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Tea Party/Koch-Funded/Corporate Gov. Scott Walker Emerging As Star In GOP ... Leading Palin, Romney, Huckabee

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who signed sweeping curbs on public unions into law on March 11, may be emerging as a potential 2012 Republican presidential contender, according to a poll issued on Thursday.

That pushed Walker ahead of other possible Republican contenders like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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SueHughes72

"None of the folks most seriously considering this race have been able to get any momentum yet, leaving a lot of room for a fresher face to enter and get a lot of traction," it said. "Walker's crusade against the unions has put him in a position where he could be that guy."

The Tea Party governor will greatly motivate progressives. He's a gift to Democrats.

  • 40 votes
#1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:15 AM EDT
worldcurmudgeon

Potential candidate for what, I wouldn't vote him in as dog catcher the way he attacked civil liberties, gave tax breaks to the wealthy corporate, and charged it to the debt load of the average joe citizen.

  • 41 votes
#1.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:33 AM EDT
SueHughes72

worldcurmudgeon

I wouldn't vote him in as dog catcher the way he attacked civil liberties

I agree ... and think it shows the GOP's desperation for a candidate when the front runner is someone who would only be acceptable to the far, far right. Then again, the GOP is made up of the far right these days ... moderates need not apply apparently.

  • 28 votes
#1.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:41 AM EDT
Agent 57

this weeks little darling... tells you a lot about the TP's\conservs... they are quick to jump on a bandwagon before knowing where it's even going... or who's driving...

  • 26 votes
#1.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:23 AM EDT
Zoolopolis

This is what GOP gov.'s do, they leave their states flaming wrecks making their conservative bones for their Pres. run.

  • 22 votes
#1.4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:12 AM EDT
maximillio

Well, if this is the leading light of the GOP, I have learned all I need to know to state definitively that the Republican Party is now the enemy of America.

  • 21 votes
#1.5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:17 AM EDT
hard2port

Sheesh, what a collection of morons, losers, and corporate ass-lickers. C'ya teabags!

  • 8 votes
#1.6 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:15 AM EDT
cowboygrandpa

Oh ?? Please run Walker with Palin as his VP. Pleeeassse !!!! ;~)) ;~))

I know my country has gone to trash when Fascist pigs are touted as presidential material !!!

Throw out the trash, get rid of the ultra conservative morons who think they are patriots and Americans. They are what has threatened this nations freedoms from the beginnings. Let them go and begin their own nation. They can call the GOP Fascist nation their version of America, just not here in America.

I'm tired of seeing these con men steal our nation that so many died to keep free. Most of the soldiers who fight for this nation do so for individual freedoms, not corporate rule !!!

The ultra conservative Fascists are dishonoring what the greatest generation fought for to keep this nation free from. The Fascisim and Imperialism of the axis of evil.

The only reason they waited so long to do it was because the WWII vets would have called them on their Fascist ways. Well I'm the son of a WWII vet and I'm calling them on their ways !!

  • 11 votes
#1.7 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:27 AM EDT
RcR-2828649

WoW, talk about best case scenario,,,

  • 5 votes
#1.8 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:05 PM EDT
RV in GB#1

Walker has my vote. Businesses are ALREADY leaving other liberal states to come to Wisconsin. It would be awesome to have a PRESIDENT who actually understood what it means to run a business as opposed to the current "community organizer in charge."

Walker for President in 2012 - Chris Christie for VP!

  • 3 votes
#1.9 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:14 PM EDT
SueHughes72

RV in GB#1

It would be awesome to have a PRESIDENT who actually understood what it means to run a business as opposed to the current "community organizer in charge."

Really? I guess you haven't noticed that Walker's poll numbers are in the tank in Wisconsin ... and that a large majority of Americans DISAGREE with what he did. Or at least what he's "trying" to do. Today his plans have been put on hold by a wise judge.

This poll suggests how popular he is in the GOP field at the moment because "spending cuts" are all the rage ... until they start hitting home. And that's proven by his unpopularity in his own state.

  • 6 votes
#1.10 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:12 PM EDT
McSpocky

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who signed sweeping curbs on public unions into law on March 11, may be emerging as a potential 2012 Republican presidential contender, according to a poll issued on Thursday.

If he runs for President, then the Democrats will have the election in the bag. :)

  • 7 votes
#1.11 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:34 PM EDT
Stop the ignorance.

Not surprising that TP/Republican activists see Gov. Scott Walker as a hero...

