Goodness gracious, there's so much to talk about today, from Willard Mitt Romney's tax-return-and-speaking-fee mess to how stupid Rick Perry is.
But we're going to wave all that away for now, because congratulations appear to be in order for those hard-working folks in Wisconsin who today submitted 1 million signatures to recall vile Republican Governor Scott Walker.
This is pretty amazing, for a lot of fun numerical reasons.
First, recall organizers only had to gather 540,208 signatures. "Only"! You try getting 540,208 signatures when you have frightened Republicans and teabaggers screaming and swearing at you, scribbling on your petitions, and committing heaven knows what other felonies. But the recall folks not only managed it, they got 460,000 extras.
Recall organizers got nearly as many signatures as the number of people who voted for Walker in 2010.
Recall signers represent 30 percent of all Wisconsin registered voters.
Wisconsin recall organizers gathered 100 times more signatures than Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann failed to get in order to qualify for the Virginia Republican primary.
In sheer tonnage, organizers delivered almost as much petition material as Chris Christie weighs. (Okay, not really.)
So we send a big PURR in the direction of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, United Wisconsin, and all Badger State citizens outraged at the gutting of their rights. And we think that Scott Walker, who always looks like he just rolled out of bed, had better wake up.
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