Which Scott Walker Will You Believe?

Even before the recall started, Scott Walker and his allies have been in high defense status, trying to take the offense against the juggernaut known as the people of Wisconsin.

The Koch Brother front groups MacIver Institute and Americans for Prosperity have joined together to create a pitiful webpage and laughable TV Commercial to say how Walker's union busting is "working" and is supposed to have made Wisconsin all better.

Since then, Team Walker has run three ads in his defense.  The first involved a Waukesha School Board member who violated her own school district's policy by doing the commercial in the first place, and then didn't even know how may schools were in her district.  The second ad was a charter school teacher who's claim to fame was to attend and cheer at a white supremacist rally.  The third starred another teacher who, according to his superintendent, doesn't know what the heck he's talking about.

All told, Walker and his allies have spent at least three million dollars on just the television ads.

And that doesn't include the campaign web page that Walker set up on the state's web site, using taxpayers' dollars.

The gist of all of the ads, whether directly from Team Walker or from one of his supporters, is that Walker's union busting and attack on working families worked to save people lots of money.

With Walker willing to spend so much money saying he save the state from imminent disaster, surely it's got to be true, right? Would Walker lie to us?

Well, one person who would call Walker a liar is Scott Walker.

Remember last April, when Walker appeared, under oath, in front of a congressional panel and Representative Dennis Kucinich not only took away Walker's sammiches, but ate them in front of him by grilling Walker and getting him to admit, again, under oath, that the union busting bill didn't save any money:



So which Walker are you going to believe? The one that is fighting to preserve his political career and has been found to be lying time and time again or the Walker that was force to tell the truth for once in his life?

After you realize that you cannot trust Walker and that he needs to be removed from office before he can do anymore damage, go to the nearest Recall Walker office and sign the petitions to recall him and his willing accomplice, Rebecca Kleefisch.

RMS Scott Walker

On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic ran into an iceberg. In the early hours of the next day, the Titanic went below the waves forever, taking the lives of 1,517 people with it.  The real tragedy behind the Titanic's sinking is that the whole thing could have been utterly avoidable at so many junctures.

If they hadn't tried to cut corners, they might have used a better grade iron for the rivets. If the company wasn't trying to cut corners, they might have had enough lifeboats on the ship.  If it wasn't for their hubris, they might not have been going too fast or ignored the warnings from other ships that icebergs were in the area. The list goes on and on of things that could have been done differently, done smarter, which could have kept this from happening.

Instead, out of greed, corporate hubris and the overwhelming desire to cater to the upper (richer) passengers, the ship barreled ahead regardless of the dangers, and the completely unnecessary tragedy unfolded.

Ironically, on April 14, 2011, 99 years later, Scott Walker ran into the US Congress.The results to Walker's career and future political aspirations will not be known for a while, but it doesn't look that much better.

Like the fabled ship, RMS Walker went to sail with less that quality ideas, insufficient forethought, but enough hubris to fill ten Titanics.  The results of Walker's folly was utterly predictable and utterly preventable.  However, unlike the horrors of more than 1,500 people losing their lives, on this fateful ego trip, the only lost by Walker was whatever credibility he might have had, much less any chance at a national office.

Now, I admit I did not get to witness the repeated rectal reamings that Walker received, but I have seen some of the YouTube clips and read some of the stories.  So please forgive me if I don't lay them out in the chronological order of their occurrences, but here are some of the more exceptional moments of the day.  In each clip, pay close attention to Walker's expressions has his day just keeps getting worse and worse.

The first one is our own Congresswoman Gwen Moore who lays out the hypocrisy of Walker's claims of there being a fiscal crisis while he is giving money hand over fist to his buddies, the road builders, as well as some of his other lies regarding the budget, including pension plans:



Next up is Representative Bruce Braley (D-IA) who hammers Walker on the hiring of Brian Deschane, the 20-something year old with no college degree, little experience and two DWI who landed an $81,000 a year job due to his lobbyist daddy buying it for him:



Noteworthy from that clip is that Walker claimed that Deschane's hiring was "five steps below" him. Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is quick to point out that this isn't exactly true, since it was Walker's Chief of Staff that was involved in it, at Walker's bidding no doubt.

As fun as those were, they were just the warm ups. The third clip is Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) who had to repeatedly redirect Walker's evasive answers until Walker had to finally admit that he did not indeed mention attacking workers' rights during his campaign, contrary to his previous statements:



But it was Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) who took away Walker's bag lunch and ate both of his ham and cheese sammiches in front of him, by cornering the elusive Walker into admitting that his union-busting bill doesn't do one darn thing for correcting the state budget, whatsoever:



The similarities between the Titanic doesn't end with the entirely avoidable collision and eventual sinking of both of these symbols of hubris.

After the sinking of the Titanic, there was an investigation into the cause. The surviving crew members testified, usually in order to point the finger at the deceased officers, or anywhere but themselves.  Likewise, after he was in an environment he controlled instead of the harsh reality of the world, Walker used both of his twitter accounts to blame the media and to blame Governor Jim Doyle or the bipartisanship of the legislature.

There is a huge difference between the Titanic and Walker which is relatively simple to see.

As mentioned above, when the Titanic went down, more than 1,500 people lost their lives.

However, if we don't get the floating piece of hubris known as Walker to go down, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, will suffer for it.