Let's wait and see what happens if (when) the recall efforts remove the Republican majority from the State House. Then when Gov. Walker's first year in office has passed his recall campaign will begin.

Sure Republicans are counting their chickens before they hatch, what's new about that?

This is a process, when it's done if Gov. Walker and his ilk have been removed from office by the voters of Wisconson, he won't stand a chance for any other office in the land. What's that old adage about "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die...?"

  • 4 votes
#1.12 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:35 PM EDT
mountainfirefall

uh ha no heros left... elections are simply slight of hand... and no amount of 'strategy' will alter what is ahead, in fact.. it is almost upon us. walker is a nat in comparison to the financial collpase, a third war and environmental chaos...

come on, this is on the verge of ridiculous (the conversation).

  • 3 votes
#1.13 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:50 PM EDT
RV in GB#1

I guess you guys will be protesting Obama and his lack of unions and collective bargaining for federal employees - oh, wait, I forgot, hypocrisy is normal for the Democrats. You are ok with SOLDIERS (who have spent years away from home and have their lives in danger every day) having no right to collectively bargain, but a teacher (who works 1600 hours per year and is rarely more than an hour from home) should. Wow.

I live in Wisconsin (at least spell it right "Stop the ignorance") and an attempt to recall Walker in a year may happen - and it may not! You would be surprised by how the majority (who is silent right now) feels about Scott Walker. Unions make up 12% of our labor force. Who makes up the OTHER 88%? What have our unions done recently - they have gone to their typical threatening THUG tactics (targeting businesses.) It does not surprise me that Democrats support this behavior.

  • 2 votes
#1.14 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:00 PM EDT
R. Donald Snyder

Please nominate him! Please! Please! Pretty please!!! Nothing would guarantee a Democratic landslide more!

  • 2 votes
#1.15 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:51 PM EDT
George-369262

The Tea Party governor will greatly motivate progressives. He's a gift to Democrats.

Sure, just as Obummer is a gift to conservatives.... and there is a LOT more of us, than you...

  • 1 vote
#1.16 - Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:21 AM EDT
worldcurmudgeon

So far, one company has decided to move to Wisconsin, yes the Governor is really improving the economic reality in the state. Say, I understand that the Kenosha Area Business Alliance is providing a $1.25 million low-interest loan, while the state Department of Commerce is providing a $500,00 loan to Catalyst.

In reality, the Republican party and their cronies are paying this company tax dollars to move 105 jobs into this area, WOW, that is about $1.5 million dollars which could have gone into public education, police, and fire departments.

  • 1 vote
#1.17 - Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:39 PM EDT
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fuzzy mathematician

Nothing to rev up the GOP like someone who will take on those pesky workers who have the temerity to demand fair compensation.

  • 27 votes
Reply#2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:30 AM EDT
George-369262

Who thinks in terms of 'fair' beyond the 6th grade ? It is what the employer can afford.

    #2.1 - Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:22 AM EDT
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    Wizeguy

    Maybe they should give him a star on the sidewalk in front of the capitol building...

    Then people can train their dogs to crap on command..see how he likes being crapped on!!!

    • 20 votes
    Reply#3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:53 AM EDT
    obie-one

    Once again , just points to how little they have to offer and that those who are willing to sell out any character they may own is always welcome into the Teapublican Nation..........

    • 18 votes
    Reply#4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:21 AM EDT
    newdayDAWNING10

    Yes, GOP, RUN HIM! Can't think of anyone I would rather have President Obama run against. Except the rest of the Republican field.

    • 14 votes
    Reply#5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:31 AM EDT
    ron c. baker sr.

    see scottie run...see scottie stumble...see scottie fall...see scottie get get his little ass kicked all the way home...

    luv,

    ron

    • 15 votes
    Reply#6 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:44 AM EDT
    Better Careful

    In a short matter of time Walker's reputation will be tarnished by examination. He'll then be thrown under the bus by the GOP. The GOP will then blame liberals for paying attention to the GOP's press releases and media blitz.

    Why should this be any different from the past actions of the right-wing? Walker did not get to be who he is by being anything less than a scumbag. More will be revealed.

    • 16 votes
    Reply#7 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:53 AM EDT
    RcR-2828649

    "Why should this be any different from the past actions of the right-wing? Walker did not get to be who he is by being anything less than a scumbag. More will be revealed."

    We'll see if "scottie" takes the same road as palin and quit without finishing his term like palin did.

