Salon's War Room: Can you say 'Governor Russ Feingold?'

[flpoljunkie]

THURSDAY, MAR 10, 2011
WAR ROOM

Can you say "Governor Russ Feingold"?
BY STEVE KORNACKI


AP/Morry Gash
Russ Feingold

The question isn't really if Scott Walker and his fellow Wisconsin Republicans will suffer fallout from their surprise maneuver Wednesday night. It's how severe the fallout will be.

Walker and the state's Republican senators, as you've surely heard by now, decoupled their proposal to strip public workers of their collective bargaining rights from a budget bill, allowing them to push it through the upper chamber with the entire Democratic caucus still holed up across state lines in Illinois. The GOP-controlled Assembly will presumably pass the bill today and Walker will then sign it.

Politically, this represents a wholly reckless move. Wisconsin's state government has been paralyzed for weeks because of the collective bargaining impasse, and in that time public opinion swung sharply against Walker and his plan. All of the noise generated by the Democrats' resistance seemed to have convinced a majority that Walker's plan is out of the mainstream. That these same voters will now hear that Walker and the GOP resorted to an extraordinary measure to jam it through will only harden this assessment -- and, potentially, make GOP legislators and the governor himself vulnerable to recall efforts.

The recall campaign will first target the handful of Republican senators who have already been in office for a year and are therefore eligible to be recalled. Petitions are already circulating in their districts. Walker himself is insulated through next January, when his first full year in office will be complete. Only then will his opponents be able to take out petitions to recall him. But that hasn't stopped more than a few Democrats from promoting their dream recall candidate: Russ Feingold, the former three-term senator who was flushed from office in last fall's anti-Democratic tide.

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[Kingofalldems]

1. I like it

K and R

[BBG]

2. What do I do with my Feingold for President 2012 button?

Well?

[vaberella]

5. Get it changed for 2016?! n/t

[glinda]

7. Yes. I am for that.

[AzDar]

3. One of our best.

:loveya:

[66 dmhlt]

4. As it is written, so let it be done!

[Agent William]

6. Wow, this is an excellent idea...

I'm detecting massive amounts of win in this sector....

[avebury]

8. But I want Feingold for 2012 Presidential Election

I am tired of Obama, the Republican lite President. I want a real contender for change and and whoe will look after the regular people. I want to vote for someone that I believe in not the person that will hopefully do the least harm.