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Politico article topped with a photo of Scott Walker, who also gets the most flattering treatment in the text. I'll just give you the part that's about football:
“I had plenty of fun hugging ‘owners’ in the stands at Lambeau Field,” Walker said Tuesday....
This is a reference to fellow presidential hopeful Chris Christie, who famously hugged the rich-guy owner of the Dallas Cowboys, the team our fan-owned team just beat.
“Much like our military and the Packers, tonight, I am proud to report the state of our state is strong!”...
“Here in Wisconsin, support for the Packers transcends political, religious, and personal differences,” he said. “Heck, I was sitting a row ahead and a few seats over from a guy on Sunday who didn’t care much for my policies. I told him we were all Packer fans there, and by the end of the game, we were high-fiving another Green Bay victory. True story,” he added. “Green and gold runs deep.”
The Wisconsin Democratic Party responded to the speech with a three-paragraph release that mocked Walker for praising the Packers so much.
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Toime after toime I told Townette I taw a Puddytat!
The Wisconsin Democratic Party responded to the speech with a three-paragraph release that mocked Walker for praising the Packers so much.
The mocking:
“Tell us something we don’t know, Scott,” party spokeswoman Melissa Baldauff said in a release. “Wisconsinites love the non-profit, community-owned Green Bay Packers and can’t wait to see them once again hoist the Lombardi Trophy (named after famed Wisconsin Democrat Vince Lombardi.)”
No wonder they couldn't do any better than Burke.
Sometimes this blog is like one of those old animitronic rides at Disneyland. You know, like Pirates of the Caribbean? Where the little puppets come out and shout out their lines, then retreat back into their caves?
As we make our way around the bend...
"Secret routers! Secret routers...."
"Bush Bush Bush..."
"Cheney Cheney Cheney!"
"The Wisconsin Democratic Party..."
Wait, there's still a WI Democratic Party?
Walker is from Iowa. He probably secretly likes the Bears. He's about as successful as the Bears.
I doubt Lombardi would be a Democrat today.
The Packers are not "non profit." They seek and attain considerable profitability, which they invest to create even more profits. Their profits are not owned by private individuals, but instead by a corporation, with a self-perpetuating board. The "community" does not own the Packers. It's "shareholders" have no voting rights or interest in the considerable profits.
The Packers are a well run business who are very skilled at relations with the public. Because of their profitability, they bring considerable benefit to the community, like any other successful business.
I don't really get the appeal of ownership in the Packers, if you can't sell your shares and you get no dividend. It seems like just a way of charging admission to a Packers fan club, where the proceeds go to the team.
I do like that the Democrats are lionizing "non-profits". Perhaps if they had their way, all businesses would be "non-profits." And maybe likewise, all workers would be paid just enough to survive, lest they otherwise "profit" off their labor.
What a brain-dead political philosophy.
"garage mahal said...
Walker is from Iowa. He probably secretly likes the Bears. He's about as successful as the Bears."
He was born in CO.
Were the Bears 11-1? Because that's Walker's record.
Let's look at your record:
Walker Guv 1: Lost
Senatorial Recalls: Lost
Walker Recall: Lost
Prosser Kloppenhoof: Lost
John Doe 1: Lost
John Doe II: Lost
Walker Guv 2: Lost
Hey, how do you like Minnesota?
"“Heck, I was sitting a row ahead and a few seats over from a guy on Sunday who didn’t care much for my policies. I told him we were all Packer fans there, and by the end of the game, we were high-fiving another Green Bay victory."
Wait! Garage instructed us that Walker wouldn't be in the stands. Moreover, he lectured us that Walker avoids situations where he might be asked questions.
I'm beginning to doubt garage's veracity.
garage mahal: "Walker is from Iowa. He probably secretly likes the Bears. He's about as successful as the Bears."
What other teams does Walker "secretly" (like routers!) like and are not successful?
Garage is fully, and I mean FULLY, up to speed on the "secret" stuff about Walker that apparently only garage knows.
This is what you are reduced to when reality simply doesn't conform with your delusions.
Were the Bears 11-1?
Um, no. The Bears suck. You suck. Walker sucks. Embrace the suck.
"Wisconsinites love the non-profit, community-owned Green Bay Packers..."
Non-profit is the structure used to avoid having to distribute profits... to those people in the community who own the shares. It's not like 2 separate things that make the Packers lovable. These are interactive factors chosen to keep the power within the organization, where all the money must remain.
That undercuts the (already lame) mockery.
"I don't really get the appeal of ownership in the Packers, if you can't sell your shares and you get no dividend. It seems like just a way of charging admission to a Packers fan club, where the proceeds go to the team."
