Here in Wisconsin: God Help Us Edition

Via we learn that Scott Walker is an authoritarian nut job:

"What we're doing here, I think, is progressive. It's innovative. It's reform that leads the country, and we're showing there's a better way by sharing in that sacrifice with all of us in government," he said.

Because nothing says shared sacrifice like union busting and pay cuts to the workers of the world while extending tax cuts to the Galtian job creators toward whom we ought all of us be more reverential.

His notion of leadership seems a bit, let's call it, flawed:

"People, I believe, in times of crisis want leadership," he said. "They want leaders who identify the problem, identify a solution and then act on it. That's what we did." 

Personally, I think people in times of crisis or non-crisis want leaders who work to find a correct solution to a problem, as opposed to a flawed, false, and dangerous putting-out-the-fire-with-gasoline nonsense like this.
 
What Walker and Co are doing -- if you think about it -- amounts to punishing the innocent victims of the Wall Street crooks for the economic damage done by the Wall Street crooks twice, first by baling out the banks and then by destroying their livelihoods because bailing everybody out after years of tax cuts left us "broke."

Which leads us back to Walker's heart to heart with Koch:

I pulled out a, a picture of Ronald Regan and I said you know this may seem a little melodramatic but 30 years ago Ronald Regan whose 100th birthday we just celebrated the day before um had one of the most defining moments of his political career, not just his presidency, when he fired the air traffic controllers and uh I said to me that moment was more important than just for labor relations and or even the federal budget, that was the first crack in the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism because from that point forward the soviets and the communists knew that Ronald Regan wasn’t a pushover and uh, I said this may not have as broad a world implications but in Wisconsin’s history—little did I know how big it would be nationally, in Wisconsin’s history, I said, this is our moment, this is our time to change the course of history and this is why it’s so important that they were all there. I had a cabinet meeting this morning and I reminded them of that. I said for those who thought I was being melodramatic, you now know it was purely putting it in the right context.

Leaving aside the seriously deranged understanding of history, the obvious question is: who is Walker's enemy here?  Given what he has done and what he is planing on doing, the answer is workers and people in general. What's nice about this is at last the Neoliberal strategy is out of the bag.  We've known for some time that the Neoconservative policy was to bomb anything that looked like it might at some point look cross eyed at them.  Now we know that their domestic buddies the Neoliberals want to, metaphorically for now, bomb the working classes back into the  stone age.