As we all learned from Glenn Beck, the pro-democracy protests in the Middle East are hopping from country to country and establishing chalk-based caliphates across the world. Wisconsin is right next to Minnesota, the home of Muslim Keith Ellison, so obviously it’s happening there now too. Masses of protestors have been out on the streets and in the capitol building for days, and now Democratic legislators have decided to walk out on the vote to ban collective bargaining. Republicans, however, are planning on having the state police “round up” these Democrats and force them into the chamber. Unlike Hosni Mubarak, Teabagging Governor Scott Walker seems to have the control of both the military (National Guard) and (state) police. But what happens if he loses the police, who are unionized?
In protest of the budget repair bill that will strip public union workers of almost all of their collective bargaining rights, Senate Democrats have walked away from a floor session.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Dems are refusing to come to the floor to debate and vote on the bill.
Fitzgerald said at some point, if needed, Republicans will use the State Patrol to round up Democrats to bring them to the floor.
Security forces like the police are exempt from these new union-busting rules. But what if they suddenly decide to show solidarity with their fellow workers and refuse the governor’s order to round up the Democrats? What if they arrest the governor instead? And which of these cheeseheads will punch Anderson Cooper in the face? This is all so exciting! [WisPolitics via Ben Smith]
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Wisconsin is the Cannibal State.
If I've learned anything from Mystery Science Theater 3000, half the protesters are still-reveling Packers fans.
MST3K were — & are — Minnesotans jealous of the Packers 12 (make it 13) championships.
But, yes, Fran Tarkenton — such a waste.
Blasphemy! Joel was from Stevens Point! Plus they totally repped UW-Stout on the show.
Thread of descending irrelevance!
In fairness, I'm pretty sure Mike is from Wisconsin.
HAI GUISE IS THIS THE LINE TO MEET AARON RODGERS?
Senator Fitzgerald, I served with NummyMuffinCocoaButter, I knew NummyMuffinCocoaButter, NummyMuffinCocoaButter was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no NummyMuffinCocoaButter.
Was your experience in the Senate something like this?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/cat-congress-mir…
Packers!
Pretty cheesy.
I have no opinion on this until Justin Bieber tells me what to think. Unfortunately, he's about to sprout his first pubes and this could take a while. He's been traumatized ever since he walked into the bathroom and saw his Granny in the shower, wearing her hairy-underpants and now he thinks he's going to look the same. Sans the wrinkles, he's correct.
Bill-O is a Juggalo. Tides. How the %$^ do they work?
Meh. Wake me when the summary executions start.
Seriously, Walker. Don't bother bringing the Dem pols back in to vote. Just pass a law making it legal for state police to shoot Democratic legislators. That's what having a majority in the state house is all about, isn't it?
“When fascism comes to America it will be covered in teabags and riding a rascal.”
and flingin' hot cheese.
It might be sweating the hot cheese it is flinging.
That's Minnesota. Wisconsinites like the room-temp and cold cheese better from my understanding.
Scott Walker, a college dropout, has been a government employee since age 24.
What a Welfare Queen.
"Eat Cheese or Die"
So Scott Walker, having been elected governor, now thinks he can use the National Guard and the police as his own personal goon squads. It's almost like he knows nothing about separation of powers, representative government or the limits of executive authority. Let's hope the Cheddar Revolution sets him straight.
Oui à la révolution de fromage!!!!!11!
When tea baggers say they want "smaller government," it didn't occur to me that they meant "rule by one man."
Shhhh – not out loud!
Edit – 100p – yes! I am one of the cool kids now … suck on that, losers!
Congratulations
Don't let go to your head with Pee Points comes responsibilities.
Responsibility is un-American!
When's my turn? *turns to gaze wistfully out of the window*
And so generous and humble in victory. Congrats. I'm close. Am I there yet?
well I'll contribute an upfist to your 100" p-ness
Try getting Attorney General J.B. van Hollen to oppose him.
"Some say" that when Senate (Dear) Leader Fitzgerald does call out the State POlice, he makes a call to his dad, "Big Fitz" Fitgerald, Chief of said POlice.