The Packers will never leave Green Bay for greener pastures.
Fascinating that, according to the dems, the Packers are non-profit!
To which charities do the Packers donate all their TV revenue shares?
garage: "Um, no. The Bears suck. You suck. Walker sucks. Embrace the suck."
You know what really sucks?
Being fired from a job by your own family.
You know what really sucks?
Being you.
Thanks Ann.
Non profit does not mean the corporation does not generate a profit, it's just a corporate structure prevents stockholders from sharing profits.
As usual the left knows alot, its just that so much of what they know is wrong.
"The team created the Green Bay Packers Foundation in December 1986. The foundation assists in a wide variety of activities and programs that benefit education, civic affairs, health services, human services and youth-related programs."
As to non-profits, the main appeal to liberals/Dems is that they pay their employees with other people's money which means a generous paycheck for not a whole lot of work, kind of like government work.
"Ann Althouse said...
It's not like 2 separate things that make the Packers lovable. These are interactive factors chosen to keep the power within the organization, where all the money must remain."
What?
It's a good thing we are in the dead of winter, else the meltdown mode garage happens to be stuck in would become even more noticeable.
Walker is the greatest "smile" leader over the others. That was all Obama had at the beginning when it's not so much name recognition as smile recognition.
"What?"
Think about it.
Or go read about it.
Walker is ... about as successful as the Bears.
Wow. I often question the information available from the MSM. But those dumb azzes reported Walker won re-election.
traditionalguy: "That was all Obama had at the beginning when it's not so much name recognition as smile recognition"
Nonsense!
He also had fabulous pant-crease-ness as well as powerful "'Brutha' on the street" cred from his days at Punahou Private school.
"The Packers will never leave Green Bay for greener pastures."
There's that. The only thing more heartbreaking than seeing your favorite hometown team pick up and move for a better deal (no new phenomenon) is seeing your city give away millions in publicly funded stadiums and tax breaks to try and keep a team from leaving. I know it's just a business, and cities aren't very good at business, but frustrating nonetheless.
" Ann Althouse said...
"What?"
Think about it.
Or go read about it."
I have. Hence my "what?"
They had a hearing this morning on a school privatization bill.....that doesn't even exist. The amended version of the bill will have no public hearing. It's an endless crap show.
The garage has, in this as in so many comment threads, presented as perfect an example of the Aesop fable, "The Fox and the Grapes" as I have ever seen.
Heck, garage, maybe you're right and those grapes really are sour.
garage mahal: "They had a hearing this morning on a school privatization bill.....that doesn't even exist. The amended version of the bill will have no public hearing. It's an endless crap show."
Rumor also has it that Walker once used a salad fork to eat his meat!!
Walker is from Iowa. He probably secretly likes the Bears. He's about as successful as the Bears.
Well, he's won three championships in the last four years, which is a better run than the Packers, Bears, or Wisconsin Dems.
And whatever you do, don't get garage started in on how Walker tucks his shirt in!!
It's quite emblematic of creeping fascism.
"Based on the original "Articles of Incorporation for the (then) Green Bay Football Corporation" put into place in 1923, if the Packers franchise were to have been sold, after the payment of all expenses, any remaining money would go to the Sullivan-Wallen Post of the American Legion in order to build "a proper soldier's memorial." This stipulation was enacted to ensure the club remained in Green Bay and that there could never be any financial enhancement for the shareholders. At the November 1997 annual meeting, shareholders voted to change the beneficiary from the Sullivan-Wallen Post to the Green Bay Packers Foundation, which makes donations to many charities and institutions throughout Wisconsin."
Wikipedia
"They had a hearing this morning on a school privatization bill.....that doesn't even exist. The amended version of the bill will have no public hearing. It's an endless crap show."
I suppose I disapprove, though based on your history of dishonest reportage I have to wonder if it's true. However, giving you the benefit of the doubt I find myself imagining what you and your fellow travelers would do at said public hearing.
garage mahal said...
"In reality a publicly owned entity with union workers probably makes Walker barf. I highly doubt Walker is going to hug any owners because he won't be in the stands with them."
garage mahal said...
They had a hearing this morning on a school privatization bill.....that doesn't even exist. The amended version of the bill will have no public hearing. It's an endless crap show.
LOL It exists http://www.thewheelerreport.com/wheeler_docs/files/0107lrb0898.pdf
And there is a public hearing scheduled.
"The one scheduled public hearing on the bill is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday in room 417N at the State Capitol."
Typical garage bullshit.
