Popcorn Turkey

This Thanksgiving Day will be like no other in the history of Wisconsin.  With the need to collect more than 540,000 signatures in 60 days, people won't really have the time to putz around in the kitchen for an entire day making their Thanksgiving dinner.

In light of that, as a public service announcement, I repeat this recipe for a quick and easy dinner.  As I had originally posted it four years ago, even before I had my own blog, at folkbum's:

An oldie, but a goodie...

Here is a Thanksgiving Turkey recipe that also includes the use of popcorn as a stuffing - imagine that.

When I found this recipe, I thought it was perfect for people like me, who just are not sure how to tell when poultry is thoroughly cooked, but not dried out. Give this a try.

BAKED STUFFED TURKEY

10-12 lb. Turkey
1 cup melted butter
1 cup stuffing (Pepperidge Farm is good.)
5 cups uncooked popcorn (ORVILLE REDENBACHER 'S LOW FAT)
Salt/pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush Turkey well with melted butter, salt, and pepper. Fill cavity with stuffing and popcorn. Place in baking pan with the neck end toward the back of the oven.Listen for the popping sounds. When the turkey's ass blows the oven door open and flies across the room, it's done.

Imagine the look on your loved ones' faces as you show off your culinary skills.

Scott Walker's Ad To Recall Himself

Teh Funny:



H/T Blue Cheddar

The Walker Budget Is Already Working! Part XLI

Scott Walker's budget is putting another feather in his cap'o'failures by earning Wisconsin the dubious honor of leading the nation in the most jobs lost in October:

The unemployment rate fell in 36 states in October, but Wisconsin lost more jobs than any other state in the nation last month.

Unemployment rates fell in 36 states in October and rose in only five, including Wisconsin, according to the latest monthly report released by the U.S. Department of Labor today. Unemployment rates were unchanged in nine states.

Wisconsin reported the largest October job loss, a drop of 9,700, followed by New York, which lost 8,300 jobs.

Employers added jobs in 39 states, while payrolls declined in 11 states.

Nationally, the unemployment rate ticked down to 9.0 percent in October, from 9.1 percent in the previous month. Employers added 80,000 net jobs in October, and the previous two months were revised to show much stronger gains.

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate in October 7.7 percent, down slightly from 7.8 percent in September, but up from 7.4 percent in January.

And if this wasn't quite embarrassing enough, all one has to do is look at Illinois and California, two states that Walker and his supporters have been steadily mocking:

Illinois added 30,000 jobs, the most among states. It was followed by California, which added 25,700.

Walker and his cronies have mocked Illinois for raising taxes, even though their taxes are still lower than Wisconsin's. They've also mocked California for taking the federal funding for that "boondoggle" of high speed rail. Now we can see the truth behind the adage of "He who laughs last, laughs best."

They're laughing all the way to the bank while we're left to cry into our cheese soup.

It's going to take a long time for Walker and company to wipe the egg off their face after this.

But it also should provide even greater impetus to collect those recall signatures, as if that was really needed.

EXCLUSIVE: Privacy Flaw In Campaign Donation System

Miserable Hacks, er, I mean, Media Trackers put a blogpost last week in which they found "a serious flaw" in the recall signature campaign.  The flaw is that anyone could access some of a signer's personal information, such as their name, address and phone number.

What they don't tell you is that this is true anytime you sign a political petition, whether it's for the recall or for nomination papers or to show support for or against any given bill.

But in a Cog Dis exclusive, we found that donating to Scott Walker's recall defense fund has an even greater flaw than the one hyped by Media Trackers.

When a person donates to Walker's defense fund, or his campaign fund at any time, that person exposes not only their name and address, but also their employer's name.  Now any evil-doers would know not only where you live but also where you work! There is no place where you'd be safe.

And as if to aid and abet these could-be trouble makers, the State of Wisconsin makes it so that they can get your information online, from the comforts of their own home!  All one would have to do is access the database at the Governmental Accountability Board.  Heck, the same information is even available at non-governmental sites such as the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

Now, the above was written in a satirical frame of mind.  But the following should scare you, whether you've signed a petition or not and whether you've ever made a campaign donation or not.

