A Wisconsin judge has temporarily blocked Scott Walker’s anti-workers bill from taking effect, saying the Wisconsin legislators’ passage of the law was likely illegal as it violated the state’s Open Meetings law. In other words, Walker’s errand for the Koch Brothers seems to have failed, at least in the short term. The judge also said Walker should be hanged, by firemen. Haha just kidding! She didn’t say exactly that.
The Wisconsin State-Journal reports on this morning’s courtroom drama:
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi [on] Friday issued a temporary order blocking implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial measure limiting collective bargaining rights for public employees, saying a legislative committee likely violated the state Open Meetings Law when it rushed passage of the bill March 9.
The ruling bars Secretary of State Doug La Follette from publishing the law, the last step before it can take effect. La Follette had planned to publish the law on March 25, which would cause it to take effect the following day.
Hooray. Your move, Walker …. we mean, “your move, libertarian-extremist billionaires David & Charles Koch, who own such popular brands as BRAWNY paper towels and DIXIE cups and other forest-raping crap people don’t need and should be boycotted forever.” [Wisconsin State Journal]
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HA HAH!!!
/Nelson Muntz
~
"D'OHHHHHHHHH!"
- Scott Walker
"Woo Hoo!!"
– working folks
Fucking activist judges using "Laws" and "Legal Statutes" and "Precedents".
I KNOW, RIGHT?
I mean, God forbid Democrats ever did anything without crossing every i, dotting every t, etc.
baconzgood: That's pretty much what Boss "I wasn't wrong; I was misinformed" BlunderRush said a few minutes ago. "Where's the seperation of powers?" "It's a Senate rule – Why can't the Senate just change its rules?" What a maroon!
A few days ago this lady called hiim complaining about foreign aid. Of course, he didn't mention how much Israel gets. Of course, he didn't mention how much "foreign" aid is spent here in the good ole US of A (on weapons manufacturered by corporations that support the GNoP).
Pathetic…
Tea Baggers will be showing up at this judge's house to cut his gas line………WITH VOTES!
BLOOD LIBEL!!!!!
If you don't read their opinions, you don't have to worry about their "reasoning."
Which makes the issues simpler.
Sometimes we have to use secret, extralegal, authoritarian means to take back our freedumbs
Good news, and from Ken? My mind is blown.
When it's good, it's uncommonly good.
Like a Keebler snack you just found sitting in the glove compartment because you'd stashed it there "for an emergency." And even though it's not real chocolate like you used to know and took for granted, you'll take it because of the scarcity of anything affordably equivalent.
Sometimes not so good. 30 years ago we were cruising through West Texas in an old Plymouth. I opened the under-dash vent and an old joint blew out, dry as the West Texas desert. We smoked it anyway because, well, we were liberals in West Texas.
Feh.
Yeah, but I'm sure folks will find some way to be disappointed in Obama over this…
Ah, nuts. Clicked the downfist by mistake.
Ken, it would now be polite to offer SorosBot's mind a cigarette.
The photo of the judge in the Wisconsin State Journal article is priceless…you can just hear her thinking "Bitch, please…"
Scott Walker had to have known that someone was going to do something to stop this from becoming law, right? Right?
No worries — just appeal until Antonin and Clarence can take the lead in rewriting settled legal precedents.
(Har! See what I did there? Clarence leading on anything that doesn't involve Juggs Magazine…)
Hey, they know it when they see it.
Judge
SueMeSumi? LoL if that is pronounced like it reads.most likely she is a finlander. "soumi" is finnish for finland and is kind of a rallying cry. and, yeah, it is pronounced "sue me" but a little more like soooomi!
I thought about that too. It's Suomi BTW. When teabaggers find out she might have been named after a social democratic country there might be a bit of a freakout. If only her middle name was Swe-Nor-Den.
Yes, it is pronounced like it reads.
Uh oh. Judge Maryann Sumi (is THAT a Muslin name!? It don't sound Patriot American!) the GOP is going to investigate your womb!
