Of course there's a double standard...at the Fitzgerald/Compas debate, the commentator asked for complete silence. The Compas (union voice) supporters were the first to hoot and hollar, but nothing was done about it...Conservatives have come to expect this. I just pray to God our Governor wins this. Then hopefully the union parasites will go away for a while.

NO kidding!! In this video I saw Nothing to imply that he was looking threatening in anyway. Barret supporters were just as loud!

The man arrested was my son. He called me early this morning to tell me he was attending the rally. I told him to be careful. As a Tea Party organizer in Florida, I am proud of my son. He served his country in the United States Marine Corps and the oath that he took to protect and defend the Constitution has not expired.

How many times are we going to hear from liberals that President Obama has been a great leader given the state of the country that he inherited.

What's worse........squandering an inheritance full of richness and opportunity.....or an admission your inheritance was beyond your ability to cope and lead?

Since when has it become acceptable for Americans to offer excuses in the absence of success.

Barack Obama has not earned the trust of the American people. The last four years have been a wasted oppoutunity and an excuse for failure.

There is a remedy.

Vote for Mitt Romney in November.

But first.........defeat Barack Obama in Wisconsin next Tuesday.

Semper Fi !

@Barry Willoughby -- "How many times are we going to hear from liberals that President Obama has been a great leader given the state of the country that he inherited."

As many times as it takes to get it through people's heads.

"What's worse........squandering an inheritance full of richness and opportunity.....or an admission your inheritance was beyond your ability to cope and lead?"

George Bush did the first -- took an economy and a country in reasonably good shape and drove them off a cliff. And you blame his successor for not being able to fix it fast enough?

As I said, I defend your son's right to be there and speak his mind. But,like father, like son -- you're both deluded.

@Barry - My brother was a Captain in the Marines. He served honorably. He defends the Constitution.

He is civil, has manners and dignity. He is not a jerk, like carrying signs calling other people thugs.

He is a liberal.

huge double standard...... but unfortunately the Dems are too ignorant to see it.

I agree - a terrible double standard.

It's truly amazing how so many Republicans can be willing to vote for a crook. This John Doe investigation is looking really damning. Just goes to show that Party trumps the Rule of Law. And don't give this BS about the investigation being partisan.

After getting the bio for this guy, he sounds lieek just an obnoxious jock who's riding on his Marine daddy's coattails. He was getting into people faces and was very loud mouthed. He would've gotten his message across by being more dignified.

I bet he won't even need to be pardoned. He won't be charged.

This is B.S.

Let's see some videos of Madison protestors getting "louder and fiestier" than they approve of..... Pretty please?

10:1 MPD codes this as a violent crime.

In regards to in regards to in regards to in regards to, protesters, and, in regards to in regards to and also in regards to arrests, and, in regards to in regards to double standards, one would expect a sort of in regards to in regards to a situational policing here, in regards to in regards to there being somewhat of a difference in regards to in regards to what the Milwaukee Police Department will tolerate as FREE SPEECH and in regards to in regards to what the Madison Police Department will tolerate as FREE SPEECH. In other words, Milwaukee Police are NOT going to put up with the kind of BOOLAH that goes on in Madison... and they simply do not care if you are a Walker supporter or a Barrett supporter... if you “act out too much” you are going to be arrested and taken to jail…

Furthermore, Walker has already said he will pardon his, to date, 13 sycophants who were given immunity so they could testify against him... enough with all this pardoning already… who do you folks think this guy is Gerald Ford pardoning the most corrupt president ever? Ahh… that would be the great REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT: Richard Millhouse Nixon…

Will Scott Walker be allowed to pardon himself, I wonder?

John Wilson knows nothing (again).
As far as pardons: http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2012/may/29/gov-walker-wont-pardon-former-aides-convicted-in-john-doe-probe/

Proof that crack is whack /\ /\

@John Wilson -

Nixon was a great President! Earned the endorsement of the IBT all three runs! Thanks for recognizing!

@James R. Hoffa

In regards to in regards to and, also in regards to, yes, of course, Nixon was a great president… masterminded [Burglary] at Watergate, talked at length to the portraits of dead presidents, while stumbling around in the White House in a drunken haze… clearly stated in an interview with David Frost, that, “If a president does something [Anything] it is NOT against the law.” Was this not the first president to resign, simply to avoid being impeached? Was not this the guy whose lasting testimony to his presidency was, “I am not a crook!” Was this not one of the greatest anti-Semites, ever…?

Yes, of course, Nixon was a great president…

In regards to in regards to and, also in regards to GREATNESS, I do suspect that in regards to and in regards to that issue, we are probably on different planets… and yours is clearly not planet earth…

I am sure that Moammar Walker will be just as GREAT…

Hummmm a double standard like the town hall meetings that the Dems held on health care? Now that's a double double standard for you!

