While Mr. Walker continues the process of dismantling the state of Wisconsin, and while my fellow Wisconsinites are starting to come to their senses and driving down his approval ratings, Walker has just scored his most important endorsement. His insecure, adolescent, Reagan-worshipping, little political soul must just be releasing happy little heart balloons. And the Koch brothers must be preparing their list of requirements, to do to the whole country what Walker has done to us.
Here's the gist of the short story from the New York Times, "Kochs Signal Support for Scott Walker":
On Monday, at a fund-raising event in Manhattan for the New York State Republican Party, David Koch told donors that he and his brother, who oversee one of the biggest private political organizations in the country, believed that Mr. Walker was the Republican Party’s best hope for recapturing the White House.
“We will support whoever the candidate is,” said Mr. Koch, according to two people who attended the event. “But it should be Scott Walker.”
No big surprise here. He has been their puppet since the start of his mission to divide and conquer the people of Wisconsin. Now it's out in the open.
In fact, there may a lovely little poison pill embedded in this "invisible primary" victory. It will draw loads and loads of well-deserved attention to the infamous 2011 phone call conversation that Walker had with Ian Murphy playing the role of David Koch. It cannot be aired and shared and quoted enough:
urphy: Right, right. Well, we’ll back you any way we can. But, uh, what we were thinking about the crowds was, uh, was planting some troublemakers.
Walker: You know, the, well, the only problem with that — because we thought about that. The problem — the, my only gut reaction to that is right now the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them, the public is not really fond of this. The teachers union did some polling of focus groups, I think, and found out that the public turned on ’em the minute they closed school down for a couple days. The guys we’ve got left are largely from out of state, and I keep dismissing it in all my press conferences saying, ‘Eh, they’re mostly from out of state.’ My only fear would be is if there was a ruckus caused is that that would scare the public into thinking maybe the governor has gotta settle to avoid all these problems. You know, whereas, I’ve said, ‘Hey, you know, we can handle this, people can protest. This is Madison, you know, full of the ’60s liberals. Let ’em protest.’ It’s not gonna affect us. And as long as we go back to our homes and the majority of the people are telling us we’re doing the right thing, let ’em protest all they want. Um, so that’s my gut reaction, is that I think it’s actually good if they’re constant, they’re noisy, but they’re quiet, nothing happens, ’cause sooner or later the media stops finding ’em interesting.
Murphy: Well, not the liberal bastards on MSNBC.
Walker: Oh, yeah, but who watches that? I went on “Morning Joe” this morning. I like it ’cause I just like being combative with those guys, but, uh. You know they’re off the deep end.
Murphy: Joe-Joe’s a good guy. He’s one of us.
Walker: Yeah, he’s all right. He was fair to me, I mean, the rest of them were out there. Although I had fun. They had [senator Chuck] Schumer over from New York on, ripping me, and then they had a little clip of a state senator hiding out ripping me, and it was almost too easy. I walked in and Joe asked me a question and I say, well, before I answer that, let me just point out the amazing irony, the fact that you’ve got a United States senator from New York, a senator, who, by the way, is part of a team that can’t seem to balance the federal budget, talking about my budget. At least he’s coming into work to talk about something, although it’s mine. And you got one of these 14 state senate Democrats, uh, who can’t even bother to show up and deal with the budget he’s elected to do something about. And, uh, I said that kind of tells you the whole story right there.
Murphy: Beautiful, beautiful. But you gotta love that Mika Brzezinski.
Walker: Oh, yeah.
Murphy: She’s a piece of ass.
Walker: You know, a couple of weeks ago [unclear], I was having dinner with Jim Sensenbrenner when I came in to D.C. for a day to do an event, and we were going over to do the Greta show. I had dinner with congressman Sensenbrenner, and right next to us was the two of them and then their guest was [Obama advisor David] Axelrod. I came over [Murphy laughs], I introduced myself.
Murphy: That son of a bitch!
Walker: Yeah, no kidding, huh?
Perhaps this will turn the long campaign ahead into a sustained cannibalistic feeding frenzy. Perhaps now the Bush money candidate will go after the Adelson money candidate will go after the Koch money candidate. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of unprincipled opportunists.