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Scott Walker wins the recall
 

Abdel's picture
O
(Neanderthal, 2,064
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 9:28am
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Some of his 'faits d'armes':

- Turned a $3.6 billion budget deficit into a $154 million surplus
- Unemployment went from a close 8% to 6.7% (However, I don't know if it is due to people leaving the workforce)
- Dealt with public unions who often forget that they get paid to serve the public, not to protect their working conditions.

And to top it off, a crying liberal:

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That_Aston's picture

This is awesome.

CF
(Gorilla, 574
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 10:08am

This is awesome.

Here to learn and hopefully pass on some knowledge as well. SB if I helped.

IlliniProgrammer's picture

Good for Walker, but

ST
(Almost Human, 9,244
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 10:11am

Good for Walker, but Wisconsin voters tend to be pretty smart, informed, and moderate. In the exit polling, Obama was leading over Romney in the same margins that Walker led by.

Voters want a small, efficient government that keeps costs under control, but they do not want a complete rollback of the welfare state. They just want to (A) stop it from growing and (B) operate more efficiently.

Work hard, play hard.

brandon st randy's picture

This victory is a vindication

PE
(Gorilla, 703
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 10:40am

This victory is a vindication of Gov. Walker's effort to roll back collective bargaining for public employees. Even liberal icons like FDR realized back in his days that collective bargaining right is a horrible idea for the public sector as nobody is on the other side of the table bargaining for the taxpayer. That is why you see public employees retire in their early 50s making over $200,000 a year and then retire with annual pension equivalent to 80% of that for perpetuity til they die while the states and municipalities are going bankrupt.

...well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town!

Nabooru's picture

Aaaaand the hordes on Reddit

(Gorilla, 689
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 11:04am

Aaaaand the hordes on Reddit are in the very process of collectively shitting in their panties, making upset memes, and posting angry kitties. =) Brightens up my day.

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

bonks's picture

Got out of the office around

CO
(Orangutan, 316
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 11:46am

Got out of the office around 9:00 in Madison last night and part of my walk home involves going past the capital. Right after Walker won.

My goodness the hordes of angry people were amazing. I have only lived here for about 10 days but the cries of "Hey hey, ho ho, SCHOTT WALKER HAS GOT TO GO" and "WE WILL BE HERE UNTIL EVERY LAST VOTE IS COUNTED!!" had me thinking that this was a pretty divisive issue.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

Nabooru's picture

fo da

(Gorilla, 689
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 12:02pm

fo da lulz

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/unpz5/wi...

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

cphbravo96's picture

Nabooru: fo da

PE
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 12:29pm
Nabooru:

fo da lulz

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/unpz5/wisconsin_is_a_wakeup_call_for_dems_labor_and_the/

That was the first...and last...time I will ever be on reddit. I have some buddies that are fairly liberal who get most of their information from the site and they are so uninformed it's scary. A couple of them even said they ask about it in interviews, as if it's some measure of a person's abilities.

As mentioned in the posted reddit thread, the recall wasn't likely to turn the tables anyways. The people that voted for Walker were still likely to vote for him again and those that didn't vote for him are more likely to not vote for him again, with the exception of the people who like that he had cut the deficit and unemployment rate. The recall election just allowed Walker to be even more experienced with an actual track record.

This was exciting to see and I welcome the impact it will have on states other than Wisconsin and on the national level.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan

West Coast rainmaker's picture

Thank god he won. If he lost

ER
(Neanderthal, 2,072
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 12:47pm

Thank god he won. If he lost with that record, I would be deeply concerned about our country's ability to embrace austerity measure.

Hopefully this means Mitt can grab Wisconsin.

Abdel's picture

o and I forgot to mention

O
(Neanderthal, 2,064
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 12:58pm

o and I forgot to mention that this is the first time in US History that a Governor faced with a recall survives.

Kudos to Mr. Walker.

Nabooru's picture

cphbravo96: Nabooru: fo da

(Gorilla, 689
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 1:00pm
cphbravo96:
Nabooru:

fo da lulz

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/unpz5/wisconsin_is_a_wakeup_call_for_dems_labor_and_the/

That was the first...and last...time I will ever be on reddit. I have some buddies that are fairly liberal who get most of their information from the site and they are so uninformed it's scary. A couple of them even said they ask about it in interviews, as if it's some measure of a person's abilities.

As mentioned in the posted reddit thread, the recall wasn't likely to turn the tables anyways. The people that voted for Walker were still likely to vote for him again and those that didn't vote for him are more likely to not vote for him again, with the exception of the people who like that he had cut the deficit and unemployment rate. The recall election just allowed Walker to be even more experienced with an actual track record.

This was exciting to see and I welcome the impact it will have on states other than Wisconsin and on the national level.

Regards

agreed on all aspects

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

Nobama88's picture

I wonder if all these people

RE
(King Kong, 1,676
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 1:02pm

I wonder if all these people will be investigated:

http://twitchy.com/2012/06/06/kill-scott-walker-an...

They seem to investigate anyone who disagrees with Obama, well there are quite a few people on that Twitter thread who are clear with their intentions.

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PS. I have a cousin who is a

RE
(King Kong, 1,676
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 1:04pm

PS. I have a cousin who is a teacher in Wisconsin. She has posted every Thinkprogress, The Nation, Daily Kos article about this recall the last few weeks.

I am sure she cried herself asleep last night. It kind of makes my heart warm to think about it. I am sure Ed Schultz was a hueg ball of blubbering blubber last night.

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Nobama88: PS. I have a

O
(Neanderthal, 2,064
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 1:26pm
Nobama88:

PS. I have a cousin who is a teacher in Wisconsin. She has posted every Thinkprogress, The Nation, Daily Kos article about this recall the last few weeks.

I am sure she cried herself asleep last night. It kind of makes my heart warm to think about it. I am sure Ed Schultz was a hueg ball of blubbering blubber last night.

Ed Schultz was about to cry on msnbc last night. He portraid this result as the '' rich evil koch brothers and their toy Walker'' VS ''the good, honest and hard working american people''.

cphbravo96's picture

I'm extra excited because I

PE
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 1:50pm

I'm extra excited because I think we may have prevented the zombie apocalypse...

Mod Edit: Photo removed because it made thread text unreadable

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan

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Double post. Regards

PE
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 1:53pm

Double post.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan

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Mods, if you want to edit the

PE
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 1:54pm

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan

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Must have been a bad day to

IB
 
Points)
 on 6/6/12 at 5:05pm

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