Posted on 07/13/2015 2:11:10 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
"Scott Walker is a national disgrace," reads the entirety of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's statement.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is one of the most hardcore right-wing extremists in America. His slash-and-burn policies have gutted Wisconsin workers' collective bargaining rights, defunded Planned Parenthood and more – all of which has made him a prime punching bag for progressives around the country.
For some reason, the Republican zealot is hell-bent on conducting a doomed campaign for president in 2016, a painfully obvious fact which he "revealed" Monday morning after months of tedious teasing, including one recent public appearance in which he bizarrely compared peaceful pro-worker activists in his home state to ISIS terrorists. (Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi accurately described the main theme of Walker's recent stump speeches as "I was a dick in Wisconsin, and I can be one in Washington, too!")
To be clear, Walker has basically zero chance at winning the White House. His charisma level hovers somewhere beneath a block of Wisconsin cheese – frankly, even comparing the man to a piece of cheese is a little insulting to his home state's lauded dairy farms. All evidence suggests that he would be really, really bad at selling his really, really bad ideas to the American public in a general election. But now that he's officially in the race, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has issued one of the best press releases in political history in response to Walker's announcement. . .
Rolling & Stoned? Hahahahaha!
Coming from a Polish Communist, that’s a compliment!
His liberal family did it first.
Unions can go screw themselves.
Yikes. Well, after watching him make liberal heads explode in Wisconsin, it would be fun to see it happen on the national stage.
Well, If the Left hates him that much he can’t be all bad
Hmmm, now they’re squaling like stuck pigs about Cruz, Trump, and Walker. Not about anyone else, for example Bush.
Gee, wonder whom they really fear? /rhetorical
Wow, he’s really destroyed!
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Now I get it! I was on the fence, but now I see the light! Thank God we have Richard Trumka!
Trumpka is a fat tub of goo, what a slob.
That's insulting? It's like a "your mom" joke.
Lemme get this straight - because a union leader says that a Governor is a national disgrace, said Governor is finished politically - is that about right?
These union types think a lot of themselves, don’t they?
Wow...Walker has that union thug Trumka already peeing in his depends..
But Scott Walker destroyed America’s Top Union Leader in three separate elections.
To hell with unions.
Walker is really, really unpopular with the Left. His nomination would dramatically mobilize the Democratic base.
That may or may not be a good thing for us.
What’s a Rolling Stone?
To me this sounds like an ENDORSEMENT!!!
Sticks and stones, Trumka. Oh yeah, you like to use those, too.
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