Stopping everywhere a friendly interviewer and audience can be assembled, Scott Walker has been shilling his new book, Unintimidated, a series of outright lies promoting himself as the biggest, bestest, most awesome Governator around. His latest again out of state stop was on Face the Nation (have your barf bag handy):
As for his "proudly pro-life stance" that he claims to not obsess over, he was all too happy to sign the mandatory ultrasound and mandatory admitting privileges bills that were rammed through the State Legislature. Knowing what happened to Virginia Governor "Ultrasound" McDonell, Walker signed both bills late on a holiday weekend and in secret to avoid media reporting.
I'm sure he hopes that we all forget that Mitt Romney met those same Walker-approved Presidential candidate criteria. Romney was, after all, a former Governor. He also hopes we forget the trouncing Romney took at the polls in 2012, too.
If you look a the legislation he's supported, his "obsession" hasn't been with jobs or Wisconsins economy (which is going down the toilet), but with extremist legislation aimed at punishing his enemies: unions, poor people, cities, Democratic voters, women, public school kids, and anyone else not rich enough or ideological enough to be his supporter.
He drones on:
“I think most of us across this country have seen divided government just leads to more fighting and bickering and gridlock," Walker said. "In Wisconsin and many others, the battleground states in the Midwest, in 2010, we focused on our economic and fiscal crises, laid out a clear plan, and then voters in my state and many others in my surrounding states gave Republicans not only the governor's office but the majorities in the state assembly and the state senate or similar measures in the legislature."
While divided government doesn’t have to be a bad thing, he said, people just “want to hear a clear plan of how they'll move forward.”
Yeah, he's not a big fan of Democracy and prefers a system of GOP dominated single party rule.
Yes, people DO want a clear plan on how they'll move forward. They just hate being hoodwinked by being promised 250,000 jobs by a Gubernatorial candidate who creates a job-destroying economy as soon as he's elected which he keeps lying about.
Of course, he now brushes off claims that he has Presidential ambitions. It created a ruckus in Wisconsin when he did that about a year ago and had to demean himself in front of the media to walk that one back. His current "I'm focused on being Governor" or "I'm running for re-election in 2014" replies to questions about those very clear ambitions always includes a bit of a wink for insiders.
Walker has spent his adult years collecting taxpayer money for the elected offices he's held. Each one has been a stepping stone or springboard to the next, every higher office he's sought. When he was Milwaukee County Executive, taking advantage of a recall election he praised to the skies, he spent his 2 terms in office travelling throughout the state enhancing his name recognition for the time when a statewide or national office became available to him. Nice use of taxpayer dollars dontchathink?
Upon becoming Governor, following the ram through passage of his extremist budget and public union busting Act 10, he started travelling the nation, again, increasing his name recognition and piling up donations in his burgeoning campaign war chest. He's the only Governor in Wisconsin history to fail to present a schedule of activities which helps him hide how little time he actually spends inside the state he's been elected to govern.
While he insists upon being called "Governor Walker", he omits titles and honorifics when addressing or speaking about others; a petty and self-serving political tactic. And, despite the fact that he's virtually destroyed public employee unions in Wisconsin, he continues to blame them for everything using terms like "union thugs", "big government union bosses" and referring to public employees in derogatory terms.
He's certainly not worried about book sales. The monied RW interests will ensure that bulk sales catapult his lying tome to the Top Ten List. Nope. What he wants is himself in the spotlight, promoting himself and catapulting his self-serving propaganda.
His lies are numerous and already getting some attention, but he's a well-known and convincing liar. Just look at his 2010 campaign and 2012 recall campaign as examples. Corporate media in Wisconsin just keeps on propping him up. Hopefully, national media won't follow suit.
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