Scott Walker -- Wisconsin's True Progressive

The Aspen Times ^ | June 7, 2012 | Melanie Sturm

[Aspenhuskerette]

Last week, after his criminal trial ended with a hung jury, John Edwards proclaimed hopefully, “I don't think God is through with me,” as he planted the seeds for his comeback. Projecting the false modesty and manufactured authenticity that vaulted the one-term senator toward the presidency, Edwards personifies Groucho Marx's maxim that “The secret to life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

In response to Edwards, I imagined a collective uproar: “Think Again, John — the jig is up!” As Edwards exits stage left, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker takes center stage. He — along with brave governors in New Jersey, Indiana, South

[woweeitsme]

Nice article. Maybe less government will become the “new progressive”.

[GOPJ]

...Wisconsin is proof that the crisis of the modern entitlement state being played out worldwide — from the eurozone to California — doesn't have to be a Greek tragedy. In Wisconsin, even union sympathizers realize everyone is ill-served when the government can't meet its obligations.

Never understood how democrats tooting ideas from the 1930's made them 'progressive' - unless the word means 'backward' in liberal-Newspeak...