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Related: About this forumThe NY Times Scathing Editorial exposes Gov. Walker’s so called ‘Drafting Error’
We can only hope that the National media will vet Walker!
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Andy Jorgensen @RepJorgensen 6h6 hours ago
NY Times scathing Editorial exposes @GovWalkers so called Drafting Error #wibudget #wipolitics http://nyti.ms/1EMHVvd
The Opinion Pages | Editorial
Gov. Walkers Drafting Error
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/opinion/gov-scott-walkers-drafting-error.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD FEB. 6, 2015
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It was not enough for Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin suddenly to propose a destructive 13 percent cut in state support for the University of Wisconsins widely respected system. His biennial budget plan, released Tuesday, reached gratuitously into the universitys hallowed 111-year-old mission statement to delete a bedrock principle: Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.
The budget patently tailored for the governors conservative campaign for the Republican presidential nomination inserted language that the university should be more narrowly concerned with meeting the states work force needs.
Brazenly deleted as well from the mission statement, which is nationally appreciated in education circles as the Wisconsin Idea, were the far from controversial goals to educate people and improve the human condition and serve and stimulate society. It was as if a trade school agenda were substituted for the idea of a university.
But Mr. Walker badly miscalculated in the state at least, and perhaps even with the national constituency he is furiously courting in campaign trips and in his fund-raising. The citizens of Wisconsin, clearly more appreciative of the state university than is their governor, erupted through social media and news outlets, sending Mr. Walker into retreat a day later. His office attempted the ridiculous excuse that the pernicious editing of the universitys mission was simply a drafting error in the budget text and that the Wisconsin Idea would be left intact after all. But a December email showed clear instructions from the administration to make the deletions..............
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)dhill926
(16,351 posts)cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)PCIntern
(25,576 posts)He is the perfect sociopath: attractive, glib, not a shred of conscience or morality, and most importantly he lands on his feet after every setback. This guy is dangerous. Even to his own.
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)he is bad news for he state and for the country especially if he ever gets to hold higher office.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)meanings of the 2 terms, & many professionals use them interchangeably.
Neither term is actually a DSM diagnosis ( the closest actual DSM Dx being Antisocial Personality Disorder), but there are several measures for the personality construct of psychopathy and its component factors. I don't want to stop now to do it, but I bet a search of the 2 terms in PsychLit would turn up a lot of hits for "psychopath" and relatively few for "sociopath," if only because there is no clear definition or way of measuring sociopathy, while there are at least 3 instruments that measure psychopathy.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Credit to DUer Half-Century Man. He nailed it.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)The way he tried to dodge on the change in the university mission statement is particularly telling. Liar, liar, liar.
ybbor
(1,555 posts)To this day it blows my mind.
I'm sorry for all of the progressive Dems in WI.
We really need to GOTV for 2016 to make sure he, or any other of his ilk do not move into the Oval Office.
most of my family is still in Wisconsin. Both sides of the aisle ... and it tends to be the more religious that get pulled into the "conservative values" nonsense. That is how the republicans have done it in so many of the middle states. They co-opted the churches and have convinced the rank and file that democrats will take away their guns, offer abortions on every corner, and force everyone to be gay. I've come across folks who are still strong for labor in Wisconsin (as my family was back when I was growing up there - everyone I knew belonged to a union) but unfortunately they are a minority in that state now.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Which means either a well-oiled machine, or a lot of rabid support, or both. After a recall bid and an election!
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)I find Walker an anethma to all the values i define myself by. If I were a writer of horror stories Scott Walker would be my Machiavellian protagonist of an antichrist. One of Machiavellis admonitions in The Prince was that you can kill your subjects and they will get over it (witness Bush the Younger and the Iraq war) but if you steal their property they will never forget or forgive. The Wisconsin university system and the research flagship in Madison,for the vast majority of Wisconsins citizens is one of their proudest possessions. It is instructive that this excuse for a state leader is also a proud college dropout, if we are to believe his statements on the issue. Their is some conjecture that he was forced to leave college for cheating....I think Machiavelli would approve of the latter. This is a governor who hates secular education and the process of learning to think critically as it represents the greatest danger to his evangelical ideological precepts.
