This is rich.  I'm not in the habit of reading Republican blogs but I happened on AM620 WTMJ talk show host Jessica McBride's blog and it became exceptionally clear that she's divorced from reality.

Clearly she's still smarting from her husband, Paul Bucher, getting smoked in the Republican primary against JB Van Hollen.  Her sour grapes are clearly ripe.  Van Hollen went on to win the general and McBride admits to voting for him in the general, more out of Republican loyalty it seems than because she liked him.

She goes on to attack Van Hollen for saying he probably won't be able to fix the crime backlog in the next 20 months.  Truth be told, Van Hollen does deserve criticism since he attacked former Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager for the same backlog he's no saying that he can't get a handle on.  But McBride takes it a step further noting that:

When Tommy Thompson faced a "monstrously" destructive welfare system, he didn't run to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and whine that it probably couldn't be fixed, so don't blame him in 20 months if nothing changed. He came up with an innovative plan to fix it.

It looks like McBride didn't do her homework.  Welfare reform in Wisconsin was actually authored by former State Assembly Representative Shirley Krug (D-Milwaukee).  Krug called it "Wisconsin Works".  Former Governor Thompson just took Krug's idea, stripped out all of the social safety nets and called it "W-2".  (Note the clever way he made Wisconsin Works into W-2 and called it his own.)

When Scott Walker assumed the office of Milwaukee County Executive, and found a "monstrous" budget deficit and pension system facing him, and realized it was even worse than was previously known, he didn't run to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and whine that it probably couldn't be fixed … He came up with innovative solutions to deal with it (like restructuring the courts).

Once again, McBride didn't do her homework.  Walker did slash funding in the courts, but did so in such a way that would deny County residents their constitutional rights of due process.  It was the County Board who fixed that hole in Walker's budget.  Also, Walker balanced the budget at the expense of the parks, the disabled, those needing public transportation, and even public safety.  Since Van Hollen essentially just has purview over items in his department, it means that if he slashes his budget the public will be less safe because essential services will not be handled.

But McBride's blunder doesn't stop there.  The innovations that have happened in County government have come from the county board.  The irony here is that Walker advocated a dramatic downsizing of the county board.  If Walker truly opposed waste in county government he would advocate for the elimination of his own job as most Wisconsin counties get along just fine without the expense of a county executive and all of the staff that have to be hired to support the position.  But don't expect that since Walker has never held a private sector position in his life unless you count his brief stint working for the Red Cross — a job he is rumored to have gotten as a political patronage job back when Libby Dole (now a Senator and wife to former Presidential candidate Bob Dole) was running the agency.  It would be tough for Walker, a college drop out, to find a job in the private sector when most business leaders neither trust him, nor have confidence in him.