Boy oh boy how much longer are the rightwingers going to justify the corruption and that they are not held accountable???

Wislady again you show your dedication to the loser. He needs to be woke up, He deserves every bit of disrespect he gets, as he has absolutely NO RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE. It is difficult to wake the DEAD. Walker is the biggest dead beat Wisconsin has ever had. 2014 cannot come soon enough. Wislady TIME for you to accept and realize John walker Doe was just as Guilty as his staff criminals and that Romney lost and The American president is in fact, Barrack Obama. His healthcare is law and it actually is a treasonist act that your boy is doing. anyone that divides ones country is committing Treason and that would be a majority of the Republicans.

Boy oh boy, how much longer are the left going to whine about Walker?? I should have bought stock in kleenex and koolaid a few years ago!

I didn't think so.

Privatize..Privatize...Privatize...seems to be the course of the latest actions by the extreme, right wing Republicans like Scott Brown & Paul Ryan.
Yip, taxpayers money unregulated and funneled to the Corporate Elite who bankroll the election campaigns of the extreme right wing Republicans who represent the Corporate Elite & wealthy in this country.
The so-called "free-market" healthcare policy, touted only in the USA by extreme, right wing Republicans and in no other industrial democracy, translates to a death sentence for 45,000 Americans/year simply because they are too poor to afford healthcare insurance.
And this doesn't account for the many who have insurance but lose their lives when insurance companies refuse to authorize vital procedures.
How can the greatest country in the world allow the immorality and irrationality of a healthcare system that permits 45,000 citizens to die each year so the select few can live in splendor.
That is the reality of the 'Tea Party' healthcare policy even if the average Republican 'Tea Party Republican' does not realize it.
People are dying so the privileged few can profit, handsomely, and these jokers shout, "Yes!"

Your "man" Obama signed it.
I have no obligation to answer any demands you make. No shame on my part, I am not the president.
I had to accept the fact that Obama is in the WH, just as you have to accept the fact that Scott Walker is the Governor. The end.

In fact, Wisl, tell me ONE law that your man/party has passed that has DIRECTLY benefited YOU as an individual.

Are you deliberately avoiding accepting responsibility for your man Boehner saying, after HE signed on to sequestration, "I got 98% of what I wanted; I'm happy."??? The fact that you are stuck on whose idea it was (as opposed to the bipartisan support of it) shows that you are among those who simply drink the koolaid served to them without independent thought. SHAME ON YOU! America takes work, not just lapping up what Faux News sends you. As far as the AHA, I won't dignify your comments with a response.

The UN Affordable HC Act is Obama's brainchild, there is every reason to throw his name in the mix. It is NOT Scott Walker's plan.

Brought potus up because it is such a stark comparison.....one is a leader, one is not. Obama wanted the sequestration, got his tax hike in the deal, and now refuses to take ownership. He lies every time he takes to the air, and he is given a free pass.

Not sure what measure YOU are using, WisL, but by any RATIONAL measure, considering what O is dealing with, we are doing ok. Could be better, but blame your obstructionist R friends for that. That is, if you are moving the argument away from SCOTT and over to O.

That is only YOUR opinion, perhaps it is you who is chasing the nightmare you perceive to be the dream. We have been heading down that road with Obama for the past 4 years. It's not looking too rosy, and there is no rainbow in sight.

Oh, I do hate him--I'm not apologetic about that. What amazes me is how many people, especially on this blog, who will go to their graves voting against their interests, chasing a nightmare and labeling it a dream.

Sorry, Professor, it's time to move Forward. Put aside your hatred for Governor Walker and focus on some positives.

Yes..Scott has done us well. 42nd in the country, surrounds himself with criminals, but hey--we are gonna get a $106 per year tax break (more if you are rich). You know, I could create a surplus too, if I cut everything important, to give it to my puppeteers who purchased me. Keep livin' your dream, R's.

I agree with 916WI, what the hell is "sleep sleeping"?

