Want to know how the recall campaign in Wisconsin is going?  Rick Ungar at Forbes has the news:

While the concerns on the part of the national Democratic Party power elite may turn out to have been warranted, their unwillingness to come through with some badly needed cash for the Wisconsin effort—money that would help the Wisconsin Democratic Party buy some additional media in the final days or enhance the ground game that may be their only chance to pull off the win—is putting a sour taste in the mouths of Wisconsin democrats, a taste that could easily turn to apathy and anger should things go against Badger State democrats on recall election day.

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Making the situation potentially more explosive is the inability of Wisconsin democrats and local labor organizations to entice the President to make an appearance in the state to drum up support for Mayor Barrett and to motivate the anti-Walker vote during the waning days of the campaign. The reluctance on the part of the Obama campaign to send in the one man who could make the most significant difference in voter turnout, inevitably brings to mind last year’s disappointment when the President chose not to come to Wisconsin in support of the pubic employee unions at the height of the battle over Scott Walker’s anti-collective bargaining effort.

Hello?  Hellllooooo!  This goes beyond toadying and into advanced sycophancy.  The recall of Gray Davis (remember Gray Davis?) for what turned out to be trumped-up "reasons" (remember Enron?) does not apply here.  A groundswell of "no-confidence" (to misuse a parliamentary term) rather than deep pockets got the vote to recall Scott Walker on the ballot. Maybe that's the problem; too much democracy, not enough Koch brothers.

Via Brilliant at Breakfast.