Even if you're apolitical, your information could be made publicly available.  And not just your name or address, but even confidential information, including social security numbers or personal health issues that you may have received aid for.

And before you blow that off as some sort of partisan hype, I would simply point out that Walker has done it before, as Milwaukee County Executive.  Via Cory Liebmann, we find that Walker had released sensitive data for up to 180,000 cases to his collaborating attack dogs, the misnamed Citizens for Responsible Government.  And he released this very private information, which included things that are protected from even the Open Records laws, without even charging a dime.

Now that Walker's is in charge of all the state's information, who's to say what he's already released and to whom?  I know I'm very uncomfortable with the thought that he could have released my records to people like the Koch Brothers or the Bradley Foundation (or any of their many, many front groups).

Good News From The Front Lines

I received the following email from a friend of Cognitive Dissidence regarding the writer's experience yesterday in gathering signatures for the Scott Walker recall.  The missive appears in the most part, edited judiciously to remove identifying information, grammatical purposes and so that it is formatted to appear on your TV.  The author's name is redacted in order to preserve their privacy and keep them safe from the harassers and the issuers of death threats, which are all too common among the right wing Walker apologists nowadays.

1. Met the two most amazing women/saints on 76th and Layton gathering Walker-recall petitions, more about them later.

2. There was an obvious paid-Walker guy there hassling them and the people who were trying to sign petitions. I hope you can get a good description of his clothes and stuff, because I'm sure they're just directing him to the intersections where signatures are being gathered.

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I don't have a printer, so I was walking down to Kinko's to print off a form. When I saw THREE people "manning" a Recall effort, I thought, "this is great!" This is how stupid the Walker people are. Their guy only amplified the impact these courageous women were having. The people driving by have no clue he supports Walker. Sure the signatures are critical, but imho, at this early stage, the "soft value," of drivers seeing "boots on the ground," is far, far greater in the long run than the signatures the get collected. Before I got there Walker-boy increased the perceived presence of the Recall efforts in the minds of drivers by 33%.

The two saints had a table, two chairs, pens, clipboards.... I was very impressed.

I sit down and start to fill it out and Walker-guy asks me if I knew what I was doing.

You are one of the few people in the world who can appreciate how THRILLED I was to sign recall petitions for Scotty and Becky. I was very happy in an animated way to share that with Walker-guy. After I got up, I figured I'd be a gentleman and hold one of the signs for awhile. I got this idea from listening to Sara Schultz on her radio show. She said, give the petition-gatherers a hand, just stand there with them is support. That enabled one of the women a little break and she could focus on helping people feel comfortable, get situated. It was only at this point that I realized that Walker-boy was really getting right up to the line. It finally dawned on (poor listener) me that she was quietly and firmly instructing him NOT to talk to her anymore. She was terrific, very civil, but very firm. She said it was his right to stay, but he was NOT to address her anymore.

He wasn't giving her any space, (I'm sure he was trying to provoke her).

I inserted myself in between him and her in a remarkably civil tone told him not to address her anymore. He was 1/2 my size and older, so it wasn't an act of heroism. I had a great time giving him all my arguments honed for years in the comments of the MJS and at Firedoglake. At the end, as he was leaving, he asked me to tell the woman that he was sorry for bothering her. That just confirmed in my mind that he was paid by Walker's people.

There's a lot going on at these things. The biggest problem (and nothing you can do about it) imho is that sometimes people just stop on Layton, like it's drive-thru petitions. You've got to explain to them that they have to get into the parking lot and out-of-traffic. One woman was disabled and asked if someone could bring the petitions to her car. One of the two saints did.

Both of these women were really good at "connecting" with complete strangers, who came from a wide variety of backgrounds, and then nurturing them through the process. Lot of husband and wife couples. Really good energy.

They were showing them their ID, so these people knew they were genuine.

I stayed about an hour, guessing.

About an equal number of drivers telling us that we were "number-one" versus those showing genuine support.

Be nice, if the effort has the resources, to have someone who could drive a round to the really small groups (two-women), give them a break, coffee, time to hit the jake...... According to the one woman, the other woman was there before her and just started all by herself. That's dedication and guts. IMHO, two is the minimum number, but you can't tell courageous, dedicated people not to collect signatures. Saw what democracy looked like today and it looked damn good.