@John Wilson -

You do realize that there isn't a single policy initiative contained within your little anti-Nixon rant, don’t you? Funny how Hoffa didn't judge Clinton based upon his extra-Presidential (personal) activities over on those boards, and yet those seem to be the only things that you can even see about Nixon, many of which have questionable factual support.

Hmmm… then again, Tate's and Zielinski's strategy of advancing no answer/solution candidates that do nothing but attack Walker personally is starting to make perfect sense, as it would appear that is what unhinged liberals, like yourself, are attracted to!

Thanks for helping to clear up that mystery!

@James R Hoffa

CHARACTER matters MOST!

Character matters when you are the president of the USA and you are a sociopath...
There simply are not many people in America who would even attempt to defend the behavior of Nixon; I am pleased that you do, mainly because that ultimately says more about you than I care to know...

I suspect you will be defending Moammar Walker when he is indicted too...

@John Wilson -

I'll defend Nixon and Walker to the grave, in the same way that I also defend Carter - with the facts instead of a personal judgment. Character is subjective and wholly within the eye of the beholder to determine. Meanwhile, facts are objective and only open to interpretation. It's much easier to engage in discussion with another about people we obviously both have never personally known, with facts as opposed to subjective analysis, isn't it?

Cheers!

Screaming and intimidating is enough to be removed from a rally. The people speaking deserve to be heard, if you don't want to listen, go away!

@James R Hoffa

CHARACTER is what you are down to your core and it forms the foundation for all that you do, every act that you take references back to your character…

Defiance is a rather childish personality trait and it does suit you, however, it changes
NOTHING! With folks like you, even the FACTS are subjective, thus making any meaningful dialog just plain useless and silly. Your verbiage is full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely NOTHING…

You will respond to every post, compulsively driven to do so – you must have the last word.

On policy, both Nixon and Kissinger, early in Nixon’s administration, agreed that the Vietnam War was not ‘Winnable’ in any conventional sense of the word, however, that did not stop them from making the calculation to bomb Cambodia, thus expanding the war, and this, while we were losing 1000 brave men a week! [Sociopath] Nixon knew the war was lost, knew he would lose his political base if he were to bring our troops home, so he escalated and set about with the strategy of Vietnamization - the South Vietnamese would stand up and we would stand down - and on the political side, the politics of polarization [See Moammmar Walker on the latter]. This was all calculated to keep Tricky Dick in power; although he won the election by the slimmest of margins, and show [falsely] that, we were making progress in Vietnam.

There are many good reason(s) that Jimmy Hoffa and bin Laden are now sleeping with the fishes…

@Robert Carrifee -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET5Zj9Yv4NY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtHvHIymFQ

If you're going to lock him up, better lock up all those people too, right?

Or, how about the so-called solidarity singers? After all, they're interfering with other's right to quiet enjoyment of their Capitol building!

@John Wilson -

Your association of James Riddle Hoffa and Bin Laden is completely without merit!

Hoffa had more character in his pinky finger than all of the scumbag Kennedy's put together!

MKE ordinance defines disorderly conduct as causing a disturbance in public. If this guy would've just kept his voice down instead of shouting at people, he would've shown dignity and strength. By just standing with his sign and being there, he would've irritated the Barrett people and gotten his point across.

He was getting into peoples' faces and shouting even before Clinton arrived. Causing a disturbance in public is what constitutes "disorderly conduct," which is what he was arrested and cited for. Educate yourself about local ordinances before posting, please.

You caught that too ;-)

Haha!

Ha ha ha. No. Definitely not me. ; ) I was enjoying another 12-hour work day on top of taking a relative to the airport.

I feel bad for this fella. This is another example of that "divide and conquer" strategy is making people lose their cool. It's unproductive. We need balance. I hope they released this guy.

@Bren -

You're a good person - Hoffa respects you!

free speach is welcome,but not to disrupt and interupt another!

It was just reported that this guy was a plant by the Barrett campaign trying to get national coverage.

He's a patriot..of course he's courageous! We love Conservatives!!!

David Willoughby. Let's find out

Good to see that you don't pretend that others have rights too. His fine will be much less than the $1,000,000,000 saved so far.
God Bless Scott Walker.

@Gardenlady -

Who's debt is it that he's restructuring/deferring? Not his own. Try his three predecessors, and especially Big Daddy Doyle. Under Walker, there has been no new original public debt offerings.

But, if you would have preferred that he paid off this debt, then I guess you're advocating for even deeper budget cuts and/or even more state public sector employees being laid off, right? Remember, raising taxes and borrowing even more money isn't an option.

Not to mention that Walker was judicially obligated to pay back the segregated funds that Doyle raided, as well as paid off our outstanding tab with the state of Minnesota that Doyle had opened, otherwise, he just may have had some money with which to pay off the previously acquired outstanding debt obligations. Wis Dems certainly didn't have a problem with the restructuring, did they?

