{"id":7797,"date":"2012-05-18T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:12:12","slug":"fartfuhrer-walker-busted-in-big-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/fartfuhrer-walker-busted-in-big-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fartfuhrer Walker Busted in BIG Lies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was originally intended for last week, as it covers how Scott Walker, Fartfuhrer of the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, was caught telling a Republican donor that his attacks on unions were political moves, when he had testified under oath that the union busting was an economic necessity.  I get to resurrect it, because the Fartfuhrer was caught in yet another lie! <\/font><\/p>\n

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\"16recall\"With a month to go before Wisconsin\u2019s gubernatorial recall vote, Democrats\u2019 case against Scott Walker is less about collective bargaining policy itself than the notion that the governor masked his intentions to limit it as part of the sweeping budget bill he championed last spring. The argument, which Politifact endorsed<\/a>, is that Walker obscured his plan to attack public-employee unions during his run for office. Walker has repeatedly denied this. But in a new video<\/a> released to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by a documentary filmmaker, Wisconsin Democratic Party officials say<\/a> there\u2019s now hard evidence that the governor has a history of obfuscation.<\/p>\n

The video shows Scott Walker using the term \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d to describe his plan for curbing collective bargaining to donor Diane Hendricks in January, 2011<\/strong>. The partial transcript<\/a> of Walker\u2019s conversation with Hendricks, who has donated more than $500,000 to help him survive the recall campaign, is more interesting than the 28-second video snippet. It reveals the political calculation Walker made, which was that the best way to go after public-employee unions was to tie collective bargain to the budget bill and argue the only alternative is to raise taxes. \u201cThe key is by tying it to the budget, there\u2019s no way to unravel that. Because unless they\u2019re going to come up with $800 million for example \u2013 it\u2019s not exactly that amount, but it\u2019s close \u2013 there\u2019s no way they cannot pass that unless they\u2019re going to pass a tax increase,\u201d Walker says.<\/p>\n

The \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d phrase dovetails nicely with the Barrett campaign\u2019s core message, which is that their candidate would unify a state torn asunder by an ideological warrior less interested in the middle class than becoming a national conservative hero\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ed Schultz discusses this and the DNC’s unwillingness to kick in $500,000 with Mike Tate.<\/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

And now he’s lying about jobs numbers as Ed Schultz and Tom Barrett discuss.<\/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

He must be taking lessons from RMoney!! The DNC needs to get more involved with financial support.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article was originally intended for last week, as it covers how Scott Walker, Fartfuhrer of the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, was caught telling a Republican donor that his attacks on unions were political moves, when he had testified under oath that the union busting was an economic necessity.  I get to […]<\/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-7797","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\/7797","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=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}