Thanks for all the consistently great work.

Media Trackers or Miserable Hacks?

Media Trackers is one of the myriad of pseudo-news agencies serving as nothing more than front groups to spread and try to legitimize the propaganda of their sponsors, folks like the Koch Brothers and the Bradley Foundation.  They are, for all practical purposes, identical with McIver Institute, Wisconsin Reporter or WPRI.

Or in other words, they are nothing more than glorified right wing blogs, with all the vitriol, irresponsibility, racism and inaccuracies one could expect from Real Debate Wisconsin, Wigderson's Library & Pub or Boots and Sabers.  Which explains why so many of them end up hiring bloggers to do their dirty work.

The point that these are not legitimate news agencies was brought home in a very strong way on Monday.

Media Trackers ran with a video that showed some young people signing the petitions to recall Scott Walker and Becky Kleefisch. They then insinuated that the young ladies were not of age and were being offered cigarettes to sign the petitions.

However, they never checked the IDs of the young ladies, so they didn't really know how old they were.  Nor did they show any causal relationship of their signing of the petition and one of the young ladies getting a cigarette from some unidentified person.  Maybe they just presumed that fraud was being committed because the young ladies in question were African-American. (See what I did there? I used their own methodology against them!) They sure had nothing substantial to go on.

As one could have easily guessed, they were utterly wrong.

The impeccable Emily Mills, who is a true reporter, and knows enough not to publish based on pure speculation and without verifying her facts, looked into the allegations.  She actually did look at the IDs of the two women and verified that they were adults and thus could sign the petitions.  She also stated that there was no evidence to suggest that the signatures were cajoled from the young ladies with a bribe of a cigarette.

Once busted out in their lies and libels, Media Trackers couldn't even bring themselves to admit that they were in the wrong, but petulantly stated that they were going to keep pushing to try to prove that bribery was going to happen.

So why did they do this?  Why did they risk their already tarnished reputation on something as lame as making a false report and then refusing to admit they were wrong?

They answered that question in an email to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Brian Sikma of Media Trackers said the group brought the issue to light because of concerns of unethical behavior.

Well, in that sense, they were successful.

They sure did expose some seriously unethical behavior...their own. What really needs is for the authorities to investigate these groups for their violations of the tax laws and their misrepresentation of themselves as credible news agencies. They are neither credible nor a news agency.

Sadly, even after all that, they still haven't learned their lesson and are at it again. But instead of attacking two young women, they are now after the homeless.

These people are becoming really sick degenerates in their desperation to support Scott Walker from the recall he so richly deserves. I wonder if they think they're even helping anymore.

Kurt Schuller, Secretary of the Treachery

Oh, look, yet another problem coming from Scott Walker's administration:

Schuller re-tweeted that message with this advice: "This is a violation of election law. All signers must sign in the presence of the circulator."

Schuller told us he wanted to make it clear that the "instructions that the tweeter gave out were wrong."

"If everyone who saw that (tweet) followed those instructions exactly as they put it" the petitions would be invalid, he said. "That would be fraud. … For God’s sake, you’ve got to give them all of the information. If you just send back an individual affidavit, the election’s board won’t allow it."

Kennedy, whose agency enforces election rules, said Schuller has a point. Each recall petition signer must do so in the presence of a circulator. But he’s wrong the key point: You can function as both the signer and the circulator.

"You can certify your own signature," Kennedy said.

It’s done all the time in other state races, including that for treasurer, where candidates must gather signatures on nomination papers, he said.

And it’s not illegal. The elections board took up the matter on Nov. 9, 2011 as it relates to recall petitions. The decision was that if someone prints out a petition and signs it, they must sign it a second time, at the bottom, as a circulator.

So what do we make of the treasurer’s tweets?

Schuller said on Twitter that it’s a "violation of election law" to print out and sign your own recall petition. He said he was responding to a tweet he felt was incomplete. But it’s not a violation of election law. The same person can be both the signer and the circulator.

We have a 10-character response for our rating of Schuller’s tweet: It’s False

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Scott Walker and his administration is just like used motor oil: Dirty, greasy, sure to leave a stain and not at all slick.

It's time to get rid of the lot of them.