And she's from DANE county, isn't Denmark a socialist country?
Oh hell yeah. I bet she's incubating a terror baby!
I'll see your Maryam (below) and raise you a Sunni!
So they should. You can bet your Bippy that her uterus is a haven for BOLSHEVIKS.
Also, marble countertops too!
Though the Koch-whore lawyers will invariably swoop in and have this overturned again, it's so refreshing to hear some good news for a change.
wait, is Brawny the one I like? No, that's Viva. Who owns Viva, Monty Burns?
Well, well… Obviously the Kock's missed a payment to the judicial branch of Wisconsin. I hope they make Walker eat so much cheese he can't shit for three weeks. That sounds painful, right?
Not painful enough.
I presume Walker will just pass it the ordinary way now, since he has quorum?
Anyway, looks like a victory for the time being; more time to get the recall bizness moving.
This time the Dems should escape to Disneyland.
Or some other place where a Teabagger wouldn't think to look. Like a library or the produce dept. at the supermarket.
It's possible that some Republicans will have been sufficiently spooked by the recall efforts underway that they may rethink their votes. Okay, "rethink" is a bit of a stretch, but you know what I mean.
One broke away in the last vote, so a few more could join him.
https://secure.actblue.com/page/recalldarling
Please support the effort to recall State Senator Alberta Darling (R). This act blue page was created by the people on the ground and does not go though any other party (besides act blue, of course).
In honor of the NCAA tournament. IN YO FACE!!!!!!
Time for the Kocks to fire up their barely whirring be-scootered hoards to protest this tyranny against billionaires. Because you know. Populizm.
Three cheers for the separation of powers!
You can't break laws in order to make laws, Republicans!
That's adorable.
Hip, Hip!!!
HIP HIP JORGE!
HIP HIP JORGE!
HIP HIP JORGE!
(It's almost baseball season, Go Yankees!)
Sorry, but I have to downfist the sentiment in favor of the second most annoying team in baseball (most annoying are the Red Sox).
THTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHP!
(Bronx Cheer)
Admittedly I'm a Yankees fan, but I love this. So so true about both teams. Thanks for the in-short-supply-these-days LAFFS.
I'm a Cubs fan. Everyone loves the Cubs!
What, no Indians fans? I guess you guys just don't love losing as much as I do.
I'll be going to the stadium in FL next week for 3 games. My husband and daughter are HUGE fans, (we even have a dog named "Yogi").
They love baseball, but me? I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of Jeter's butt!
Spring Training pregame stretching is one of my favorite sports.
To Hell with Babe Ruth.
Huzzah!
But due process is such a socialist idea.
Yeah, but the interest payments on overdue process are a bitch.
You can also trace habeas corpus straight back to Das Kapital.
King John was a false-flag emperor! WAKE UP & FACE TEH TRUTH!
What's that sound? Wisconsin Dems fleeing for the border. Go Dems Go!
They should head for Canada this time. Trickier extradition.
Somebody should write those laws down so the legislators and governor can see what's legal in Wisconsin before they do all that enacting.
Republicans don't care about no stinkin' legality. See: "enhanced interrogation techniques".
Honestly, I don't know why the Repubs took this approach.
In the face of massive public outcry, boisterous occupation of their workspace, and inverted poll numbers, maybe they just cracked and fucked up? Maybe they expected the whole thing to fail and just wanted to pretend for a minute they were in control? They did get a few days of good press for their "win", but what will the press do now* that the W has been nullified (temporarily)?
*Take it away, NYT: "The judge's order is a major setback for new Republican Gov. Scott Walker and puts the future of the law in question."
Rules? That is *such* a government over-reach!!
Hey, big picture – the teabaggers are trying to undo centuries of progress for ordinary people, so this is merely a speed bump.
When are the teabaggers going to realize that they are ordinary people too?
The teabaggers aren't "ordinary people." They're "special."
