Dad29 has been having a running theme as of late, criticizing Senator Russ Feingold for not sticking around and being verbally abused by angry retirees who want the gubmint to keep their hands off of their Medicare. I hear Charlie Sykes has the same thing running on his radio shows as well.
What Dad29 and Charlie fail to recognize is that even though Feingold knew that he was going to get lambasted in the more conservative counties, he went there anyway, and he allowed everyone to speak their piece. He did it knowing full well that he was going to be catching hell from these people, and took it like an adult.
Feingold gives us a good example of courage, maturity, and the appreciation of freedoms, like the right to free speech.
Scott Walker, on the other hand, would not let certain citizens in who were critical of his poor management of the county, even at what should be open to the public since it was county business. And when he did let them in, it was under severe control:
What Walker basically did was infringe on the constitutional rights of these people, for nothing more than political reasons. They weren't even being disruptive.People toting guns can attend events with President Obama, but no one with a toilet plunger is going to get near County Exec Walker.
Two representatives of One Wisconsin Now (OWN) were thrown of the event when they showed up with plungers to urge Walker to clean up the mess he's made of Milwaukee County, and not just in the courthouse bathrooms.
[UPDATE: After first throwing out the two, their plungers and "Clean up your mess, Walker" sign, company employees let them into the event, sans plungers and sign, but kept them cordoned off from the crowd and had a 'chaperone" accompany them. They were able to get news releases in the hands of the media, however.]
Imagine how Daddio and Chuckles would have reacted if Feingold had tried to do something like that. Dad would be threatening to shoot people and Charlie would be in full blown hysterics.
But when you don't have an honest complaint, I guess you have to fall back on what you're best at.
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There is Walker, and their is true political nudidty and he has a name... he is Tom Barrett.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing he has done in the last four years to advance his cause is to get rid of his dumb-ass moustache.
Barrett is the empty suit of politics, but nude isn't going to be the next Gov.
Get over it.
REAL "courage" would be shown by Feinie if he were to demand a new and better bill--and vote against the piece of crap now before Congress.
ReplyDeleteActual "courage" means NOT running away from voters.
Actual "courage" does not mean posing for holy pictures while enabling the behavior.
"not sticking around and being verbally abused by angry retirees who want the gubmint to keep their hands off of their Medicare."
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY.
Feingold took a verbal beating from idiots yelling at him that he didn't know what was in the bill, when he claims at least he has read it. I don't think I have to say that the yellers obviously haven't read it.
And when did the entire population become constitutional experts?
dad29 "posing for holy pictures" you really are a Sykes brain washee.
ReplyDeleteDad, he did ask for changes to the bill. He also said that he wants to make more changes before the bill is finalized (please do remember, through all of your hysteria and hyperbole, that there is a process that does take more time than it does for you to prove yourself a paranoid nut).
ReplyDeleteSo you agree that Walker is not courageous, since he runs away from voters. Glad to see that there is some hope for you at least.
To the anonymous Team Walker commenter:
ReplyDeleteYou people are really behind the times, you know. I already have told the tale of The County Executive's New Clothes.
But between Walker's ineptness, and you guys always being way behind the times, Walker will be lucky to go limping into the primary, only to be knocked out by Neumann.
Coward: Someone who votes for a bill then comes out against parts of it.
ReplyDelete" Thursday, January 14, 2010
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is calling on the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader to remove “sweeteners” from the final health care bill originally inserted to win over the support of certain members of Congress. In a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Feingold urges them to “strike unwarranted provisions” that detract from the overall quality of the bill and create inequities in how states are treated."
You mean like the way that Walker was against stimulus money before he was for it before he was against it again?
ReplyDeleteOr the way Walker whines about taxes but has not problem voting for them as a state law maker or introducing new ones as county executive?