Plant vs. Person

Accusations of wrongdoing are flying fast and furiously from the Republicans and Walker apologists.

There are accusations of "cigs for signatures," which makes no damn sense since people are still lining up to voluntarily sign petitions and asking where to go.  I can't even count how many people have asked me where the Recall Walker offices are. I keep asking myself if the event really happened, why didn't the cameraman report it to the authorities?

I even saw one wingnut claim to have "found" a Facebook posting of a person openly admitting to forging her parents signatures, only to have the whole account "disappear."

But there's one thing to remember when they come out with these accusations. That thing is a phone call that their hero, Scott Walker, had a few months ago (emphasis mine:

KOCH: Right, right. We’ll back you anyway we can. But uh, what we’re thinking about the crowds was, a, was planting some troublemakers.

WALKER: You know, the well [sighs] the only problem with – because we thought about that. The problem with, my only gut reaction to that would be right now the, the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them. The public is not really fond of this, uh the teacher’s union did some polling of some focus groups I think and found out the public turned on them the minute they closed school down for a couple of days. The guys we got left are largely from out of state and I keep dismissing it in all my press conferences and saying uhh, they’re mostly from out of state. My only fear would be is if there was a ruckus caused, is that that would scare the public into thinking that maybe the governor has got to settle to avoid all these problems. Where as I’ve said, hey, ya know, we can handle this, people can protest, this is Madison, ya know, full of the 60s liberals, let ‘em protest. It’s not going to affect us and as long as we go back to our homes and the majority of people are telling us we’re doing the right thing, theall they want. So, that’s my gut reaction, is I think it’s actually good if they’re constant, they’re noisy, but they’re quiet, nothing happens, cause sooner or later the media stops finding them interesting.

Are the accusations from the right real things or are they plants. Who knows? But I do find them to be a wee bit too convenient.

But what we do know is that Walker, and his supporter/apologists, have a long history of not exactly paying fair.  After all, Walkergate didn't happen because he sold the most popcorn tin to support his kids' boy scout troop.

Methinks these are the actions of some very desperate people who expected us to lose our will and cave in months ago.  The fact that not only have we not caved, but are actually on the verge of taking our state back for the people, has them literally terrified and willing to anything, and I do mean anything, to stop us.

Oh, Deer! Walker's Assault On Another Wisconsin Tradition

I'd be the first to admit that I am not a big fan of deer hunting.  While it might be a necessity, in my humble opinion, it's at best a necessary evil.  Because of that, I try to avoid going up north during deer hunting season.  Unfortunately, that was not something I could avoid this year.

So when I came home, it was no surprise that the local paper had their annual article romanticizing deer hunting.

What I did find noteworthy was that, in an amazing bit of timing, I also found this press release in my inbox:

As 600,000 Wisconsin deer hunters head to the field for opening day, Representatives Brett Hulsey (D-Madison), Fred Clark (D-Baraboo), Terese Berceau (D-Madison), Kelda Helen Roys (D-Madison) and Louis Molepske Jr. (D-Stevens Point) called on Governor Walker in a letter today to cancel the contract of James Kroll as the state’s “deer czar”. They pointed to his lack of qualifications, including no Wisconsin experience and no background in scientific management.

“While we should always be open to fresh perspectives, no outside expert has the ability to come in and remake Wisconsin’s deer management program based on a few weeks in the field,” said Clark. “If we are serious about evaluating our deer management practices, we need to bring together in-state talent and resources that will allow us to make the best long-term decision.”

“He’s come from Texas where he worked on private farms, and doesn’t seem to know how
important our deer herd is in Wisconsin,” said Hulsey, a member of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and a lifelong hunter. “This is just another example of the governor hiring an unqualified crony who will further politicize our state government.”

Even prior to issuing his initial evaluation, Kroll has been openly critical of the DNR’s herd management practices, which were described by leading experts in 2006 as “the most comprehensive and transparent deer management program for comparable states that harvest white-tailed deer.”

Given that there is no deer management crisis, Mr. Kroll’s position is a waste of $125,000 in taxpayers’ money and needlessly politicizes wildlife management decisions made by DNR scientists and biologists, the representatives said.