But now Barrett does! Then please tell us, how would Barrett handle the debt situation differently? He won't say, will he? So, let's look at what he did in Milwaukee - leveraged the city like some piss poor South American country to the point that its debt rating was recently downgraded yet again! And that is what you want for the entire state?

REALLY???

Dan.... you do remember the town hall meetings the Dems held on health care don't you? Turned into shouting matches and people getting tossed out,and stopping the meetings alltogher!

James do you remember McCallom raiding the tobaco money and then saying how good that he balanced his budget?
this whole mess wasn't Doyle's fault!

@Robert Merlin -

You must have missed the part wherein I stated "Try his THREE PREDECESSORS, and especially Big Daddy Doyle."

McCallum would be one of Walker's three predecessors as Governor, would he not? But Doyle was in fact the worst and owns all of the original new debt offerings, segregated fund raids, opening a debt with the state of Minnesota, raising taxes when he expressly promised during his campaign that he wouldn't, etc of his administration - not to mention that he did all that despite having received and spent the largest federal stimulus funds that the state had ever seen.

So what exactly is your point?

@JRH -- Care to list where and how Jim Doyle raised taxes? When state revenues aren't meeting expenditures, which course of action do you think is better -- to raise income taxes or to make cuts to revenue sharing that places the burden onto local property taxpayers? Not that both didn't happen under Doyle, but which form of taxation do you feel is the fairest?

@Randy1949 -

See as how you answered your own question about where and how Doyle raised taxes, I won't bother with that one.

As to "which form of taxation do you feel is the fairest," Hoffa personally doesn't see how any form of taxation is fair unless the government is being a good and responsible steward of the public trust and advocating for effectiveness and efficiency in the services it provides. Seeing as how local level leaders are elected to both tax and spend as they see fit for certain services, then I would have to say that local taxation is fairer, wouldn't you?

Governor Snyder in Michigan got tired of cities like Flint constantly operating their budget upon expected reliance from the state government to bail out its bad decisions. So, he came up with the emergency manager law that has the liberals outraged. But honestly, if the people of the state as a whole are being expected to constantly come to the rescue of bad leadership, then why shouldn't the state just be running such entities in the first place? Doesn't that make sense?

If people want to constantly vote for fiscally irresponsible local leadership, such as RUSD or MPS here, then why shouldn't they have to suffer the consequences of their own actions via higher local level taxation - as after all, it's what they voted for! But why should the whole of the state have to suffer if that isn't what the whole of the state voted for?

Have they released the guy's name?

@Flyer, thank you for sharing your take on the event. By the time I got over to him (because I heard the crowd get louder) I hadn't seen exactly why police approached him. So, thank you for clarifying.

What did you think of Clinton's appearance today?

More information by people who where there is here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/scott-walker-supporter-arrested-at-bill-clinton-ra?tw_p=twt

So, in other words, he was arrested for yelling.

Under that standard, every single counter-protestor at the Tax Day Rally, Celebrate Walker Rally, Walker's speeches at the rest area openings and State Fair opening day celebrations, and basically every other conservative rally held over the last year and a half, where the collective goals of the counter-protestors was constantly trying to drown out the invited speakers with chants or noise, should have also been arrested. Not to mention all of the protestors that occupied the Capitol and made it impossible for others to peaceable enjoy the building during their selfish occupation. And yet, not a single arrest made at any of those events!

Incredible - this really PISSES me OFF!!!

Recall politically biased police departments!!!

I defend to the death his right to act like a jack@$$. From the look of the video, the only crime he's guilty of is being unpleasant.

Oh stop whining! The liberal jerks disrupted school groups from going to capitol, disrupted business, etc. and now ONE guy screams loud at your small gathering of about 400-500 people and NOT the 5,000 as the young idoit Zielinski stated and you get your undies in a bundle. Free speech goes both ways. Who would want to see a disgraced washed up president. The dems must be hard up for support of Barrett if they had to bring in Bubba to rally the troops. This was not breaking news just more lefty reporting by the Patch!

Double standard once again......you seem to forget the very poor judgement all those union supporters showed last February at the State Capitol. The damage done to the building, yelling "shame, shame" and worse to the Republican legislators who stayed in Madison to do their job, spitting, and on and on......Unfortunately, the Capitol police looked the other way because they are in bed with the unions. Many, many should have been arrested in Madison last year.

Flyer:
That is exactly how I assumed it went down. I'm sure everyone reading this story and comments can see the double standard here vs. that at the Capitol. Making noise is only an arrestable offense if it's in favor of our Governor, Scott Walker. If he had spilled a beer on someone (like another individual) the police probably would have beat the stuffing out of him.