If by "special", you mean mouthbreathing, hoodwearing, sister-loving, pig-fucking, cross-burning, knuckle-dragging, just learning to use their opposable thumbs bitchasses then yes they are the "specialist specials that ever specialed"
Probably never-too much Doritos Salt Buildup in their brains for them to ever use the things properly. They probably thought the movie 'Idiocracy' offered the vision of a cool future.
I don't think that's salt, kemosabe..
There are at least two types of ordinary. them and us. Them don't deserve what us'ms have due to the boot strap nonsense.
"When are the teabaggers going to realize that they are ordinary people too?"
It's not a question of "realize". Teatards don't *believe* that they're ordinary. They believe that they're the speshul, chosen, speshul snowflakes of Jeebus, and since life is always fair, they're eventually going to be rewarded, and those of us who they don't like are eventually going to be punished, and that's as it should be.
This time the fleeing Dems should hide themselves near the Haymarket historical site in Chicago so that when the teabaggers come looking for them they might be forced to learn a bit about the history of the labor movement. "These people died so you'd have your weekends free to sit on the couch eating wings and watching sports, dumbass.!"
But I thought the Haymarket was in New Hampshire. That's what Bachmann sez.
Death to the capitalist insect that preys upon the proetariat!
Also Brawny! Too.
Brawndo! Wait, what?
Governor Scott Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Comacho Walker: "It's got 'lectrolytes 'n' shit."
When the Kochs told him to get that cute little ass in gear and fuck those unions, looks like wittle Scotty moved a little to fast, in his desire to keep his daddies happy.
Thanks for today' good news story, Ken,
A little premature-busting, happens to all of us at least once.
Premature Enactulation.
The GOP are just a few steps away from just waving a magic wand and saying "abacadabra it's a law!".
If the governor had absolute power as the LORD intended, he'd just issue a decree. Why does democracy hate Jesus?
Magic? Devil words!
It's nice to see that the Judicial branch just cock-blocked the Imperial Grand Wizard of Destroying the Working Class Scott Shitbag Walker.
Meanwhile the young, impressionable Koch-bots are strategizing about how to respond at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. Because they believe the middle class need optimization using the MBM (whatever the fuck it is).
Massive Bowel Movement?
Lost what little faith I had in our "Judicial System" during Bush v Gore. The Four Horse's Asses of the Apocalypse: Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito will always be able to peel off one more weak sister to claim victories for the MegaCorps. We are sooooo fucked, and I suspect Barry knows that.
I absolutely agree with you. And there's no way to explain to the American public that yes, we're in a world of shit, we have to get off the oil teat, we're developing into a nation of idiots graduating useless business/financial douches in droves while outsourcing math/science fields of study (because it's too harrrd for Trigger and Rhiannon to learn) while allowing the infection of 'intelligent design' into curriculum, and that we may actually have to learn to DO WITH LESS. Oh noes! What will we do without our 128 ozs of Cheetos! How will we survive if we can't drive an F350 to the mall! Sacrifice for the common good is socilizims! ETC.
Sadly outing the truth would be political suicide.
I hate it, but you are so on target.
"The Four Horse's Asses of the Apocalypse: Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito"
A good name for a bad bunch. ::nodnod::
nudge, nudge!
wink wink!
Is she a… go-er… eh?
Know what I mean?
John Cleese [grudgingly]: She sometimes goes.
Say no more!
She's a goer, eh?
Union judge. Impeachment starting in 5,4,3
OK Maryann, but what did Ginger have to say? Oh, she's checking with Thurston…
How could the Koch's have forgotten to buy off this judge. Slipping, Dave?
Is an Open Meeting Law anything like an Open Container Law? 'cause these repukes are sure drunk on some expensive power.
Iodide from laughing …
Yay, miniature flags for all!
What's this strange feeling in my chest? It's… it's a sort of a lightness? And fluttery? Mommy, is this…hope?
Let me put my boot-heels to that for you.
Gas
Could be a palpitation; you should get that checked out.
But, if it lasts for more than 4 hours, please call everyone and help organize a rally.
TPM says a quickie pro-forma vote can fix the Koch-block.
You're harshing our buzz.
