Polishing the turd

[dandi]

There's a time for a positive outlook and a time to admit you got your ass whooped. The former is valuable for keeping your spirits up, but it's only the latter from which one can really draw instruction.

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 01:12 AM
 sabrina 1 (26,366 posts)

 Wisconsin Recalls Worked! Walker and the Koch Brothers Have Been Defanged!
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Two years ago Walker and his Republican Teabag-controlled State Legislature were completely in charge of Wisconsin's affairs and lost no time in pushing through the Koch Brothers, draconian, anti-working class Agenda. That is what sparked the historical protests which started the Movement that led to the Recall of Walker.

 
Massive Protests in Wisconsin in March, 2011

With all the money they spent, reports of up to $45,000,000 to $4,000,000 for Democrats, they could not regain the power they had in 2008.

Imagine if the people of Wisconsin had not stood up to the Koch Machine, the damage they might have done before the next election? It really is unthinkable!

But now, should Walker try to resume his destruction of Wisconsin's working class, which he surely would have done had they won the State Senate race, newly elected Wisconsin Democratic Senate Leader, Mark Miller has a message for him.

In an email to Bold Progressives thanking all the activists who helped him win the Senate last night, this is the promise he made:



Tonight was a tough night for us in Wisconsin. After being outspent 8 to 1 by Scott Walker and the billionaire Koch brothers, we lost the gubernatorial recall.

But what the national media is not telling you is: I am the new Democratic Senate Majority Leader after winning an important Senate recall election by just hundreds of votes.

Starting tomorrow, Senate Democrats will be a strong check on Scott Walker's power. If Walker tries to pass extreme policies that bust unions, hurt women, or attack middle-class families, we will have one word for him: No. We will demand laws that benefit the middle class and start repairing our state.

PCCC members have stood with us in Wisconsin every step of the way. You contributed substantially to our Senate victories tonight and last year.

The donations you made to the Wisconsin Democratic Party and Wisconsin Senate Democrats directly helped get out the vote that fueled tonight's Senate victory.

From the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you. Despite tonight's disappointment in the governor's race, your efforts helped us achieve victory and restore balance in our state.

I look forward to working as partners with bold progressive activists in the days, months, and years ahead.

Solidarity,

Mark Miller, incoming Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader


The Wisconsin Democrats who stood up to Koch Brothers Puppet Scott Walker, leaving the state and risking being arrested rather than allow him to destroy workers rights more than he had already, deserve the utmost respect.

Those are my kind of Democrats

They started a Labor Movement and they succeeded in slowing down the the attacks on workers by the Anti-Labor, Pro-Wall Street Republican Party. And history will remember them. The teachers, the nurses, the construction workers and all the other unions who joined forces to fight against the Republican War on Workers.

I read today that, although they were disappointed about Walker, the people of Wisconsin will be back as strong as ever and ready to fight as fiercely as they did over the past year for the rights of workers everywhere. We can't wait.

Here are a few photos that bring back memories of the movement that stopped the Koch Brothers in their tracks and forced them to spend tens of millions to fight against the people.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 



No movement wins everything they set out to win in the beginning, but the people of Wisconsin did a magnificent job considering what they are up against.


They did NOT lose, they WON.

 

Cheers for the people of Wisconsin and on to the next battle in November 106

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002779731

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it true the Wisconsin legislature doesn't go back into session before the next election, at which time, through redistricting, the Reps will likely be back in power?

NS2012 (36 posts)
66. There's a fine line between optimism and delusion.

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You are displaying the latter.

This thread is among the dumbest shit I've ever read.

 

sabrina 1 (26,366 posts)
68. Walker has been check-mated. Sorry about that! I hear today

the wealthy who poured money into this moron are whining about all they spent, and now they are left with a lame duck, possibly future indicted criminal on their hands.

Recalls, 'good for the economy and good for democracy'.

But now they want to ban them! I guess they don't think I am delusional and it is their money after all 

Welcome to DU btw

   
 
 

[Freeper]

Poor DUmmies still don't get, the people want what Walker has been doing, they overwhelmingly said so Tuesday night.

[Skul]

There's a time for a positive outlook and a time to admit you got your ass whooped. The former is valuable for keeping your spirits up, but it's only the latter from which one can really draw instruction.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it true the Wisconsin legislature doesn't go back into session before the next election, at which time, through redistricting, the Reps will likely be back in power?

I believe you are correct, sir.
Wannabe tv witch is running in circles, looking for the turd polish. 

[sybilll]

You got your dicks kicked in the dirt.  Get over it. 

[miskie]

...looks like somebody has gotten into the Choomba Zoomba's stash...

And unlike their chocolate-making brethren, the Choomba Zoombas WILL mess you up.

[BEG]

What is their friggen fascination with the Koch brothers?  That is all they have, well Koch brothers and Karl Rove. It is getting rather pathetic. You people have Soros, a great majority of Hollywood and other rich liberals as an ATM. Stop your whining, you are pathetic.

[BEG]

Sabrina has to be a mole. No one can be this idiotic.

sabrina 1 (26,366 posts)
68. Walker has been check-mated. Sorry about that! I hear today

the wealthy who poured money into this moron are whining about all they spent, and now they are left with a lame duck, possibly future indicted criminal on their hands.

