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The Spectacle Blog
Leading Democrats have begun to criticize the whole idea of trying to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Retiring Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank told the Hill:
I think the people on the Democratic side made a big mistake and the funding thing was a big deal. My side picked a fight they shouldn’t have picked. The recall was upsetting to people, the rerun of the election with [Democratic Milwaukee Mayor] Tom Barrett — it’s not a fight I would have picked. People need to be more strategic about the fights they pick.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a past chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also second-guessed the recall: “It was a dumb political fight — I would have waited until Walker’s reelection.” But Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin dismissed the idea that Democratic leaders could have stopped a grassroots initiative: “When over 30,000 people just decided they were going to start circulating petitions, what do you do? It was going to happen.”
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Simon Templar| 6.6.12 @ 7:06PM
Recaller's remorse?
They should be having remorse about all of it from the sit-ins, protests, smear campaigns, false doctor notes, leaving the state, acting like juvenile delinquents, and their stupid, stubborn, ungrateful attitudes.
ggoblue| 6.6.12 @ 7:49PM
so basically they are an uncontrollable rabble of radical assholes....
when your enemy tries to hang himself, feed him more rope.
BD57| 6.6.12 @ 7:59PM
Funny we didn't hear from Barney Frank & Ed Rendell when all this stuff was being ginned up ....
PCPSmoker| 6.6.12 @ 9:32PM
Barney has 20/20 hindsight. He came out against Obamacare, after seeing what a piece of shit that has become for the Dems. Now, he is railing against the recall. Interestingly, Old Homo was nowhere to be found on the opposing side of Obamacare or the recall effort. He has very little to say relative to another monstrosity -- the Frank Dodd financial bill.
Oldefarte| 6.7.12 @ 9:55AM
Let me repeat myself.....ANYONE who votes for a Democrat or Obama is STUPID!!!!!!!!!
ONTIME| 6.7.12 @ 1:54PM
The unions and the Deemers were howling about outside money influence and they got out spent, that is anothe flatass lie by the thuggs. The unions and Deemers put up $60 mil to get this recall and lost their butts and most of the money came from outside sources. The risk was the commonsense passion to defeat the unions and money didn't matter it was the taxpayer being sick and tired of being made fools of by deemer politicians and union thuggs...hard lessons always leave a mark..
Ruckweiler| 6.7.12 @ 6:04PM
Glad to see these freaks with their butts in the dirt. Their pestilence has bedeviled us long enough.