The Walker Implosion

By Jeff Simpson


We know that Walker cancelled from being the keynote speaker at the California convention to spend time in Iowa.   Cancelling so late in the game, really left the California GOP in a lurch(they had to resort to getting crazy John Bolton) but we know from past history, that the only thing Scott Walker cares about is Scott Walker.

However, the California Republicans do not necessarily feel the same:

“Nothing says your campaign is in a downward spiral like when you skip literally hundreds of activists across the state who have bought tickets to see you speak,” said Jon Fleischman, a former executive director and former vice chair of the California Republican Party.
“Generally, people are understanding,” Fleischman added wryly, “that the guy’s campaign is imploding.”

We really have seen the end of Scott Walker's viability as a Presidential candidate, right now he is just milking our tax dollars, while he vacations around the country!

Let's hope when Scott Walker finally throws in the towel, his campaign manager Rick Wiley hitches up with another Republican quickly.



He has a few more crash and burns in him the way he helped bring down Scott Walker!

Scott Walker - Iowa Everyman

By Jeff Simpson 

In the history of Presidential primaries, has there ever been anyone so desperate to win Iowa's Caucus?   Scott Walker, who used to be Governor of Wisconsin, has all but moved to Iowa.  Walker was supposed to be keynote speaker of the California GOP convention(55 electoral votes and deep pocket donors) and cancelled, to spend even more time in IA(6 electoral votes).

Don't worry California, he will be back(and telling you how much he loves you), when he can use you.   If you are of no use to him he has no reason to be there.

To be fair(and we are nothing if not fair here), Walker could have cancelled because he has "no idea where Cali is".

Now the walker campaign, which his billionaire donor promised me, would win in the end:

 Anthony Scaramucci ‏@Scaramucci  Sep 7@JeffSimpson7 @FT @ScottWalker @rick_wiley our guy will be there in the end just watch. And Rick is going to help him win.

Has decided that its best to spend all of your time in Iowa to win a Caucus!  Brilliant strategy.

Now that we know the strategy, we see Scott Walker do the one thing he has an actual talent for - pandering.  

Here he is "thoroughly enjoying" a day spent with the plebe's of Iowa during the Iowa-Iowa State football game:

Great day hanging out in Iowa at the @TheIowaHawkeyes and @CycloneATH game! - SW #Walker16 #CyHawk pic.twitter.com/eQV248m9xF

— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) September 13, 2015

Here is Scott Walker telling the crowd that he loves Iowa and Iowa State equally, and with all of his heart and he wishes his children had attended there:

 
Scott Walker loves Iowa so much, he even went to an Iowa High School Football game.  That Scott Walker just loves spending time with Iowans(in the food line):



Intense moment of the game for these two very serious Iowa High School Football fans:



And here he is helping the youth of Iowa understand his first day plan and how he plans on ending their healthcare, but giving them a high five because they are too young for him to send to war in Iran:



Iowa voter explaining to the crowd what her pre-existing condition(Ps it is not hat head) is that will bankrupt and kill her when Scott Walker eliminates Obamacare on day one.  



Here is Scott Walker explaining to a farmer that this barren land looks like what he left in Wisconsin of our educational system, and he is hoping for a chance to do the same all over the country.  Scott is also explaining to the farmer that if he is currently growing corn he loves him some ethanol, and if he is not he can not stand the stuff!  



Finally, here he is talking a sitting room only crowd of 35. It was nice that the local chapter of retired Caucasians, gave him a few minutes of their meeting time.  



I am starting to pity his pathetic pandering.  Its not very becoming of a human being, much less a Presidential candidate!

Walker Cancels Appearance At California Event

For months, Scott Walker was planning on headlining at the Republican state convention in California.

On Friday, he suddenly canceled his appearance without explanation:

Presidential candidate Scott Walker on Friday abruptly canceled his planned speech at the California Republican Party convention next weekend, according to someone involved with the event's planning who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, had been a top draw to the state GOP gathering, and was due to speak at the Saturday night dinner in front of hundreds of delegates and guests in Anaheim.

Walker's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

I'm trying hard not to read too much into this news, but one cannot help but speculate that his campaign is in trouble. After an endless series of punts, flip flops and gaffes, Walker has seen his support - both with voters and campaign fund donors - drop nationally.

