Fractures In Fitzwalkerstan Forming Into Fissures Fast

A year ago, I pointed out that the cohesiveness of the rulers of Fitzwalkerstan was not as it appeared, and that fractures were forming.  This was evidenced by the hesitation Senator Dale Schultz expressed when it came to the union-busting, economy-destroying Act 10.

Walker and the Brothers Fitzgerald quickly went into coercion mode and were able to enforce party conformity loyalty long enough to do most of the damage they intended to.

But then something happened that Walker, the Brothers Fitzgerald, the Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Bradley Foundation never took into account when they were devising their maleficent schemes: The people of Wisconsin woke up, then rose up and started to reassert themselves.

The end result was the Republicans lost two seats in the state senate.  Unfortunately, it was not enough stop them, but it was enough to slow them and take away some of their swagger.

The Republicans' bravado was further dampened during the winter when they saw the ease that nearly one million signatures were gathered by the people, despite the winter weather, despite the holidays, and despite all the interference they tried to throw at the people.

They were further rocked and left reeling as Walkergate exploded with several arrests and charges.  It also became quickly apparent that at the center of the Walkergate storm was Scott Walker, whose future looks grimmer with each passing development.

When it became clear that the people's voice would not be silenced and that the people's will would not be thwarted, and that Dearest Leader wasn't such a dear after all, the fractures grew wider and some Republicans, sensing that their ship was about to sink, fled like the rats they are.

The fractures started to become fissures more recently as Senator Dale Schultz, perhaps the last Republican with a conscience, balked at the corporate-written mining bill that would have left the northern part of the state an ecological wreck and stuck the taxpayers with the clean up costs.  Since standing up and doing the proper thing instead of being a conforming sheep like the other Republicans, he has been the subject of the right wing's wrath.

Another fissure opening in Fitzwalkerstan is that some people are again thinking against Walker in the Republican recall primary, as I had thought would happen.  Being concerned about the future of the Republican Party and their ability to maintain control of the government, more and more Republicans feel that Walker's overreach, his dictatorial ways and his legal troubles will doom the party's future.  Thus far, Walker's henchman have been putting the screws to most would be contenders, threatening to pull all party support and even running people against them if they don't toe the line.

The most recent, and most devastating, blow to Fitzwalkerstan came with the sudden resignation of Senator Pam Galloway.  Galloway, who won her seat by a thin margin last year, is one of the next batch of senators facing recall.  She resigned purportedly for sudden and serious health concerns of her family.

This puts Republicans in a real bind.  They have only weeks to find and support a new candidate for that race, which they already had a good chance of losing.  It also takes away their majority in the senate, effectively putting a stop to anymore damage being done, such as the mining bill that looks like it's finally dead for now.

You can tell that the right wing is in a panic when they start trying to again quell the people's right to vote in favor of allowing the already-overreaching Walker to appoint a regent instead of following the law and allowing the recall election to proceed.

The unfortunate part of all of this is that many Republicans don't even have the insight to see that one of their biggest mistakes was to try to throw the people under the bus in favor of the big-moneyed corporate special-interests.  If they listened to the people instead of their greed, they wouldn't be in the fix in which they find themselves.

And frankly, I don't feel sorry for them at all.  They didn't care when they made us suffer for their greed.  I find it difficult to feel sympathy for them now that it's coming back to bite them.

I do, however, look forward to the day Wisconsin takes its rightful place back from the failing Fitzwalkerstan.