goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to run their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, got to take his victory lap on the Sunday shows this weekend, and he started something of a flap by appearing to criticize Willard Romney's loose talk about schoolteachers and firefighters and what Wisconsin Really Meant. And Steve M over at No More Mister Nice Blog is correct when he says that, had Bill Clinton ever criticized the president this directly, my man Chuck Todd (among others) would be evincing cow-like obstetrical symptoms for at least a month. But, to me, the truly salient point is that, whether he stepped on Willard's dick or not, Scott Walker remains a truly monumental bullshit artist:

"I think in our case what they wanted is people willing to take on the tough issues not only here in Wisconsin but across the country... I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. That's not what I think of when I think of big government.

To believe him, you have to believe that he was completely unaware of one of the basic dynamics of the election that allowed him to stay in office — namely, that private-sector workers resent the hell out of the "luxurious" benefits that accrue to being a firefighter or a teacher, which thereby requires you to believe that he wasn't serious when he got caught on video talking about his "divide and conquer" strategy to his sugar mama who wanted to know when he was going to make Wisconsin a right-to-work state. You have to forget that he deliberately left cops out of his assault in collective bargaining, a move that was purely political. (And which didn't work. The cops got pissed, too.) You also have to have completely forgotten that he went before Congress and pretty much fudged his rationale to the point where some Democrats wondered if he should have a chance to "clarify" his remarks. And you have to have forgotten that, under his "reforms," 411 of the state's 434 school districts wound up cutting their budgets, and Wisconsin's public universities suffered by, among other things, having to delay or cancel needed capital improvements.

(He's also pretty dumb, as witness: That's the answer to truly stimulate the economy. That's what we saw generation ago when President Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1981. In '82 we saw at the beginning of that unemployment even higher than we saw even at the height of this recession.But after it had a time to go in to effect we saw the largest peace-time economic boom in American history. It can happen again. Can anyone see Clio, Muse Of History tying Scotty's shoelaces together here? I can.)

If he wants to go on with Bob Schieffer and sling this malarkey, that's his business. But he knows what got him elected again — big money and big resentment, both of which he was counting on from the beginning. Also, too — not one question about the ongoing John Doe investigation. Journalmalism!

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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