    • 2 votes
    #7.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:13 PM EDT
    SueHughes72

    Better Careful

    Walker did not get to be who he is by being anything less than a scumbag. More will be revealed.

    I was reading a story today about the Judge issuing a restraining order on Walker and found this quote from him from a few weeks ago about his union-busting:

    This is going to happen," Walker said to the board. "One way or another, no doubt about it."

    http://www.channel3000.com/politics/26921426/detail.html

    His arrogance is astonishing ... can you imagine if a Democrat said that about a controversial policy ... right-wing media would go crazy. This guy is nothing but a corporate shill.

    • 5 votes
    #7.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:19 PM EDT
    McSpocky

    This guy is a Koch brother bot. AKA, member of the KBB.

    • 4 votes
    #7.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:36 PM EDT
    Spo de o de

    SueHughes72, I can think of quite a few arrogant Democrats. Nancy Pelosi is certainly at the top of the list. Remember when she so proudly strutted March 21, 2010 with other House leadership, including Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.), second from left, and Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), left, as they walked arm-in-arm to the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. for the health-care debate and vote. And don't forgot how many millions of taxpayer dollars she spent on luxious air travel from Washington to her Office in CA.

    Here are a few more that are well documented using the link at the bottom:

    Debt Has Increased $5 Trillion Since Speaker Pelosi Vowed, 'No New Deficit Spending'. When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be "no new deficit spending." Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

    She's the Boss — The Disturbing Truth About Nancy Pelosi. [Scroll down] In the end we see someone who claims to be motivated by justice, who claims to be doing the "Lord's work," and who claims that she stands for ethics and the rule of law turn out to be a corrupt "ends justify the means" politician who will lie, cheat, and probably worse to get what she wants. Apparently, because she believes that whatever she is doing is right, anything, regardless of ethical or moral considerations is acceptable where she and her compatriots are concerned.

    $200,000 for Capitol Hill Bottled Water? Since Democrat Nancy Pelosi took over the position of Speaker of the House in January 2007, funding for her office soared 62 percent, from $2.9 million to $4.7 million. For a single office?! And taxpayers paid an enormous printing bill of $93.76 million, up 212 percent. (How many copies of the 1,000-plus-page Obamacare bill do you think that bought the feds? In a computer age of paperless transactions, don't you think they could save a few dollars here by learning what PDF files are?)

    http://www.akdart.com/lib12.html

    • 1 vote
    #7.4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:45 PM EDT
    R. Donald Snyder

    This guy is a Koch brother bot.

    He's a Koch-sucker...

    • 2 votes
    #7.5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:54 PM EDT
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    agagnu

    Corporate socialism levels the global playing field, slave wage, if not slavery returns; all for a cup of tea.

    • 12 votes
    Reply#8 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:57 AM EDT
    cheif-1108225Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

     The only thing I find funny is if a democrat would have done this you people would be bragging ,like say after obamacare was voted in when 70% were against it.

    • 3 votes
    Reply#9 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:16 AM EDT
    AlanA0720

    like say after obamacare was voted in when 70% were against it.

    Based on lies and the fact that we wanted universal health care. Not based on the bill itself. We wanted it to do more, but Blue Dogs and R-TARDS wouldn't have it.

    • 15 votes
    #9.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:48 AM EDT
    maximillio

    ,like say after obamacare was voted in when 70% were against it.

    What is it with you conservatives and your complete inability to tell the truth? Do you work hard at lying, or does it come naturally to you?

    • 8 votes
    #9.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:38 AM EDT
    lemonray

    Yes cheif-1108225....I hear what you are saying. I didnt care for the back room deals with all that chicago-like bribery and kickbacks to the holdouts. (ie cornhusker kickback).

    • 1 vote
    #9.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:52 AM EDT
    Spo de o de

    Cheif, good comment that most intolerants don't want to discuss. That is why the liberal community has collasped it. And I thought the Dems were the party of tolerance, not the party of intolerance.

    It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
    Pierre Bayle

    Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/intolerance.html#ixzz1Gxxs9XO1

    • 2 votes
    #9.4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:42 AM EDT
    McSpocky

    cheif-1108225 Comment collapsed by the community

    The only thing I find funny is if a democrat would have done this you people would be bragging ,like say after obamacare was voted in when 70% were against it.

    Way to try and derail the thread. LOL

    • 1 vote
    #9.5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:37 PM EDT
    McSpocky

    Spo de o de

    Cheif, good comment that most intolerants don't want to discuss. That is why the liberal community has collasped it. And I thought the Dems were the party of tolerance, not the party of intolerance.