Garden, Do you have anything to back-up what you have posted? Links are OK. Otherwise you sound as stupid as Graem Zelinski

It's only bringing people together if you get your way Flyer...we've had enough of the greedy perks collectively bargained for; and your one world order is not everyones vision. Thanks, but I'll take individuality and freedom first!

It would have been nice if Marty Beil et al. would have tried 'creative cooperation' instead of 'constant conflict'...

@Flyer -

But Mr. Clinton's signature piece of legislation, NAFTA, is single handedly responsible for off-shoring more jobs than any other governmental legislation passed in modern times. How exactly did he work together and compromise with the labor unions, such as the IBT, that stood adamantly opposed to NAFTA? Looks to me like he shoved it down our throats in conflict, the same way Obama shoved Obamacare down our throats in secrecy and conflict.

OK, I get it - when Republicans force policy through, it's "constant conflict."

But when the Democrats force policy through, it's "creative cooperation."

Silly me, I should have realized!

But don’t you find that to be the least bit HYPOCRITICAL?!?!

Wake up!

Clinton is not on the ballot and Barrett obviously didn't move you in the same way. Vote Clinton June 5th

@Steve, that was hilarious. :) agreed.

Write in Bill Clinton!

Really stupid reach at humor -- as usual. Walker certainly hasn't been out there by himself.
If Willoughby is a swim coach at UWM that makes him a public employee, and no doubt he has seen an at least 6% drop in his spendable income, making him not exactly the brightest bulb in the pack.

What makes someone get himself busted protesting against his self interest, unless trying to impress his bagger father?

Clinton BTW went off on a great riff about how if these tools were around when our country was founded there would be no constitution or Washington DC.

Gardenlady you been smoking your own weed from the garden. Provide some proof, a link or something. You are simply wrong about your claim, I suspect you know it is a lie.
Guess it depends on what the definition of is is...

Gardenlady: Got poppy flowers in that garden I see.
The link you provided is about Milw. Co. Exec.
FYI: Walker is Governor

@Gardenlady -

Who did Walker give away $2B to exactly? In fact, that number represents the available amount of tax credits allotted over the next ten years given to businesses for creating jobs here in Wisconsin, is it not? And thus far, very few credits have actually been allocated to specific businesses.

As to restructuring our debt, see my above comment to you.

BLS did verify Walker's jobs numbers. The only sources reporting otherwise are lefty blogs and Tom Barrett.

Wake up and stop spreading the party line propaganda, rhetoric, and talking points. We're too smart for that here.

Proof once again that Barrett and the Dems are targeting the low information, non-thinking voter!

Take it to the bank, hey? Ok, willing to put your money where your mouth is? I'll make the same bet I made with Keith Schmitz with you. So, are you interested in a friendly wager?

Cazzie-you do know most of those contracts were bargained by republican governors!

@ James--Wasn't the newtster in charge of the house when NAFTA passed?

@Robert Merlin -

And Clinton didn't have any kind of veto power as the sitting President at the time, did he?

Wow - you sure love to try and shift the subject, don't you?

@Laura - I hope there are many more like you out there.

Gardenlump, You may now be the most stupid person to ever post on patch. Walker is now in charge of the military????? This is a joke, right?

I think Gardenlady has Scott Walker confused with Paul Ryan, who will indeed try to cut services to veterans. Scott Walker merely hired two people to administer a charitable fund for families of veterans. Both of them embezzled funds. Such is Governor Walker's judgement.

If Scott Walker remains our Governor, I will increase employment in my company by 12% and I will make an extra effort to hire anyone that has served our country with military service.

Walker took over the VA Hospital in Wood and started making cuts? Really? When did this happen? That dirty son-of-a-gun!

I sincerely hope he slows down the pace of ruining things because we've still got 3 days before the election and at this pace we're not going to have enough un-ruined things left to provide the requisite 3-4 shocking revelations per day necessary to scare the bejesus out of the 48 remaining undecided potential voters who just might tip the election in Barrett's direction if it turns out to be a real squeaker....

After learning this new info, I may just change who I vote for on Wednesday the 6th.
Thanks Gardenloonie

@Gardenlady -

You're no Bren - that much is for certain!

Laura - Your attempts to portray yourself as an "independent" voter and perhaps undecided as to whether to "get off of my butt Tues. and vote" are amateurish at best. You state the "freedom of speech" issue is the main driver for you to vote, then you launch into your hatred of Clinton in general, and quote somebody's gibberish off of a Twitter. Your comments have a very small chance of switching a single "independent" voter, except in the Democratic direction.
What parties are you trying to indepenently decide between, the American Fascist Party and the John Birch Society?

I did not see Barrett "trying to work with" this guy. It looks like the "divide and conquor" was by Barrett and HIS police force.

My God are these democrats a dissallussioned bunch of mindless idiots.

