One man, two chats.

Last night, Governor Walker had what he himself a "fireside chat".  With Checkers on his lap, his wife Martha enkindling the dried wood in the fireplace and polio making sweet love to his central nervous system, The Godwalker honestly addressed Wisconsin citizens with a charisma not seen since Kennedy.  Within two minutes of speaking, virgin women listening across the state found themselves of child, the conception not an immaculate miracle but a run-of-the-mill act by a Republican governor staying the course on a wildly popular, will-of-the-people measure.

His voice smoothed the rough edge of the minority populus with the grace of Nancy Reagan and the passion of one thousand suns.  The fiends, those duplicitous fiends, those evil liberals and public-union supporters, were vanquished like a Tolkein villain.  No elf weaponry needed, no sons of Kings needed to coerce an army of dead, no rotund midgets with thick and foul hair needed to swing an axe.  No, words were the means to the end.

With the spin of the Republicans out of the way, today, The Godwalker spoke on the phone with a man purporting to be David Koch.  The same billionaire David Koch who, with his brother, Charles, owns Koch Industries, one of the biggest contributors to The Godwalker's election bid.  The same David Koch who, with his brother, created a $40 million dollar nonprofit that "even before the new governor was sworn in last month [...] had worked behind the scenes to try to encourage a union showdown" in Wisconsin.  Only it was not David Koch on the phone but in fact Ian Murphy of the Buffalo Beast.  This phone call was recorded and released for public consumption.

From the fireside chat:

You see, despite a lot of the rhetoric we’ve heard over the past 11 days the bill I put forward isn’t aimed at state workers, and it certainly isn’t a battle with unions.

From the phone call:

"Brian [Sandoval], the new Governor of Nevada, called me the last night he said — he was out in the Lincoln Day Circuit in the last two weekends and he was kidding me, he said, 'Scott, don't come to Nevada because I'd be afraid you beat me running for governor.' That's all they want to talk about is what are you doing to help the governor of Wisconsin. I talk to Kasich every day — John's gotta stand firm in Ohio. I think we could do the same thing with Rick Scott in Florida. I think, uh, Snyder — if he got a little more support — probably could do that in Michigan. You start going down the list there's a lot of us new governors that got elected to do something big."

"You're the first domino," fake Koch said.

"Yep. This is our moment," said Walker.

Nothing contradictory there.

[The Godwalker] also likened his tough stance to take away most bargaining rights from public workers to former President Ronald Reagan successfully combating the air traffic controllers union three decades ago. "That was the first crack in the Berlin Wall in the fall of Communism because from that point forward the Soviets and the Communists knew that Ronald Reagan wasn't a pushover."

I get it.  This isn't a battle with unions.  This is just "our moment" to take down public-unions, a moment that is like "the first crack in the Berlin Wall in the fall of Communism".  THIS IS NOT A BATTLE WITH UNIONS.

From the fireside chat:

Wisconsin is showing the rest of the country how to have a passionate, yet civil debate about our finances. That’s a very Midwestern trait and something we should be proud of. I pray, however, that this civility will continue as people pour into our state from all across America. 

From the phone call:

The person posing as Koch suggested the idea of placing troublemakers amid the crowd of protesters.

Walker responded: "We thought about that. The problem with - my only gut reaction to that would be right now is that the lawmakers I've talked to have just completely had it with them. The public is not really fond of this.  My only fear is if there's a ruckus caused that would scare the public into thinking maybe the governor has to settle to avoid all these problems."

Yes, The Godwalker, you are certainly praying civility continues, and not actively conspiring to astroturf 'troublemakers'.

That’s because what we are asking for is modest – at least to those outside of government.

Our measure asks for a 5.8% contribution to the pension and a 12.6% contribution for the health insurance premium.  Both are well below the national average. 

This measure, as noted earlier, has already been accepted by the unions.

From the phone call (redundant, but needs repeating):

I talk to Kasich every day. John's going to stand firm in Ohio. I think we do the same thing with Rick Scott in Florida. I think Snyder, if he got a little support, could do the same thing in Michigan. I think if you go down the list, a lot of us new governors got elected to something big.

"It certainly isn't a battle with unions."

On the tape, Walker discussed strategies for getting Senate Democrats to return to the state Capitol. At one point, he says he would agree to speak with Democratic legislative leaders if all 14 Democrats who have traveled to Illinois return to the Senate in Madison and sit in their seats, saying that he believes even if the Democrats leave again, the Senate would have a quorum and Republicans would be able to push through Walker's budget measure.

"Legally, we believe once they've gone into session, they don't physically have to be there. . . . (The Senate Republicans would) have a quorum because they started out that way," Walker said.

In defense of what was said during the phone call, The Godwalker said, "The bottom line is the things I've said are things I've said all along."  Try as I might, I've been unable to find any campaign speech, press release or quote in a newspaper exhibiting any sort of evidence to support The Godwalker's assertion.  Nor has Politifact been able to find documentation, saying: "But Walker, who offered many specific proposals during the campaign, did not go public with even the bare-bones of his multi-faceted plans to sharply curb collective bargaining rights. He could not point to any statements where he did. We could find none either."

Walker, on tape, about a meeting of his cabinet, admitting the eradication of collective bargaining rights would be dropping 'the bomb' on an unsuspecting public after the election:

We talked about what we were going to do, how we were going to do it.  We had already built plans up.  This was kind of the last hurrah before we dropped the bomb.

Objectively, Scott Walker is a delusional liar.