Republican Overreach Prompts Buyers' Remorse...From Republicans

[toddwv]

Looks like the Republicans are painting themselves in a corner as their own base starts to ask questions about the draconian measures being touted by their own party.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Barb Feest wishes she could take back her vote for Wisconsin governor.

The suburban Milwaukee woman cast her ballot for Republican Scott Walker in November. But she could only shake her head recently as she listened at a public forum to how Walker's proposed budget cuts could affect schools.
"He's trying to balance the budget on the backs of teachers," Feest said. "It took so long to get our schools where they are, and they're going to cut it down in, what, two years? It's not right."
Almost five months after the election, Feest and some other Republican voters are having doubts about their choices at the ballot box. Although they consider themselves fiscal conservatives, many of the same people who put Walker and other GOP leaders into office are now having second thoughts, largely because the cuts they are seeking could put the quality of their cherished local schools at risk.

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[Atman]

1. I think I want to rec this, but I can't tell.

Could you please edit out all the other ads and headlines from the article you were posting, so that it is readable?

[toddwv]

2. Done.

I should have read the cut and paste and killed the clutter. My apologies.

[postulater]

3. And Brookfield is about as Republican as WI gets.

[mrcheerful]

4. Yet they still don't get it " Walker is trying to balance the budget on the backs of teachers"

shows exactly what is wrong with R voters. Walker is not balancing a budget he is trying to recover money he gave away to corporations that gave him money on the backs of public employees period. Stupid nit wits out there seem to miss that point, the budget was balanced before Walker decided to give it away to his cronies in the corporate world. Oh and another fact, collective bargaining does nothing to increase or decrease the budget.

[Permanut]

5. Walker is not a conservative...

He's a typical neo con psychopath whose greed for power and money is wrapped in the flag and carrying a Bible (apologies to the spirit of Sinclair Lewis for mangling the phrase). My Dad was a conservative, and he never would have come within a million miles of agreeing on anything with these people. People like Feest, who "consider themselves fiscal conservatives" have been duped.

[Ramulux]

6. This is what news in this country has turned into

"School cuts raise doubts among some GOP voters
They worry that the cuts will undermine the quality of their local districts"



This is most upsetting thing I have read in a while. We live in a country where people need to be told that cuts to schools tend to make them worse.

How are people so fucking stupid? Do they actually think taking money away from schools will magically make them better?

[Kurovski]

8. They actually do believe in "magic". For decades the righty-tightys have

accused everyone of "throwing money at the schools". People are brainwashed into thinking that schools (unlike wars, buildings, farms, etc)can be built and run on ":magical school marm's" who live in the back of the school, sweep it out every night, and teach 72 students from 6 years to eighteen all they need to know in today's world.

This is not a joke. People are sleepwalking, and still believing this shit on some primal level. Wake them up!

[mrcheerful]

10. That comes from the Abe Lincoln myth about how he lived in a log cabin and was self educated by

books he had loaned to him and read by fire light and/or candle light. Most of that myth was made up and whats even funnier is how folks don't seem to grasp that everyone read by candle/fire light because the electric light bulb wasn't invented until the late 1880's. So if honest Abe could self teach himself so can everyone else.

[DefenseLawyer]

11. People have been told for 40 years that the government is worthless

That they are suckers who pay taxes only to see that money flushed down the drain. There is a total disconnect with these people that their taxes actually go to pay for a lot of things they want. Cut my taxes! Cut my taxes! Wait, what? What do you mean there's no money for the fire department?

[vicarofrevelwood]

7. It's nice to have the new support But,

People like this Fill me with the urge to regurgitate. It was fine till it affected their front yard, OK till they began to suffer, Just dandy till it started to hurt their favorite school district. What the hell did these Idiots think was gonna happen?

[emulatorloo]

9. Most Republicans have difficulty with Empathy. Something has to affect them personally in order

for them to see something is a problem. That's just the way it is. I'm speaking of "real world" republicans, not the politicians.