Posted on 02/23/2011 10:24:40 AM PST by milwguy
Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said Wednesday that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is acting like a “dictator.”
Ellison said that Walker, a Republican, should negotiate with union workers, who have agreed to pay more for health benefits as long as they can keep collective bargaining rights.
Walker is “basically taking on the position of a dictator,” he told reporters. “Because he says he won’t negotiate. That is something that is not in the spirit of a public servant, who just won’t even talk. He is putting himself in a position of being extreme, radical and reckless. And he’s going to fail.”
Walker defended his proposal Tuesday evening, saying it was crucial to fixing the state’s $3.6 billion budget deficit.
At the same time, Democratic state leaders say they won’t cooperate with the rest of the legislature until Walker caves.
The standoff has galvanized progressive members of Congress, who on Wednesday compared Walker to national Republican leaders who made cuts to heating assistance programs and other aid for low-income people in the budget they passed last week.
Funny how a low life muslim loser like Ellison thinks he can lecture Walker about dictators. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. You can't make this stuff up, the left has become totally unhinged.
“... the left has become totally unhinged.”
Actually, from Marx, Engels and on down they have always been unhinged. It is a world view predicated on the worst human traits, and is fueled in a big way by hatred.
Ellison is a moron. Walker is signing a bill passed by the citizen’s elected representatives and senators. What about that is dictorial?
Did Ellison say the same of Obama when he used every trick in the book to cram unconstitutional Obamacare down our throats over BIPARTISAN opposition?
LOL !!!!!!!!! from a dumb a** Democrat. Kettle calling the pot black !
Just because the governor’s intransigent doesn’t mean he’s a dictator. What about the legislature? You know, the body that’s been constantly in the news for the last week because its Democratic members are acting like children. I might’ve expected Ellison to forget them, as they are right in front of his face, and who can pay attention to the obvious when they’re busy making things up?
Granted, Hitler had his Reichstag and the Soviets had their Supreme Soviet. I don’t need to explain how these bodies were different in relation to their dictators than the Wisconsin state legislature is in relation to Walker, do I?
When Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Yusuf al-Qaradawi says its my way or the highway, would Ellison disagree? Never! If you really want to talk about the real Dictatorship of the Proletariat, look no farther than the Muslim Brotherhood.
Seems I remember the Rats doing this during the healthcare debate last year. Where was Ellison then? Was he screaming the leaders needed to talk to the opposition? No!!!! What a damn hypocrite!!!
Like Obama, right?
Or Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the 111th democrat congress.
And so how much “negotiating” did this asswipe do when Pelosi had control of the House for two years. Let’s see. Hmmmmm. I think it was ... Oh, that’s right! Exactly zero!
It’s called leadership.
Ellison would rather see Sharia law installed on the USA, then we wouldn’t have dictators. /s
Actually, Ellison doesn't have to traval that far. There's a dictator residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.
When they get together for prayers I wonder if Barry bows to Ellison or Ellison bows to Barry?
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