Apparently Judge Sumi is staying the law until she has a hearing on its legitimacy. And at least 20 people want to testify — so it could drag on for a while.
i have a new crush: maryann sumi! yay! on wisconsinites! and michiganders!
On Hoosiers! On Buckeyes!
and minnesotans and iowans and illinoisians and everyone else!
nobody needs dixie cups ever.
You have that on a tee-shirt? Yet?
The Dixie Chicks are OK though.
as are the Dixie Chicks' cups
JudgesRStreetGangs?
/eagerly awaits his morning "0"
Oh, oh, somebody is about to get Koch-slapped…
This is when the Kochs call in the Baldwin-Felts goons.
I don't know who the Feltses are, but if Stephen is one of the Baldwins, I think we have very little to fear.
this is what democracy looks like! checks and balances, bitches! it's in the constitution!
Wish I could be in MSN for the party! Or are all of you still too hungover from last night?
Remember shortly after the 2008 election when the Republiklans were whining about the lack of checks and balances in the system since the Democrats ran everything?
What's this? Wisconsin Senate out of session until April? Gee that's too bad.
Snark off. Christ I wanna send that bitch a fruit basket!
That sounds like the sort of naughty double-entendre that ought to be spoken in a NYC accent and accompanied by a crotch grab.
I believe that would be a fruit bowl.
DAMN! Koch's blocked by the Assfist of the judicial system. This is the shit.
Hey, Koch bros. Dick Scaife called and he wants his Ming the Merciless costume back.
…saying a legislative committee likely violated the state Open Meetings Law…
There's a shock, I'm sure the mindset was "if a legislative committee does it, by definition it's legal".
Can the Pinkertons be far behind?
Don't know if this ruling will stand, but anything that gives ulcers to rich cocksuckers like the Koch boys is a very good thing.
Brawny Dixie Koch would be the worst porno ever.
I think Fred "Dipshit Magoo" Thompson made porn flicks under that name.
No, that would be two Koches, one Dixie Cup.
Is there a complete catalog of the Koch line? I'd like to know, although I doubt anyplace we shop would carry billionaire bunko brands.
You wonder about even the business acumen of someone picking Deadman Walker for their prime parrot. But, then, the Kochs didn't arrive where they are as entrepreneurs, but heirs to daddy, who made his setting up oilfields for Stalin.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/boycott-k...
And a little more good news from Wisconsin. http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/03/14/wisc...
Happy Friday!
I am very optimistic about the recall effort. The one thing that the anti-Walker forces have going for them, and that the Republicans really have no answer to, is that the same folks who ran Obama's door-to-door campaign are now leading the recall petition drive. They are organized and they are energetic and they have some little victories like this one to help drive them.
If only they could have been organized and energetic last fall.
And the comments are actually safe and non-toxic!
Thanks!
(I feel so brave.)
Open meetings is definitely a socialislamalist idea. And wasn't Bob La Follett a Progressive Republican? Fortunately, this cuntry has no history.
Looks like Judge Sumi just handed Scott Walker the world's biggest bag of lightly salted rat dicks for his weekend munching enjoyment. He can share them with "David" and "Charles" when they drop by with this week's mordida.
A couple years ago Walker said he loves all this anger.
Koch is, right now, obviously writing a reminder note to himself to buy a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and a district court judge on his way home from the office.
And don't forget the lube.
Whereas Milorganite fertilizer is made (partially) from the shit of good, hardworking Milwaukeeans.
No, really.
The zoo, across the street from me in Seattle, sold Zoo Doo. I used to use compost made from elephant and rhino shit. Quickly, it became so popular you had to get on a waiting list for it. Also, it was packaged as Xmas gifts.
"Merry Christmas! Enjoy this box of shit!"
But it's really great shit…
Marxism takes yet another commie-step in it's never ending atheist crusade to crush US'merica.
This gives Walker the excuse he needs to quit being governor and work on his presidential campaign promising four more years of jobless "recovery".
I always liked Mary Ann best, anyway.
