Devastating New Scott Walker Ad

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Tuesday May 15, 2012 · 10:51 AM PDT

2012/05/15 · 10:51

This is going to be short. Here is a link to a devastating new Scott Walker ad. It deftly advances the "divide and conquer" meme, intercutting the video footage with a speech one month later lying to the state about his intentions. Thanks to Jim Rowen at The Political Environment bringing this to our attention.

Digby and the big hole the President has to dig out of.

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Saturday September 10, 2011 · 6:15 AM PDT

2011/09/10 · 06:15

I was fairly pleased with the jobs speech last night, as I suspect the bulk of this community was as well. I also like what appears to be a tougher more pugnacious Obama 2.0. Hopefully he sustains it and I sincerely hope it works. He has a history of digging a hole and then extracting himself from it late-ish in the game. Look at his campaign as of September 14, 2008, the health care bill's passage, the lame duck negotiations. The outcomes on the latter two weren't great but they were fine, not real pretty to look at the process, but ok in the end. Can't say, though, that there wasn't a foreboding that the worst was yet to come.

Then came the debt ceiling fiasco. A real big hole. Now maybe the jobs speech and the American Jobs Act is the first step towards digging out of this hole, but Digby has a
great post from Friday afternoon that is very smart and very ominous. She explores how really deep the hole is.

If you want, you can skip my inadequate commentary and just go ahead and link to Digby's post.

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Tuesday August 16, 2011 · 3:35 PM PDT

2011/08/16 · 15:35

One of Karl Rove's time tested techniques is freudian projection -- accuse the other guy of doing what you are actually guilty of. The Affordable Care Act tries to cut excess expense from Medicare, so the Democrats are trying to take away your Medicare, never mind the Paul Ryan budget and decades of attacks on Medicare by the GOP. FDL had this post illustrating this tactic vis a vis Obama's supposed enemies list. And Chait contributed to this body of knowledge with an October 2010 illustration of Turdblossom at work imploring Obama not to go negative lest he damage his prisitine reputation. Chait's TNR piece ends with this astounding reference to another campaign long ago forgotten:

If you haven't read Green account of the 1994 Alabama judicial race, you really must. The short story is that Rove's candidate was running against a judge known for helping troubled youth. Rove turned that apparent virtue into a liability by spreading rumors that the opponent was a pedophile. He is quite a specimen.

Which brings us to today's example that Paul Krugman had to flag before he left for Europe.

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Thursday August 11, 2011 · 6:32 AM PDT

2011/08/11 · 06:32

About a week ago, I decided to take two days off of work in Chicago and go up to Milwaukee to help Sandy Pasch's campaign on Monday and Tuesday, election day. My wife and two teenagers, 14 and 16, helped on Monday. My mother in law was recovering from cancer surgery so they went to see her on Tuesday and I went back to Milwaukee alone. These were pretty much the two most gratifying days I've spent in a long long time. Highlights and observations below the squiggle.

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Tuesday July 12, 2011 · 1:06 PM PDT

2011/07/12 · 13:06

I looked over the prior deals that were done on the debt ceiling, especially during the Bush years. This report recaps the events through 2008. There were about 5-6 debt ceiling fights. The 2002 fight went the longest and deepest, I think because the Dems were pissed that Bush had blown the Clinton surpluses and wanted to hold his feet to the fire.

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Sunday June 12, 2011 · 10:38 AM PDT

2011/06/12 · 10:38

Just finished watching Debbie Wasserman Schultz across the table from Rance Priebus on today's Meet the Press. I've always loved her as a ballsy New Yorker transplanted to Florida who aggressively defends our side and effectively advocates a fairly progressive viewpoint. I was pleased when she was appointed DNC chair, because Kaine was pretty ineffectual. I suspect that many here at DailyKos share that assessment. Then I saw that bs about her rocky start which surprised me, but I really hadn't been watching. So I figured this appearance would give me some insight. In my view she held her own but I was a bit disappointed.

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Wednesday April 20, 2011 · 1:58 PM PDT

2011/04/20 · 13:58

One of the great things that Scott Walker has done for my home state of Wisconsin is reignite the sleeping giant of progressivism that has been part of our political fabric for a century or so. There's a great streak of iconoclastism (is that a word?) that permeates the identity of all Wisconsinites. After all, The Onion was born there. As were the creators of the Airplane! movies (I know Jim Abrahams is now conservative but he was funny then). Hand in hand with that sense of irreverence is the tendency to deflate the pompous and show up the emporer who is wearing no clothes. Thus, 100,000 people will gather in Capital Square on a cold February Saturday to stick it to Gov. Walker. And 700,000 plus voters will turn out to vote for a hitherto unknown assistant attorney general who one day decided that she would make a better Supreme Court justice than that horse's ass Prosser.

Then there's Paul Ryan. Today's news is abuzz about how he was booed at a town hall in his district yesterday. And there's this article from the Tomah Journal that eviscerates the Ryan Medicare plan better than anything I've seen this side of Paul Krugman.

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Wednesday March 30, 2011 · 9:40 AM PDT

2011/03/30 · 09:40

My Fellow Americans -

Today marks the second business day that the federal government is unable to function due to the absence of a continuing funding resolution. In plain English this means that your govenrment has no power to spend money. Your governmental offices are closed. Government payments like social security checks, medicare reimbursements to doctors and hospitals, tax refunds are not going out. Only bare necessities, like law enforcement and military actions remain ongoing. You cannot get a passport or a government permit today. VA hospitals are short staffed and defense manufacturing has been drastically reduced. On Monday, the Dow Jones fell by 1,100 points. Today as I speak, it is down another 560.

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Wednesday March 09, 2011 · 7:52 PM PST

2011/03/09 · 19:52

Like the supreme courts in many states, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has become highly politicized and is now controlled by the right wing, 4-3. By happenstance there is a race going on that can change that balance. A smart highly educated progressive, Joanne Kloppenburg is running against the self proclaimed judicial conservative schmo, David Prosser. PvtJarhead ran a terrific diary on this last week, but in light of tonight's developments this bears repeating. Most significantly the election is APRIL 5, just around the corner. And it's for a TEN YEAR TERM.

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Breaking: Frank Rich Leaving NYT

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Tuesday March 01, 2011 · 7:11 AM PST

2011/03/01 · 07:11

Just caught this on TPM. Frank Rich is joining New York Magazine. What on earth am I going to read Sunday morning?

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Compromise Brewing in Wisconsin?

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Saturday February 26, 2011 · 9:47 AM PST

2011/02/26 · 09:47

A friend of mine who lives in Madison and knows some politically connected types, told me that there may be some compromise in the offing. It basically follows the suggestions of this editorial from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the formerly liberal paper that has been supporting Walker pretty consistently.

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Wisconsin GOP Senator Recall Update

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Wednesday February 23, 2011 · 8:45 AM PST

2011/02/23 · 08:45

I've been trying to gather information about our efforts to recall GOP state senators in Wisconsin. I live in Illinois and want to help, having grown up in the Badger State and having gone to Madison, once upon a time. It's been surprisingly difficult to track down this information, but here's what I've found.

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