Scott Walker, Promising 'Bold Leadership,' faces GOP Discord in Wisconsin.

[elleng]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/us/politics/scott-walker-promising-bold-leadership-faces-gop-discord-in-wisconsin.html?

[old guy]

1. Discord?

The only discord the repubs are having is if they should screw the people a whole bunch or a whole lot. Don't believe the hype. The Koch bros. totally own the Wi. legislative repubs, therefore, they will do what ALEC tells them to. Discord? Pftt.

[elleng]

2. That's what I thought.

Story says 'leaders' are balking about his demands for the state's budget. They say he's appealing at 'conservatives' in early voting states like Iowa.

[lutefisk]

3. The "discord" is largely just for show

Fitzgerald and Vos, the leaders in the legislature, are well aware of Walker's unpopularity in Wisconsin and are just putting on a little show to distance themselves from the completely self-serving and checked out governor in-name-only. All the bad stuff Walker wants in the budget to use as red meat talking points will remain. I do get the sense, though, that his arrogance, incompetence, and dishonesty is beginning to wear thin with many Republicans, including much of the legislature.

Walker's complete incompetence as a "leader" is on full display for all to see. Even with a state government stacked from top to bottom with hard right wing loyalists, he's completely screwed up the state's economy, education system, and infrastructure, among other things, and is incredibly unpopular with the people of Wisconsin at this point. Not even that popular with his formerly loyal legislature, apparently.