It also was very nice of your governor Walker to want to plant protesters like this to cause problems. He started it by telling the fake Koch Bro that he would bully them.

@Gardenlady -

Care to enlighten us as to what, specifically, Barrett's jobs plan is?

Then you talk about "The War on Women", Clinton treated every woman he ever met as no more than a piece of meat.

Lets face it, under Clinton we had jobs, our 401k plans made money and we could get a loan for a house. Every president since clinton has been a failure including obama.

Mike because of Clinton all the jobs are now in China, it took a while to build all the factories and lure people off the farm to the factory.
Thank SlickWilly for the job loss.

@MIke -

Yep, you're right! Clinton's signature piece of legislation, NAFTA, really helped to create a lot of family sustaining jobs here, didn't it?

Oh wait, that's wrong...? Go figure. Someone better tell Mike!

Video covers only a few seconds of the entire incident. That said, annoying as it must have been, he had the right to be there.

@Gardenlady -

So, being a loudmouth, menacing, and keeping others from hearing, is now grounds for arrest? That's funny, cause no one was arrested at any of these events:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET5Zj9Yv4NY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtHvHIymFQ

And these are just two examples of a multitude of others that exist.

Care to explain the reason for such discrepancies and disparages in law enforcement standards?

Because it sure looks like a politically biased and partisan police force to me!

I disagree. Our current mess is the result of a bad economy and catering to billionaires either whose corporations pay no state tax or they themselves don't.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/wisconsin-billionaire-gov-walkers-main-donor-owed-no-state-taxes-in-2010/2012/05/31/gJQAIaJG4U_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments

"Oh give me some tax incentives or I'll take those jobs to China!" At least union workers make enough money to pay taxes.

you are another white entitlement deranged citizen. you have benefitted greatly from society but think that because you are successful then you get to be free of taxes and responsibility to the community? If anything, you are MORE responsible as the people that paved the roads, built the schools you learned in, grew the food you bought, all came before you and made it possible for you to become successful. Oh, let's not forget the police and fire protection that you also get making it possible for you to have at least a minimum of protection.

yeah, right, keep saying you don't have to pay taxes and giving out tax abatements/bribes. Maybe the tooth fairy will put money into the community and magically pay for all sorts of things that you expect to get for free.

@Randy1949 -

Blaming Walker for Doyle giving a billionaire a tax break?!?! REALLY???

Well, I guess when your preferred candidates doesn't offer anything of his own, what else do you have, right?

Come on - desperation just doesn't look good on you!

@oak creek resident

Lets just face it, almost everything is clearly BEYOND YOU...

@JRH -- My point is that she has some stones complaining about her high rate of taxation and lobbying to get it lowered. I'm also puzzled about her hostility to private sector unions, given her late husband's philosophy about treating his workers well. Treat workers well and you don't need to fear the unions coming in. Is she perhaps contemplating treating her workers less generously and would like to not have the specter of the union boogie-man looming?

This sounds like it will require a John Doe investigation.

You've got too assume that when an ex-president is in the vicinity, right or wrong, the heat is going to be turned up and the tolerance turned down. The knucklehead couldn't figure that out.

@Satori -

What makes an ex-President anymore special than a regular average joe? I thought America was about treating people with equality in the eyes of the law, isn't it?

You make it sound as if Clinton is royalty or something. In reality, he's no different than anyone else. Get a clue!

@JRH -- Do you disagree with former Presidents getting Secret Service protection? They aren't just average Joes.

Hoffa: I bet Secret Service asked for this arrest because I can't see anything he did that was any different than the looney Barrett supporters.

Hoffa, you're smart enough to realize that it simply is that way. I agree with your point but you've got to understand that security is always higher when some of his stature (or ex-stature) is present. As I stated (but you ignored), I'm not saying it's right, it just is.

the man was acting like a jackass and acting like he was going to hit someone with his sign. he terminated his free speech rights when he did this. free speech doesn't mean you can act like a jackass and intimidate people. That is disorderly conduct. Where I am from in Texas, we don't put up with that crap. We carry. Just sayin...

Slap - so you suspend 4th and 14th amendment rights if someone is acting like a "jackass"? (derived by the sole description of one extremely biased woman)

Sounds like you need an adjustment of confidence. BTW, we carry here now too.

@Randy1949 -

Secret Service protection is fine - Hoffa has no problem with that. But it still doesn't make the former President anymore special in the eyes of the law than your regular average joe, does it? If you're saying it does, then can you please point me to the law that says so, cause I can't find it anywhere!

@Satori -

Apparently, I'm not that smart, as I believe in rule of law within the spirit of the law. And the spirit of our laws were founded upon the notions that no one is above the law, that everyone, including former Presidents, are seen as equals under the law, and that no one has any more rights than anyone else. Call me crazy, but the minute we allow these principles to be subverted by popular acceptance of the "realiz[ation] that it simply is that way," well, that's the minute that we start to lose who we are as a people and as a nation, isn't it?

bs

Are you high? I saw a bunch off screeming ninnies, but only the one carrying the Walker sign was arrested.
Sober up and look at the video, maybe your memory is as poor as your judgement.