This is especially true in Iowa, a must win state for Walker:

Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s once-strong lead in the Iowa polls has melted, as voters there turn their favor toward Donald Trump and Ben Carson, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

Mr. Trump was the favorite in the survey of likely Republican presidential caucus-goers released Friday, with 27% support, a 17 point rise since July 1. Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, was second with 21%.

Mr. Walker led polling in the state for months, only to be eclipsed last month by Mr. Trump, the brash New York developer and reality television star. The Quinnipiac poll shows the Wisconsin governor surpassed by nine of his competitors, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 9%, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 6% and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Marco Rubio and former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina, each at 5%.

Indeed, the Quinnipiac poll shows that Walker is at only 3% with likely Iowa voters.

Like I said, I'm not trying to read too much into the news of Walker canceling it trip to California. There are a lot of possible explanations. But I can't help but think that Walker realizes that he is in deep trouble and is going to try to salvage any chance he has in Iowa.

At the same time, Walker also knows he can't survive without the largess of his corporate overlords. He has been spending money on his campaign like a drunken Republican. If his puppet masters dry up his cash flow, he won't make it past Iowa anyway.

It appears that instead of "wreaking havoc" on Washington D.C., the only place Walker is wreaking havoc is with his own campaign.

Another Abortion Showdown

Ever heard of the blogger Blonde Sagacity? Neither had I until yesterday, when a friend of mine shared her blog with me. I wasn't expecting much from the person who claims to be the "conservative liberals love to hate" (bad news honey, you're far from being the conservative we "love" to hate.) I scrolled through the useless gutter trash of vile and lie filled posts about the Affordable Care Act and President Obama, noticing the usual drivel. Conservative blogs are such a hoot. I think a drooling baby could write better, but that's just my opinion. However, the fun started I got to a post she has up about AB 154, complete with a photo of an aborted fetus. I'm fairly certain the anti-choice movement sits and stares at pictures of aborted babies all day, everyday. It's sort of their passion when you think about it.

AB 154 is a bill recently passed in California expanding abortion care in the state. One of the greatest things about this bill is that it gives a wider rage of healthcare practitioners who can provide abortion care in the first trimester of a pregnancy in the state of California. I noticed that she either didn't want to, or couldn't formulate an opinion on the bill, as she did no actual blogging about it. Instead our dear blogger then links to this, a site so full of right-wing misinformation that is almost laughable, only it's not because people actually believe it. I don't even know where to begin picking it apart. Whether it's the paragraph trying to scare readers into believing this bill simply allows any Planned Parenthood employee to provide abortion care:

"The bill permits licensed non-physicians to perform two kinds of abortion in the first trimester–by medication, and by aspiration, which requires the insertion of medical instruments into the uterus. Though many doctors agree that non-physicians could provide medications with few risks, the idea that a non-physician would perform an invasive procedure such as aspiration strikes many as rife with risks."

The bill allows nurse practitioners, certified nursing midwife's and physician's assistants to be trained to provide abortion services. Know what a nurse practitioner is? One step below being a doctor. That was how it was described to me by my dad's own nurse practitioner, who was working with his brain to figure out the best way to help treat his neurological disability. Hmm....I think I'd trust that person to know what's going on with one's body over a right-wing ideologue, wouldn't you? Someone who has had extensive schooling and work in this subject, who knows what they're doing? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't let someone like Miss Sagacity, or worse, someone like Boehner or Cruz make healthcare decisions for me.

Or this doozy about "back-street" abortions:

"One doctor–who identified himself as pro-choice–told Breitbart News that “the bill is a disaster since it sends us back 100 years to the problems of the complications from back-steet abortions.” The bill’s critics warn that the training provided to non-physician staff is weak, that supervision by physicians in clinics will be minimal, and that there is real risk of injury or death to women who will be treated in such conditions."

First of all, that's back alley, not 'back street' abortion. Sigh. Breitbart 'News' should know that if they're going to make up quotes from obviously fake people, they should at least make it sound legit by using the correct terminology. Secondly, it's this kind of attitude that takes women back to times where they were found dead in alleys, having bled out from their vaginas because the powers at be kept them that way.  When will America wake up and realize that the biggest threat to our healthcare is not Obamacare, or abortion or Planned Parenthood, but these right-wing wackos who have NO knowledge of healthcare period? Sure, let's not make abortions as safe and widely available as possible. Sure Doctor Anonymous, that sounds like it wouldn't have ANY horrific consequences on women at all. That's like suggesting a lock on a gun makes the gun less safe. It's as ridiculous as the morons who believe it.