By a set of circumstances and family relations I found myself standing on the Homestead High Level Bridge exactly 100 years after the 'Homestead Riots' (the only people rioting were the Pinkertons hired by Andrew Carneige and the boys. It was strange to look over the site and see nothing. Hundred years later the mills were gone and the children and grandchildren of those who were shot up, beaten and killed were drifting out of Homestead.
J&L and Bethlehem fought the unions for years only to abandon the place when they were told they had to start cleaning up the air, stop dumping slag in the valleys and stop polluting the rivers.
Note: He presciently exempted the state police from his union-busting move.
Hm, did he remember to exempt the WI prison guards (also unionized) as well? Because jailing them presents some difficulties.
I don' think this was thought through very well.
I skimmed it yesterday so subject to correction, but I believe the exemption was for public safety positions.
No, and in fact local news last night interviewed a prison guard who was there protesting. Firefighters are exempt (I think) but they've been showing up to protest in solidarity.
Yeah, but those guys are known to run into burning buildings. So they obviously just like trouble.
Also, they realize that they might be exempt now, but in the future???
the only exemptions are police and firefighters, who endorsed him during the campaign. but, yeah, the firefighters are marching. with bagpipes.
Most police unions endorsed Barrett, actually. But the big kahuna Milwaukee Police Association did endorse Walker.
My favourite MPA fact: they extracted a deal from the Legislature, some years back, that any Milwaukee Police Officer subject to dismissal continues to receive all wage & benefits 'til the matter is adjudicated, no take-backs (like, say, if the Officer is, in fact, allowed to be fired). No other cops — no other people — in the state have this right.
Close second to the above, for awesomeness: the sweetheart deal the son of the former Police Union Head got after he (the son) was implicated in a murder outside a Racine, Wisc., bar. Google "Debraska" & "justice" for details.
I used to represent City of Seattle workers. Do not get me started on all the sweet deals the firefighters got. It's only right they protest, though most of the Seattle ones (who never lived in Seattle, of course, crime and minority infested as it was) were incredibly right wing. The old man, btw, was a union activist for decades and now we live on his ff pension. I'm not adverse to cutting in on some of that sweet deal.
Now, in Seattle, SPD Officer Ian Birk can gun down an oblivious Native American woodcarver in cold blood – and thanks to protective legislation, will not be prosecuted for murder. Seattle Fire is not the only union getting sweet deals from the City.
Luckily, according to reports from the front line the cops are siding with their fellow state employees, and that ploy appears to have failed.
Of course the rightwing noise machine paints this as an example of union hatred and mob violence. Once public employee unions are fully demonized they can work on dismantling child labor laws.
Wisconsin: Gateway to the 19th Century!
Call the Pinkertons.
I don't see what Rivers Cuomo & his army of emos has to do with this.
I believe Missouri is already at work "deregulating" child labor.
Finally! My toddler's free loading days are over, that bottle ain't gonna refill itself!
But what about Michelle Obama's breast-pump tax-credit?
Time to get these kids out from in front of the TV and into the mines where they can dig clean coal!
About time there was mob violence against the teabaggers rather than for them. Fuck rallying for "sanity".
Kiss the forty hour week good bye. Without the unions, there would be no weekend.
Debt bondage, too, probably.
If the Gov switches off Teh Series of Tubes, it'll be all over but the ululating.
I can't wait for the head of the Wisconsin State Police to say, "To the camels, men!"
They're going to raid the Circus World Museum in Baraboo?
I hear Sarah quite a few times had moose on stand-by just in case anything popped off.
"Release the camels!"
Have they arrested Russ Fiengold for agitating yet?
Watch out for the domino effect the square states could be next.
So let me get this straight: this Scott Walker and his Krewe de Teabag Republican legislature want to arrest a bunch of people who aren't committing a crime, force them to vote on something they believe is indefensibly wrong, and take away people's right to associate with one another, all in the name of freedom?
And so begins what Sinclair Lewis foretold in "It Can't Happen Here" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen…
And….?
This sounds like the same deal when the Democratic members of the Texas legislature had to actually leave the state to stop the proposed Republiklan gerrymandering of the Congressional districts after the 2000 Census.
