Hypocritical Outrage

The folks at WisDems are putting out a bumper sticker regarding Scott Walker's bungling of the high speed rail and the consequences stemming from his stupidity.

Actually, the have two. The first sticker looked like this one:

But then after it hit the Intertubes, the right, led by State Representative Robin Vos (R-Crybaby) started whining that it was violent somehow. I suppose, if you have a propensity towards violence, anything appears violent.

The Democrats acquiesced to the right's faux outrage and changed the sticker to look like this:

It definitely loses some of its impact with the change. Instead of clearly showing that it was Walker who was responsible for the lost revenue and the lost jobs, it makes it look like the train was his brainchild and that he failed to get it done.

But the real silliness is the right's hypocritical outrage regarding this. Take, for example, Freedom Eden, who bewailed the original sticker as being some gruesome death wish. However, just four months ago, when gave us the ridiculous image of him donning a pair of boxing gloves and telling voters how he was going to fight and beat Tom Barrett, who had been the victim of a vicious beating at State Fair the year before, this same blogger said that it was no big deal and that Barrett and the Democrats should have thicker skin than to complain about it.

Just your typical hypocritical outrage that we see from the right any day of the week.

Oh, and if any Democratic operatives are reading this, save me a couple of the original ones, OK?

Executhug Makes The Paper, Sort Of

In a new and growing tradition here at Cog Dis, that of being the source of being in the forefront of breaking news and events, the tradition continues.

Last Thursday, I told the gentle reader about the thug culture that Walker has been cultivating in the courthouse, with the aid of his right hand man, Tom "The Enforcer" Nardelli, and their no snitch policy.

In this morning's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dan Bice ran his version of the story. Now, my ego is not big enough to be offended and get all snitty like some other bloggers would. But my ego is big enough to make me wonder if my post was the source for Mr. Bice's story. He does not tell his readers how he came to learn of the email from No Snitch Nardelli. And since it was being pretty widely circulated by Friday, it is conceivable someone had given him a copy, or otherwise notified him of it. But the coincidence of the two events does lead me to wonder.

Anywho, in my post, I questioned if we would see the same type of outrage we saw with the other No Snitch Enforcer, Michael McGee, Jr. Apparently, the answer is no.

The only blogger that I am aware of covering it was Mary from Freedom Eden. Mary said it was no big deal and wasnt' newsworthy.

Funny thing about that is that a quick search of her site revealed that at one time, she thought a no snitching policy was a horrible thing. Mmm. Two politicians, both up to no good and both wanting a no snitch policy. Only Mary thinks it no biggie for one of them, but for the other one, she says:

McGee tries to paint the movement positively, as really being about criminals trying to avoid being held responsible for their own crimes.

That's just an excuse to be against snitching, and a very poor one.

The fact is McGee promotes the practice of blocking police efforts to keep the community safe.

In the end, being anti-snitching is being anti-justice.

It's reprehensible.

That's what passes for leadership in the city of Milwaukee.

There is only two differences that I can tell between the Alderthug and the Executhug. Neither of them would put Mary into a favorable light. I will let the reader draw their own conclusions on which factor they think Mary is basing her hypocritical position on.