@JL -

You're not inflicted with selective blindness, are you?

Or were the liberals screaming and shouting in the video really Koch Bros plants?

Yep David, California is doing great? Sweep your own side of the street. We have a ballanced budget, how about you? You will see the same protests as your Governor screws your state into the ground.

@David - Well stated, and reinforced by most of the comments on this blog, including Greg here.
Walker has unleashed the beast.

Wrong Dirk, The union tantrum is what unleashed my beast. $17 million spent on a recall over nothing just capped it off.

David's obviously intoxicated on the California koolaid!

Why not complete the dream and move to Pelosi's district?

Greg - The recall is Walker's fault. My way or the highway management fails every time. That state governments led by this type of governor more often than not come to bad ends should come as no surprise. Friend or foe, a sociopath will hurt you eventually, in this recall case, for $17 million. It didn't have to be if Walker would have acted like a leader, not a jerk gone wild..

I see it as doing his job and the unions having a tantrum that was justified by poor leadership on the left. History will prove me correct.

@Dirk -

Doyle imposed a my way or the highway strategy with his midnight budget and no bid contract with a foreign train manufacturer. So, if you believe what you now say, then how come you weren't out there with a clip board trying to recall Doyle?

In Dirk's world:

When Democrats push through something that the other side doesn't like, it's called being a "leader."

When Republicans push through something that the other side doesn't like, it's called being "a jerk gone wild."

Bit of a hypocrite, aren't we?

Get REAL!!!

James R. Hoffa -
Doyle never did anything of the magnitude of Walker in outraging a vast constituency. And do not give me that gunk that the uber-right would never recall anyone for what Doyle may have done unless they were criminals, etc. You just could not have gotten any momentum behind recalling Doyle. Walker simply underestimated his opposition's resolve. This is one of the weaknesses of a sociopath. They get pumped up and overconfident, then they have a great fall.
Want examples throughout history?

@Dirk -

Ummm NO - we the taxpayers were VERY upset with what Doyle did! Because unlike liberals, new conservatives actually care about the legacy that we'll be leaving for our future generations. The difference is that we weren't cry babies about it. Our state senators didn't flee to IL. We didn't storm and trash the Capitol. We didn't call for boycotts. We didn't … fill in the blank.

Instead, what we did do was calmly wait for the next election to vote our man in. That's the difference!

Poor delusional Dirk has drank too much of the koolaid!

While Dirk may be a lost cause, it's not too late for you! If you find yourself at all starting to think like Dirk, then call the Coping with Liberalism Help Line at 800-VOTE-WALKER!!!

@Hoffa - You, a patient gentleman courteously waiting until the next election when you are outraged, and not thinking about a recall. Uh huh, right. And the rabble that follow your rousing on these pages would be so gentile, so sweet-natured as to just suppress their outrage, and not try to get the "evil" Dem out of there.

Yuck, yuck, yuck!

I am a liberal, and even I am not that gracious and accepting.

I can believe the uber-right was not bright enough to think of a recall, or bright enough to know they never had a chance to even get the signatures, like when they tried with some of the Dem legislators recently.

Thank you for bringing that up. The Barrett supporters can treat defenseless challenged special olympic members with complete disdain and get away with it. This poor guy gets arrested for yelling! This is the lefties typical double standard.

Just curious...was Bill "smoking" cigars?

@Michael - Well, you are the expert.

Where were you when the Anti-Walker crowd was being 'obnoxious and disrespectful so others cannot hear' during several of Walker's speeches?

If one side gets to act stupid and disruptive, then those on the other side should get to act equally stupid and disruptive.

Is this OK slap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuqM1LEi5c

And remember that was a Special Olympics Ceremony, not a campaign function.

All the Barrett folks had to do was post 4 large men with signs in front of the guy to hide him from view and for the crowd to come up with a witty chant to down him out. The Barrett crowd would have sidelined him and the rally would have continued. Instead, the focus of the story is now that a single guy gets arrested for holding a sign and voicing his opinion. Very bad optics for Barrett and his supporters at this event who now come off as thin-skinned.

What a hypocrite you are. Predictable.....

Weird, Mr. Texan, Slap has gone entirely silent.

@slap - Using your logic, every person at the protests in Madison who were shouting down politicians, yelling shame, shame, shame should have been arrested for disorderly conduct.

@slap -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET5Zj9Yv4NY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtHvHIymFQ

If you're going to lock him up, better lock up all those people too, right?

Or, how about the so-called solidarity singers? After all, they're interfering with other's right to quiet enjoyment of their Capitol building!