Not yet. As far as I know, no one has called up the Department of Homeland Security to try to track the missing legislators.
Not "arrest" so much as "nudge gently with service revolvers." If that isn't what the Founding Fathers intended, I don't know what is.
Yup, just like it says in the Constitution! USA! USA!
It's what the Founding Fathers would have done
They better keep this quiet because if Milwaukee finds out about this, it could get ugly. For those not familiar with Wisconsin, Milwaukee is a city that is entirely populated by Metal Heads.
The Headbangers are probably AFSCME members, anyway.
MetalFest! Rawr!
This can only end with the storming of the Mars Cheese Castle. Kenosha, history awaits you.
& then, oddly, the local constabulary from some English town or other (Hereford-upon-Wickham, or something?) will appear & cart everyone off.
And here I thought Milwaukee was just home to Fonz and the Cunninghams.
Ya know we got a Bronz Fonz now? Really brings in the touristas.
http://static.atlasobscura.netdna-cdn.com/images/…
That reminds me of the bronze Rocky statue at the foot of the art museum here in Philly; I guess a lot of cities celebrate their hometown fictional characters (I've read that Detroit is putting up a Robocop statue) .
Eh, it generally beats celebrating the real ones, I suppose.
I was hoping for the Kwame Kilpatrick statue.
http://detroitneedsrobocop.com/
Oolitic, Indiana–a burg roughly the size of the monitor you're reading this on–has a giant statue of Joe Palooka outside the town hall. Out of limestone, natch.
My wife has a Bronze Fonz. Aaaayyyyy!
I'm not sure what this means, but I like it.
Not to mention Point Place, WI of "That 70's Show," home of the sweet redhead who should have been Mary Jane in the Spider-Man movies.
That show strongly resembled my high school years, when I was transplanted from inner city Cleveland to the working class white/black south suburbs of Chicago and nerdy white comics/sci-fi/D&D/Monty Python friends–the only thing missing was the the race riots. Why is Wisconsin the go-to state for nostalgia sitcoms?
I am eating cheese crackers right now, for solidarity.
Same here. Except it's Cheez Whiz straight from the can.
Same hear except change that to huffing the propellant.
Bratwursts and Leininkugel's for Victory!
He tried exempting police and firefighters from his Draconian collective bargaining gutting – the firefighters, have already marched with the rest in solidarity. The police should tell him to go blow a moose.
I don't think this naive, and apparently utterly hypocritical, douchebag understands the dimensions of the hornet's nest he's poked. Fucking numbskull.
Hopefully this is just the first place that we see this happen.
The (also unionized) Packers are also with the protesters – I don't know if the police would be either willing or able to beat up them.
he went too far. he's riled up the teachers, aka 'the sleeping badgers'
First, they came for the Democrats…shit, that's me!
Lol. The thumb wasn't enough.
♫♪ What Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Wonketeer of Me ♪♫♪
So, Wisconsin is our Egypt?
Or if Walker has his way, Iran.
I thought a Giant Spider destoryed Wisconson, what's it still doing in the news?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creature_That_At…
NOOOOOOOOOOOO Not Lake Land College….
"packers! packers!"
Needs moar loaves of bread tied to the head.
The Cheeseheads' neighbor to the south, Illinois also had a Governor name of Walker. Dan Walker, a DeRat rather than ReParmesan, got sentenced to seven and served 18 months in the fed pen. Maybe Scott can enjoy the same sort of vacation.
Not sure if that really counts since all governors of Illinois get sentenced to prison.
But there is no Walker like Jimmy "Gentleman Jim" Walker of NYC in the 20's. It was said of him style is coming to work at 10:30 and leaving for lunch at 12:00 – but he still keping the Subway Fare at a nickel.
Sadly, I'm pretty sure there's no law against being a fascistic asshat – as evinced by the lack of mass-arrests at CPAC last week.
But wait, Glenn Beck told me the fascists were liberals; how is it that the governor who's actually acting like a fascist is a conservative Republican?
Kind of makes you wonder, when the Public will wake up to the fact that this douchenozzle first threatened to use the National Guard and now the State Police to try and advance his agenda?
