Posted on 03/10/2011 9:42:20 AM PST by Nachum
Here's what Wisconsin Republicans accomplished tonight: In a situation where they had repeated opportunities to resolve this standoff and plausibly declare victory for themselves, they have now ensured that this battle is only going to escalate. This evening, Wisconsin Repubicans took the drastic step of breaking up the budget repair bill and passing only a measure rolling back the collective bargaining rights of public employees. A committee removed some parts of the bill, allowing Republicans to pass it by a simple majority, without missing Dems, and it's expected to pass the Assembly tomorrow.
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GOP SHENANIGANS???????
Who the hell skipped town without doing their state paid job?????? huh??????
IDIOTS! All of them!
They used to be able to instigate violence with impunity and claim that they were the party defending themselves.
Now everyone has a camera on their cell phone, and conservatives video political events as standard operating procedure.
They lost half their play book.
AND GOOD FOR THEM, BRAINLESS!!! Labor unions in this country have done little other than create the most corrupt bunch of government bureaucratic thugs that could be imagined, the Congressional bunch as included. They have run industry out of this country in a stampede in an effort to remain competitive on a world scale, and the result is that there are now new jobs except government bureaucratic jobs and thugs to fill them and thugs to promote the unions. The unionists and their spoiled-rotten families need to get warm and cozy with what the working stiffs out here have to live with day by day. THE PLAYING FIELD AIN’T LEVEL FOR US AND IT SHOULD’NT BE FOR THEM, EITHER. You’re either with them or against them. Choose a side; just choose the RIGHT ONE loser, ‘cause you won’t get a second chance.
I haven’t read the bill that passed, but will teachers union dues be voluntary and not mandatory?
I believe the bill makes Wisconsin a right-to-work state.
No more payroll deductions!!!!!! Totally voluntary!!!!
While the Democratically controlled unions seek to suggest a "United Front," the different locals in almost any State will reflect a considerable variation in actual rank & file opinions. The so-called "Reagan Democrats," who provided the margin for victory, came mostly from blue collar labor. Regardless of what the parent union leadership may claim, they have never been able to hold the ideological loyalty of many of their local members, when those members are properly approached.
My thought is that the vulnerability of the demonstrators lies in the antics of the teachers' union. The NEA agenda is not an agenda typical of most of the rank & file of the other unions, in the Madison demonstrations. Address the anti-American, anti-family antics of the NEA, and you might just collapse the whole gambit. (Of course, it needs to be done with finesse, not anti-union rhetoric. The specific misuse of its position by the NEA, not that it is a union, must be the focus.)
As I recall, it was rammed through without budget reconciliation.
They gutted another Bill that had passed reconciliation, replaced the contents entirely, and called it good.
All behind closed, locked doors.
And they called it legal, proper and Constitutional.
Typical compost.
Communists are my mortal enemy. Let the civil war begin.
Ready to help form an American version of the Freikorps.
This guy is a perfect example of why drugs should stay illegal.
Nothing "drastic" about hiding in Illinois though. Can you guess where this writer's sympathies lie?
I forgot all about that. They had to do that because the Senate was writing the new tax law that the constitution says only the house can. So the Senate used another DOA bill the house passed with taxes in it and replaced all the text and the title, to make it 'constitutional'.
In that case the house was historic for all the bills they passed. The MSM said only who wins counts, not how it was done.
Walker could have reached a deal with unions and very plausibly declared victory... However, he really kicked their ass, not plausibly, but for real.
That was the beauty of the Walker move. The liberal sore loser stuff sounds pathetic given the Senate Democrats fleeing. I posted the same thing when M Moore said “This is war” last night on Maddow, it went “You mean they weren't already waging total war?”
Waging total war and then losing because the other guy turns out to have a bigger nuke than you is not a recipe for sympathy. You think many people sympathized with the Japanese August 1945?
Amen. Locked and loaded.
The WI GOP isn’t bi-partisan.
It is bi-winning!
Win here
Win there
Win win everywhere!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg
“My point was that there's no reason for media and Democrats to address the email. If it is legitimate, why haven't the national news outlets picked up on this story?”
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