As this sign from a protestor earlier this year says, "Becomes governor; breaks everything."

The latest ad in support of Governor Scott Walker has him and his family dishing it out to the poor at the Milwaukee Rescue Mission.

“In this season of peace, our hope is that we can put our differences aside and move forward together,” says his wife, Tonette Walker, surrounded by her family.

Oh, I meant, dissing it out.

It just seems so cynically ironic to me that the Walker family would supposedly be serving food to the poor when he has spent the last year taking so much away from working people, increasing the need for programs like the Milwaukee Rescue Mission.

And the fact that the ad includes his teen-aged sons is as hypocritical as it gets, particularly when he has said he wants to keep his sons out of the fray – as he should.

Working together is the theme of his millions of dollars in ads that are flooding television, thanks to the Koch brothers and their Americans for Prosperity ilk. He has raised something like $5 million to do this – about three times that raised by the recall effort. Sadly, in politics, money rules way too often.

Had he been willing to work together we would not be in the mess we are in. He has worked the politics of division since he came into office, demonizing teachers and other public employees. His efforts were not about saving money, but about neutralizing and eliminating oppositions (see voter identification law, which makes it harder for students, the poor and the elderly who are mostly like to vote Democratic to vote).

Now that he is being recalled, Walking is dishing/dissing us with the notion that we should all work together. You may recall he refused to meet with unions when this democracy crisis began.

In case you have forgotten, he has dissed all of us in these ways:

• Cutting $800 million in state funding from public education, while capping how much schools could raise through property taxes. At the same time, he funneled more money to private schools in southeastern Wisconsin, without limits on the income of families of children attending them.
• Cutting more than $500 million from the BadgerCare program, which was created by former Republican Governor Tommy Thompson. That means premium increases for more than 200,000 people and 50,000 others cut from the program.
• Promising to create 250,000 jobs, but Wisconsin had 9,700 job losses in October – the largest in the country. And when he called a “jobs session” of the Legislature, not jobs bills were introduced. Instead there were social, wedge issue bills.
• Rejecting $810 million in federal funds for a high speed rail line, which would have created 5,000 jobs for several years and kept a train car manufacturing company in Milwaukee, a city that sorely needs manufacturing jobs.

As Scot Ross of One Wisconsin Now, was quoted as saying in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story, “Good thing he and the family are ‘volunteering’ for a food kitchen, because his policies are going to make even longer lines as more in the middle class fall into poverty because his policies aren’t working.”

Here’s a parody of his ad from Scott Walker Watch: http://scottwalkerwatch.com/2011/12/22/a-holiday-response-to-the-corny-30-second-walker-campaign-tv-ad-holiday-spirit-video/

We are into our second winter of our discontent. Thank you, Scott Walker, for giving us something to do in the cold and snow.

However, my blood pressure rises every time I see one of your ads. Are you literally trying to kill off your opponents?