Maybe when he signs The Enablement Act and the people of Wisconsin have to swear fealty to him, they will see the parallels.
Someone should remind the fascist Governor what happened when the governor of Arkansas tried to order the National Guard to illegally prevent the court-ordered integration of their schools.
But that's when we had a draft and there were many more soldiers with consciences.
If only Eisenhower were still president.
He will be "taking control of his state's budget" …
Didn't you know? It turns out he's actually an extremely red Communist Fascist Pinko Socialist Liberal, according to all of this secret evidence that was just miraculously uncovered by Beck and completely unquestioned by Fox News and the rest of the "liberal" media tomorrow.
These are not the fascists you're looking for.
I remember Tom "Hinder and" Delay doing this in Texas a few years back. Maybe they can make a run to Beiberville, Canadia. Or at least a run for beer.
Bring back some Steamwhistle for me, guys.
While punishing Wisonsin with a well-deserved dildo mallet, please keep in mind that — politician and fraternity infestation notwithstanding — the skinny little isthmus city of Madison ain't all bad.
For instance, in what other state capitol is a sanctioned, special day set aside (known as "Harvest Fest") where thousands of people attend hundreds of free house parties, numerous street fairs, countless outdoor musical performances, and the like, before marching en masse from campus, up the quaint-ish, bar-studded main drag, to the very top step of the State Capitol building in support of the legalization of the marijuana?
I personally burned a fattie mere feet away from then-Governor Tommy Thompson right in front of his big brass front door, and the strongest admonishment I received from anyone of authority was to not toss the roach on the front lawn.
Well suck it up loser because now we got your IP ADDRESS!
BASIJ! BASIJ! BASIJ!
The non-Isthmus-y city of Milwaukee, where I'm from, is also not so bad. It's blue collar, so it's more socially conservative than Mad-town, but there are good people there, and it's solidly blue.
Milwaukee's suburbs, however, are where bastard people live. Bastard people who vote for other bastard people, like Scott Walker. I hope Waukesha county runs out of water, I really do.
Moved to Milwaukee when I was three (lived in "The Core" when it was crackin', yo!); moved to California when I was fifteen; moved back to Milwaukee when I was seventeen; moved to Madison when I was eighteen; moved to San Francisco when I was twenty-five; moved back to Madison when I was thirty-three; moved back to San Francisco when I was thirty-four; just turned forty, and the next time I move anywhere, it's gonna be in a pine box or a coffee can or whatever as many fucking miles away from that frozen, beer-besotted, dairy state full of overweight Manifest Destiny wash-outs as I can possibly fucking get.
But yeah, like you said, parts of Milwaukee ain't so bad, either.
I married into a Wisconsin fam and sort of feel the same way about Madison. Unfortunately the familia lives in Neenah, so I don't go there that much. I haven't been to the Badger State in four years. Can't say as I miss it that much.
It's nowhere near as "super" as my home state of South Carolina.
are you gay or just confused librul?
Well as a former little firefly, Wauwatosa, and Brookfielder, there were a few pinkos back in the day. However, the general Reichliness of those 'burbs is part of why I'm now in C'Addle. When I was in high school in Brookfield, the first black family moved into the 'hood. That Halloween, one of the neighbor parents went around door-to-door introducing himself as our new neighbor. The 'adult' trick-or-treater was in black face, grass skirt, and had soup bones hanging around his neck. Forty-some years later it still gives me the whim whams.
At this point, Franklin, Oak Creek*, St. Francis, Cudahy**, & the far North-Shore (Bayside & Fox Point), the last for economic reasons (keep the Bush tax-cuts!), are more of a drag than Tosa, where I live, but the real issue is Waukesha, yes.
*I have hope, as Oak Creek becomes Mexicantown, that it might go a bit more worker/family friendly, though.
**I take less pleasure from nowhere else. Horrible city.
Milwaukee has a history of having socialist mayors and union unrest, also, too in addition.
Cheesus Christ, which one of you fat-asses ate the 'c' in my "Wisconsin"?!
Damn, and to think I nearly got trampled by the mounted police in Golden Gate Park for smoking a cigarillo on 19th Ave. ON the road!
