• Day By Day,  Scott Walker

    Day By Day February 25, 2011 – Voters Get the Business

    February 25, 2011 /

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, there will be some new Wisconsin laws after this Fleebagging fiasco which will prevent POLS from avoiding their legislative duties. In California, such conduct would be illegal and taking monetary support from others for work related to the performance of their legislative functions is likewise barred by law.

    In the meantime, the Wisconsin GOP and Governor Scott Walker should continue with legislative business that does not require the Democrat Fleebag Senators and simply support the recall of those who have left Wisconsin.

    Eventually public pressure will force the Democrats to return.

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  • Polling,  Scott Walker

    Poll Watch: 67% Disapprove of Legislators Fleeing Wisconsin to Avoid Vote

    February 24, 2011 /

    This is according to the latest Rasmussen Poll on the issue.

    Half of America’s voters favor public sector unions for government workers, but they strongly oppose the tactic by Wisconsin state senators to flee their state to prevent a vote that would limit the rights of such unions.

    The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 25% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of this tactic, while 67% disapprove. State legislators in Indiana have used the same approach to avoid a vote in their state.

    Not surprising and could you imagine if the GOP had done this during other contentious issues over the years what the media response would have been?

    What is interesting is that even Democrats are about evenly split on the issue.

    Sizable majorities of Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party reject such a strategy. Democrats are fairly evenly divided, with 48% approving and 44% disapproving.

    Until the Democratic senators return, there will not be quorum allowing a vote on Republican Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to have public employees pay more for their health and pension benefits and to limit their collective bargaining rights. The Republican majorities in both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature are expected to pass the governor’s proposal which has been the subject of major protests in the state for several days now. 

    Now, whether Wisconsin allows collective bargaining for its public employees is an issue to be decided by the Wisconsin Legislature. If Wisconsin voters do not like it, they can replace their representatives at the next election. This is how American government works.

    Voters continue to be closely divided over the question of public employee unions themselves. Fifty percent (50%) at least somewhat favor such unions, while 44% oppose them. These figures include 25% who Strongly Favor the unions and 25% who are Strongly Opposed.

    Last month in a survey of American Adults as opposed to Likely Voters, 45% supported public employee unions, while 45% opposed them. Support for the unions was down from 53% in May of last year.

    Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats now favor public employee unions, while 66% of Republicans and 54% of unaffiliated voters oppose them.

  • David Koch,  Scott Walker

    Audio: BFD – Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is Crank-Called by Moron Impersonating David Koch

    February 23, 2011 /

    Here is part one of the crank-call of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker by the Buffalo Beast

    I am still wondering what the BFD is here. There is no FLAP and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker sounds like how a public official should.

    Here is part two:

    Well, it is obvious that the phone call is NOT from David Koch, the billionaire businessman. And, it is also obvious that Governor Walker does NOT talk to him very frequently as he does NOT recognize the differences in the impersonator’s voice.

    Here is David Koch talking about filtration membranes:

    The LEFT can have its fun with this call and the Saul Alinsky type ridicule of Scott Walker can begin.

    But, there is nothing there folks.

    Here is Governor Walker’s office response:

    “The governor takes many calls everyday,” Walker’s spokesman, Cullen Werwie, said in a statement. “Throughout this call the governor maintained his appreciation for and commitment to civil discourse. He continued to say that the budget repair bill is about the budget. The phone call shows that the governor says the same thing in private as he does in public and the lengths that others will go to disrupt the civil debate Wisconsin is having.”

    If anything, this shows Governor Walker as a principled well-balanced POL.

    By the way, why did Walker take the call in the first place? Well, most POLS do know who their major political donors are and do grant them a degree of access.

    Lipton leaves that claim hanging, and never tells his readers how much the Koch PAC contributed to Walker’s campaign. In fact, the total was $43,000. That was out of more than $11 million that Walker raised, and $37.4 million that was spent, altogether, on the 2010 race for Governor of Wisconsin. Which means that people associated with Koch Industries contributed a whopping one-tenth of one percent of what was spent on last year’s election.

    Here we have just more desperate, Saul Alinsky, Big Labor type tactics to defame Governor Walker – didn’t work though.

    BFD.

  • Day By Day,  Scott Walker

    Day By Day February 22, 2011 – Prescription for Disaster

    February 22, 2011 /

    Day by Day by Chris Muir

    The MORONIC Wisconsin physicians who were writing fraudulent ‘scripts for teachers and other public employees to use as excuses for missing work have been caught with their fingers in the cookie jar. They will be wrist slapped in some way.

    But, most importantly, Big Labor will NOT be able to call out their cadre of sycophants to do shady crapola in any of their other protest demonstrations. Trackers from the conservative movement will be on the scene – just as the LEFT terrorized the GOP in 2006 and 2008.

    Truth in protesting now works both ways.

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  • Scott Walker

    University of Wisconsin Health is Investigating Fraudulent Sick Notes Written by Physicians for Protesting Public Employees

    February 22, 2011 /
    As tens of thousands of public employees skipped work last week to attend protest rallies outside the Wisconsin State Capitol, many wondered if they would face any disciplinary action for unexcused absences.

    On Saturday, a group of men and women in lab coats purporting to be doctors were handing out medical excuse notes, without examining the ‘patients.’

    You remember the Flap.

    And, the Wisconsin Medical Society has criticized the doctors.

    UW Health is investigating reports of doctors writing sick notes last weekend to excuse Capitol protesters from work, and the Wisconsin Medical Society has criticized the doctors’ actions.

    “These charges are very serious,” a statement by UW Health said. “These UW Health physicians were acting on their own and without the knowledge or approval of UW Health.”

