WISCONSIN, A QUESTION OF TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?

Well after much what's been described as being much prodding from the local Democrat officials there in Wisconsin, it would seem that the Democrat National Committee (DNC), apparently fearing what is likely to be a rather embarrassing defeat in the June 5 Wisconsin recall election, is being forced, is apparently now attempting, at least, to take a more active role and is now actually issuing fund-raising appeals to help their candidate defeat Republican Gov. Scott Walker. But with less than two weeks to go until the recall election, might it all be a case of too little, too late? With recent polls now showing Walker leading Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and after Walker received a pretty significant endorsement form the state's largest newspaper, DNC Chair Debbie Wizzerman Schultz's decision, on Wednesday, to finally issue an email appeal appears to be more for show than anything else. In her rather lackluster request for funds she wrote, "It's up to Democrats across the country to help win this thing." Adding, "Winning in Wisconsin sends a powerful message to the far-right extremists, and it starts to roll back their worst offenses. To build our organization and make it happen, Democrats need to come together to turn out hundreds of thousands of voters -- and we all have a part to play." Ya know, at this late stage I would think it would almost be better to do nothing than to send out such an idiotic email. But hey, I'm not a brain dead Democrat.

It was almost two weeks ago, on May 14 I think, that The Washington Post first reported the fact that Wisconsin Democrats were more than just a little "furious" with the Democratic National Committee for "refusing to invest big money" in the effort to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. “We are frustrated by the lack of support from the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Governors Association,” a top Wisconsin Democratic Party official told Post reporter Greg Sargent. “Scott Walker has the full support and backing of the Republican Party and all its tentacles. We are not getting similar support.” Funny, a Democrat referencing "tentacles", that's a little ironic. Anyway, it then took the DNC nine days to issue its "win this thing" appeal. Then on Thursday, it was Politico who kind of wondered aloud if the "whole thing might backfire" by "elevating Walker into a tested-by-fire, conservative cult-hero and exposing the limits of the Democrats’ ability to exact revenge in the next statehouse where they’re wronged." If Walker survives the recall, Politico went on to say, not only will he be "lionized his GOP colleagues for embarrassing Big Labor and forcing the left to pour cash down the drain in a presidential election year, he’ll be credited with making the state more competitive for Mitt Romney." And rightly so!!

It was also on Thursday, that the Milwaukee-Journal-Sentinel took note of the fact that Barry "has avoided taking a vocal role" in the recall election, "and there is little expectation of an Obama visit to Wisconsin in the homestretch of the campaign." RNC Chairman Reince Priebus was quoted as saying that Barry isn't going to get involved in a race that Democrats, and big labor, might actually lose. A May 9-12 Marquette Law School poll gave Walker a 50-44 lead over Barrett, with a 4-point margin of error. A Reason-Rupe poll, conducted May 14-18 by ORC International, showed Walker leading Barrett 50-42 among likely voters, with a 3.7-point margin of error. I'm sure we all remember what it was that lead up to this recall nonsense. It's all because he pushed through a law in 2011 limiting collective bargaining for the state's public employees. He also required them to contribute more toward their own pensions and healthcare premiums. Walker said the changes were needed to help balance the state's budget, but Democrats and labor unions called it union-busting. And like a bunch of brain dead hoodlums, idiotic union and liberal activists stirred up all manner of protests and literally trashed the state capital in the process all the while making national headlines. But Walker and Republican state lawmakers never wavered, and they passed a law curbing collective bargaining, even though all 14 State Democrats, behaving like spoiled brats, fled to Illinois in an attempt to block the vote.