    It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
    Pierre Bayle

    Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/intolerance.html#ixzz1Gxxs9XO1

    No, the problem likely is he could not stay on topic. LOL

    • 1 vote
    #9.6 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:39 PM EDT
    Spo de o de

    Since when do the left stay on topic?

    • 1 vote
    #9.7 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:55 PM EDT
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    socialjustice

    Run baby Run, Scott Walker.

    You portray the agenda of the Republican Party better than any George Soros ad could ever do.

    Take on that Michigan Dictator as your running mate.

    • 13 votes
    Reply#10 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:42 AM EDT
    AlanA0720

    If he does, we may see the biggest blowout in history. He would be lucky to get 20% of the vote.

    • 12 votes
    #10.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:50 AM EDT
    lemonray

    Suddenly everyone is a political strategist and statistician.

    • 3 votes
    #10.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:53 AM EDT
    AlanA0720

    "Are all men of the future loud mouth braggarts"?

    "Nope, just me baby, just me". From Army of Darkness

    Actually the vote would be 23.6%. The same ones who believe that Saddam was behind 9-11, that Bush kept us safe, and that Palin is worth two @!$%#s. The same 23.6% who ran out on November 6, 2008 and bought new guns and stocked up on ammo because there was going to be a "Black Democrat in the White House".

    These are the "some of the people all of the time" Lincoln was referring to when talking about fooling people.

    • 1 vote
    #10.3 - Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:50 AM EDT
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    Jeremy-3192701

    Whenever one of these crooks does something outrageous, they become the "star" of the Republican party for awhile. That is, until they get the boot. But if they are only cheating on their wives, they can stick around. The GOP is a swine pit.

    So now they are rallying around Scott Walker, college "kick-out" (you really can't call him a college "drop-out" when he was kicked out for cheating). At least he has a high school diploma, which places him far ahead of the pack in the Republican party.

    • 15 votes
    Reply#11 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:57 AM EDT
    SueHughes72

    Jeremy-3192701

    you really can't call him a college "drop-out" when he was kicked out for cheating

    Wow ... I didn't know that but it's very revealing.

    At least he has a high school diploma, which places him far ahead of the pack in the Republican party.

    LOL : )))

    • 2 votes
    #11.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:22 PM EDT
    landspirit

    So the Republicans admire a man who cheated and was kicked out of college? When Walker admitted thinking of sending people in to cause violence, he should have been removed from office. We allow people that what to harm innocent civilians demonstrating for their rights to be a governor? His cheating in college showed his true character. He has a very sickening aura that is akin to a slimy fat worm. Where is the protection of our Constitution from fascism? The situation in Wisconsin and with Snyder is so dangerously menacing to our freedom and democracy. Walker will do as he wishes. He does not care for Wisconsin. He cares for his power and greed. He has to be stopped. It is beyond me why this man is not at the very least out of office and more deservedly in jail. Walker is a morphing Hitler. The Republican party is the Corporate Fascist Party, and they are no longer hiding their identity. They are the terrorists from within, and we are in trouble.

      #11.2 - Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:53 AM EDT
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      itstoolate

      Of course they push him to the top of the heap. When you succeed in hurting the working class, you are a hero, if he had failed he would have been their fall guy. Run him for president, we as a nation need to laugh more.

      • 14 votes
      Reply#12 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:01 AM EDT
      Sonia Kermaz

      Corporatist Tea Tactics: Promise the people freedom and you can chain them, promise them money and you can rob them, promise them heaven and they'll jump into hell.

      • 17 votes
      Reply#13 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:16 AM EDT
      SueHughes72

      Sonia Kermaz

      Corporatist Tea Tactics: promise them money and you can rob them

      I've seen a lot of polls and pushback suggesting that if Walker or any of these other extreme Tea Party governors ran on the agendas they are actually implementing, they wouldn't have stood a chance. I think they will be a very quick "phase".

      • 2 votes
      #13.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:26 PM EDT
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      Dean Moriarty

      Good to see tea party candidates doing so well and getting so much media attention. A couple of years ago no one took us seriously. Now we are the driving force in American politics. A truly amazing success story.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#14 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:22 AM EDT
      trm2008

      Funny, right now Walker couldn't get re-elected in his own state. Tea party is a driving force in turning this country into a Corporatocracy. Mussolini would be flattered.