As part of corporate tax reform in this country, the federal government should just levy a 2% tax on all revenue of any corporation, profit or not for profit.
Also, why aren't liberal Packers fans decrying the .0001%ers like Aaron Rodgers?
"The one scheduled public hearing on the bill is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday in room 417N at the State Capitol."
Typical garage bullshit.
They are debating a bill today that isn't before anybody. There is no bill. Thiesfeldt said the amended bill will not get a public hearing.
Since when are workers at non-profits only paid enough to live? Think of Michelle Obama's $100,000+ salary for her part time job at a non-profit hospital, all the doctors and administrators who work for non-profit hospital, all the professors, etc. I think that many workers at non-profits are overpaid because market forces do not work to keep their salaries in line with reality.
"Since when are workers at non-profits only paid enough to live?"
They're often paid much more than that--just ask Jesse Jackson. But if "profit" is such an awful thing, then even an employee should not be paid more than absolutely necessary to live. Anything more than that is profit.
Our resident Mensa-member, garage, is complaining about an amendment to a bill that "doesn't even exist" not receiving a public hearing?
I am sure that makes sense to him.
Garage: Playing without your helmet may've seemed macho during your Jr. High School football days, those halcyon days, but you are clearly paying the price now.
908773a8-e830-11e3-b3ac-000bcdcb8a73: "Our resident Mensa-member, garage, is complaining about an amendment to a bill that "doesn't even exist" not receiving a public hearing?"
I have it on good authority that the actual bill can be found on the secret routers.
Our resident Mensa-member, garage, is complaining about an amendment to a bill that "doesn't even exist" not receiving a public hearing?
They scheduled a hearing on a bill. They showed up at the hearing with an obsolete version of that bill. The GOP is amending the bill that will be radically different than the original. There will be no public hearing on the amended bill.
See what they did there?
Would pictures help you understand?
Garage, pictures are always helpful, but I wouldn't want to wait for you to finish coloring them in.
Maybe quick google something before you opine?
"Maybe quick google something before you opine?"
Yep. Just like you described it.Especially the part about the all-day hearing.
garage demonstrating his total lack of self-awareness yet again.
As I originally stated, I knew that what you wrote made sense to you. Just as somehow calling the man who has beaten your political 'team' more often than the Globetrotters have beaten the Washington Generals a 'loser' seems to make sense to you.
Your brain synapses must sound like a dachshund got caught in a bug zapper.
"Original Mike said...
"Maybe quick google something before you opine?"
Yep. Just like you described it.Especially the part about the all-day hearing."
garage is too dumb to understand that this is a long way from being law. Bills need to be passed by both the Assembly AND Senate, and then signed by the Guv to become law. The Senate has a different and competing bill.
garage of course is trying to make it seem like something shadowy is happening, and of course it's not. It's the normal sausage making.
garage is a liar and an idiot.
What I'd like to read is the lefty source from which garage is getting his "information".
Good ol' "Trig Mahal"
Yep. Just like you described it.
Exactly.
"Democrats objected to holding a hearing on the bill without having the language of the latest changes from Thiesfeldt and said lawmakers need to take more time to get the complicated proposal right."
Ann,
Before the election, you said Walker shouldn't run for President because Wisconsin needs Walker (Paraphrasing what you wrote, not an exact quote).
Would you vote against Walker in a Presidential election to keep him as Governor of Wisconsin?
"Would you vote against Walker in a Presidential election to keep him as Governor of Wisconsin?"
Her vote would be nullified by garage's vote for Walker in order to get rid of him.
It's the normal sausage making.
Sure, hearings happen all the time on a bill no one has seen. You are such a relentless liar.
garage mahal said...
It's the normal sausage making.
Sure, hearings happen all the time on a bill no one has seen. You are such a relentless liar.
Again, I posted the bill. Your position that because there has been some changes on it that they "haven't seen it" is retarded.
You do understand that this Assembly bill is no where near becoming law, don't you Shortbus?
Don't you?
carrie: "Think of Michelle Obama's $100,000+ salary for her part time job at a non-profit hospital.."
2 things: her salary for her hilariously "important" role as VP for B***s*** relations was $300,000+, but it was for full time work starting in 2005.
When she started decreasing her hours in 2007 her salary decreased proportionally.
Of course, this incredibly "important" job that was created specifically for Michelle was "de-created" as soon as she zoomed off with barack on his election campaign.
I see garage is simultaneously arguing that no bill exists, that the bill that does exist cannot be seen, and that the bill that does exist and can be seen and will be the subject of an all-day public hearing simply doesn't have the latest changes/amendments to it.
Of all the garages in the world, our garage is the "garage-iest".
