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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>I was sickened when I watched Democracy Now this
evening and saw that the bastard Walker withstood a recall election by a 7 %
margain.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG> <FONT size=3>I found several things
inetersting that was stated by John Nichols and pointed out by Amy
Goodman.</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>1) Walker outspent his opponent by a 7 to 1
margain, mainly money from outside Wisconsin</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>2) The dems in Wisconsin did NOT make the issue of
collective bargaining rights THE issue.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Walker and his people did, starting last year.
With their own distorted propoganda spin of course.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>3) The national republican party pulled out all of
the stops to get Walker re-elected ( so to speak ) both with money and
staffers.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>4) the DNC sent only a few thousand dollars
and few if any staffers for a get out the vote effort and
Obama sent a Tweet on election day !</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>In fact, Obama avioded making ANY appearance in
Wisconsin nor did he publicly speak a single word about the
campaign.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>What do these facts speak volumes about
?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>My take is that Obama and the DNC SUPPORT Walker's
agenda !</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>David Johnson</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=cge@shout.net href="mailto:cge@shout.net">C. G. Estabrook</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=sf-core@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:sf-core@yahoogroups.com">sf-core</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 06, 2012 5:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [sf-core] WI shows why Obama
will probably lose</DIV>
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Tuesday, <A
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Governor Scott Walker humiliated his Democratic opponent, Tom Barrett, by
easily turning back a popular recall attempt sponsored by unions and liberal
activists. The numbers in the election, which were supposed to be close,
were<A style="COLOR: rgb(85,136,170); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/june-5-recall-election-results-155977565.html"
data="bitly_hover_card"> ugly</A>, in favor of the Republican.
But this wasn’t just any Republican, Scott Walker is THE Republican, the
politician who made his governorship a referendum on a hard right agenda,
in a blue state. Walker waged a direct and very public attack on
the major constituencies of the Democratic Party, rolling back rights for
women, the working class, and the young with measures such as ending
collective bargaining for state employees, privatizing state assets, and
repealing Wisconson’s equal pay provisions for women. His agenda
provoked a fierce reaction – – Wisconsin citizens occupied the Statehouse
for months - and then a recall.</DIV>
<DIV
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Optima, Arial, sans-serif; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Yesterday,
Walker’s agenda was ratified by the voters of Wisconsin, the state where
public sector unions were born. It’s hard to overstate how bad this is –
Wisconsin is now on the road to becoming a right-to-work state, in what is
likely to become a right-to-work country. Right-to-work laws are
provisions that allow individual employees to withdraw from unions, and they
make it much harder for unions to organize.</DIV>
<DIV
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Optima, Arial, sans-serif; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">And
the deeper you look into the race, the worse it looks. By calling for a
recall instead of a general strike after Walker stripped collective
bargaining rights and cut benefits for workers, labor and Democratic
leadership in the state diverted and then subverted populist energy,
channeling it into an electoral process (at least one union, one very active
in the occupation of the Capitol,<A
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href="http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=36862"
data="bitly_hover_card">stood apart</A> from the electoral stupidity).
Then, Barrett, an anti-labor centrist, won the Democratic primary by
crushing his labor-backed opponent, Kathleen Falk. Finally, Barrett
himself was destroyed by Scott Walker, who outspent Barrett 7-1 with corporate
money. In other words, first, liberals lost a policy battle, then they
failed to strike, then they lost a primary election, then they lost a general
election to the most high-profile effective reactionary policy-maker in the
country. The conservative beat the moderate who beat the liberal.
And had Barrett won, he wouldn’t even have rolled back Walker’s agenda.
Somehow, in a no-win electoral situation, Democrats and labor managed to
lose as badly as they possibly could.</DIV>
<DIV
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Optima, Arial, sans-serif; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">What
happened?</DIV>
<DIV
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wish I could say I had a new insight, but it’s basically the same problem I’ve
been writing about for years. Put simply, it’s that Obama’s policy
framework is now the policy framework of the Democratic Party, liberals, and
unionism. Up and down the ticket, Democrats are operating under the
shadow of the President, associated with unpopular policies that make the
lives of voters worse and show government to be an incompetent, corrupt
handmaiden to big <A
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So they keep losing.</DIV>
<DIV
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should be obvious that if you foreclose on your voters, cut their pay, and
legalize theft of their wealth by Wall Street oligarchs, they won’t be your
voters anymore. Somehow, Democratic activists continue to operate as if
policy doesn’t matter to voters, or that policy evaluation is a Chinese menu
of different stuff, some of which you like and some of which you don’t, as in
“Oh I’ll take a pro-choice moderate, with a bailout, and gay rights. And
a Pepsi”. But that’s not how it works – voters’ lives get better, or
they don’t. And under <A
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stuff has gotten worse. Obama’s economic policies have made
economic <A style="COLOR: rgb(85,136,170); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/growth-of-income-inequality-is-worse-under-obama-than-bush.html"
data="bitly_hover_card">inequality sharper </A> than it was under
Bush, due to his bailout of banks and concurrent <A
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href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/barney-frank-obama-rejected-bush-administration-concession-to-write-down-mortgages.html"
data="bitly_hover_card">elimination of the main source of wealth of most
Americans</A>, home equity. With these policy choices, Obama destroyed
the Democratic Party and liberalism – under Obama’s first two years, the
fastest growing demographic party label <A
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href="http://rooseveltinstitute.org/in-the-news/what-democrats-can-do-about-obama"
data="bitly_hover_card">was “former Democrat.”</A> Liberalism demands
that people pay for a government, but why should anyone want to pay taxes for
the terrible governance Obama has implemented?</DIV>
<DIV
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Optima, Arial, sans-serif; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">We
saw Democrats lose elections badly in 2009 and 2010 because of this dynamic.