      • 7 votes
      #14.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:58 PM EDT
      itstoolate

      I am not sure the tea party is taken very seriously now. I find it somewhat of comic relief with an edge of irritation thrown in.

      • 3 votes
      #14.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:15 PM EDT
      maximillio

      A couple of years ago no one took us seriously

      I have news for you, Dean. We still don't take you seriously. What Walker is doing is not governing, it's sabotage and vandalism. The kind of thing an angry teenager does with a spray can and a claw hammer.

      • 2 votes
      #14.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:09 PM EDT
      SueHughes72

      Dean Moriarty

      Now we are the driving force in American politics. A truly amazing success story.

      Nah ... a truly amazing story of HOODWINKING the voters. All of these massively overreaching Tea Party governors would lose their elections TODAY based on their extreme far-right agendas.

      On a national level, John Boehner is going to have trouble holding his caucus together ... because of the Tea Party.

      Tea Parties like to yell and yap the loudest ... they get a lot of attention that way. But their own extremism is killing them. Take a look at Brewer in Arizona for example ... her decision to cut funding for poor transplant patients received worldwide attention. I believe that she is now "reconsidering" after the tourism industry is being hurt. It's a hoot to watch ... except for the people that are being hurt.

      • 2 votes
      #14.4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:32 PM EDT
      rescue dogs62

      Dean,

      If you're actually a member of the Tea Party, you are nothing but a Koch puppet and probably aren't even aware. The only thing you all will achieve is to be the driving force of the GOP right off the cliff.

      I pray we have a Walker/ Palin ticket for the GOP.....or with her ego I'm sure it would be a Palin/Walker ticket.

      • 1 vote
      #14.5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:44 PM EDT
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      baddestbob

      the tea party exists for two reasons:

      1. a black man was elected president. oh, i can hear the right now! righteous indignation over someone saying this, but i must point out that i never heard the statement "i want my country back" until obama became president. nobody stole your country. in spite of last november's results the right will decline unless they begin to show some compassion for the lower and middle classes. big money will become ineffectual in the electoral process as the plight of the two aforementioned groups becomes worse.

      2. the republican party under bush became the party of print and spend and a party concerned more with silly social issues while allowing the real problems within the country to go unattended. fiscal conservatives left the party in droves duing the 2006 and 2008 elections. form this dissatisfation a faction, the tea party, emerged.

      • 13 votes
      Reply#15 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:42 AM EDT
      maximillio

      oh, i can hear the right now! righteous indignation over someone saying this

      I ignore the self-righteous indignation and call them racist bigots anyway. It never fails to get them in a severe state of panic. Almost like they give a damn about their integrity. FOr a second.

      • 2 votes
      #15.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:10 PM EDT
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      Darkwood

      Beam me up, Scotty. I'm on a planet where labor unions make sure that workers aren't reduced to serfdom. It's a planet where they pay a minimum wage for work done where the rubber meets the road. It's a planet where no matter how much they whine the rich still have to help support the society that gives them a lifestyle never before experienced by such a large number of spoiled brats. Beam me up, Scotty Walker and disintegrate this place before the whole universe is contaminated.

      • 5 votes
      Reply#16 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:13 AM EDT
      steven-791492

      He will be just as polarizing as palin ... prayer answered for Democrats.

      Hell 51% of the voters that just elected him, would not do it again.

      • 9 votes
      Reply#17 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:21 AM EDT
      Texasguy01

      The Gop is falling flat with Boehner. The government is spending 72 billion dollars a day and cutting 6 billion and being happy? We need somebody who is brave enough to balance the budget and Walker is the man. How are Democrats going to cut a Federal budget that spends 72 billion dollars a day more than it collects? You can not tax the rich 100% and even make that up.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#18 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:23 AM EDT
      FredC

      You cannot tax the rich 100% and even make that up.

      But it would be a great start!

      • 4 votes
      #18.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:12 PM EDT
      trm2008

      Don't worry, Walker will give the rich a tax cut and raise the rate for the middle class and working poor.

      • 6 votes
      #18.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:01 PM EDT
      retired military ex republican.

      I would suppose Walker will run with Nute as his vice president or a Palin Walker ticket. For sure.

      • 2 votes
      #18.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:25 PM EDT
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      baddestbob

      texasguy,

      i agree with most of your comment. however, what do you propose we cut? seeing as how defense, social security and medicare/medicaid make up over 60% of our budget, which of these 3 things do you think our "brave" politicians will summon up the courage to cut? i am not proposing increase taxes on only the rich, but taxes must be increased only to pay down the deficit. no new spending. the republicans have proposed 60-65 billion in spending cuts. that number is less than 1% of our totla national deficit. the interest on that deficit is approaching $400 billion per year. we need to eliminate that deficit if we are to become economically fit.