“In these tough times, we need the governor to focus on jobs in our state, not on hiring someone to do the governor’s political bidding in yet another state department. This hire might hurt our deer hunting tradition and even our long term tourism outlook,” said Hulsey.

The representatives also wished good luck and to hunters across the state this weekend and throughout the season.

No one should be surprised that Scott Walker would try to foul up yet another Wisconsin tradition, like he has done with collective bargaining and clean government.

Just like his deer czar, Walker is not from Wisconsin. He does not understand, much less care, about the values that we hold dear and will do anything to preserve. The only thing Walker cares about it pandering to those who bought his office for him and are paying tens of millions of dollars to keep their puppet in the governor's chair.

Maybe that's why I saw more than a few orange clad people signing petitions this weekend. There's not many demographics that Walker has been able to completely alienate already.

Do You Want To Talk To The Boss Or The One Who Knows What's Going On?

The gentle reader has probably heard the saying that I've put as the title of this post or have seen it on a sign in some store that sells kitsch.

But there is a grain of truth to it.  The boss of any agency will try to present things so that they appear in the best light possible.  He or she might even believe that their policies and procedures are actually working, even though they're not there to see it.  But it is the people that actually have to do the work that knows what's good and what's bad.

Scott Walker is saying that his budget is working.  He might even believe it despite the fact that the state keeps hemmorhaging jobs every month because of his budget.  He might even really believe his "tools" are working for local school districts in making up for the nearly billion dollars he has slashed from their budgets.

That's what he wants us to believe anyway.

But those that have to deal with the mess he's made actually know the truth.  And they're talking:

This unfair budget has real consequences for our children, as the responses to the survey from around the state reveal:

• Horicon says, “We have made significant reductions in staff during the past three years and we can no longer compete with area districts. We lose more than 100 students to open enrollment.”

• Royall has been forced to close one school and has made cut to the foods program, and there are now fewer hours of science and math.

• Shullsburg, already down to one administrator and one guidance counselor for the entire district, has received significant concessions from staff in an attempt to balance the budget. However, they still anticipate that, “next year we will be making significant staff cuts to attempt to balance the budget again.”

• The news from Clayton is similarly somber: “No cuts were made in programs for the 2011-12 school year because there isn’t anything left to cut without causing a disruption in educational opportunities.” The district is “very concerned about what the future holds for small community schools.”

• Other districts are getting by only thanks to President Obama’s federal funding. Germantown notes that, “federal stimulus money is supporting our staff,” while Bowler reports that, “Federal impact aid is a blessing to our school district.”

Even the districts that Scott Walker highlights as examples that his “tools” are working are in deep trouble. Waukesha, for instance, has seen record retirements, larger class sizes, reduced benefits and shorter planning periods for teachers and staff. What’s keeping the wheels from coming off is federal funding: Waukesha received more than $8 million in federal stimulus over the last few years, which offset Walker’s $5 million cut.

I also have not heard Walker or any of his apologists explain what's going to happen next year when his "tools" are all used up and they don't have anywhere else to turn.  You think it might be because they don't want to even think about it themselves, much less have the public know?

Because if this information becomes public knowledge, the recallers won't be able to print off petitions fast enough to keep up with the demand.

Scott Walker: He's Not Working For Us

From WISDems:



Here's the script:

"Scott Walker: He's Not Working For Us"

Scott Walker: Wisconsin's best days are yet to come…

Screen: Progress: ?

Audio: Since Scott Walker has been Wisconsin governor, unemployment has gone up

Screen: Scott Walker: 9,300 Private-Sector Jobs Lost in October (Journal Sentinel, November 17,2011)

Audio: The biggest cuts in public education in the entire country

Screen: Scott Walker: $1.85 Billion Slashed from Education

Audio: Cuts about a half billion from the state medicaid program

Screen: Scott Walker: $554 Million Cut from Health Care (WKOW Madison, September 30, 2011)

Audio: Basically soaked the middle-class and the poor to reward the rich

Screen: Video of working and middle-class people

Audio: Koch Industries was the fourth largest donor during his 2010 campaign

Screen: Images of Charles and David Koch and data showing Koch Industries as a top donor to Scott Walker's campaign

Audio: These billionaires have been buying up the governors to make sure they never have to pay taxes again

Screen: Video of Scott Walker

Audio: And they're doing everything they to crush the bottom

Screen: Scott Walker: Billions in Tax Cuts to the Rich

Scott Walker: You know, Wisconsin's best days have yet to come

Screen: Progress: For Who?

