Wisconsin enters race to be the new Mississippi

[Grace62]

Lowlights of Walker's newly released budget plan:

Losers: children, education, people who rely on police and fire, health, towns, middle class taxpayers, the environment, pretty much the entire state.

Winners: Polluters, big business, private prisons, wealthy taxpayers, pavement.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/g...03286.html

[mattkime]

Once again -

Losers: The politically weak

Winners: The politically strong

[Mac1337]

Wisconsin was the Berkeley of the Midwest. For Wisconsin to become ground zero for conservative policies is a colossal failure of New Deal and everything that followed. How could you lose Wisconsin? It takes one to know one.

[$tevie]

The difference being that Mississippi doesn't get so freaking COLD.

[mini14]

I think the tide has turned in Wisconsin. High gas prices, Mideast turmoil, low-paying jobs and
lousy real estate market makes the union crybabies seem like crybabies. Gov. Walker has the
fortitude to stare them down and it hasn't been easy but I think he will win this. Hooray for Walker.
I lived in Wisconsin. It was a cesspool of left-wing slobs who wanted to tax everyone to the limit
so they could buy votes with happy benefits to the unwashed. Gov. Walker do what you were sent
there to do! One can only hope and pray that the people of Wisconsin have the courage and wisdom
to support this good man and endure the necessary cuts to get their state back in the black. If they
capitulate to the Democrat/unions, they can expect far worse in the near future.

[Uncle Wig]

Grace, Arizona already out-Mississippis Mississippi! Wisconsin doesn't stand a chance in the worst-state-in-the-union contest. They'll have to settle for emulating Alabama.

[Spock]

Uncle Wig wrote:
Grace, Arizona already out-Mississippis Mississippi! Wisconsin doesn't stand a chance in the worst-state-in-the-union contest. They'll have to settle for emulating Alabama.

The pencil necked cue ball crook now running Florida will do his worst to prove you wrong.

[kanesa]

I do believe there will be a recall of Scott Walker but he has to be in office for 1 year. There are several Republican senators that are being recalled. There's a couple that won their last elections with 1,000 or less votes so there is a good chance they can be taken down.

It's really tough to be in WI right now.

Here is what Russ Feingold has to say about the situation.

"He has damaged our state for many years to come," Feingold said, referring to Gov. Scott Walker. "And that's something that's not worth it for whatever political agenda or fantasy he might have about his future."

"What better illustration from our own state, some guy who's been a governor for just a few weeks -- he hasn't even shown he can pass one state budget -- decides to rip our state to shreds," Feingold said. "That's what big money can do."

He also pointed to a prank call Walker took last week, in which he thought he was talking to billionaire David Koch, a major campaign contributor to Republican causes.

"To speak the way Gov. Walker did to this guy, to act like he was part of this guy's agenda, rather than Wisconsin's agenda, was to me one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of our state," Feingold said.

As for the 14 Democratic senators who fled the state to avoid a showdown on Walker's budget repair bill, Feingold said it was an unusual situation that would not likely repeat itself.

"What they're doing is to stop what is essentially a fraud."

[Dennis S]

"To speak the way Gov. Walker did to this guy, to act like he was part of this guy's agenda, rather than Wisconsin's agenda, was to me one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of our state," Feingold said.

Embarrassing? It ought to be criminal.

[Mac1337]

We are told Obama won, suck it up. I say...