They didn’t self-correct, instead doubling down on Obama. Then, in
Illinois and Maryland in April, liberal labor-backed candidates were
absolutely wrecked in primaries. <A
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href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/internet-democrats-take-a-beating-in-illinois.html"
data="bitly_hover_card">I noted </A>at the time in a piece titled “<A
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href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/internet-democrats-take-a-beating-in-illinois.html"
data="bitly_hover_card">Why Is the Left Slice of the Democrats Getting
Crushed?</A>” that this is a consequence of Obama’s policies and a general
discrediting of liberalism. In Wisconsin, the stage was much more
high-profile, but the dynamics were the same. This quote could just as
easily apply to either contest.</DIV>
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<DIV>“I’m flabbergasted. I’m embarrassed. This is the biggest screw-up
electorally that I’ve ever been involved in,” said one progressive activist
still sorting through the wreckage.</DIV>
<DIV><A style="COLOR: rgb(85,136,170); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/ilya-sheyman-illinois-congress-progressives_n_1372454.html?ref=politics"
data="bitly_hover_card">“Why Ilya Sheyman And Progressives Lost Big In
Illinois’ 10th District Primary”</A>, Huffington Post</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV
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it’s not complete to say this is just Obama’s doing. Obama has done
everything he’s done with the support of labor leaders, Democratic supportive
groups like Moveon, foundations, liberal pundits, African-American church
networks, feminist groups, LGBT groups, and <A
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Any of these could have stopped him by withdrawing support and overtly
attacking him, but only the LBGT community fought for their rights. This
American labor bureaucracy, which simply does not strike and therefore has no
leverage against capital, operates largely as a group of fragmented business
unionists. Unfortunately, business unions don’t exist when business
decides it doesn’t want unions. And that’s what global business elites
have decided, as this piece published on this very site titled <A
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href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/02/matt-stoller-the-liquidation-of-society-versus-the-global-labor-revival.html"
data="bitly_hover_card">The Liquidation of Society versus the Global Labor
Revival</A> shows.</DIV>
<DIV
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href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/06/wisconsin-recap-thanks-to-obama-american-left-lies-in-smoldering-wreckage.html/strikes-involving-more-than-1k-workers"
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<DIV
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September of 2011, I suggested that Democrats <A
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href="http://rooseveltinstitute.org/in-the-news/what-democrats-can-do-about-obama"
data="bitly_hover_card">replace Barack Obama on the top of the ticket</A>.
My rationale was that Obama’s policy framework is a disaster, and the
failure to stand up to him is causing a meltdown of institutional elements of
the Democratic Party. Ahead of the Wisconsin recall, emails from liberal
internet groups flooded supporters asking for money and time, saying your
dollars or your vote matters. But they didn’t matter. And in terms
of 2012, your voice won’t matter. Here’s what I said in 2011.</DIV>
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<DIV>For Obama, the die is cast. He has put forward his economic program,
and it will work to return jobs and income, and get the votes, or it won’t.
Knocking on doors won’t change that, nor will a donation in a $6 billion
election season.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Optima, Arial, sans-serif; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">That’s
still true. Of course, that’s not what high profile Democratic
consultants are going to tell you. Here’s former White House official
and current Democratic SuperPAC operative Bill Burton, retweeting <A
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href="https://twitter.com/billburton716/status/210194658326872066"
data="bitly_hover_card">former Clinton political consultant Paul
Begala</A>.</DIV>
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<DIV>RT <A style="COLOR: rgb(85,136,170); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="https://twitter.com/PaulBegala"
data="bitly_hover_card"><S>@</S><STRONG>PaulBegala</STRONG></A> One WI
lesson: Dems must not allow the right to outspend us 7 to 1 if we want to
re-elect POTUS? <A
style="COLOR: rgb(85,136,170); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="https://twitter.com/search/%23wirecall"
data="bitly_hover_card"><S>#</S><STRONG>wirecall</STRONG></A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV
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largely insulated himself from the consequences of his policies, so far, with
a strong and aggressive PR campaign that has kept his approval ratings high
enough to potentially win in 2012. This PR campaign blames everyone else
for policy failures, from Democrats in Congress to Republicans in Congress to
the Eurozone. Regardless of what happens, Obama will reap enormous
monetary rewards for what he’s done, as <A
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href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/its-not-about-reelection-bill-clintons-80-million-payday.html"
data="bitly_hover_card">Bill Clinton’s $80 million post-election payday
shows</A>. And if Obama loses, the recriminations will start, and
liberals will take the blame for not allowing Obama to be centrist enough.
At this point, the Democratic Party is hopelessly broken and overrun by
the same interests that are running the Republican Party. I hate to be
the bearer of such awful news, so I’ll end this on an up note.</DIV>
<DIV
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are not alone, and the system is weak. There is an international
movement, led at this moment by Alexis Tsipras of Greece (though he could
betray or lose), to reject the destructive neoliberalism that has run our
world for forty years. These movements are contagious. Meanwhile,
the financial system is teetering on another meltdown, and meltdowns do create
opportunities for new social movements and elite shifts in opinion. If
we can figure out how to interrupt the stream of profit and commerce, or
persuade a slice of the elites that they do not want to live in the nice
gilded parts of what is increasingly becoming a global prison, then the
revival can come much quicker than anyone imagines.</DIV>
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