The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Wisconsin is Stalingrad. Get on the bus.

    By jollyroger on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 12:20am |

    Learning that the evil genius Moriarty David Koch is throwing down big time to protect his favorite toady, Governor (for now) Scott Walker, the people must rise up like a wounded  beast and here draw the high water mark of the counter revolution.

     

    Bear in mind that Koch is the second generation of a revanchist tendency that looked with revulsion upon a war hero president who, incidentally, foresaw with chilling accuracy the stranglehold that military spending would someday achieve upon the public purse.

     

    Daddy Koch was an ur-Bircher.

     

    One thousand cities, one thousand busses, forty thousand volunteers on June 5 getting out the vote.

     

    If we cannot turn back the Walkers, the reactionaries will prey upon the corpse of American democracy.

     

    The people must win in Wisconsin.  It is Stalingrad.

    Comments

    Ten style points for the innovative Godwin.


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 12:23am

    It just hit me.

    If we had been experiencing the global warming in 1940 that we experience today--the NAZI's might have taken Stalingrad!


    by Richard Day on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 1:20pm

    I feel a meme comin' on....

     

    Hitler loved global warming, so the Repugnants are just like....Hey, y'know what, that works...


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 3:33pm

    Napoleon got trapped by an early spring - mud, not ice and snow, brought disaster in Russia (including river crossings that melted too early, but mostly just impenetrable sludge)


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 5:01am

    Rove: If Walker wins, Ryan for VP nominee.  Another reason to hit the streets.


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 5:23pm

    Thanks for this, J.R. I believe you are right about Wisconsin as Stalingrad. I wish I felt more confident about sending Walker and the Fitzgeralds packing, but it remains a contest. The effect of Citizens United is really oppressive here on the ground, as is the lack of imagination and dearth of true populist leadership in the Dem Party.

    This is perhaps best described by showing (Dept. of Labor statistics) how Wisconsin is the only state of the fifty that actually LOST jobs last year, yet Walker retains status as a credible choice in the upcoming election. He's gotta go. The sense of entitlement that presently drives the rapacious one percent would be greatly fortified with a Walker win. It just can't happen.


    by SleepinJeezus on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 11:28am

    true populist leadership in the Dem Party.

     

    ​We should'a sent Obama a pair of Thom McCann "marching shoes" every day until the media picked it up, or he showed up to march  the way he promised, the weasel...

     


    by jollyroger on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 10:00pm

    Agreed. But I would of course have suggested Allen Edmonds shoes, made in Port Washington, WI. :O)


    by SleepinJeezus on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 4:29am

    The failure of the left to show any sense of urgency (where the fuck are the house parties with call lists of registered dems to work from, a la OFA /moveon circa 2008?) is depressing. where IS moveon?

    by jollyroger on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 12:42pm

    Bill Clinton is on the bus. Barack Obama, not so much....What, you're surprised?

    by jollyroger on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 4:57am

    But the Bill/Barack situation is a horse apiece for lefties isn't it? Because at nearly the same time Bill got on that bus he also announced to all and sundry that he thinks Bain Capital is just fine and dandy, and one shouldn't bash Romney for being a part of it, when he knew full well the Obama team wanted to bash that meme ad nauseum.


    by artappraiser on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 12:43am

    Bill is a team player ...he has a NASCAR jacket that says so, right on the back...it says TEAM CLINTON.


    by jollyroger on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 1:00am