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iwishiwas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 01:25 PM
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NYT's declined to publish Walkers OP ED-so he posted it on his State website. -self-annointed bold
The Koch poodle has a big head.



http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/walker-self-annointed-bold-one

Walker: self-annointed bold one

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:05pm | Man MKE The New York Times recently declined to run an Op Ed column submitted by Scott Walker, so instead he's posted it on the official governor's web site (and the URL is below, in case you want to wade through the entire piece). And now we can see why the Times didn't waste space on Governator Lite.

It's rhetoric like the following choice passage that should remind voters that Walker still doesn't get it:


In Wisconsin, we are doing something progressive in the best sense of the word. We are implementing reforms to protect middle class jobs and middle class taxpayers. While our idea may be a bold political move it is a very modest request of our employees.


Ah! Walker's proposals are, he himself proclaims, progressive! Well, that certainly should calm the upset of true progressives who, um, don't quite see it that way, right? The Walker administration is glad it can clear that up for uncountable legions and spartans of protesters, who surely will now stop holding their signs and instead kneel in rapt supplication. Not. Robert M. La Follette Sr. is probably turning in his grave right now.

And then there's that personal bug-a-boo of mine, the use by politicians of many persuasions of the word "bold" to describe their own approach to policy. Sure, "bold" is a bold word, but it's also pretty self-congratulatory when you apply it to your own, future deeds rather than the deeds of others.





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Greybnk48 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 01:28 PM
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1. The man's a douche bag. Deeply, deeply, studid.
Frank Luntz probably wrote it for him for a fee.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 01:31 PM
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2. The man is a GOPer TRAIN WRECK.....I love it
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Ed Suspicious Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 01:47 PM
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3. I literally felt like puking...
while reading that pap on the gov's website. Still do. I think I have never felt so much hatred for a man. At least not since GWB started his insane consolidation of executive power.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 02:20 PM
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4. Dicator Walker
may he suffer the fate of other dictators.........
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 09:06 PM
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5. "Bold" means someone has been reading Ayn Rand!
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