You John, are simply off your rocker, much like the spokesman for your party. What you do and write about is your own biased opinion, having nothing to do with actual reporting or the truth. Governor Walker is doing an excellent job for the state of Wisconsin. I will certainly give him my full support for another term when the time comes!

The content of the article, as expected, leaves out the fact that our federal government is running trillion dollar deficits with a total debt load nearing $17 trillion dollars. Those that live in a dreamworld must truly think that we have the money to pay for Obama's HCR?? What I have to laugh about, is the headline of the article and the second sentence. What the heck does "WI SCOTT SLEEP SLEEPING" mean?? I thought that this guy was a teacher in what the anti-Walker people refer to as an excellent school system which Walker is trying to destroy. If writing like this is what the left considers "excellent", I would propose that our school systems should have been "revised" years ago.....

"I applaud Our Governor, Scott Walker ( not Scott). Thanks to him we have a surplus. Thanks to him our state is finally on sound financial footings."- @3:43pm

Bwaaahahahahaha! That is a good one, as an earlier poster pointed out. Thank you so much.

How many DA's does it take to conduct an investigation on "nothing", and it lasts more than two years?

Snotty scotty does have his sycophants, no matter what this fool does, they will defend him. The jobs keep going to those nasty old states with high taxes and strong unions, because the business leaders just don't know how wonderful he is.

Yadda, yadda, yadda and a few bla, bla blas.

And this guy teaches our children folks...Uff Da !

"Last Sunday, 2/24, I reported..."
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You what? John you really need to understand the difference between reporting and opinion. I can see your confusion based on your often echoed msdnc like comments. Little hint for you, they don't report either.

Good blog John. I have always believed that the best way ensure a person pays all the taxes is for that person to make all the money or own all the property (assuming there are no tax breaks for the top earners/property owners). If you don't want to pay such high taxes, give all your wealth to charity and impoverish yourself if that is so desirable.

MrItalian, I loved your joke about our state's financial situation when you said, "Thanks to him we have a surplus. Thanks to him our state is finally on sound financial footings." Are you available for private parties?

John

You should be ashamed of yourself. You portray your support of "we the people". To you that means We the "LEFT WING LIBERAL" people. These are the people you aspire to.
Guess what John not everyone is a left wing liberal.
I applaud Our Governor, Scott Walker ( not Scott). Thanks to him we have a surplus. Thanks to him our state is finally on sound financial footings.
John you can disagree but at least do it with some class, dignity and respect

John, thoroughly enjoyed your use of cold weather metaphors and felt they were most appropriate! Thanks for a most entertaining and informative blog entry.

Pet peeve: People who give opinions on Obamacare & don't even understand the programs, interchanging the words Medicare & Medicaid. It's MEDICAID Expansion, not Medicare. Two completely differently things. Ask a hospital which they'd prefer & I bet they'd say they wish Medicare was being expanded, but details, details - who really wants to talk money & how these programs & varying reimbursements impact the healthcare community. Let's just pretend we know what we're talking about.

Let's talk shell game.
The article referenced referring to the top 20% getting most of the tax break starts out like this and I quote,
"The top 20% of Wisconsin households - those making more than $90,000 a year - would take home more than half of all of Gov. Scott Walker's proposed income tax cut, an analysis has found.
The top 5% of tax filers - those with incomes above $162,000 - would pull in 20% of Walker's more than $300 million tax cut."
So here's the shell game.
The liberals have cried tax the rich for decades. The result is the top earners pay a larger PERCENTAGE than the low earners. When tax cuts come the so called rich get a larger PERCENTAGE of the cuts.
You can't have it both ways.

If 20 governors refuse the medicaid expansion at a estimate of 4.4 billion dollars this adds up to $88 billion dollars. This is about the amount they are doing the (TADA) Sequester over.

John,
Thanks for Mr Walker's email! I just sent him one thanking him for all the good work he has done.

Johnnie

Why don't you call the GAB instead, and ask them why they are not following the law?

Again, you show your disrespect for the Governor of Wisconsin with your headline. You address another state governor as "GOP Governor", and the governor of OUR state as "Scott".

It is not snow that is "deep" in Madison, it is something else.