{"id":6922,"date":"2012-01-29T00:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2012-01-29T00:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:12:47","slug":"is-fitzwalkerstan-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/is-fitzwalkerstan-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fitzwalkerstan Doomed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, things are not going the way Fartfuhrer Walker would like them, either on the popularity front or the criminal investigation front.  It is so grim, that I understand the Fartfuhrer is in hiding.  On the popularity front, John Nichols has excellent news.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPWiscFlag\"…So here\u2019s what we know:<\/p>\n

1. If you add up all the caucus and primary votes that have been cast so far for Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, the former Rick Perry, the former Jon Huntsman, the former Michele Bachmann and the eternal Buddy Roemer, they still have not attracted as much support as has the drive to recall Scott Walker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2. If you compare the percentage of the electorate in the three caucus and primary states that has expressed support for all the Republicans who would be president, it is dramatically lower than the percentage of the Wisconsin electorate that wants to recall Scott Walker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

3. If you add the total number of names on petitions filed January 17 to recall other Republicans in Wisconsin\u2014Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, state Senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald and three of Fitzgerald\u2019s colleagues\u2014the total number<\/a> of signatures filed in support of the recall of Walker and his cronies is close to 1,940,000. That figure is just about double the number of votes cast in all the Republican presidential contests for all the Republican presidential candidates so far this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Conclusion: if the Republican presidential race is a serious endeavor, the Wisconsin drive to recall Scott Walker, Rebecca Kleefisch, Scott Fitzgerald and their compatriots is doubly serious. And far, far more popular with the available electorate\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On the criminal front, Ed Schultz sheds more light on the depth of corruption surrounding Walker, as he interviews John Nichols. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

I find it inconceivable that Walker was not completely involved.  Wouldn\u2019t it be great if Walker could step from office directly into a cell?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, things are not going the way Fartfuhrer Walker would like them, either on the popularity front or the criminal investigation front.  It is so grim, that I understand the Fartfuhrer is in hiding.  On the popularity front, John Nichols has excellent news. …So here\u2019s what we […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}