its de facto head, Jim DeMented, featured an awesome SEVENTY WHOLE teabagroids. Over 100,000 workers on the streets of Madison=not news. Fewer than 100 fatasses on the streets of the Nation's capital=REALREDHOTSIZZLINGNEWSLOVEFEST.
It would be fun to be a fly on the wall at FOX news as they are preparing their reports for this evening explaining how ACORN and the New Black Panther Party beat up all the conservatives and stole the election. I'm sure computer graphics will help fill in for reality.
I suppose they better dust off that picture of Willie Horton again.
Depending on the outcome, Fux will or will not report on this story.
So long as their pie charts add up to significantly more or less than 100%, all will be right with the world.
Exit polls show that 137% supported retaining the Republiklans that were being recalled.
REMEMBER: No beer til you vote!
Wisconsin Talk Radio is blaming the London Riots on Wisconsin Liberals.
I'd love to think this was snark, but, no. It probably isn't.
Sadly, not snark.
Syke(s)!
I'm sorry, I just can't believe that. If I were to believe what you just said was NOT snark, I would not be able to hold reality in my brain simultaneously, and the resulting KER-POP would signify the end of Life, The Universe, and EVERYTHING.
Damned libtards and their intercontinental mind control beams.
Well, England has a cheesy history. They DO own Cheddar after all.
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how."
–Scott Walker in a previous life.
Dude really needs to rock that stache. It would give him the dictatorial gravitas his current little weaselly face lacks.
Governor Wanker needs to call up the National Guard in order to somehow stop the trainloads of illegal immigrants, gypsies and escapees from Joliet Prison from flooding polling places with their communist illicit votes and illegal opium. Godspeed!
Don't forget the fake Acorn voters … thousands of non-existent voters will be out in force.
That's "Hopium," to ya. See Hillaryis44.com.
Let the Koch slapping begin.
It stopped?
Steve Douche can't even spell his own name. Why would he be correct about anything else?
Judas H. Priests, who the hell chose the outfit for that bagpiper, Helen Keller on mescaline I’m guessing.
ALT-TXT: One of the pro-union hoodlums
While bagpipes might double as a defense weapon if needed, the comic characters shown here seem to transcend the surrounding brouha, even if they're summoning Braveheart or whatnot in their own way.
"A kilt! A kilt! My kingdom for a kilt!"
Brav-O, trendsetters.
kilt my landlord.
kilt my landlord.
Jokes on them. There's no such thing as Scotchtoberfest!
A few weeks ago when I was in the mood to get some revenge on the pet troll, I followed his trail of slimey drool over to that Breitbart rag. Can't remember the exact story they were frothing over, but one of the "real American Patriots" was telling his fellow dimwits to boycott anything union made. I thought, Jeebus fucking Christ, how unAmerican can you be, you sorry assed jackwad? Yeah, keep buying that crap made in China and all the other crap that is made in sweatshops by child labor and sexually abused women all over the world – under American labels. That will really get your country back.
Good luck Wisconsin, I'm a'rootin' fer ya!
If something is union made, it may have been touched by a filthy librul. The rest, (the sensible stuff you mentioned), simply no longer matters to these rabid fools. (My apologies to rapid fools).
But you can still get quality prison made goods and made by USA prisoners. We haven't begun harvesting their organs yet, I don't think, but our new Chinese overlords are working on that.
Picture the Sex Pistols as Cheeseheads
TAKE BACK WISCONSIN! FEINGOLD FOR GOVERNOR, ALSO!
Does this mean we're going to lose Kortney?
I was told we have nothing to lose but our chains.
Kinky.
Not if she joins this organization:
EXOTIC DANCERS UNION http://www.bayswan.org/EDAunionLL.html
She was never really ours.
If you love Kortney, set her free . . .
"THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING!"
Gov Walker: "You can say that again."
Gov Talker: "THE BOURGEOIS PAY BETTER"
Don't get saucy with me, Bernaise.
No snark – regarding the photo diary linked images —
Is there any reason to think Feingold might consider another run? or is such hope as doomed as Alan Grayson's tenure in office.
Grayson will be back. Have you seem the teabag goofus who replaced him? I think is name is Clayton Bigsby.
Scuttlebutt around these parts is that he may end up fighting a popular police chief in the primary, depending on how this redistricting clusterfuck turns out.
This is not good news for Scott Walker.
In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz:
HA HA!
"hippie bagpipe player"
I would tell him to get a haircut, but it looks like that guy already has a shaven head…
Throw the bastards out!
Wait, this isn't the Sarah Palin thread?
Her family seems to be skilled at getting them out there.
Only because the females are skilled at getting them IN there…
Am compelled to respond with the ubiquitous, but accurate in this case, line…
All of 'em, Katie
Dems vote Kochs out! Taiwanese erection video at 11.
