Why, oh why, can Wisconsin not hold Scott Walker to account for flagrant, outrageous hypocrisy between his pre-governor press statements and his actions as governor?
I'm going to source these three examples for you. But even so, you may find it hard to believe.
OK, here's the first one.
Remember how Walker campaigned so vehemently in the 2011 recall, arguing that recalls should not be for political disagreements, only for actual criminal offenses?
Well, here's Walker as recently as 2010, praising the 2002 recall that opened the way for his candidacy for Milwaukee County Executive:
You know the folks that were angry about this started a recall and they were told they needed to collect 73,000 signatures in sixty days. Well, not hundreds, not thousands, but tens of thousands of ordinary people did an extraordinary thing. They stood up and took their government back. In less than thirty days they collected more than 150,000 signatures. It was at that moment I realized the real emotion on display in my county wasn’t just about anger. You see, if it had been about anger, it would have been about people checking out and moving out or giving up. But instead what happened was really amazing. You saw people standing up shoulder to shoulder, neighbor to neighbor and saying ‘we want our government back’ And in doing so the real emotion on display was about hope.Scott Walker says, hurrah for recalls! WHY did we not hear about this during the 2011 recall campaign?!
More tooth-rattling hypocrisy, beyond the jump.