      • 3 votes
      Reply#19 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:33 AM EDT
      Agent 57

      and they have to be able to cut subsidies to the corporate welfare recipients... not just on the backs of the citizens... so big oil, big pharma, big agriculture must get part of the ax,,,, and the tax...

      • 8 votes
      #19.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:45 AM EDT
      Texasguy01

      The problem is not what to cut but what happens if you do not cut. If you do not cut the dollar slides in value and everything increases in price accelerating the problem. Then your currency is worthless. This is not a false alarm. Check history including recent history for several example. Unions can complain about minor cuts but the reality is a crash would grind everything to a violent halt. There is a school of thought that President Obama really wants that to occur and his policies all appear to support it.

        #19.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:54 AM EDT
        TheyreAllCrooks

        So again I will ask...WHAT do you you cut?

        At the end of the day you still must cut specific programs...what are they?

        • 5 votes
        #19.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:15 AM EDT
        faust-132915

        So again I will ask...WHAT do you you cut?

        The $663.8 billion pound gorilla in the room... Defense.

        • 8 votes
        #19.4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:48 AM EDT
        TheyreAllCrooks

        How are you going to have any significant cuts in defense spending when you have double-talking lying weasels like GOP Speaker of The House John Boehner spending gooogobs of money on military aircraft engines that the military has already said they don't want or need?

        But since those jobs are in his beloved Ohio...you get the picture...

        • 5 votes
        #19.5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:40 PM EDT
        Agent 57

        The problem is not what to cut but what happens if you do not cut.

        the problem IS what to cut that will give a nice bang for the buck .. like 4 billion in subsidies to Exxon Mobile.. that wouldn't hurt certainly not Exxon the most profitable company EVER...... and it's just a start... ethanol subsidies can be considered... that's a terrible deal for the tax payers some of that subsidy goes to the koch brothers...... also Farm subsidies why should the tax payer give ADM any subsidies... defense would be a decent place also,, maybe if the right would come to the table with some of these included the left would be more apt to discuss cuts to some of the programs that the right want to gut....

        • 3 votes
        #19.6 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:43 PM EDT
        rescue dogs62

        Agent 57,

        With Exxon making billions of profits this last year, and paying no U.S. taxes due to tax breaks to corporations and their off shore "shill" corporations in the Bahamas along with Halliburtin, et al, if we just had them pay taxes on the money they get from us, we would be far ahead of the game.

        Once again, social security is a pre paid (by the workers) retirement plan, and is not part of the government's budget until it was stuck in there to hide other deficits.

        • 2 votes
        #19.7 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:52 PM EDT
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        mountainfirefall

        the neocons are in the fast lane and sweeping the road of all human rights... dignity is out of fashion.

        May Scott the Wanker find himself surrounded with the product of his true work.... petition signing Wisconsinites:)

        • 9 votes
        Reply#20 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 AM EDT
        jmorris

        Well since Walker will probably be out of a job by 2012, or at least in the middle of a recall-election to keep his job. I suppose he will be available to run as President under the GOP Ticket.

        But while he is campaigning for President will he still have time to fight off a recall attempt, or will he just resign as Governor of Wisconsin?

        Besides I doubt he will be eligible to run on the GOP ticket anyway, he doesn't have a job at FOX News.

        • 7 votes
        Reply#21 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:07 AM EDT
        Jumpmaster82

        Resigning is a politically fashionable thing to do, Fox will need him as the season heats up! He can do it.

        • 3 votes
        #21.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:31 AM EDT
        maximillio

        I am not sure how a governor recalled so swiftly, in such anger, is going to run for President.

        But, please GOPers, put this incompetent, out-of-touch @!$%# up against Barack Obama.

        • 3 votes
        #21.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:12 PM EDT
        R. Donald Snyder

        He can quit and join Palin on her "Soak the stupid" money trail.

        • 1 vote
        #21.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:57 PM EDT
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        TheyreAllCrooks


        Tea Party/Koch-Funded/Corporate Gov. Scott Walker Emerging As Star In GOP ... Leading Palin, Romney, Huckabee

        I think it's time for another fake Koch Brother to give this slimey weasel a ring...

