Bill Clinton Attacks Tea Party in Wisconsin

Calling for an end to divisiveness and conflict may be directly related to Scott Walker’s efforts to “divide and conquer,” former President Bill Clinton whipped a crowd of thousands into a frenzy Friday morning at a rally in downtown Milwaukee to support Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the challenger to Gov. Scott Walker in this week’s recall election.

Speaking of the national implications of Scott Walker’s efforts, Clinton pointed out that there are many places in America that are already back from the economic downswing the still plagues other parts of the country.

“I think I know a little bit about what would bring America back. What would bring economic recovery? What would enable us to have broadly shared prosperity? And I’ll tell you, if you go anywhere in America today, believe it or not, there are a lot of places that are already back. And they all have one thing in common. They’re dramatically different. But they all have one thing in common. They are involved in creative cooperation, not constant conflict.

In Chicago, when Rahm Emanuel left the president’s office and went home and became mayor of Chicago, and he realized that the Republicans were not going to pass the infrastructure bank, which allows private and public capital to put America back to work, to modernize our country, he created one in Chicago. And I went there for the announcement. There were Democrats and Republicans. And the Republicans thought Washington was nuts for not passing what used to be a bipartisan bill. Why? Because the same Tea Party philosophy of the far right that has dominated Wisconsin politics for the 2010 election is dominating there.”

Tom Barrett began the rally earlier noting that “We know that Scott Walker is the rockstar of the far right. He is the poster boy of the Tea Party.”

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