Shot at 2011-03-17
Posted on 03/22/2011 3:03:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
....Mr. Walker’s conduct has provoked a level of divisiveness and bitter partisan hostility the likes of which have not been seen in this state since at least the Vietnam War. Many citizens are furious at their governor and his party, not only because of profound policy differences, but because these particular Republicans have exercised power in abusively nontransparent ways that represent such a radical break from the state’s tradition of open government.
..as a centrist and a lifelong independent — I have found myself returning...to the question posed by the lawyer Joseph N. Welch during the hearings that finally helped bring down another Wisconsin Republican, Joe McCarthy, in 1954: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
Scott Walker is not Joe McCarthy. Their political convictions and the two moments in history are quite different. But there is something about the style of the two men — their aggressiveness, their self-certainty, their seeming indifference to contrary views — that may help explain the extreme partisan reactions they triggered. McCarthy helped create the modern Democratic Party in Wisconsin by infuriating progressive Republicans, imagining that he could build a national platform by cultivating an image as a sternly uncompromising leader willing to attack anyone who stood in his way. Mr. Walker appears to be provoking some of the same ire from adversaries and from advocates of good government by acting with a similar contempt for those who disagree with him.
The turmoil in Wisconsin is not only about bargaining rights or the pension payments of public employees. It is about transparency and openness. It is about neighborliness, decency and mutual respect. Joe McCarthy forgot these lessons of good government, and so, I fear, has Mr. Walker. Wisconsin’s citizens have not.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
All our major media are a Fifth Column propaganda machine not news organizations.
And they must be destroyed.
Bull pucky. This man is no centrist. A fair evaluation of the WI debacle would include at least a mention of the Fleebaggers.
Ignore him, he's a liar.
Personally, I don’t care what others (outsiders) think of Governor Walker. He is what we in Wisconsin have NEEDED after many years of “Rats” infesting our capitol (Senate and Assembly).
The Rats have gotten the citizens of Wisconsin sooooooo deep in the hole it will take years of strong, firm political conviction to get us back on track. With support of the senate and assembly, Walker is the man who can make it happen.
If those in the media don’t live in Wisconsin they need to keep their mouths shut and opinions to themselves. I’m sick of hearing their B/S.
A centrist professor? Yeah, right!
Eyes rolling...
I thought this article was about Walker, not "We Won" obama.
This man’s grasp of history is as tenuous as his grip on reality.
Does anyone really believe this guy, as a prof at Communist U, is a lifelong independent centrist? LOL.... Probably the democratic communists aren’t far left enough for his tastes.
"they're all white, all of them, every single one of them is white."
Why is it that almost all heavy thinking, little doing, liberals have facial hair??????
Ever notice that? Is it there to keep their mouths and chins warm because their brains are cold? Why?
This could open up a whole new course of study and more revenue for colleges and researchers that are funded by the government stimulus money.
McCarthy also booted “Fighting” Bob LaFollette from Wisconsin’s Senate seat.
He should have streets named after him and a parade in his honor.
McCarthy was right.
There were Soviet agents throughout the State Department and other parts of the United States government.
FDR’s Secretary of State, Alger Hiss, who accompanied him to the Yalta Conference with Churchill and Stalin was a Soviet agent.
That’s high level infilitration.
McCarthy has been successfully demonized by the left.
ping
From his bio: “Expert on history of environtment, conservation and environmentalism, U.S. West, frontier, public lands, Wisconsin”
Says it all doesn’t it? He doesn’t need to add Marxism.....it is just there already
I bought one of his books, and by the time I was done reading it I felt pretty sorry for myself.
Mr. niteowl77
Sure, I believe that.
Maybe I’m missing something, but, I seems to me that if Wisconsin was the first state to embrace that long list of progressive crap that the professor referenced, then they would be the first state to realize that it was a huge mistake when they implemented them. Sounds to me like they are just moving back toward the center.
Amen to that. As my tagline states, I only hope that Wisconsin doesn’t go wobbly under the current assault.
Bloated trough pig with a flare for letter writing. He must be upset that the Cadillac Escalade the taxpayers provide him needs an oil change.
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