I watched him this morning. Sam Stein suffered through it, too:
Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) affirmed on Sunday that he would not seek to end birthright citizenship as president, seemingly bringing to an end a days-long grapple for a definitive position on the issue.
My reaction:
Dear Charles and David: What next? Who next?
Evidently Walker hasn't been faithful to Charles and David. It turns out another of his billionaire suitors, Stanley Hubbard, owns radio and TV stations across New Mexico as well as one in El Paso, Texas called Azteca América. One suspects Hubbard is reluctant to find his audiences linking him to an anti-immigration extremist and so has given Scott the stern treatment he deserves, the little worm. When a billionaire goes to bed with Scott he goes to bed with dozens of other sugar daddies and should have himself tested.
Posted by: Bob | August 23, 2015 at 05:47 PM
I'm going to take a totally low, cheap shot that has no intellectual value whatsoever: Scott Walker reminds me of the incompetent high school teacher who you know - you just KNOW, but cannot prove- is diddling the female students.
Posted by: ohollern | August 23, 2015 at 07:03 PM
A trashy post and even worse comments!
So let's just see what this 'incompetent stumblebum' has actually done in the *real world* of Wisconsin:
"New state borrowing has been reduced to the lowest levels in 20 years. Property taxes have been reduced to the lowest levels since 1946, and taxes have been cut by more than $2 billion."
"Take for example our state’s unemployment rate which, at 4.6 percent, is at a six-year low and almost a full point lower than the national average. Employment is at an all-time high and Wisconsin has literally never had more jobs than it has today."
"Families are earning more too. Wisconsin’s median family income is up more than six percent since 2011 to $55,258 a year, rising almost twice as fast as the rest of the country."
I wish 'Ol' Big Ears' could do as well as that for the USA!
Posted by: David & Son of Duff | August 24, 2015 at 07:37 AM
Unfortunately for you, David, it has come at a price, and the price is that he's profoundly unpopular in WI now.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/13/scott_walker_poll_the_wisconsin_gov_is_very_unpopular_back_in_his_home_state.html
While Iowa Republicans might be excited by the prospect of a Walker presidency, there’s a nearby state where people are less fond of Walker: Wisconsin. The latest job approval numbers on Walker out of his state had him at a pitiful 41 percent in a pair of April polls. His disapproval number in one poll by St. Norbert College, Wisconsin Public Radio, and Wisconsin Public Television was 58 percent, and in the same poll 59 percent of Wisconsin adults didn’t even want him to run for president. In that survey a full 60 percent of respondents said he would make a “poor” or “not so good”y president, including 44 percent who went with the former.
That turnout number is a fairly consistent one for Wisconsin in recent national elections, and those national electorates have been far friendlier to Democrats. Judging by the unpopularity of Walker’s policies in the state, hitting that 70 percent turnout number might not even be necessary for a Democratic opponent to defeat a hypothetical Walker candidacy in Wisconsin in 2016. As the Washington Post reported Monday, Walker has been criticized by both state Democrats and Republicans for supporting $250 million in taxpayer funding for a new stadium for the Milwaukee Bucks, a stance similar to one that was opposed by 79 percent of Wisconsin voters in April’s Marquette poll. At the same time, Walker has slashed education spending in his newly signed state budget with $250 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin. In the Marquette poll, 70 percent of Wisconsin voters opposed $300 million in proposed cuts to the university system, while 78 percent opposed Walker’s then-proposed cuts to the K–12 school budget.
Your are very guillible, David. Is that a requirement to be a Tory these days?
Posted by: The Dark Avenger | August 24, 2015 at 08:32 AM
Scott must be doing something wrong:
http://www.wisconsingazette.com/political/scott-walkers-chief-of-staff-quits-amid-plummeting-poll-numbers.html
Posted by: Bob | August 24, 2015 at 08:52 AM
I wonder about the Duff Man's constant blowing of racist dog whistles, even when they're not germane to his point. I see three possibilities: 1) He's sufficiently ignorant of American political history and society that he doesn't realize he's blowing racist dog whistles. 2) He knows it and embraces the politics and social positions of the people who blow them over here. 3) He's simply trolling. If the first is true, then we have a stunning exemplar of the Dunning-Kruger Effect and can pity him. If the second is true, we can lump him in with the neo-confederates and racists that dominate today's GOP, and perhaps remind him that if one wallows with pigs, one is apt to get muddy. If the third is true, we can simply ignore him.
Posted by: shsavage | August 24, 2015 at 09:02 AM
Along the same lines I'll add he always looks drunk, stupid or both.
Posted by: Bob | August 24, 2015 at 10:11 AM
Probably some combination of all three. David believes he can make liberal heads explode and hopes his superpower will start conversations, but he doesn't understand US culture or politics well enough to be genuinely provocative.
Posted by: Bob | August 24, 2015 at 10:21 AM