No, Walker is sucking Koch.

If Clinton ran today he would beat the hell out of any Republican. You are comparing Clinton to the soon to be indicted Walker? You guys are a scream.

Already we are getting prepped for the whining the stealing of the election. Great strategy. Make crap up.

Keith you didn't respond or rebut any point Dirk made

I didn't see anything intelligent to respond to.

touche.... apparently I don't either in yours.

Clinton wont change anything. If your undecided in this election than your in a cave. My prediction is Walker 54 % Barrett 46%.. Barrett wants to be governor and abandon his own disaster in Milwaukee but Voters like specifics and he doesn't have any. That translates into more of what failed in the past and it cost him this any chance he thought he had in this election election.
Ironically Obama has the same strategy that isnt not working.. He cant run on his awful record and to be even with Romney at this point isnt good for him . History shows if the sitting President doesn't have a cushion this early in the election phase . He loses.. In fact, Jimmy Carter polled better vs Reagan than Obama vs Romney at this point in the 1980 election cycle and was blown out on election day . Country is actually trying to save itself from no plan to reality. That's a good sign for the USA

@Keith Schmitz -

How is NAFTA working out for us exactly? That was, after all, Clinton's signature piece of legislation. So, I suppose if Clinton were running today, he sign over ownership of the entire country to China, right? And you're openly admitting that you'd actually vote for the continued sell out of our family sustaining jobs and nation - WOW!!!

Just make sure you're getting my $50 ready, cause after Tuesday, it'll be all mine awaiting delivery :-)

@Dirk - Gee, wonder where George Bush II is? Why is he not here campaigning?
Oh yeah, keep him out of sight.

And the elder Bush does not agree with Walker's divide and conquer regime.

Oh, oh, I know, maybe a governor from S. Carolina, where "divide and lose" all started in 1861. Yeah, we can all relate to someone like that here is Wisconsin.

Really?

Yeah, because progressive's, such as yourself, never show up to conservative rallies, do they?

This guy wasn't banging on a drum or blowing on a plastic horn, so honestly how obnoxious could he have actually been?

I'll be voting, we want a double digit win.

If I was a lib I would have been very disappointed in the Clinton event. Only 4 or 500 people were there according to most credible reports, photos and videos. The big guns are coming in Monday though, Sharpton and Jackson! I'm sure that will help :)

Why not just go for the gusto and fly in Lenin's preserved body?

I'm sure that would really help put Barrett over the top!

Put the bong down long enough to clear your lungs and stop coughing.....now if you could see straight you would be able to see your typo. It is actually 33,000 jobs if you actually count them.

jojobo1 , drink some more kool aid

The fact that GOP chairputz Reince Priebus is ginning up the voter fraud nonsense indicates that the polling is showing the race at dead even.

If the people of Wisconsin win on Tuesday the barflies will be belching and whining about voter fraud. But bear this in mind. Bush spent $7 MM of your tax money and found not fraud.

The DNC hiding and Obama avoiding Wisconsin like a plague give you that same conclusion?
Keif, is your dead mother-in-law going to vote for Barrett, she doesn't need a drivers license.

He was about 30 feet from the podium, in my close proximity during the rally. Secret Service were all over the place at the rally and including on the balconies. As the crowd moved forward to shake the President's hand at the end of the rally, those of us holding signs were told to step back from the President. Everyone complied with that request, except the Walker supporter in question, but he became even more belligerent and directed it at the cops, refusing to calm down and listen to them. A Barrett supported approached him to get in his face and the police told the Barrett supporter to back off. He did. The Walker supporter refused to comply with a directive that was intended first to keep the President safe, and second to keep BOTH Walker and Barrett supporters safe in a terribly unpredictable situation. Watching that man escalate during the rally, I felt terrible, knowing this was not going to end well, because the man just seemed unable to respond to reason.

That's one thing I learned from watching the Lacy inquest many years ago -- when the police tell you to do something, do it. It may not be right of them, but you do it anyway.

People who weren't there can't judge the potential for violence with emotions running very high.

Have even looked at the 6 min video Patriot posted? Obviously not. And who is the " real man" here? Lets see, a marine vet or Dirk? Oh by the way, what branch of the service did you serve in, Dirk? Look at the video, my friend.

Semper Fidalis !

I watched the videos in both links. There are gaps. We really don't see what made the police arrest this man.

@AudiFan - They were obviously acting in collaboration with the Secret Service. I don't think you can demand the removal of a Milwaukee policeman when you live out in Hooterville. Move to the City and make your childish demands.

@morninmist -

"Good government groups such as the League of Women Voters, Common Cause and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign say there is no such problem."

Who ever wrote this brilliant piece apparently doesn't even realize that the groups referenced have nothing to do with the government at all - they are private advocacy groups. I stopped reading right there, as clearly this is nothing more than a propaganda piece designed to specifically attract the low information, non-thinking voter.