Your position that because there has been some changes on it that they "haven't seen it" is retarded.
Thiesfeldt said the bill has been significantly changed. Nobody has seen the bill. There is no fiscal estimate. You still do not understand how this works.
"garage mahal said...
Your position that because there has been some changes on it that they "haven't seen it" is retarded.
Thiesfeldt said the bill has been significantly changed. Nobody has seen the bill. There is no fiscal estimate. You still do not understand how this works."
I know how it works Shortbus. The bill has a lot of open iswsues, that needs clarification from even the GOP in the Assembly. Second, it still would need to be approved by the Senate, who has a drastically different and competing bill. The Assemby bill is going no where currently.
You are a moron. You're howling at the fucking moon.
Garage, you are simply out of your mind with hate. You pretend to some superiority of virtue over those of us on the right; telling us to "google before we opine".
You retarded hypocrite:::
http://www.infowars.com/senator-mitch-mcconnell-they-want-us-to-vote-on-a-bill-no-one-has-seen/
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/14/sen_mcconnell_on_2000-page_omnibus_bill_no_one_has_seen_it-comments.html
Yeah, you are one saAavvVy political observer and analyst as well as a truly valuable contributor with your deep understanding of the mechanics of running a government said no one ever.
Face it. You. Are. Stupid.
"Would you vote against Walker in a Presidential election to keep him as Governor of Wisconsin?"
I would.
I have it on good authority that the actual bill can be found on the secret routers
You try to be funny, yet you actually are speaking the truth. Most of the work done by the WiGOP is being done via private communications, hidden from public view, rather than on government routers/emails where it would be subject to open record laws.
Secrecy and hidden agendas is the Wisconsin Republican Way, which is why one of their first orders of business this session was to change the rule in order to allow for less transparency in the lawmaking process.
Most of the work done by the WiGOP is being done via private communications, hidden from public view, rather than on government routers/emails where it would be subject to open record laws.
Walker's been acting like the Obama Administration? Egads! That is a really nasty accusation.
Thiesfeldt is introducing later this week a significantly different version of a bill that is being debated today. Curious George thinks that's how it works. Instead of, you know, waiting a few days to debate the amended bill which will have no pubic hearing. Can't fix stupid.
Walker's been acting like the Obama Administration?
I've spoken out against the President quite regularly and have repeatedly said he should be impeached.
So yes, you're correct - Walker has been acting much like the Obama. Glad to see that someone else can see that as well.
"he should be impeached."
For what?
madisonfella: Tell it to the GAB.
"Curious George thinks that's how it works. Instead of, you know, waiting a few days to debate the amended bill which will have no pubic hearing."
Like they passed ObamaCare, right?
"garage mahal said...
Thiesfeldt is introducing later this week a significantly different version of a bill that is being debated today. Curious George thinks that's how it works. Instead of, you know, waiting a few days to debate the amended bill which will have no pubic hearing. Can't fix stupid."
This will end badly for you. As usual.
For what?
He has purposefully lied about the Benghazi atrocity, instructed others to lie, and intimidated whistleblowers who were guilty of nothing but a desire for justice and the truth. While our Libyan Ambassador burned and others were slaughtered, he went to bed, not even caring enough to make one phone call as to the status of the seven hours of Hell. Prior to the attacks, multiple requests for extra security in Benghazi, including from the murdered Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were refused by his regime. This was despite the fact that the British Embassy in Libya had been previously attacked just months earlier by Islamic terrorists. He has used taxpayer funds to run TV ads in Pakistan, pushing and promoting the lie that the Benghazi attacks were caused by a YouTube video.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
At a time of the "Sequester" so-called cuts, equating to a insignificant cut in the "rate of growth" of government spending, he closed White House tours to our children, while sending hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds to the known terrorist group, The Muslim Brotherhood, in Egypt, including giving them F-16's and tanks.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has treated our foreign friends like enemies and rewarded our enemies as if they were our friends.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has inflicted the nation with over 20,000 pages of incoherent rules, regulations, and mandates in the form of ObamaCare, which, for the first time in history, gives the federal government the power to force its citizens to buy something that only the government approves of.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has divided the country like in no time in history since the Civil War. He has pitted men against women, gay people against straight people, and used unAmerican, Marxist class warfare that has no place in a free America. He has caused racial strife by unjustifiably labeling anyone who disagrees with his USSR-style governance as a "racist."
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has degraded our people at every opportunity, apologizing for America on foreign soil. He has bowed to the Saudi Prince, humiliating our nation. To the Mexican people, he blamed the American people for his illegal gun-running operation "Fast and Furious." He apologized to the Mexican people for U.S. sovereignty while inferring that the lower region of our country still belonged to them.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
You agree with all of those reasons, madisonfellow?
