Mike McCabe from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has a blog post today that attempts to answer the overriding question coming from conservatives over the last several weeks/months: what’s a recallable offense when it comes to the conduct of Scott Walker?
McCabe very astutely asserts that the Wisconsin recall statute implicitly articulates the standard for what is, and is not, a recallable offense by setting the threshold for recall so high that frivolity is not worth the average citizens time. Well done, Mr. McCabe.
But I think it’s up to good people to carry it a bit further. Let me elaborate.
Scott Walker was recorded last winter during a telephone conversation he had with a man he thought was out of state mega-billionaire David Koch.During that conversation Walker stated that he/we thought about planting troublemakers in the crowd of protesters angry about the collective bargaining provisions in his so-called budget repair bill.
Now, imagine that Barack Obama had been caught on tape telling Warren Buffet that he had thought about planting troublemakers in a crowd of Tea Party protesters angry over his health care reform bill. Do you think there would be a nationwide GOP led impeachment movement?
Nuff said?
So accepting a call from a prankster is a recallable offense? We will have to remember that if you are successful at replacing Walker with one of your slugs.
Slugs? Really?
If all you’ve got are insults, go somewhere else.
I wonder why Walker and other conservatives can be insulted and call names on here but not one of his possible replacements. If that’s all that is going on here, then perhaps I should go somewhere else.
Perhaps you should.
“Now, imagine that Barack Obama had been caught on tape…”
You will NEVER hear a conservative blogger admit as much. That’s one of the reasons I’m proud to call myself a liberal. We tend to call out our own side when they step over the line, rather than practice the classic conservative tactic of “fingers-in-ears-la-la-la.”