I love Katrina Vanden Heuvel’s statement that the GOP is “male, pale & stale”. As I continue to read the policy positions of WI GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker, his positions match up with this characterization. I’ll skip over the “male” and “pale” components, since that is a given, but the “stale” one needs further exploration. Scott Walker’s antidote for what ails the state seems to rest on a single stale and discredited premise that we’ve seen often from the GOP – cut taxes by decimating government to “grow the economy”. Nowhere have I seen a statement of any sort of vision on how he wants to help the state grow other than through his efforts to cut taxes. Especially telling of his lack of vision, imagination and economic development prowess is his position against railroads of the high speed inter-regional, local commuter or streetcar variety. [...]