Walker, Wisconsin Ranger

Greetings from the Wisconsin State House!

OK, so the good people of the Cheese State - or whatever - decide to go full metal teatard and throw out their Democratic governor and senator.  Let's forget the unfortunate loss of Russ Feingold for a minute and focus on the governor's mansion.

Scott Walker, the new gubner, first makes a name for himself by turning down high speed rail funds, because... trains are... socialist?  Unless Dagny Taggart is making them, in which case they are awesome.  Or something.  Basically, in the middle of a recession with 10% unemployment, this dipweed turns down an infrastructure project that will help tie the Wisconsin economy to Chicago and Minnesota and provide immediate job relief.  Because the teatard playbook says anything Democrats propose must be bad, nanny nanny boo boo, no take backs times infinity fuck you.

He then rams through a tax cut.  Yeah, that's right.  A tax cut.  Guess what the fiscal result of cutting taxes is? I'll give you one freaking guess.

So, now Wisconsin is suffering from a budget shortfall, created by it's new teatard governor.  What to do... what to do?

I know, let's break the public service unions!  This won't actually save any real money for the immediate future.  Let's go to Wisconsin's paper of record:

In its Jan. 31 memo to legislators on the condition of the state's budget, the Fiscal Bureau determined that the state will end the year with a balance of $121.4 million.

To the extent that there is an imbalance -- Walker claims there is a $137 million deficit -- it is not because of a drop in revenues or increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January.

What we see here is the sped up version of Republican governance.  Usually, they run up the deficits first and then cut the things poor people and public servants like once Democrats have taken over.  That's the dance we're seeing in Washington right now.  John "So Be It" Boehner and his job killing spending cuts eviscerations is a classic GOP play.

Walker has just accelerated the process, so that he's cutting taxes AND attacking Republican boogeymen in the same season.  Kudos!

The flight of Democratic State Senators is, I think, a wonderfully dramatic way to draw this out.  Because Wisconsin is not Alabama.  It has a very conservative side, but Walker's a throbbing douchecanoe and the sooner he gets exposed for creating this controversy in the first place just to stick a shiv in teachers and the like, the better.

The GOP did not spend enough time in the wilderness after Bush.  They haven't learned a damn thing.  They are still a bunch of mean, small minded a-holes, if Scott Walker is any indicator.

And I mean that with the utmost respect.

UPDATE: As always, TBogg turns the phrase best: First the Jasmine Revolution, now the Cheddar Revolution!