Screen: Scott Walker: He's Not Working For Us

Beauty And The Beasts - The Blogger Version

Congratulations to my dear friend, Lisa Mux, aka Waukesha Wonk, for making it to the big time!

For those that don't know what I'm talking about, let me explain.

James Wigderson, a Koch Brothers' employee and close associate of Mark Block, wrote a post in which he blatantly misrepresents a peaceful recall petition signing rally which was hosted by some of Scott walker's neighbors.  Ignoring the actual facts, as is his wont, he compared a peaceful event to a KKK rally, of all things.

He then went on to compare Ms.Mux to some sort of intimidating mob.  Her sin to deserve such a condemnation? She dared to tweet one of his posts that was related to a charitable event.!  And on top of that, she tweeted again about the irony of a liberal blogger tweeting a conservative blogger's post!  Oh, the humanity!

Most bloggers would take delight in having their work broadcasted to an even larger audience, especially when it is done in a positive manner like this.

But Wigderson would not have any of that!  He stalked her twitter timeline, making sure he got every tweet about him and using it to launch one ad hominem attack after another at Ms. Mux, because she dared to be nice to him.

The really odd thing about that is that when I was writing at Whallah!, Wigderson expressed concern that I was being a misogynist because I dared to write about a conservative radio squawk show host who happened to be female.  He did so even though I wrote rebuttals to her blog posts in which she would iterate the same old Republican talking points.

In other words, if I write a rebuttal to a wrong-minded position expressed by a woman, I am apparently a misogynist.  But Wiggy can stalk a woman's twitter feed and use it to mischaracterize her and make false accusations about her and he is a hero of the people?  Obviously, this is one of those "It's only OK if a Republican does it" situations.

Ms. Mux really made the big time though when Mark Belling, apparently (but understandably) unable to find anything positive to say about Scott Walker, chose to spend a considerable amount of time reading Wiggy's post on air and slandering Ms. Mux as well.

Having a Koch Brothers' employee and a radio squawker attack you is a sure sign that they see you as a threat, ergo, Ms. Mux has hit the big time. (Although she has yet to meet my marks of being attacked by three squawkers in one day or having one the coveted Deep Tunnel award from Charlie Sykes*)

I just hope and pray that Ms. Mux won't receive the same treatment that the right wing nut jobs have given to other female bloggers.

*Charlie, it's been two years.  Where's my plaque already?

What A Croc!

From the talented Stuart Carlson:

It is kind of fitting that Walker would be part of Never-Never Land.  My only question is who would be Smee - Becky Kleefisch or Mikey Huebsch?

The Walker Budget Is Working Already! Part XL

Well, this explains why Scott Walker is trying to focus the people on his lies about the school district and about how much money they're gonna save.  He doesn't want them to know what's going on with the jobs situation:

Wisconsin’s seasonally adjusted October unemployment rate was 7.7 percent, down slightly from 7.8 percent in September, but the state lost 9,300 private sector jobs in October, the Wisconsin Workforce Department of Workforce Development reported today.

The preliminary estimate of total private sector employment for October was 2,337,300.

The preliminary data indicates declines from September to October in manufacturing, health care, construction, retail trade and other sectors. Leisure and hospitality was one of the sectors with one-month gains.

Government employment was relatively flat.

Walker's (third) DWD Secretary blames it on the national economy. But then those gosh-darned facts got in the way and we learned that the rest of the nation has been gaining jobs while Walker is chasing ours out of the state.

Jake, who does his usual bang up job on these issues, points out that the state has lost 27,600 jobs in the last three months and there is no signs of it getting better in the foreseeable future.

Scott Walker Is Unbelievable

As many of my readers and friends already know, I have been dealing with Scott Walker for nearly a decade. Over the course of all those years, I've seen Walker do and say some things that were simply amazing in their audacity, from telling bald-faced lies to openly flaunting ethics rules to the most egregious abuses of office.

I can also tell you that after all these years, if there is one word that describes Walker, it would be this: Hypocrite.

