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In reply to the discussion: FUCK. [View all]RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)121. So heartbreaking.
I am so sorry to all of the members of DU and Wisconsin residents who put in so much time and effort to get that fucker recalled. Also, to everyone who has and will suffer from his horrific agenda.
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Sounds like they're getting more brazen and couldn't care less if it looks like they cheated.
gtar100
Jun 2012
#204
Wisconsin has made its bed, and it will lie in it, corporate bedbugs and all.
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#256
NYT reported 'large majority' told exit pollsters recalls are only acceptable for malfeasance
flpoljunkie
Jun 2012
#234
Sounds like the fix is in. There is no way Milwaukee and Madison could have already been counted.
sarcasmo
Jun 2012
#62
I'd say 1980 was when the first pellet of rat poison was slipped into its breakfast
nxylas
Jun 2012
#225
Yes. Graham-Rudman was the beginning of the underhanded stealing of our future.
southerncrone
Jun 2012
#278
People who vote against their own interests and think they are going to be rich one day
maryellen99
Jun 2012
#166
Exactly. Except --sorry. I don't believe it. I remember 2011 WI fiasco as detailed on Brad blog.
cyberpj
Jun 2012
#28
I agree. They went too far when they called it while people were still in line to vote. n/t
EFerrari
Jun 2012
#213
So does this mean the Koch brothers will be buying ALL of the states in Novenber?
Walk away
Jun 2012
#34
No, not all, only the ones they need to win the White House, Congress, and Senate nt
bupkus
Jun 2012
#48
Double fuck! Hope he is indited soon. Now we're going to have to look at that face in
Auntie Bush
Jun 2012
#35
David Shuster said on Current he's waiting for the Associated Press to call it before
valerief
Jun 2012
#37
We all were watching Al Sharpton and Ed Shultz and they had us pumped to win.
limpyhobbler
Jun 2012
#66
We need to do something about out of control corporate influence over govermnent.
limpyhobbler
Jun 2012
#75
I guess Wisconsin wants to be the right wing expement. What a fucking shame /nt
still_one
Jun 2012
#85
Joey Stalin and his acolyte Ahmed Ahmadinejad are in charge of counting, perhaps? nt
MADem
Jun 2012
#99
I wasn't responding to you, I was responding to the person who claimed they were busing people in
Bjorn Against
Jun 2012
#267
Barrett campaign says it won't concede Wisconsin recall race to Walker yet, citing ongoing voting
Tx4obama
Jun 2012
#110
I know. I keep wondering - WHY, Wisconsin? You LIKE this? You approve of walker?
calimary
Jun 2012
#188
It's a sad day that's for sure. But this should make us all the more determined to
totodeinhere
Jun 2012
#133
this is indeed sad and depressing. Sometimes evil prevails especially when evil has a lot more money
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2012
#158
11.11pm: Milwaukee mayor and Democratic candidate Tom Barrett is now making his concession speech
PufPuf23
Jun 2012
#169
Money trumps all else! ... That's the moral of this WI fable. Money trumps EVERYTHING!
Bozita
Jun 2012
#199
Exit polls were pretty good predictors in the days before election equipment
gkhouston
Jun 2012
#209
I couldn't have said it any better. United v. Citizens was the death knell of our democracy. :-(
vietnam_war_vet
Jun 2012
#203
Really? There is no way anyone, especially a political junkie, should be surprised by the result.
Dawgs
Jun 2012
#235
Staying out of state government business, is where he was, and rightly so.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#268
When the air seems to go out of Occupy efforts (that began in Wisconsin), it is a warning sign
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2012
#271