Boo Hoo! Your Schadenfreude Video of The Day

This is truly pitiful:

I didn't cry that hard when Obama was elected!

Note that Scott Walker's reforms ended mandatory union membership and compulsory union dues. That, for the left wing statist, is the end of the world.

Update: Looks like this one is becoming an instant classic of irony.

Update II: RCP provides a transcript of what Mike the Tom Barrett volunteer said:

"We're not just disappointed, this is the end of democracy. We just got outspent $34 million to $4 million. This was the biggest election in America and I hope he keep me on tonight because this hurts us all. Every single one of you out there in the nation, if you're watching, democracy died tonight," an emotional proponent of Scott Walker's recall told a CNN correspondent in Wisconsin on Tuesday night.

"I'm very emotional because we all had invested in this. This was it. If we didn't win tonight, the end of the U.S. as we know it just happened. This is it. We just got outspent $34 million to $4 million. And we don't have any more resource left but the people you see here behind me. And if the people you see here behind me can't get it done tonight, it's done. Democracy's dead," the man said.

Update: Linked at Hack Wilson. Thanks!

Unions Lose Their Grip on Wisconsin, Walker Wins; Bad News for Obama

Walker Wins, Unions Lose, Obama Loses.

Walker wins in landslide in Wisconsin, an ominous sign for Obama et al.

Reactions (Foul lefty language alert):

Hey, Wisconsin?The other 49 states thank you very kindly! :)

— ★ Stace ★ (@StaceinTexas) June 6, 2012

In Walker Recall, Road to White House runs through Wisconsin bit.ly/KNkfdG #teaparty #gop #tlot #tcot #sgp #asamom #twisters

— Nicole(@PatriotKids) June 6, 2012

When the union thugs stormed the WI capitol, that was Pearl Harbor. Tonight is Hiroshima.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 6, 2012

One WI lesson:Dems must not allow the right to outspend us 7 to 1 if we want to re-elect POTUS? #wirecall

— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) June 6, 2012

This is the beginning of the end of public-sector unions. #wirecall #wiunion

— Jon G. (@ExJon) June 6, 2012

Between the billionaires and the fucking idiots in this country, I find myself not fitting in. #WIrecall

— liberalease (@liberalease) June 6, 2012

Unions owe Wisconsin voters and taxpayers a big check for this costly and wasteful special interest recall. #wirecall

— Ali A. Akbar (@ali) June 6, 2012

America The Conservative

Today Gallup released new poll results that show that America is still overwhelmingly conservative. A summary of Gallup's findings:

• In the nation as a whole, Americans are about twice as likely to identify as conservative as they are to identify as liberal...
• Conservatives outnumber liberals in every U.S. state.
• Only in the District of Columbia do liberal identifiers exceed conservative identifiers.

And yet...

Our liberal president, formerly the most liberal member of the Senate, is lurching to the statist left, again.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now at the top the list of the U.S. Senate's most liberal senators.

And the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives is one of the most liberal congresscritters in the land.

Democrats do not flinch in their quest to acquire undiluted statist power for the liberal left.

But Republicans are reluctant to respond to the demands of the voters by offering a clear alternative. Rather than diminish the size and scope of the state, many of the darlings of the Republican establishment and their admirers in the GOP punditry would prefer to water down the conservative movement.

Republican good ol' boys shy away from the conservative label and call for compromise even before negotiations begin. They call for a self-imposed unilateral truce on difficult issues. They offer to help their self-declared enemies. They praise the opposition.

They want a clear and easy path to power.

The unmitigated liberal statism of our federal government is not a reflection of the values of the citizens of this country, but of the power-greedy ruling class of both parties and the cowardice of the Republican party.

Discussion: Memeorandum

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I am Mitch Daniels, Hear Me Purr!

I've been warning folks about Mitch Daniels. Warning, warning, warning. Fortunately for those of us who have been ringing the alarms, Mitch Daniels has essentially committed political suicide. Hopefully it will now be a bit easier to persuade fellow conservatives that Mitch is not our man.

Yesterday, Mitch Daniels opened the door to a presidential bid...

During an interview at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association here over the weekend, Daniels said he has now been persuaded to keep open the door to a possible candidacy.

...and then he promptly slammed that door shut after throwing Scott Walker under the bus:

Democrats went into a behind-closed-doors meeting Monday, refusing to return to the floor. Today, sources told The Indianapolis Star that Democrat lawmakers have left the state.

Daniels, a Republican, supported their right to deny Republicans a quorum to do business and the rights of labor unions to protest at the Statehouse.

“The activities of today are perfectly legitimate part of the process,” he said. “Even the smallest minority, and that’s what we’ve heard from in the last couple days, has every right to express the strength of its views and I salute those who did.”

Mitch is so desperate to be "liked" by Democrats that he's willing to salute the fleebaggers? What a wuss!

...right at the moment when Scott Walker is being treated like a conquering hero by conservatives across the country for standing up to the unions and the Democratic fleebaggers, Mitch Daniels is faced with the exact same situation and he's choosing to give in. To find someone who was routed as clearly as Daniels was here, you have to go all the way back to France in WW2.

Even Jim Geraghty (once a starry-eyed Mitch Daniels apologist) is finally seeing the light.

Color me extremely disappointed with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels right now...

...a concession to Democrats on major reforms like these will spur a lot of talk about Daniels’ toughness, or whether he’s too conciliatory to an opposition that has gone completely off the rails, or more accurately, out of the state….

I hope George Will (a Scott Walker admirer) will soon see the light too.

Headlines:

The Other Mccain: Mitch Daniels Boomlet Ends

Hot Air: Apparently, Mitch Daniels not running for president.

Say Anything: Mitch Daniels Caves

More:

Right Wing News: The End Of Mitch Daniels’ Presidential Aspirations

The Roughblog: Mitch Daniels is a Coward

Mark Levin: "Mr. Daniels, you get a little ‘x.’ You’re too weak."

Memeorandum discussion

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Update: David Brooks, known for his "bromance" with Barack Obama, lurves him some Mitch.