        • 6 votes
        Reply#22 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:12 AM EDT
        Jumpmaster82

        Get ready for a Hostile Corporate takeover, watch the Blackwater types, Money will mislead many!

        • 3 votes
        Reply#23 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:29 AM EDT
        Spo de o de

        Don't forget, Donald Trump may announce his decision soon to run for President. That should drive the left back into their caves!

        • 1 vote
        Reply#24 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:47 AM EDT
        TheyreAllCrooks

        Don't bet yer teacup on that...he was on TV last night saying how qualified Palin is to be POTUS and sucking tea like it was homemade kool-aid...

        I hope he does run & spend the $600 million he claims it'll take...nothing would fire up the left more!

        • 4 votes
        #24.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:46 PM EDT
        Spo de o de

        If the Donald does run, at least we will know where the money is comming from and the fact he earned it. You can't say the same thing for the Obama campaign. Now where did all that money come from that bought Obama the election, maybe offshore??

        • 1 vote
        #24.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:19 PM EDT
        maximillio

        If the Donald does run, at least we will know where the money is comming from and the fact he earned

        Whoa, whoa whoa! You say he earned that money? How? Did he personally go out there and do all that work?

        Oh, wait. I just looked it up: Trump is the son of a millionaire. That means all he's done is "invest" his trust fund, and figure out how to get fools to give him more money. That is the nature of folks like Trump. Let's ask what positive contribution Trump has made to society, aside from his despicable self-centered egoism.

        Answer: NONE. He has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement, but I can't think of a single thing Trump created that isn't a steaming pile of @!$%#. And . . . he had to be bailed out by his creditors in the early 1990's. All told, Trump is just another spoiled rich kid.

        And, also, Trump wouldn't last 10 seconds against a real candidate. Plus, he's a Birfer. @!$%#ing @!$%#-headed moron. Absolutely no credibility as a candidate.

        • 4 votes
        #24.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:16 PM EDT
        McSpocky

        Spo de o de

        Don't forget, Donald Trump may announce his decision soon to run for President. That should drive the left back into their caves!

        I'm confused... what does that have to do with Scott Walker?

        By the way, the caves are already full of people the Walker and the Koch brothers have put out of a job.

        • 4 votes
        #24.4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:43 PM EDT
        SueHughes72

        Spo de o de

        You can't say the same thing for the Obama campaign. Now where did all that money come from that bought Obama the election, maybe offshore??

        There was a massive grassroots effort for Obama ... millions of people giving small donations. Sure he got money from big interests ... all prominent candidates do but his campaign was more populist than any other.

        What is your source regarding off-shore money?

        • 2 votes
        #24.5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:48 PM EDT
        rescue dogs62

        Spo de o de,

        I certainly hope you not suggesting that the liberals would vote for Trump.

        • 2 votes
        #24.6 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:55 PM EDT
        Spo de o de

        Sue, I would say George Soros and his money is the reason for most of the grassroots movement, and of course Wall Street. Show me a list of his contributors to his campaign and I will show you the most likely sources for the off-shore contributions.

        • 1 vote
        #24.7 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:06 PM EDT
        SueHughes72

        Spo de o de

        I would say George Soros and his money is the reason for most of the grassroots movement, and of course Wall Street.

        Nah ... Soros funded agencies like Moveon.org ... that had nothing to do with the millions of individuals who sent $50 or $100 to the Obama campaign ... it was all over the media in '08. As far as Wall Street, that funding has shifted to GOP.

        Another point, even though Obama rec'd more money from Wall Street, he turned around and RIGHTLY put regulation on them ... something the GOP is trying to dismantle.

        Show me a list of his contributors to his campaign and I will show you the most likely sources for the off-shore contributions.

        Nope, don't think so. You made the charge, you made it first and now you need to ante up. BTW, what does "most likely" mean ... that you aren't sure?

        • 2 votes
        #24.8 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:23 PM EDT
        mountainfirefall

        ole george soros is in it for Brazil... he withdrew his support at an inopportune moment for the liberals... which benefited the conservatives and put us all in the soup:)

        he knows what Americans are in denial of...

        the republic is in dire straights and he'd like to see Brazil in the 'role' of most powerful:)

          #24.9 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:30 PM EDT
          Spo de o de

          Sue, and how did the millions hear about a no-name like Obama unless billionaires like Soros used his money to get the message out.

          Obama and regulation are not his strengths; much like his foreign policy. Remember, Wall Street and alot of hedge fund managers put him in office and used his administration for their purpose to make more money while the public was duped.

