Wisconsin versus California on the Political Front

Much has already been posted regarding the relieving and good-for-America results in last Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin reaffirming Scott Walker’s tenure as Governor of the state.

My good friend and fellow conservative, Lisa Rich, lives in California and grimaces  comparing  the results in the Badger state with her now home state’s  political talent of Jerry Brown and his band of neoMarxists determined to kill private enterprise.    She sent me the following article by Stephen F. Hayes:

 

Why Scott Walker Won the Battle of Wisconsin

Don’t overcomplicate it.

By STEPHEN F. HAYES

 

Scott Walker won for a simple reason: He did what he promised to do as a candidate and it worked.

 

 

Walker’s 2010 campaign focused broadly on fiscal responsibility and balancing the state’s budget. One of the first things Walker did as governor, long since forgotten, was to return some $800 million in federal money designated for high-speed rail in Wisconsin. His argument was not complicated: The state doesn’t need it, and taxpayers cannot afford it. He was right on both accounts and his decision to return the money, even as Obama administration officials sought to force it on the state, sent a message that Walker was serious about doing business in a different way. The messy fight over high-speed rail in California, and the ever-increasing cost projections, suggest he was wise to avoid the headache.

 

Walker’s reforms expanded that effort. He has told me several times – and mentioned in his speech Tuesday – that he wishes he’d spent more time making the arguments about the need for reform before he set about formally proposing them. Fair point. And it’s possible some voters would have been persuaded by those arguments.

 

But the Democrats who fled to Illinois would have done so anyway. The protestors in Madison would have gathered and chanted and occupied just as they did. And the unions would have fought the same way.

They understood two things from the beginning: The reforms would work and they would thin the ranks of public sector unions. That is precisely what happened. Public sector employees, given a choice about union membership, are opting out.

 

Walker turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a $154 million surplus. Unemployment is down. So are property taxes. Businesses, even with uncertainty about the U.S. economy, are optimistic about the direction of the state. Even with the political divisions, it’s hard to imagine a more successful 16 months as governor.

 

Results matter. And that, more than anything else, explains why Scott Walker won.

 

Romney Does what Obama Won’t (Cannot?) Do…..Make a Moral Case for Freedom

Romney Makes the Moral Case For Freedom

by John Hinderaker   at PowerLine

 

I have been somewhat frustrated over the years that conservatives (conservative politicians, anyway) have tended to make the case for free enterprise and limited government almost entirely in prudential terms: we’re for it because it promotes economic growth. At the same time, many have been willing to concede, implicitly at least, a sort of moral superiority to government, which has the role of judging and redressing the “excesses” of the market.

 

So I was glad to see that in a speech in Missouri later today, Mitt Romney will state the case for freedom in ringing terms that we have not heard for quite a while:

[A]long with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

 

That same system has helped lift more people out of poverty across the globe than any government program or competing economic system. The success of America’s free enterprise system has been a bright beacon of freedom for the world. It has signaled to oppressed people to rise up against their oppressors, and given hope to the once hopeless.

 

It is called the Free Enterprise System because we are both free to engage in enterprises and through those enterprises we ensure our freedom.

 

But sadly, it has become clear that this President simply doesn’t understand or appreciate these fundamental truths of our system. Over the last three and a half years, record numbers of Americans have lost their jobs or simply disappeared from the work force. Record numbers of Americans are living in poverty today – over 46 million of our fellow Americans are living below the poverty line.

 

This is not just a failure of policy; it is a moral failure of tragic proportions. Our government has an absolute moral commitment to help every American help themselves and today, that fundamental commitment has been broken.

Conservative economic policies don’t just create more wealth than socialism or liberalism, they are morally superior to socialism and liberalism. Let’s hope that today’s speech is just a small preview of what is to come from the Romney campaign.

 

Article sent by Lisa Rich in California.

Another Progressive Look at the Progressive Defeat in Wisconsin……”The Movement is not over.”

It was a tough night in downtown Madison on Tuesday. The scene around the square was wonderfully familiar: the firefighters with their bagpipes, the horns honking “this is what democracy looks like,” the homemade recall signs, the teachers on the march.

All of what was great about the grassroots uprising in Wisconsin was on display.

