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hue

(4,949 posts)
Tue May 22, 2012, 04:26 PM May 2012

Scott Walker Is Not Alone, Nor a Fan of Deer-Hunting

I was wandering, as I am wont to do these days, because I am an elderly blogger who has no life, through the various news from Wisconsin, where many people are seeking to rid themselves of Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as, well, the state of Wisconsin. I first thought I'd comment on Racine, historic fount of hot, hot recall action:...

I don't understand how this is bad. In the first place, it's not "politics by any means." It's people availing themselves of a political remedy that once was the pride of Wisconsin progressivism, back in the day when people cared about such things, back during the last time we had a Gilded Age. Once again, you can't complain about the fact that nobody participates in politics and then complain when they do.

And that I thought was going to be that, until I came upon the fact that Walker, in an act that can be attributed only to either overwhelming confidence in his ability to retain his job on June 5, or as an act of obvious public political suicide, has decided to muck around with Wisconsinites' ability to shoot deer.

Walker's already better than halfway to selling off all of Wisconsin's public lands to private pillage, but Dr. James Kroll, the guy Walker has put in charge of deer hunting, takes things to a whole 'nother level. (First hint that Wisconsinites are being sold out? Handing their deer hunting authority over to a guy from Texas.) Back in 2002, Joe Nick Patoski of Texas Monthly wrote a long piece about the battle over deer hunting regulations in that state, and Kroll obliged by doing a half-gainer off the deep end. You see, Kroll doesn't believe in public lands. Her believes that the rights of plutocracy extend even to the wild spaces, and is a big fan of the kind of ranches that Dick Cheney goes to so he can mistake his friend for a dove and shoot him in the face....

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/scott-walker-deer-hunting-9037797#ixzz1vdFg823h

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