At what point do we get to call this "the Wisconsin Civil War?"
Or lure them back with boiled brats and warm Red White and Blue Lite.
For boiled brats I'm offering up Breitbart first, then Scott Walker. I gots principals.
Cheese and fascism go together like sheboygans and grilled onions.
Watch out for anti-union thugs thundering in on dairy cows and wielding cheese knives.
Knives for hard cheese or soft?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/midwest-peace-ta…
Amen.
this is also a seway into destroying rhe public school system, opening it up to "privatization"
Today we are ALL fat alcoholic cheese heads with no power to collectively bargain.
I've been losing weight & only drink on Mondays & Tuesdays. So, I resent that assertion.
The lack of collective bargaining rights is spot-on, alas.
By damn, you're right (although I am an absentee cheesehead, or perhaps cheesehead emeritus).
[snark off]
I'm officially appalled (and increasingly frightened) by the rolling dispossession of my hopes, dreams and values (and not a few of what I thought were my constitutional rights) undertaken by the right in all its perfidious manifestations.
[snark on]
I guess this means I'll have to get off the sofa and do something about it.
It is literally the dismantling of the 20th century. I think we have regressed to 1915 at this point.
You should put that up as some kind of meter on a website, like the Doomsday Clock!
Dear Republicans,
When we said we wanted smaller and less intrusive, we were not referring to your penises.
Sincerely,
America
Actually, I was referring to smaller and less-intrusive penises. Right now they are just big obnoxious dicks, and not in a good way.
If Walker loses the police, he'll have no option but to bus in members of Tommy Bartlett's Show & Exploratory to attack and club the protesters with American flags.
A++++ TOMMY BARTLETT JOKE
Will they ride in on those amphibious craft that they use to do tours of the Dells?
Duck & Clobber!
Oh, that's wonderful.
Thanks, but kudos should really go to DangerHelvetica for mentioning MST3K above, since without MST3K I'd have known zero about Tommy Bartlett.
Gosh, what's going on in that picture? Did Wisconsin win the World Cup or something?
You poor, misguided fool. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Damn, beat me by just a minute.
No, we're at war with Eastasia. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Fitzgerald justs wants to end up on Dancing With the Stars…..
Cheez Whiz
Apparently the Sergeant at Arms was unable to round up all of the Dem legislators in their offices, and it looks like some of them have fled the state: http://budget.wispolitics.com/2011/02/search-of-d…
They're all gone out of state. That didn't stop him from first looking under their desks. I'm serious. They looked under the senator's desks. (via @zschultz15) It's always the last place you look! I think they're in Canada, personally.
Having some poutine (french fries and cheese curds covered with gravy).
Roll Out The 'Baggers.
The baggers won't go near this, they live in fear of union goons.
I predict another riot. Effigies and flags will be burned, pepper spray will be sprayed, heads will be busted.
I was going to go with not Vollrath Company, where will I get my wisks, but thought that was too cerebral. "I'm trying to make a movie not a film"
The Kohlers are also big-time GOP donors, & not so much just for monetary reasons as social right considerations.
Of course, every family has a black sheep, & Julilly Kohler (hope it spelled correctly) has been leaving her mark on the Brady Street neighbourhood of Milwaukee.
What kind of cheese goes best with Schlitz?
Head cheese.
Cheese fries.
Disrespect for Authoricheese.
A Wookie win.
Schleddar Schleese.
American.
Or Velveeta.
Whichever you can get.
All of them. It's fucking cheese, for gods sake. Mmmmm.
Any except Limbaughger.
Fumunda
You know who else rounded up dissenters and forced them into a chamber?
Lord Voldemort?
The Palace of Westminster?
Tina Turner?
Scooter Libby?Andrew Jackson?Today we are all cheese heads.
One two three four,
Five six seven eight,
Schlemiel, schlimazel,
ScottWalker isafuckhead.
Hole-y Cheeses.
Wonkette! You got scooped on this by 2 days by yer old pal Jim at Gawker! For shame!
"Wonkette: On it!"