AllyCat
(16,216 posts)With this. Fight Walker as Presidential candidate with every bit of political strength you can muster. His base will not care that he lied about this. They will celebrate it.
PCIntern
(25,576 posts)Thank you!
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)and I couldn't agree with you more. The man is making our state (when he has time to drop a load on it) a laughingstock.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Scott Walker is an opportunist, pure and simple. He has learned that his job is to take far-right ideas (sometimes cribbed word-for-word from ALEC) and be the affable, reasonable-sounding salesman. Then he gets rewarded with lots of campaign cash and attention. He hasn't needed no stinkin' degree so why should anybody else. Besides, his son goes to UW. Why would he want to hurt UW? Blah blah blah...
Scott has capitalized on resentment politics very effectively. The UW? Meh. Collateral damage. Thing is, there are a LOT of UW grads and a lot more who are proud of the UW in this state. I do believe he has mis-calculated. I hope this runs over his presidential campaign like Heisman Trophy winning Badger Ron Dayne running over a defensive back. Or Melvin Gordon...
riversedge
(70,285 posts)I posted the scathing NYTimes Editorial---but the national media has yet to really start vetting this weasel!
http://www.jsonline.com/news/for-walker-success-on-the-national-front-a-stumble-at-home-for-walker-success-on-the-national-fro-b9-291117481.html
Daniel Bice | No Quarter
For Walker, success on the national front, a stumble at home
http://media.jrn.com/images/660*413/b99440505z.1_20150206191057_000_gpl9rt2k.1-1.jpg
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker emerged as a media darling on the national front even as he took a beating politically at home.
Feb. 6, 2015
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It's been this kind of week for Gov. Scott Walker: He has emerged as a media darling on the national front even as he took a beating politically at home.
"He is clearly distracted by his presidential ambitions," said Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, a La Crosse Democrat.
Walker could not have done any better with his national press.
He's leading in polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, and the Washington Post labeled the Wisconsin Republican the first "it" candidate of the 2016 presidential horse race.
The number-crunchers at Nate Silver'sFiveThirtyEight are giving Walker better odds than anyone but former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush of winning the GOP nomination.
"No 2016 presidential hopeful has had a better two-week run than Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker," declared U.S. News & World Report.
But you wouldn't know it in Wisconsin......................
PCIntern
(25,576 posts)When you're hoping that Bush gets the nod. What a horror.
unionthug777
(740 posts)that "drafting error" will be conveniently forgotten to be changed. imo
TBF
(32,086 posts)he will not be able to do anything now that they know. I got alumni messages about it this week. He backpedaled quickly because he knows his only shot at something like that was to do it without notice.
walker is so dumb !!!!
JEB
(4,748 posts)Just the kind of criminal the Birchers adore.
Cha
(297,531 posts)Gracias riversedge.
jf346l
(1 post)This moron thinks he can run for president? He might be able to get his way in Wisconsin, but with most of the rest of the country he will be repelled. I doubt he makes it out of the NH or SC primaries.
How did he survive the recall and the recent election? Where were all the good people of WI? When that radio host called pretending to be one of the koch brothers he really looked like a fool. That will come back to haunt this right wing loser.
marble falls
(57,162 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)I remember that phone call prank.
randys1
(16,286 posts)credit?
Scott Walker viciously hates unions and working people and is owned by the richest men in the world (almost) who equally hates unions and working people, but guess what.
Rank and file teaparty and republican party, ESPECIALLY the poorer ones, hate working people and unions just as much.
I know, makes no sense, how can a working person hate working people...
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)I voted for McCain.....the first time he ran for president.
I saw an interview where W mocked an inmate he was putting to death I saw into his soul and I knew that mother f was bad for this nation. Our state has a closed primary so I registered GOP. And voted for McCain. Too little too late .
I feel the same way about this "W" too, this walker, this wanker.
The irony is now I will be crossing lines to get this, vote for a Bush in the primary!
Walker must be stopped.
randys1
(16,286 posts)understand is the rightwing, people like Walker, well they plan on destroying everything they see.
That makes it a matter of life and death as far as I am concerned.