Posted on 02/20/2011 6:22:06 AM PST by grey_whiskers
Rachel Maddow on Thursday night called the war over public-sector union law in Wisconsin an "existential fight for the Democratic Party." Overstatement? Maybe, but it's tame compared with the despicable slogans that some of the union protesters have been injecting into the debate.
I must note that most of the protesters are carrying signs with civil slogans on them -- "Care about educators like they care for your child," for example. I don't think the unions or most of their supporters endorse the views expressed in some of the other placards. And, even if they did, the practical merits of the issue should be kept separate from the rhetoric that surrounds it, as in any debate.
Yet, just as the offensive behaviors of some Tea Partyers, birthers and others on the right deserve to be condemned, so, too, do some of the things that the mass protests in Wisconsin have dredged up. Here is a sampling of the some of the signs that the Wisconsin GOP says it has found among the protesters:
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Apparantly the brilliant educators of WI can’t tell a violet from a pansy, either.
Thanks grey_whiskers.
LOL! I didn’t think of that. We’re having a snow make-up day tomorrow and on 3/18. The other two they’re tacking on the end of the school year—the two days after Memorial Day. Since we wanted to move out of Arkansas by Memorial Day, our two middle kids may miss the last two days of the school year (the oldest ‘graduates’ 6th grade on 5/25). Dh and I are still mulling it over, but it would be easier for him job-wise to be back in Ohio by June 1st.
We’re near the county line, and one of the districts has school today while the other doesn’t. But I know for sure the library and post office are closed, no matter what!
Good luck with your move!
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