This isn't the first time that I've read a posting by my friend and former Journal Sentinel newsroom colleague Dom Noth and said, "you know - - he's right."
Noth is suggesting that Walker and his coterie of little dictators and democratic saboteurs will lull Wisconsin into a post-election stupor to more easily launch a plan to tie Tony Evers' hands and extend their power after Walker has ridden off presumably with one last escort under a setting sun.
Writes Noth:
The distraction-filled calendar works to Walker and the plotters' advantage.
Here comes Thanksgiving and days off loom. Trips home and to the grandparents' loom.
Food is to be bought, prepared, eaten, refrigerated and slept off.
Black Friday deals are to be scored on days not named Friday. College basketball and football are on TV.
The Bucks are romping, the Packers are not - - but there's plenty to talk about. Deer hunting has another week to go.
And you want people to smoke out Robin Vos?
And it's also hard to focus when Trump's tweets hit a new low every 20 minutes, or the he tours the wildfire catastrophe in Paradise, California, blames it on leaves not being raked, calls the community "Pleasure," not "Paradise,"and can't outright condemn the murder of a journalist who was living in Virginia whom our leading Saudi ally had dismembered with a bone saw.
Normal people will turn the TV off. Which is what Walker and his cronies are hoping for,
The exhaustion in the body politic here about which Noth is warning is evident in a lack of outrage by opinion-makers and leaders at what Walker and his crew are openly discussing.
I'd hoped for more, because as I'd said a little while ago, you cannot trust the same people who said Act was a "modest" request when they say they have but a few "reasonable" tweaks in mind to lay on Tony Evers in a special session purportedly called to give away some subsidies to the profitable Kimberly-Clark.
I'm glad Dom Noth is raising the alarm again. Others - - non-partisan editorial boards, clergy, and civic leaders - - need to make some noise, too.
Because Walker a vindictive, defeated incumbent bent on restricting with state power an opponent who won a statewide election fair and square.
And that's wrong, and dangerous.
Noth is suggesting that Walker and his coterie of little dictators and democratic saboteurs will lull Wisconsin into a post-election stupor to more easily launch a plan to tie Tony Evers' hands and extend their power after Walker has ridden off presumably with one last escort under a setting sun.
Writes Noth:
Basking in the mammoth November election victory and preparing for a festive holiday season, the Wisconsin public is little in the mood to think of politics or the degree of mischief the Republicans are contemplating in the 40 odd days before Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes are sworn in as Democratic leaders January 7.
This is just the sort of lull the GOP loves to pounce in.I've felt this in my old political bones since the 30,000+ vote smackdown Evers laid on His Cockiness Walker on November 6th - - a rejection which Walker has tried to define as a win to justify the interference he and Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald and others are hatching behind the same closed doors from which sprang Act 10, gerrymandered maps and the Foxconn boondoggle.
The distraction-filled calendar works to Walker and the plotters' advantage.
Here comes Thanksgiving and days off loom. Trips home and to the grandparents' loom.
Food is to be bought, prepared, eaten, refrigerated and slept off.
Black Friday deals are to be scored on days not named Friday. College basketball and football are on TV.
The Bucks are romping, the Packers are not - - but there's plenty to talk about. Deer hunting has another week to go.
And you want people to smoke out Robin Vos?
And it's also hard to focus when Trump's tweets hit a new low every 20 minutes, or the he tours the wildfire catastrophe in Paradise, California, blames it on leaves not being raked, calls the community "Pleasure," not "Paradise,"and can't outright condemn the murder of a journalist who was living in Virginia whom our leading Saudi ally had dismembered with a bone saw.
Normal people will turn the TV off. Which is what Walker and his cronies are hoping for,
The exhaustion in the body politic here about which Noth is warning is evident in a lack of outrage by opinion-makers and leaders at what Walker and his crew are openly discussing.
I'd hoped for more, because as I'd said a little while ago, you cannot trust the same people who said Act was a "modest" request when they say they have but a few "reasonable" tweaks in mind to lay on Tony Evers in a special session purportedly called to give away some subsidies to the profitable Kimberly-Clark.
I'm glad Dom Noth is raising the alarm again. Others - - non-partisan editorial boards, clergy, and civic leaders - - need to make some noise, too.
Because Walker a vindictive, defeated incumbent bent on restricting with state power an opponent who won a statewide election fair and square.
And that's wrong, and dangerous.
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| Author and commentator Dom Noth |