I have repeatedly seen Walker condemn some behavior or some stance, only to assume it himself. Walker's hypocrisy is so frequent that it's actually a lifestyle for him and I don't know if he even knows how to be genuine with people anymore.

Given even my experience and repeated exposure to his hypocrisy, I thought I had become rather immune to it. But tonight, I have found one article that is so thick with hypocrisy, I'm afraid that exposure to it could turn one into a wereweasel.

The article is from WisPolitics.com and stems from a press conference Walker held in Madison, once he came back from a West Coast tour of his favorite out of state campaign donors.

I will attempt to point out and counter the hypocrisy which is just oozing out of Walker's pores. Come along, if you dare, but wear your silver crucifix and carry a wooden stake, just to be on the safe side.

Walker starts out with a slightly elevated dose of hypocrisy, complaining about "out of state money" pouring in to fund the recall, and then he ups the ante:

"I think there are legitimately people who have strong feelings for and against this," Walker said in a Capitol press conference. "But I don't think anybody should be confused. The money behind this, just like the money we saw behind the recalls earlier this year, is coming from outside Wisconsin."

Walker defended his campaign’s acceptance of out-of-state contributions, arguing that he wouldn't have to spend a dime on the recall effort without the efforts from out-of-state.

Keep in mind that Walker just came back from a jaunt to Arizona and California to raise millions. And then there is always the Koch Brothers who are not only donating to his campaign, but to the Republican Governors Fund and bankroll the various propaganda machines like Wisconsin Reporter, Media Trackers and McIver Institute.

But even before he ran for governor and even before he was county executive, Walker was taking money from out of state special interests that wanted to privatize our schools and our prisons, just to name a few.

But to be completely and utterly honest, he is correct in a fashion of speaking. The people of Wisconsin are receiving help from people that do not live in Wisconsin, including boots on the grounds plus the means to support them. But not for the recall. I'm talking about the FBI assisting in the investigation of Walkergate.

Walker also again complained about the people that held a petition signing rally in his neighborhood, continuing with his tired allegations of out-of-staters doing this (emphasis mine):

Walker alleged that many of the protesters had been bused in from throughout the state, and said out-of-state money and influence "really raises the stakes and the intensity."

"We, as elected officials, we asked for the job, we expect the scrutiny. It's appropriate, that's what great about America," Walker said. "But our families and even our neighbors, they don't ask for any of this."

This line shows not only his hypocrisy, but is quite a shining example of his duplicity.

You see, the thing is not only did his neighbors not feel put upon, but they were the one that hosted the rally, inviting the recallers to their yards to sign their petitions. It's one thing to be out of touch with the electorate, but to be so clueless and classless as to not even know the neighbors aren't happy with him is incredible. What? Didn't he notice all the Recall Walker signs in his neighbors' yards either?

Next, Walker shows he so far in denial, he could be mistaken for a balding King Tut:

Walker rejected assertions that he had brought the opposition on himself, saying his collective bargaining changes were part of the promises he made to voters last fall.

Remember that Walker testified to Congress, under oath, that he did not campaign on busting the unions.  The question is this: Is he lying to us now or did he commit perjury then?

To wrap up this round of hypocrisy-alooza, Walker talks about how much money the poor baby is paying now:

He added his family has also been impacted by the changes to public employee collective bargaining, noting he contributes to his pension at a higher rate than most other public employees.

"My neighbors are still paying a whole lot more for health insurance, in most cases paying a whole lot more for their retirement," Walker said.

See what I mean? It just doesn't stop!

First of all, Walker made the promise to pay the pension at a higher rate. No one made him pay more. He did it all voluntarily.

Secondly, he didn't even keep that promise but waited almost a full six months before he started making the promised contributions.

And for him to rub in the fact that his of the 1% and his neighbors are of the 99% is rather boorish.

To sum this up, well, Scott Walker is simply unbelievable.  It is unbelievable that he thinks people can't see through his lies. It's unbelievable that he thinks people will continue to tolerate his hypocrisy.  It is unbelievable that he still doesn't get it.

Scott Walker is simply unbelievable.  And it is because he can't be believed about anything that the needs to be recalled, for the good of the state.