So, at least we can all understand why you seem to like it ;-)

AudiFan - Easy enough to say you live in downtown Milwaukee when you are anonymous. If true, of all the places to live in the Greater Milwaukee area, why live where you hate the city admin., the cops, the politics of most of your neighbors., etc. Weird.
And there is this thing about Audis you have, and then being so belligerently "patriotic".

Seems this Walker supporter WAS out of line.

See the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Clinton fires up Democratic faithful."

Clinton spoke in the very spot he appeared with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in May 1996. Clinton reminisced a little about his visits to Wisconsin as candidate and president, and said he remembered Milwaukee schoolchildren singing to him and Kohl in German.

While there were hundreds of Barrett signs throughout the park, one Walker supporters stood nearby holding a sign that said, "Support Scott Walker, Not Union Thugs."

After Clinton spoke, the man moved forward to a rope line where Clinton was shaking hands and posing for pictures. Asked by police officers to back away, the man apparently refused.

He was later taken away by officers and was arrested. An officer said the man would be charged with disorderly conduct.

@morninmist -

Others were allowed near the rope but this man wasn't - WHY? Just because of the political message he was conveying, that somehow makes him "out of line." Then ALL of the counter protestors from your side over the last year and half should have been arrested, correct? Honestly how could anything that this guy was doing be anymore obnoxious than constantly and repetitively banging on a drum or blowing on a plastic horn?

Way to support the suppression of free speech when it doesn't agree with yours!

And that my friends is what liberals like morninmist are all about!

The full 6 minute video posted by Patriot tells a totally diffent story. What a surprise, biased reporting and posts by the left. Have you even seen the full video, misty? Our marine hero stood for his beliefs and was the one in control, civil and intelligent. Try and defend the Barrett supporters foul mouths and in your face tactics. It sure wasn't our marine

And the cop was totally over the line. Look for a lawsuit against MPS

Recall Barrett. Elect our hero marine mayor. He makes me proud

Simper Fidelis

Good plan, end the recall and respect the election results of 2010.

I know about my voting options, but the fact is that the ACT10 reforms are working and the recall is holding back our economy. I am far from dismissive, more like realistic.

@Greg
You are not realistic, but are an unthinking parrot of Walker.

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Greg

5:03 pm on Saturday, June 2, 2012

I know about my voting options, but the fact is that the ACT10 reforms are working and the recall is holding back our economy. I am far from dismissive, more like realistic.

Unlike you, I do not rely on other people's money for the security of my family. I do not rely on other people's money for anything, it is theirs. This is America, not Shorewood Forest, you can not simply take from the rich and give to the poor.
As to the jobs issue, there are jobs all over the area. Sloth and your Robin Hood & band of thieves attitude is what is keeping people from working.

Really, Greg? I'm glad to know you won't mind if I refuse to pay my school district levy, because it's sure my money going to educate someone else's kids. And the local tax levy that pays for police and fire protection. Why should I care if your house burns down or gets broken into? You do depend on other people's money for your family's security if you stop to think about it.

I pay my taxes, you can do as you please. That was not the security that DK was talking about.
Randy, by your reply I gather that you have no respect for personal belongings and think that your hand belongs in the pockets of others.

Dave you know so little you socialist putz!!!!! I work in the construction industry with lots of other "nasty rich guys", no one I know is dropping a dime until this election is over, and if Barrett wins, the dimes wont be dropping soon......and buy the way, us lousy rich guys are the ones that employ a bunch of union workers!!! Oh by the way Stalin, did you ever, ever, ever in your life get a job working for a poor person??????????? I didnt think so, I will accept your applogy and your thank you for all the rich employers around this great country that you hate so much!!!!!

@morninmist -

That's so WEAK!!!!

You guys are obviously getting desperate and grasping at straws. What, the Zielinski lie machine couldn't come up with any good new whoppers about "boy rape" for you to perpetuate?

Sad day for Wisconsin Dems!

Proof that Barrett and the Dems are targeting the low information, non-thinking voter!

What a truly strange posting! My only response is..."huh?"

Idiot

the protestor wasn't a Marine. He's the son of a marine and currently holds down the lofty post of 'swim coach'. His bio lists he has a 'fire science' degree. I bet if you offered him a 'union job' as a firefighter, he'd jump at it. Here's his bio:

Dave Willoughby
Head Age Coach-Lead AGP and AGG Coach

'Coach Dave enters his 2nd year coaching with SWAT. With over 25 years of competitive swimming experience, he is a graduate from UW-Stevens Point with a Developmental Coaching degree, and a Fire Science Degree from Edison College. ...Dave has been directly involved with YMCA, Collegiate and USS Swimming as head coach, or assistant coach as well as camp director.'