Reply #29: How is his goose cooked?

[djean111]

There is no way to get him out of there until next year, and he is free to inflict his views - which, evidently, a lot of voters agreed with - until at least 2012, if there is a recall for him. By then, the public utilities may be sold off, public education eviscerated, environmental safeguards disappeared, the pension fund distributed to corporate interests, rape may actually not even be a crime - he is not taking the long view, he is inflicting the most shit in the shortest time possible. He is not trying to win a popularity contest at this point in time.

And look how many people hate the mandate and want single payer - and how irrelevant that is? Any more, polls just tell me that it doesn't matter what the polls say, they just underscore that the government and the people are on different planets.

I doubt he really cares about re-election at this point - either he has a set list to accomplish, or the Koch brothers have assured him that they will ensure the next election or else a soft landing if he gets recalled or whatever.
For starters, though - recalling senators - better try to arrange paper ballots, public counting, and a LOT of volunteers at the polls, to watch what happens. And three times more signatures than are required - you think there is not a group scheming how to invalidate signatures or results right now?

Can he ram through a dictate that he cannot be recalled? Because lately it seems that "Constitution" means the same thing as "morning constitutional". Or maybe something that is used to clean oneself off after the morning ritual.

Don't want to come off as uber-cynical and saying why bother, just pointing out that his recipe for cooked goose likely is quite different than ours.

Sadly, the tea party governors illustrate a pet theory of mine - like that whip-wielding guy who was threatening Indiana Jones, (reversing the good guy - bad guy thing here) all the elaborate whip cracking in the world is beat by a gun that you forgot about - in this case, he may just pass something that nullifies the dem senators, and proceed on his merry way.
Stupid people get a lot accomplished because the smart ones are theorizing and taking polls - like Bush just doing shit while everyone is saying oh no he wouldn't.

Fait accompli beats polls every time. Best be thinking about how to undo things; Walker's unpopularity in the polls in meaningless at this point. By the time the next election rolls around, Wisconsin may be a smoking ruin. And/or Walker may be running for president.