Flea erections or GTFO.
Wake up people this is a replay of Kristallnacht only instead of blood craze hooligans you have middle aged housefrau’s driving to polling stations in Subaru’s.
Last night on the teevee that is permanently set to MSNBC (except for 7:00 M-F when it switches–as if by magic–to Current) told me that lots of out of state money had been given to the Cheese State Recalls and then went on to give names like the Kock Brothers.
Whew! I thought they were about to blow the whistle on DustBowlBlues and the $200 she sent to We Are Wisconsin.
I sent my money to Wisconsin. As opposed to the DNC, Wisconsin may actually do something good with my meager donation.
THROW THE
BUMSKOCHS OUT!Rock out with your Kochs out!
Kick out the Kochs?!?!
(Headline Thursday Aug. 11, 2011)
15,820 More Wisconsin Votes Found Via Email
It's good mojo that I graduated to 118p on my earlier post.
Prepare to go MONTHS at p-119. ☺
From now on what your every write freak (no matter how bad of a pun) I shall fist it up.
OH. Baconz posted this on FB this morning
WI recall elections today….Let's hope we can finally start to take these anti-american Koch brother proxies out of office and put in officals that actually "Care" about "the people" they are "elected" to "represent". Get some of these Leftists in now. I'm sick of these ultra-right wing Rush Limburger types that have been running this country into the ground for the last 30 years.
like
Once these jokers are voted out, please don't send them east to Ohio.
We have our own Koch-cronies to deal with already.
hahaha yeah i remember when that obese lady suddenly found 14,000 votes somewhere in her computer in Waukesha County
Turn out is reported to be at or near the levels usually seen in Presidential elections. Good to know people are now paying attention. We'll see tonight whether they showed up to the polls fully awake or not.
And if you're old and voting, bring your damned glasses this time.
"Dammit, I accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan! And he's not even running!"
Go Wisco go. Stomp on those America hating shitbaggers.
A little perspective here on why it's important to vote today if you're in one of the contested districts.
People actually died to secure the rights Walker and his cronies want to take away. All the private sector union jobs have already been sent overseas to places like China, so only the public sector union jobs remain. When those go, the middle class and the expertise that keeps the United States from becoming a really shitty place to live leaves for hundreds of years. Look at what happened to China when the Mandarins went away.
And speaking of China, those jobs we sent there are going to leave and go to Vietnam and from there to trained penguins in Antarctica who work without heat and gather their own fish once a Vietnamese middle class starts to appear. The God of Profit at any cost must be appeased.
On Wisconsin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOYus1BE7jk
I wonder if that fat dumbbell who worked in Waukesha County is being allowed anywhere near this election.
Berry beetles? And he fuckin' bought that? At least the PENNDOT workers here will tell you the truth.
Baconz (TO PENNDOT WORKER WHILE STUCK AT A DEAD STOP 20 MIN LATE FOR WORK): So when you going to be done with this interchange that you've been working on for 3 months?
Worker: Shut up! It's too fucking hot to work. (exit worker to sit, drink a beer and smoke a cigar)
True story.
At least Randy Hopper will have sweet, sweet twenty-something lady to ease his pain.
Today we are all cheap-beer-swilling, ice-fishing, seriously-misguided-in-sports-team-preference, cheeseheads!
No snark, but I've got a pretty good feeling about this. Doubtless, as others have said, the Koch Bros. will be pulling as many dirty tricks as they can. But unless they personally go to every Wisconsin GOP voters house with a big bag of Kochaine, I think we'll hear some good news tonight.
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't teevee ppl have to be in a union? Like SAG or something like it???
From a friend of mine who lives in one of the contested districts:
"The senator from my district, Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac, should have had an easy reelection, but he has "family values" problems beyond the general discontent, and is perceived as vunerable. I went to the local community center to vote this morning and it was busier than I have ever seen it. In the primary the local school board snuck in a bond issue that had been turned down several times, and this time got it passed. None of that this time , the only question on the ballot was Hopper or King, and I doubt that many people used the write-in slot."
Passing bond issues? Sounds dangerously Democratic to me…
How many times do you have to pass this shit around before the numbnuts public gets it right? Jeesh!
*Dons cheerleader uniform*
"Block that Koch! Block that Koch!"
So, basically your type is short-waisted, big-bosomed and not very tall….we must never, ever meet.
Like Mrs. DaRooster… now if only she would get as vocally disgusted with morans as you… she is disgusted… just not as vocal.
She should be on the Wonkette, that way she can yell anonymously.
She sometimes makes the mistake of asking me,"So what's on Wonkette today?"… after about 3 minutes she says,"I can't listen about those assholes anymore."
I guess it is good therapy here… I haven't beaten up an asshole in quite some time… I don't go anywhere, due to fear of the sky falling, but hey…
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