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Ugh . . . when a politician's handlers start to "clean up" evidence of her past idiocies, it can only mean she's being groomed as a candidate. I hope the Dems were smart enough to save copies ... they should make for entertaining, and useful, TV fodder.

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I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Wisconsin and I remember the schools and teachers being very good. Scott Walkers is hell bent on fucking up a good thing. I suspect it’s all because he couldn’t get through college.

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See also NFL, St. Louis.

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A stadium that provides a couple of hundred minimum-wage jobs slinging plastic cups of watery beer to drunken basketball fans for 41 nights a year is what they have now.

How a spiifier stadium makes for NEW jobs (other than keeping some construction workers busy for a year or so) has yet to be explained.

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Stupidity isn't really an <i>accent.</i>

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I always liked the sound of "shat" . . . but I could never figure out what the past participle would be.

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Better you than us. The Patriots came <i>this</i> close to getting fucked over, in their third consecutive Super Bowl, by a redonkulous are-you-kidding-me? catch. No amount of therapy or medication would have helped.

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Florida's application for a ballot listing has a requirement: "attach rap sheet and mug shots here."

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Every teabagging dipshit in the U.S. Congress?

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Apologies for being late to the party. Walker wins because no one comes out to vote. Out of the three wins he has recorded, his high water mark is 1.3 million votes and change. in 2012, Mitt Romney got 1.4 million votes <i> and lost </i>. President Obama averaged about 1.6 mil. With any luck, 2016 will see a return to form and deny him his home state in front of the nation.

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I am very surprised that the same tired GOP plan of cutting taxes and never paying for them would create debt or not automatically create jobs. Oh wait, no. IT HAPPENS EVERY DAMN TIME.

One wonders if the people of Wisconsin could see fit to, oh I don't know, STOP ELECTING HIM!

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In hindsight it would've been pragmatic, after the recall election, to send lots of psychologists in to combat the deep self-hatred too many Wisconsin voters share.

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We want him to run and fail, so that he'll return to the state defeated and emasculated. I suspect this is the only way his supporters will realize that he's a fucking douchebag.

Or it will backfire horrible and only harden their resolve. Either way, I'm out of here in 5 months.

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I can't help but think that the long goal of this is to create a reinforcing feedback loop of uneducated people who are unable to better themselves and who vote GOP out of a sense of deep seated resentment.

First Act 10, then gutting the UW, it's like a blueprint for creating dumb, poor people, AKA, tea party republicans.

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The NBA is aiding and abetting this larceny by threatening to order the Bucks to relocate if they don't have an arena or concrete plans for one by 2017. Because clearly the priority is a barely-passable NBA team that at best serves as cannon fodder for whatever team ends up at the top of the Eastern Conference.

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