Gov. Scott Walker Has Lost The War

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/03/04/gov-scott-walker-has-lost-the-war/

In what may be the result of one of the great political miscalculations of our time, Scott Walker’s popularity in his home state is fast going down the tubes.

A Rasmussen poll out today reveals that almost 60% of likely Wisconsin voters now disapprove of their aggressive governor’s performance, with 48% strongly disapproving.

While these numbers are clearly indicators of a strategy gone horribly wrong, there are some additional findings in the poll that I suspect deserve even greater attention.

It turns out that the state’s public school teachers are very popular with their fellow Badgers. With 77% of those polled holding a high opinion of their educators, it is not particularly surprising that only 32% among households with children in the public school system approve of the governor’s performance. Sixty-seven percent (67%) disapprove, including 54% who strongly disapprove.




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...as much as I wish the OP subject line proves to be true.

I saw this kind of thing in Michigan when John Engler threw the mentally ill out onto the streets of Detroit. Everyone thought he would be a one-termer. Then, time passed and he kept his head down for a while. As the economy picked up, so did his numbers he was elected to another two terms. Same thing will happen here. The Senate Dems are already beginning to cave because they think Walker's done politically. He'll keep his head down, the voters will tune back in to American Idol and Walker will cruise to re-election.

have his vote, Wanker will have won the battle AND the war.

You do not surrender and then come back to fight again. Once you give up, it's over. O.V.E.R.

Wanker isn't eligible for recall for another 10 months. By then he will have consolidated his power and stripped the public employees of theirs. The Kochs will have acquired the power plants for pennies. Ohio will follow suit, and Kansas and Michigan and Tennessee and Arizona and New Jersey and right on down the line. The people of Wisconsin will have forgotten the protests; they will only remember them in the context of how futile they were.

You do not win by giving in. You do not give in on your core principles (or what you SAY are your core principles) and expect anyone to take you seriously ever again.

Oh, I'm sure they will use the excuse that if they don't come back and give Wanker what he wants, he'll start laying off workers. LET HIM, for goodness sake. CALL HIS FUCKING BLUFF. If you give in to him, he will cut EVERYONE'S wages, cut everyone's bargaining rights.

Didn't those protesters in the capitol mean anything to you? Are you going to let all their efforts just go down the tubes?

I was furious when the head of the teachers' union caved a couple weeks ago and said everyone should go back to their classrooms and stop calling in sick. The continued protest brought back some of my faith in working people as others took the teachers' places and continued the demonstrations. I know it's cold there. I'm a Chicago native and I know what cold is. But how warm are houses going to be next winter when everyone's reduced to barely minimum wage and heating oil is three times what it is this year?

WE KNOW the pukes don't care. WE KNOW they're out to destroy the middle/working class. Do we have to help them do it?


Tansy Gold.

forgive me if I just enjoy saying that over and over...