You might be asking why I'm hounding on this specific blogger and it's because of her willingness to spread horrible misinformation about women's healthcare. I expect that sort of misogynist, backwards crap from conservative men, but women should know better. Frankly, she ought to be ashamed of herself. The biological warfare the GOP is waging against women knows no political bounds. Inside, women are all the same, and attempts and laws limiting our ability to make our decisions affects each and every one of us, not just those of us who are pro-choice. I refuse to believe no conservative or religious woman has never had an abortion or ever took advantage of the great range of services Planned Parenthood provides. Women, it's time to wake up and realize that this fight, the fight to tell us what we can and cannot do with our own vaginas, is every woman's fight. If we don't stand up now and stop these attacks on us, who will? No one can fight for our bodies better than we can.

I want to thank the great state of California for this legislation, which has tons of wonderful support from great groups. My wish is that more states follow this lead and expand in making abortion coverage easy for everyone who needs and wants it. It's my goal to one day see this state legislation, become a federal law.

Scott Walker Hates It When You Vote

Oh Scott Walker, you sly fox, you! You thought that if you went to California to break the news to us that you want to end same day voter registration, that we'd never hear you. But guess what? BS travels, buddy. And we got your message loud and clear.

Yep, our loving governor is back to his old tricks. He wants to once again, make it as difficult as possible for people to be able to vote. He wants to further shred the remaining constitutional dignity we have here in Wisconsin. Didn't he get the message the first time he tried that? And we know why he's doing it. His sidekick Alberta Darling made it perfectly clear that if we had just limited voting to certain groups of people, Mitt Romney would have won the presidential election. They aren't sugar coating it anymore. They're being very blunt about their intentions.

"States across the country that have same-day registration have real problems because the vast majority of their states have poll workers who are wonderful volunteers, who work 13 hour days and who in most cases are retirees."-Scott Walker

Well, hell, those old retired people just can't get themselves together enough to handle this task! And I would bet real money that some of those "retired people" voted for Walker. But what really gets me about this is that Walker didn't make his announcements in Wisconsin (surprise, surprise.) He did what he does best - went to another state (is he aware that he's only governor of Wisconsin?) and dictated his agenda from there. What kind of spineless weasel does that? Scott Walker, grow up and be an adult. Don't run away to other states to give us the bad news. Nothing makes a politician look more weak.

Let's be clear - the amount of voter disenfranchisement that would come from ending same-day registration is astronomical and that's precisely what the GOP wants. According to the Journal-Sentinel, 17% of voters in Milwaukee on November 6th, registered same day. Did you hear all those stories of mass confusion pertaining to same-day registration? Oh, because neither did I. Because that didn't happen.

By the way Gov, where are those 250,000 jobs? Our current unemployment rate is 7.3%. Maybe you should work on that first before working on shredding the very founding of our democracy.

They Just Do Not Stop....

We posted about republican crazies recently, 
and you would think that their pure stupidity would be enough to shame them to thinking before they speak, you would also be wrong. It seems like everyday a republican somewhere has to outcrazy everyone from the day before. Today's example is republican congressman from California David Dreier.
H/T Think Progress....

On Monday evening, Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) said that insurance companies should be allowed to discriminate against people with brain tumors during a House Rules Committee debate of the GOP’s bill repealing the Affordable Care Act. The law, which Republicans will vote to eliminate on Wednesday, includes a provision prohibiting insurance companies from turning away sick people.

But Dreier suggested that these individuals would be better off enrolling in state-based “high-risk insurance pools,” that could offer coverage to the individuals who are turned away from the individual health care market because they are too costly to cover:

DREIER: And I believe my state of California has a structure in place to deal with pre-existing conditions. It’s a pooling process, which I think is one worthy of consideration, because while I don’t that think someone who is diagnosed with a massive tumor should the next day be able to have millions and millions and millions of dollars in health care provided, I do believe that there can be a structure to deal with the issue of pre-existing conditions.

Hey David F&*K YOU!

 Who votes for these guys?