"…police are exempt from these new union-busting rules. But what if they suddenly decide to show solidarity with their fellow workers and refuse the governor’s order to round up the Democrats?"
Best joke of the day!
Especially when the police and firefighter unions endorsed Walker.
Ah, sounds like a good ol fashion red scare. When do we start trampling over first amendment rights? Infiltration of labor groups? Blacklisting?
2001. Patriot Act.
During the last election everyone who wasn't completely deranged sat on their fat asses and didn't bother to vote. Maybe there was something good on TV. Maybe they were in a corn syrup coma. Maybe they were checking out porn on their computers. But they stayed away from the polls and now, unless they're over 65 and collecting Social Security and Medicare, they're gonna to get fucked half to death and then they're gonna get fucked again.
I humbly submit that I refuse to give a shit.
Visit Wisconsin and see the Pyramids!
I'll never forget the awe I felt when I first set eyes on the majestic beer-can pyramids of Milwaukee.
I live very close to Wisconsin and spent a good chunk of my childhood there just North of Milwaukee. I like the state and I’m sorry they got such a dumb ass governor screwing things up but if he starts messing with Karl’s bratwurst in Menomonee Falls I’m going to take it personally.
Release the PACKERS!
I am so fucking tired of: 'I'm tired of my tax dollars going to lazy state workers and their living off my hard earned money in retirement."
Well, guess what, Sunshine. Every dime you spend in the private sector comes from your "hard-earned" paycheck, too, and about 5 cents of that dime funds performance bonuses, golden parachutes and other expensive perks for executives. You just can't bitch about that in a Letter to the Editor because, as private companies, you don't have the right to review their books and see how obscene those benefits really are. When you go to Anus Burgers with the kids, some of your hard-earned money goes to the lazy burger flippers, but a lot of it goes up the food chain to the top. Public employees are accountable to the people and usually spend their checks in the communities they serve. Like at your hardware store or lunch wagon. You think the CEO of Anus Burgers spends a dime in your town? And don't get me started on how Wal Mart sucks all the money out of town, leaving every community more poor than when they started.
I regret that I have but one up-fist to give this statement.
Well, you could make about twenty more accounts with throw-away Yahoo! or Hotmail e-mail addresses and…
Seriously, thanks.
Oh, gawd, you are preaching to the choir. And it's always the most broke, disgusted and entitled that complain about government the loudest. "I don't want my health care being run like the DMV!" I always say, "Yes, you are right — we need a for-profit company, like the privacy experts at Facebook, to run the one agency that has access to every citizens' personal data, identification numbers, birth certificates, voting records and home address."
Come on; let's get at least 50 thumbs for this.
One more…
Danke, y'all.
First they came for the unions, then they came for me. When are the Democrats going to get it? Too bad John Edwards is working his ass off, trying to keep it out of the "big house," because he loves rioting with unions.
What? Someone said this before me? Fuck if they did. I haven't got time to read 12,358 posts or whatever they're up to now. I'm too busy checking my "friends" list to see how many of them are unding me because of my "I hate Republithugs. Everything wrong in the world is their fault" rant.
If you can't talk politics with your "friends", they're not worth having.
TONIGHT WE DINE ON CHEESE!!
Just got the actual news on NPR. Anyone remember when, during Delay' Reign of Terror in Texas redistricting, the TX Democrats came to Oklahoma? The Democratic sheriff of Carter Co pledged to protect them and the (then) Democratic lege offered them space to spread their sleeping bags.
Republithugs suck so much gigantic hairy dick (I have never used a phrase like that in my life) that I hate everyone of them.
I am sure there must be an awful lot of teabaggers crying about this obvious abuse of government power by Wisconsin's governor and some "Second Amendment solutions" or other threats.
Right?
Cinematic Titanic IS actually coming to Milwaukee this weekend, assuming the whole state is not under martial law. Joel Hodgson and a worker's revolt — what a week!!!
Nice! Don't be dumb like me. If they are doing two shows, even back to back, it will be 2 different movies.
I went to the second showing and found out that what-should-have-been-obvious piece of information as I took my seat. I could have seen 2 shows! Still kicking myself. Arrgh!