          Nope, back to you to provide the list of all contributors which I don't think you can provide.

          • 1 vote
          #24.10 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:44 PM EDT
          SueHughes72

          Spo de o de

          how did the millions hear about a no-name like Obama unless billionaires like Soros used his money to get the message out.

          You need to get off of the one-track Soros train ... at first you suggested he funded the Obama movement ... now you're changing your tune.

          Wall Street and alot of hedge fund managers put him in office and used his administration for their purpose to make more money while the public was duped.

          That makes no sense at all. You COMPLETELY ignored the fact that Obama put regulation on Wall Street when he came into office ... which debunks your entire statement. You also had NO response to the fact that the GOP are trying to UNDO his financial reform ... why is that?

          Nope, back to you to provide the list of all contributors which I don't think you can provide.

          Still no list about those off-shore contributors huh? How amusing to make the charge and then tell ME to provide YOU a list : ) Sorry, it doesn't work that way ... and is simply a weak attempt at diverting your lack of back up for your "claim".

          • 3 votes
          #24.11 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:53 PM EDT
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          Stephen-one shot-one kill

          When I have finished brewing my tea, I trow the teabag in the trash. I think America has been brewed long enough, time to throw the teabag in the trash.

          • 7 votes
          Reply#25 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:24 PM EDT
          Spo de o de

          It is a well known fact that some teas contain antitoxin properties. Maybe the tea party prefers to cleanse the government of toxins that the current administration has used to poison the minds of the left.

          • 1 vote
          #25.1 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:30 PM EDT
          Stephen-one shot-one kill

          The teabaggers are the toxins and are destroying this country. Come election time or recall time, it wooosh, down the toilet.

          • 2 votes
          #25.2 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:26 PM EDT
          McSpocky

          Spo de o de

          It is a well known fact that some teas contain antitoxin properties. Maybe the tea party prefers to cleanse the government of toxins that the current administration has used to poison the minds of the left.

          No, the tea party tea is also known by another name. Kool Aid.

          What does the current administration have to do with the topic of Scott Walker anyway?

          • 3 votes
          #25.3 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:46 PM EDT
          Spo de o de

          This past mid-term election demonstrated the opposite.

          • 1 vote
          #25.4 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:52 PM EDT
          mountainfirefall

          if you had not noticed... many, no... all are arrogant at most times. Those who have the money to run are all from the same club. It is called the well to do, and an occasional ass licker of the well to do (walker/wanker). Otherwise known as neocons.. the teaparty are the less mannered of the neocons. Our language, at times really can confuse.

          It is clear to me, that our elections are as, if not more, corrupt then the sitting reps .. which i suppose is in keeping with the corruption in how they come by the money to run if they themselves are not billionaires. So!... doesn't matter who runs... same @!$%# will enter our house in DC and continue to raid the coffers we are all keen to fill.

          never fail however... this kind of financial behavior, moral guidance, and greedy thieving can not continue .. is not sustainable... unless we, the citizen, continue to sustain it. Wisconsinites seem to be leading the way, along with a few others... but it is alas, to late for substantive redirection of fortunes for the average man, woman.. family.

          but, you all keep believing and i'll be getting my garden growing and stocking up on water for that first mini collapse coming our way.

            #25.5 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:07 PM EDT
            SueHughes72

            Spo de o de

            Maybe the tea party prefers to cleanse the government of toxins that the current administration has used to poison the minds of the left.

            1) What are those so-called "toxins"?

            2) If I were involved with the Tea Party, I would be more concerned about how their "toxic" dictatorial policies are now being revealed and how "toxically" the public feels about them in the states where they were hoodwinked into electing TP governors. How many of them would be re-elected today?

            • 2 votes
            #25.6 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:33 PM EDT
            Spo de o de

            Sue, it looks like I'm the only one keeping your seed alive and adding to your earnings. I have other projects to work on and to keep capitalism alive in the free world.

            F.Y.I. Toxins would be the left, and references to dictatorial, TP, Teabaggers are so cliche now.

            Good Luck with Your Anti-Capitalism Movement.

              #25.7 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:52 PM EDT
              Stephen-one shot-one kill

              Spo de o de, I think this last election and the aftermath demonstrates just how hoodwinked the supporters of the republican party are and I believe this coming election and the recall elections will demonstrate you can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. I hope you enjoy the water ride come 2012, I know I will. Woooosh!!!

              • 1 vote
              #25.8 - Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:06 PM EDT
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