Recalls, 'good for the economy and good for democracy'.

But now they want to ban them! I guess they don't think I am delusional and it is their money after all 

Welcome to DU btw

Where did you hear that from Sabrina? 

[Ralph Wiggum]

What is their friggen fascination with the Koch brothers?  That is all they have, well Koch brothers and Karl Rove. It is getting rather pathetic. You people have Soros, a great majority of Hollywood and other rich liberals as an ATM. Stop your whining, you are pathetic.

They have to have someone to blame.  Since President Bush has taken the high road & stayed out of the spotlight, the Koch bros & Rove are now the designated boogyman/men.

[DumbAss Tanker]

They have to have someone to blame.  Since President Bush has taken the high road & stayed out of the spotlight, the Koch bros & Rove are now the designated boogyman/men.

Exactly...it doesn't work to have a picture of one of your own idiots 'Leaders' whose mistakes led to a humiliating defeat on the screen at the Public Hating.

[Bad Dog]

Minor problem for Mr. Miller.  The Senate is not scheduled to be in session until after the Nov. elections & the only way they can go into session is at the Governor's order.  Also, the seat they are claiming is being recounted & serious charges of illegal voting in the district.

[Duke Nukum]

Minor problem for Mr. Miller.  The Senate is not scheduled to be in session until after the Nov. elections & the only way they can go into session is at the Governor's order.  Also, the seat they are claiming is being recounted & serious charges of illegal voting in the district.

The Governor could call something, I forget the exact wording but it is something like "an extraordinary session" but Miller could call for a "special session" but the Assembly would have to agree to it.

Racine (where this seat is being fought out) is where a union thug threatened to pound a poll watcher's head into the ground when she was questioning some identification documentation.

[Bad Dog]

I'm guessing the Assembly wouldn't be too agreeable.

[GOBUCKS]

Many are convinced that Sabrinanumber, not DUmmy Lucinda, is franksolich's main mole. No way. Even moling, coach could never put up such a pathetic post.

[Skul]

Sabrinanumber is not a mole.

[delilahmused]

Can someone please tell me what crime he's supposed to be indited for?

Cinde

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Can someone please tell me what crime he's supposed to be indited for?

Cinde

$11k went missing from a fund raiser for wounded soldiers while he was county executive.

Investigation has been going for 2+ yrs. A dozen former staffers have been given immunity.

It's called a "John Doe" investigation because it gives the grand jury more latitude when a specific suspect is not named.

[JohnnyReb]

Polishing the turd .... I've never tried to do that myself so I wouldn't know much about it but wouldn't you at least wait until it dried a little?

[Gina]

$11k went missing from a fund raiser for wounded soldiers while he was county executive.

Investigation has been going for 2+ yrs. A dozen former staffers have been given immunity.

It's called a "John Doe" investigation because it gives the grand jury more latitude when a specific suspect is not named.

That's it?     I thought it was something BIG!

[jukin]

Working class?!?!?!

These are government employees, working class LMFAO!

[Karin]

I know, they always do that.  A hard-working industrial bluecollar worker in a dangerous dirty job = bureaucratic weenie pencil pusher dreaming up regulations and telling the citizenry to go **** itself.  


ETA:  I went over and (tried to) read the thread.  There is only so much Sabrina that I can take.  She starts a thread, then answers every comment with a lengthy comment of her own, usually repeating herself.  I've grown allergic to the sight of iceskates. 

The denial and psychotic spinning is funny to see in small doses, however. 

[Vagabond]

First they said they were outspent 4 to 1, now it's out to 8 to 1.  Why don't they just say they were outspent 100 to 1?  Seriously.

[Ralph Wiggum]

First they said they were outspent 4 to 1, now it's out to 8 to 1.  Why don't they just say they were outspent 100 to 1?  Seriously.

I don't think the hacks at MSNBC are even counting all the money the Dems poured in to get signatures to have the recall in the first place.  Of course, that's probably just my accounting brain at work.

[obumazombie]

...looks like somebody has gotten into the Choomba Zoomba's stash...

And unlike their chocolate-making brethren, the Choomba Zoombas WILL mess you up.

Interception ! This recent development has me considering the adoption of an alter ego, owebumazoomba.

[Bad Dog]

Polishing the turd .... I've never tried to do that myself so I wouldn't know much about it but wouldn't you at least wait until it dried a little?

Since you asked, Mythbusters (I have a serious addiction to this show) actually tested this myth. They gathered some rather exotic scat from a zoo & managed to bring some turds to a rather high state of shine. Their process did indeed involve some baking & yes, they did wear gloves.

[diesel driver]

Since you asked, Mythbusters (I have a serious addiction to this show) actually tested this myth. They gathered some rather exotic scat from a zoo & managed to bring some turds to a rather high state of shine. Their process did indeed involve some baking & yes, they did wear gloves.

It doesn't surprise me what Adam, Jamie, and crew would try next.  I do think they all have a redneck streak in them.

How do I know this? 

They LOVE to blow shit up!