Rick Perry and the Texas legislature tried this in the early part of the century. The result was hordes of democrat lawmakers holing up in Santa Fe and Ruidoso, eating our women and drinking our beer.. Eventually, I think the republicans gave up. And, not to beat a dead horse, but what made Milwaukee famous, will make a loser out of Scott Walker.
Beer will make him a loser?
He met his wife in a bar.
… Excuse me, I mean, he met his wife at Karaoke Nite in a bar. Only that degenerate Tom Barrett (Milwaukee Mayor, Walker's gubernatorial opponent in November '10) met his wife in a bar.
(Seriously, the local paper — though I shouldn't be surprised, since one of their lead politics reporters is GOP teat-suckler Greg Borowski — made that distinction between Barrett & Walker in their coverage of the candidates. Walker, in other words, is a "values" conservative, out for some good, clean, singing fun; Barrett is a doughty, low-life, brawling Irishman with a little too much "Irish" in him. In other words: fuck the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.)
Sadly, in the Texas redistricting case, the Dem legislators eventually gave up.
Open invitation to all the Wisconsin congresspeople/refugees.
I’m on the other side of the Minnesota border. You can shack up with me. Plenty of good food and good beer. Hands off the wife and don’t fuck with the cats.
Iowa will welcome you with open arms. You can get gay married and we have Indian Casinos!
Can we juggle them, though?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qbc2J0zZr8
The first thing totalitarian regimes do is eliminate labor unions. Left- or right-wing, from Russia to Nazi Germany to Central and South America, this may be found on page 1 of The Manual.
The Gov appointed the head of the State Police (Steve Fitzgerald), the State Majority Leader is Steve's son Scott, and another son of Steve's, Jeff, is State Speaker.
Deliverance, baby.
Wasn't there a band out of Madison called the Inbred Jeds?
What the fuck are these mutant freaks doing running government?
Elections have consequences, muthafuckas. Vote, you lazy bastards.
Moar Kent State, please.
As a sometimes astute, but mostly bloviating, politics-talking man from Dixie said, after he learned of Walker's threat to call out the National Guard, "It's not that I want another Kent State, but some 32 years old overweight Guardsman with PTSD shooting a teacher in the face would really put an end to this Teabagging nonsense".
Huzza!
The GOP should know the easiest place to find a legislator is on Craigslist. Just have some pics ready.
Mass demonstrations at the WI capitol.
http://ameslevinelist.com/police-say-20000-people…
So, what if you are a state employee AND a National Guardsman?? I am imagining a scene like the black sheriff in Blazing Saddles…
Meet the new Reich, same as the old Reich …
This shit looks suspiciously co-ordinated: several states are going Full Retard against unions while the national level simultaneously curbstomps reproductive freedom, keeping the opposition reacting to them (& hopefully doing some divide-&-conquer in the process). I suspect within a week or so they'll have yet another outrage all wound up & ready to roll – immigration, public service shutdowns, calls for MOAR WARZ PLZ … it doesn't matter what, just so long as they're the ones calling the tune.
They know that if Sanity PAC gets any major initiative in play, it makes them look like the useless bags of fuck that they are, & that if the proles ever clue in on that inconvenient truth, they're boned like salmon – besides, ruining shit is a BLAST! Just ask the Huns!
Sharkey, I'll give you a good lickin'!
If the Dems need somewhere to hide, they can hangout in the wilds of Michigan's Upper Peninsula just to the north of them. Hell, we sometimes forget about the Yoopers, so no one will be looking for you.
Man, that upper peninsula is a really pretty place. It has pasties too!
Ha ha, Generalissimo Scott Walker was one of several Republican state despots, including the fat fuck from New Jersey, who mocked Illinois' corporate tax hike and launched offensives to lure Illinois businesses to their states:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0113/Illinois-t…
Now Wisconsin is a national laughing stock/rallying point. How's that winky, pointy thing working out for you, Scottie?
I prefer the title Il Douche.
Unless it's for minorities, and then responsibility is the only thing that matters. Bootstraps, people; bootstraps!
I thought we were talking about Americans here. Everyone knows that dark-skinned people are not actually Americans.
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