Posted on 07/19/2015 1:02:21 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Scott Walker, along with Ted Cruz and perhaps a handful of others on the Right, understands the pernicious nature of the kind of “bipartisanship” that has give us the likes of Poppy and W. Bush, and is currently exemplified in the current entitled scion, Jeb. It’s a terrible, undemocratic idea:
The town hall attendee asked for the microphone to pose this question to newly announced presidential candidate Scott Walker: Americans are fed up with the partisan gridlock in Washington, so what would he do as president to “end the partisanship and parochialism that is really stifling this great country”?
Walker is best-known for fighting Democrats, labor unions and liberal activists in Wisconsin, where he is the purple state’s polarizing governor. Many Democrats feel like Walker has bulldozed over them and ignored their concerns in pushing his conservative agenda. Many Democratic lawmakers in Madison are so angered by the governor that they have difficulty making it through a budget hearing, press conference or even a casual coffee without launching into a frustrated tirade about everything he has done wrong in their state. Walker’s announcement immediately prompted criticism from prominent Democrats, something he has bragged about on the campaign trail.
So here’s how Walker answered that town hall question: “As I talk to people across this country — not just the Republican caucus voters and primary voters but to people in general — what people are frustrated with more so than that, I think it’s elevated higher, is they’re frustrated particularly with Washington not being able to get anything done.”
Walker said his secret to winning three elections in four years, including a controversial recall election, is that he not only carried nearly all Republicans, but he also won over independent voters. Elsewhere, Walker has also said that he won over some “discerning Democrats.”
“What I think people are hungry for from their leaders in Washington — or the lack of leadership in Washington — is they want people who just tell them what they’re going to do and then they go off and do it,” Walker said.
The Trump boomlet (which eventually will peter out) speaks exactly to that sense of frustration, just as the Buchanan and Perot boomlets did before it. Still, every normal American feels these days like he is living in an insane asylum of shadow over substance; of words and gestures and “nuance,” in which just about every politician turns out to be a self-aggrandizing, lying weasel. And they’re right. Maybe Walker will turn out to be one as well. But up to this point, his track record speaks for itself. Which is more than can be said of just about every other candidate in the race so far.
Walker expounds on leadership and gridlock and voter frustration.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Geese maybe walker could end the Mexican embassy contingent setting up camp under his authority
APPLETON (AP) - Wisconsin officials are working to better serve the rapidly growing Hispanic community in the state, with a little help from the Mexican Consulate in Chicago.
About once a month, the mobile office visits a Wisconsin city to renew Mexican passports and consular identification cards, saving thousands of people from having to take a trip to Chicago. The consulate has served more than 9,900 Mexican nationals so far in 2014 by offering services in Appleton, Beloit, Green Bay, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine and Waukesha, according to Sepulveda.
“It’s more than a three-hour trip to Chicago and the passport is the primary form of ID. So it’s a service that the Chicago consulate provides ... to attend to Mexican nationals over here,” Sepulveda said.
The consulate also serves Mexican nationals living in northern Illinois and Indiana.
Gov. Scott Walker met with Mexican Undersecretary Sergio Alcocer on Friday to discuss opening a consulate in Milwaukee
He’s determined to win Iowa and I think he will!
I would suppose that you are against all US consulates and embassies in all foreign countries provided services to US citizens?
“As I talk to people across this country — not just the Republican caucus voters and primary voters but to people in general — what people are frustrated with more so than that, I think it’s elevated higher, is they’re frustrated particularly with Washington not being able to get anything done.”
I am not frustrated with Washington not being able to get anything done, I am frustrated with Washington doing anything at all.
What do you think would happen to a democrat, any democrat, that reaches across the isle to work with republicans?
I do not ever want to hear the words “compromise” and “bipartisanship” again.
I will not vote for any person who speaks this words or any synonym of these words.
I am not interested in government propaganda, GOP propaganda, or any person spewing either.
I want Washington out of my life.
I can see who Walker is. He is no different than Chris Christie.
To Hell with them both.
APPLETON (AP) - Wisconsin officials are working to better serve the rapidly growing Hispanic community in the state, with a little help from the Mexican Consulate in Chicago’
You can believe that it is for U.S. citizens.
Wasn’t saying it was. Was just wondering if you were against US consulates in other countries the same way you appear to be against Mexican consulates in the US.
No
You’re not winning me over to walker though
Not trying to. Just pointing out the inconsistence of your objection.
Then What’s Walker getting involved for?
There are no inconsistencies. This contingent is to assist with the influx of Mexicans.
Since Walker is such an immigration hardliner (as some would have us believe)....why hasn’t he taken any action against the sanctuary cities in his state?
I didn’t say walker was an immigration hardliners can’t find word one on a simple google search anything on his position on immigration
Or anything else except his union thing where there is zero indication of his motive
Strange, a google search on 'walker immigration hardline' seems to pull up lots of words.
Unless you are playing the liberal game of suggestive editing. "I couldn't find a single word - I found many words." If you are going to try something this stupid, at least claim something that is unverifiable.
Heaven forbid that Republicans act like a majority when they are in the majority. When was the last time that Democrats gave any concern to conservatives when they were in the majority. It is time to end the ratchet creep to the Left. When Republicans are in the majority they should be just as forceful as Democrats have been since the day of FDR.
Oh. I mean any immigration stance presaging March 2015, which most would take to be for support and subject to change. We’ve seen quite enough rubios
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