Early on, the mood was jubilant, as reports of record turnout in Dane County and Milwaukee came in, with poll workers running out of ballots as people waited in long lines to vote. It seemed, for a brief, shining moment that we had pulled it off.

Then the networks started calling the race for Walker early, as people were still waiting in line to vote. There was disbelief, anger, and the deflation of a movement that has built up so much steam over the last year and a half.

But the movement is not over.

The truth is the deflation began with the transition from that great, spontaneous, grassroots rebellion against the rightwing takeover of our state to a conventional political campaign. This was never about Tom Barrett. It was not about the campaign professionals or the Democratic Party or Barack Obama–who literally phoned in his support.

It was about us, in Wisconsin: our community, our workers, our public schools, our environment, our middle class.

And we have no choice but to continue the fight, and to take solace in the incredible community of solidarity we’ve built.

With John Lehman’s win in Racine, the Democrats now control the state senate, and will be able to push back against Walker’s radical agenda.

Most of all we have to make the case for solidarity to our increasingly insecure, angry, non-union workers. The right has no real solutions to offer, just divisiveness and resentment toward teachers and public servants.

Walker won by lying about fixing Wisconsin’s budget deficit, by spinning the worst job-creation numbers in the country, and, most of all, with a massive, unprecedented influx of out-of-state corporate cash.

It inspired the nation that ordinary Wisconsinites took on this battle against such overwhelming odds. Elections come and go. But the movement is for the long haul.”

Comment:   How incapable Progressives are at remembering what is Truth.   Does Ruth remember the occupying force of violence and intimidation her neighborly, fresh air smelling  people performed before the American people a year ago this past March?’

Rioting is a fundamental tool in the Leftwing political repetoire.

Are Lefty Dogmatists such as Aaron Sorkin, vastly ignorant by birth, habitual liars, suffer from detachment of word and deed, or just plain Marxists?

Posted on June 6, 2012 by John Hinderaker in Media Bias

No One Here But Us Liberals

by John Hinderaker at PowerLine:

One of the themes of Jonah Goldberg’s Tyranny of Cliches is that liberals, who dominate the culture, view conservatism as an ideology but think liberalism is apolitical..or just how things are…or common sense, or something. Taegan Goddard cites a hilarious instance of this: Aaron Sorkin says he has no political agenda at all!

Writer/director Aaron Sorkin told the New York Times that his new HBO series “The Newsroom” has a bias toward either party because he doesn’t have one.

Said Sorkin: “I have no political background, and I have no political agenda. I do think that there are going to be people who say that I’m just putting my own politics on display. Which again I’m not. I don’t really have my own politics. I’m very easily convinced of other people’s position.”

But it didn’t take long for Jeff Bercovici to find that Sorkin gave 19 separate campaign contributions totaling $144,500 since 2007. Every one of those contributions went to a Democratic candidate or group.

This is really too much. Sorkin is the creator of The West Wing, which is one of the many television shows that I have never seen, but is universally regarded as glorifying the Democratic Party. Wikipedia adds:

During the 2004 US presidential election campaign, the liberal advocacy group MoveOn’s political action committee enlisted Sorkin and Rob Reiner to create one of their anti-Bush campaign advertisements. In August 2008, Sorkin was involved in a Generation Obama event at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills, California….

Yet this doofus has the nerve to tell the New York Times that he has “no political agenda”–an assertion which, of course, the Times didn’t challenge, because its agenda is the same as Sorkin’s. No agenda at all; just liberalism.

Comment:    The Nazis, the active ones, the true believers, weren’t aware that  their  racist cause was, in reality, an immoral cause.   That it so    horrified and terrorized   normal thinking individuals who would be victims of State Politics didn’t enter their Nazi minds.,   They didn’t associate with such odd, such foreign, such backward types.

The American academoc left carries the same Nazi mentality…….but at this point they are only interested in the disenfranchisement of people like us, that is, traditional Americans who worry about  State power to run  people’s lives.    We shouldn’t be allowed to speak, much less vote, they insist.    We are too dumb.  We  are God-fearing in our basic code of life.  

Who wants to hear that?   Hollywood, television reporters and programmers, college professors?    How dumb can one get?