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Fox’s Greta Van Susteren Thinks Governor Scott Walker ‘Took The Bait’

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Greta Van Susteren wrote on her blog that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Republican lawmakers made a crucial mistake in their attempt to enforce their controversial collective bargaining bill. A Wisconsin County judge granted a temporary restraining order to opponents of the bill. Instead of responding in court with an appeal, like Walker chose to do, Greta suggests Walker and the Republicans should have just re-passed the bill.

Although Greta thinks if she was in Walkers’ shoes, she would have employed an even better strategy:

“What I would have done if I were Governor of Wisconsin, in addition to re-passing the law, I would have put monitors up in the State Capitol when all the protests were going on and looped the movie ‘Waiting for Superman.’ The movie is very, very harsh on teachers’ unions.”

Given the last confrontation between Greta and Walker resulted in some tough questioning, Walker is likely not thrilled that Greta is questioning his tactics.

Check out Greta’s full advice to Walker at her blog.

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  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    But if she bought the monitors and the rights to air the movie on repeat, she’d be wasting government money. What a big spending d-crat lunatic liberal socialist communist fascist piece of scum!!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    In the “news that the liberal media won’t report on”:

    The Wisconsin State Journal reported

    Gov. Scott Walker was right: The angry crowds in Madison didn’t tell the whole story of how Wisconsinites felt.

    In the week after Walker announced his plan to dramatically curtail public employees’ collective bargaining rights in the state budget repair bill, a wide majority of the emails to him expressed support, an analysis of those emails indicates.

    But that support was significantly boosted by emails from pro-Walker senders from outside Wisconsin.

    The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism analyzed a computer-generated random sample of 1,910 emails from the more than 50,000 that flooded Walker’s office in the week after he unveiled his plan on Feb. 11. Nearly all were related to the bill.

    The emails were released Friday as the result of an open records lawsuit brought in Dane County Circuit Court by Isthmus newspaper and the Wisconsin Associated Press. A settlement reached earlier in the week required the governor to produce the emails and pay the plaintiffs’ legal fees, which totaled just over $7,000.

    At the request of Isthmus, the Center analyzed the emails. A team of reporters logged each of the emails in the sample as for or against the bill, unclear or unrelated. They also noted the location of the sender when possible.

    Of the emails related to the bill, 62 percent supported it, while 32 percent opposed it. The margin of error for the Center’s sample size is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    In the “news that the liberal media won’t report on”:

    The Wisconsin State Journal reported

    Gov. Scott Walker was right: The angry crowds in Madison didn’t tell the whole story of how Wisconsinites felt.

    In the week after Walker announced his plan to dramatically curtail public employees’ collective bargaining rights in the state budget repair bill, a wide majority of the emails to him expressed support, an analysis of those emails indicates.

    But that support was significantly boosted by emails from pro-Walker senders from outside Wisconsin.

    The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism analyzed a computer-generated random sample of 1,910 emails from the more than 50,000 that flooded Walker’s office in the week after he unveiled his plan on Feb. 11. Nearly all were related to the bill.

    The emails were released Friday as the result of an open records lawsuit brought in Dane County Circuit Court by Isthmus newspaper and the Wisconsin Associated Press. A settlement reached earlier in the week required the governor to produce the emails and pay the plaintiffs’ legal fees, which totaled just over $7,000.

    At the request of Isthmus, the Center analyzed the emails. A team of reporters logged each of the emails in the sample as for or against the bill, unclear or unrelated. They also noted the location of the sender when possible.

    Of the emails related to the bill, 62 percent supported it, while 32 percent opposed it. The margin of error for the Center’s sample size is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

    But of course e-mailers themselves are not a representative sample, even if the sample of emails chosen was at random.

  • LeviCoultify

    Publius219 said:
    But if she bought the monitors and the rights to air the movie on repeat, she’d be wasting government money. What a big spending d-crat lunatic liberal socialist communist fascist piece of scum!!

    beat me to it :P

  • Wallycrawler

    …and after she tells da Governor what to do, she will immediately beam up to a Hostel Prison Planet to break the beam that’s containing Xenu The Galactic Overlord. Then they will rule Wisconsin and the peons that simply want a middle class existence. As she is now TheTan IIII.

  • Barack Must Go

    Publius219 said:
    But if she bought the monitors and the rights to air the movie on repeat, she’d be wasting government money. What a big spending d-crat lunatic liberal socialist communist fascist piece of scum!!

    What the……..? The movie cost less than $20.00 at any Walmart. The State of Wisconsin has the monitors. The only problem, as I see it, would be the left wing hipster / animals would possibly stop beating on their cat litter pails with a drumstick and throw it through the screen.

    As far as cost concerns, revoting the exact same bill, after 2 days notice, would take approximately 2 minutes, like before. The cost involved would be negligable. Instead they now are subject to days, maybe weeks of protracted days in the courtroom, lawyers and all ancillary personel, paperwork, etc.

    The cost of the court battles, circus of union thugs, left wing zealots, and sundry extras, along with the well documented damage, control of same and clean up will surely cost into the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands.

    I think someone owes someone an apology…no?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Re-Greta Bull should stick to murder stories. I hope she gives political advice to Obama.

  • Yoda002

    Walker will need some bait for his fishing pole when he’s ice fishing next January as the ex governor.

  • George 3rd

    It doesn’t matter what Gov. Walker does with any legislation.

    The democrats of Wisconsin have long decided that our constitution means nothing. The will try to use the activist judges in Wisconsin to strike down any law that the governor and the republican legislature pass. By using the legal system and the courts they hope to have any law put down or put on hold long enough to possibly get 1 or 2 republicans recalled and thereby have a closer majority in the legislature.

    However, there are just as many democrats being petitioned for recall as republicans (don’t see in media).

    This is another reason why elections matter, judge races are more important, they can legislate from the bench, and ignore the laws and constitution.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Yoda002 said:
    Walker will need some bait for his fishing pole when he’s ice fishing next January as the ex governor.

    LOL, I bet you don’t know they can’t even start a recall petition on the Gov. until next Jan. LOL

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