    The Wisconsin Medical Society, the state’s largest doctors association, said it “does not condone these actions under any circumstances.”

    The Wisconsin Medical Examining Board has received information about the events, the medical society said. Representatives from the state Department of Regulation and Licensing, which includes the medical board, could not be reached for comment.

    The chances of the Wisconin Medical Board doing anything in a timely manner is remote. But, there will be some sort of an investigation and some physicians will get their wrists slapped.

    State regulations ban doctors from “knowingly making any false statement, written or oral, in practicing under any license, with fraudulent intent.”

    Dr. Lou Sanner, a family medicine physician at UW Health, told the Associated Press he was one of the doctors involved. He said he wrote hundreds of sick notes for protesters because they were suffering from stress.

    “Some people think it’s a nod-and-a-wink thing but it’s not,” he said.

    Several doctors reportedly joined Sanner, filling out formatted notes excusing protesters from work. The notes said each doctor “evaluated” each “patient.”

    Dr. Tim Bartholow, a senior vice president of the medical society, said the doctors may have meant well but could end up harming physicians’ reputation.

    “I’m sure they were acting out of conscience,” he said. “But our actions as professionals have got to earn the public trust.”

    I certainly would not want any of these physicians treating me. But, the most these miscreants will receive will be a letter in a file and some public scorn, which if you are in private practice is probably not what you want.

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    Updated: Video: Wisconsin Physicians Distribute Fraudulent Sick Notes to Protesting Public Employees

    Video: Wisconsin Physicians Distribute Fraudulent Sick Notes to Protesting Public Employees

  • Chris Matthews,  Glenn Grothman,  Scott Walker

    Video: Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman to Chris Matthews – “You’re Completely Uninformed”

    February 22, 2011 /

    Does anyone wonder why Chris Matthews and MSNBC have such low ratings? If Matthews who once was a speech writer for President Jimmy carter wants to spin to the LEFT at least get the facts straight.

    The issue here is whether Wisconsin Governor is rewarding certain unions (the one’s that supported him in the last election) and punishing others that are primarily Democratic Party supporters. The answer IS that not too many unions, even the police and fire ones supported Governor Walker.

    MSNBC’s Chris Matthews tried Monday to push the liberal media meme that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker exempted police and firefighters from his budget repair plan because their unions endorsed him in last November’s election.

    “Well one more time you’re completely uninformed,” replied Republican State Senator Glenn Grothman who then proceeded to tell the facts to the obviously clueless “Hardball” host.

    I guess Chris Matthews has an incompetent staff or wait for it…….they are BIASED.

    Particularly since Governor Walker was on CBS stating the obvious:

    But, if you don’t believe Governor Walker than there is the dfinitive answer – GOOGLE.

    Or Politifact:

    During the campaign last November, leaders of the Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Association and Milwaukee Police Association appeared in an ad supporting Walker and blasting his opponent, Democrat Tom Barrett. Walker also won endorsements from the West Allis Professional Police Association and the Wisconsin Troopers Association

    Walker didn’t get the endorsements of two statewide unions, the Wisconsin Professional Police Association and the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, which both backed Barrett.

    For the record, the governor told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the charge that he was exempting police and firefighters was “ridiculous.” He said he didn’t recommend changing the rules for police officers and firefighters because he didn’t want public safety work disrupted.

    We then contacted the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the statewide union that endorsed Walker’s opponent last year. Executive director Jim Palmer said the statewide organization is much larger than the local Milwaukee police union that endorsed Walker. The state group has approximately 11,000 members versus Milwaukee’s roughly 1,400, he said.

    Similarly, the state firefighters association has more than 3,000, compared with the Milwaukee union’s 875.

    Nice try Chris Matthews and MSNBC but your facts smell as does your commentary.

  • Day By Day,  Scott Walker

    Day By Day February 21, 2011 – Hands On

    February 21, 2011 /

    Day by Day by Chris Muir

    Ewwww, Chris.

    But, by the looks of things the protester turnout today in Wisconsin was fairly sparse.

    The Wisconsin teachers’ union and the AFSCME encouraged public employees and their supporters to show up to two rallies today at the capitol in Madison, one at noon and the other at 5:00 p.m. The noon rally seemed a little sparse, and the 5:00 p.m. rally was even smaller. As you can see in this video, shot around 5:30 p.m. this evening, there couldn’t have been more than hundreds of protesters outside the capitol:

    I guess it was cold outside because it is winter in Wisconsin and they were inside the state Capitol.

    There are 5 million people in the state of Wisconsin, including 300,000 public employees. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison alone there are 42,000 students. A lot of public schools had the day off for Presidents’ Day, and the DNC and unions, including the Chicago teachers’ union, called for workers to show up in solidarity today. That’s the best they can do?

    To be fair, inside the state capitol building was pretty crowded. One police officer told me that the max capacity for the capitol building is 9,000, and he estimated that there were more than 5,000 protesters inside the building. Still, 7,000 protesters in Madison is hardly Cairo in the Midwest.

    Yet, the number of protesters on a holiday was not so much.

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  • Ronald Reagan,  Scott Walker

    Poll Watch: 48 Per Cent Back Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Vs. 38% With Unions

    February 21, 2011 /

    So says the latest Rasmussen Poll.

    A sizable number of voters are following new Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s showdown with unionized public employees in his state, and nearly half side with the governor.

    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided.

    This is not really surprising since these are public employee unions and government employees – not private industry employees.

    Remember what President Ronald Reagan said when faced with the same type of crisis with the Air Traffic Controllers? Watch the video for Reagan’s statement around 1:40)