For what?
He has continually and on numerous occasions abused the power of his office. To cover-up his regime's crimes in the Fast and Furious gun-running operation, in which the Obama regime gave guns to Mexican drug gangs, in an attempt to later attack the Second Amendment, he pleaded Executive Privilege.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has exploded the already gargantuan national debt, increasing it by approximately 60% during his first term, while insisting that we must spend even more. He has failed to get even one of his budgets passed, even during the period when his own party held both houses of Congress, with his budget being defeated, 414-0, in the House and 99-0 in the Senate, without receiving even one vote from his own party.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He burned-up $862 billion on a "stimulus" plan that was supposed to create "shovel-ready jobs". Later, he admitted there was no such thing as a "shovel-ready" job.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has promoted voter fraud at every possible occasion, and failed to convict proven voter intimidation based upon the skin color of the lawbreakers.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has advertised and promoted America's food stamp program over Mexican airwaves to Mexican citizens, in an attempt to swarm our country with millions more in illegal aliens and further bankrupting our country with "Cloward and Piven" tactics.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has sued several states repeatedly, stopping them from implementing the laws their citizens had approved, violating the Tenth Amendment in the process, while completely obliterating the constitutional principle of state sovereignty.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has unconstitutionally bypassed Congress at every turn by using the federal bureaucracy to inflict massive and crushing laws on our people.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has appointed dozens of unconstitutional "czars," unchecked by any balance of powers, who have served no purpose but to harass.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
By all accounts he has created a Nixonian "Enemies List" which has included any individual, company, or industry that disagrees with his destructive policies. He has attacked and tried to silence our once "free press," even going to the extreme of instructing Americans which media sources they should listen to.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He embarrassed and harmed our relationship with our ally, Great Britain, by sending an official U.S. delegation to Socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez's funeral, but yet sending no one to the great defender of liberty, the great former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's funeral.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
for what?
He has used tragedy and crisis to attack our constitutional freedoms, using the Sandy Hook shootings to infringe upon our non-negotiable Second Amendment rights. He used the Benghazi terrorist attacks, blaming them on the First Amendment which would allow a YouTube video critical of Islam.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
He has unconstitutionally attacked our sacred freedom of religion, a God-given right guaranteed by our Founders in the First Amendment.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
For what?
President Obama is the most corrupt president in U.S. history. His actions are against everything this country was founded upon and stands for. He is a danger to America. We are therefore calling for his impeachment and removal from office. We urge you to join us for the good of our nation and to keep the legacy of our Founding Fathers alive.
http://act.theteaparty.net/10026/impeach-president-obama-remove-him-from-office/
You disagree with all of those actions, Meade? See nothing illegal at all with anything that was mentioned? You instead support the President and denounce those is us who are calling for his impeachment?
Please, tell us how you really feel.
Pardon the typo. Meant to ask if you "agree" rather than "disagree" with those actions by the President.
No, but I don't find them to be cause for impeachment either. Why do you?
No, but I don't find them to be cause for impeachment either. Why do you?
Probably because I have less tolerance for corruption and cover-ups than you do.
That's also probably why we disagree about Scott Walker. You're willing to overlook his blatant lies, his theft of government monies, and overall sleaziness while I think he should be held accountable to the things he says and the things he does.
Michelle had a VERY important position at U of C hospital. She was hired as the Director of Being-married-to-a-state-senator, and was later promoted to V.P. of Being-married-to-a-US-Senator.
The hospital's wise investment in her paid off many times over through taxpayer-funded grants and earmarks.
If covering up the murder of one of our own ambassadors isn't considered an impeachable offense, then what the hell is?
If covering up the murder of one of our own ambassadors isn't considered an impeachable offense, then what the hell is?
Just about anything? Lying about why an ambassador was murdered isn't even a tiny bit illegal.
If giving guns to drug gangs, that are later used against American agents, isn't considered an impeachable offense then what the hell is?
If launching a midnight raid to arrest a director for posting a video on YouTube isn't considered an impeachable offense then what the hell is?
MadFella trying to be "funny" again.
"Thiesfeldt is introducing later this week a significantly different version of a bill that is being debated today."
Ah! The light bulb comes on! Garage apparently has no idea of the difference between a "hearing" on a bill, and the legislative body "debating" it.
@EMD - nothing funny about the criminal behavior the President has engaged in. And no wonder Meade just shrugs it all off, deep down he's just another libtard.
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