Cue the Teabagger death threats agains the judge in 3, 2, 1. . . .
The comments at foxnews.com are already there.
Those are not death threats. They want to put a gas-filled tire around his head and set him on fire with surveyor's marks, you silly libtards.
lunch with luntz: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51493.h...
"Democrats allege that Walker met Republican pollster Frank Luntz in late February inside the governor’s office, in violation of state law."
Ewww, not only is that illegal, it's disgusting. Cross-eyed buttsecks.
So? Does this prove that Rove & Luntz are coordinating these anti-human campaigns on behalf of their reptilian overloads?
Because that whole Sharia Law fantasy they dreamed up is so five minutes ago. I keep thinking all that's left for them is fighting the zombie apocalypse, but they keep coming up with new fantasy shit to be scared of.
I'm thinking…
Yes, Oh, Hell Yes!
But as is the rule with "Genius" political strategists, they don't always get it right, and I would imagine that Rover and Frankie are doing a whole lot of damage control and are in something of a panic mode at this point. I suspect that the Koch Bro's do not like the publicity that is shining on them at this point, and I know for a fact that the donors to Walker are sweating a bit too. Nothing shits up your reputation as a family company than buying politicians favors like blowjobs from whores.
If this gets traction, Scott Walker might not make it long enough to get recalled.
Really? This is going to have more impact than that stupid Koch prank call? Where he admitted he wanted to hire some thugs to impersonate demonstrators and start shit?
I mean, I'd certainly hope this actually creates a problem for Walker, but honestly, I'm not optimistic.
I doubt it will take Scooter out, but it will make his life a bit more complicated until the November petition drives begin. That will take him out if anything will.
"frivolous complaints" Now where have I heard that language before?
Walker is the new Palin.
Between them, they might have a full term.
Suck it Scotty.
Oh wait, that's what you have been doing for weeks.
Walker! Enjoy that big judical Koch getting shoved down your throat!
I love watching right wingers gag…
Cue shrill screams of "activist judges" from the Right.
Eric bar Eric says this is grounds to impeach the judge … following the law=crime.
Bull!
Jim, that link is deader than Mr. Burrell.
Take the case to judge
Sumi
Sumi
what can you do me?
I love you.
Up the ass of Gov
Walker
Walker
pedophile stalker
Now screw you.
Not to panic. The governor announced that his pastor has overruled the judge. Game still on.
That's how a black excon (drive by) may be elected mayor of this little town, simply by virtue of the fact he got saved at the Baptist church and they evidently figured it was time they took City Hall away from the Methodists. (No matter he isn't legally eligible. They're praying for that pardon to come through and bingo, it's Jesus time.) I think they're making a run on the school board, too. (After the Republitard budget cuts and tax cuts go through, curriculum will be a moot issue, anyway.)
I'm going to need a clarification from our DA, who was the dick in the state house who introduced our ridiculous law. Hey, Rex: if Baptists do it, is it still called Sharia Law?
Too soon to dedicate "We Came Through" by Scott Walker to Scott Walker?
http://tinyurl.com/46vtv34
Yeah, probably.
There's a "Markie Post" joke in there somewhere, but I'm too busy bangin' my gavel to the Google image search I just did of her to make it right now.
Ugh, here cum de judge…
Flippin' brilliant!
You know what I want to see? A reunion of friends…from Night Court.
dramatic photo of wisconsin protests: http://yfrog.com/gzyyzckj power to the peeple!
Oh, god, I love Peeps. Just love them. The only better candy in the world is Jelly Babies but they're harder to get in this country. I had a chocolate covered raspberry flavored Peep on Valentine's Day and it was orgasmic. Wait–are they made in Wisconsin? I know it's one of those states up there, but they tend to blend.
nope. pennsylvania. bethlehem, no less. close! you're from alabama, right? one of those southern states? they're all a blur.
[tee-hee. sorry.]
Payday another contribution to recall8
a thousand thousand times: thank you. you are awesome. go to a mirror. look at yourself. say to yourself: "i am awesome! some random stranger in wisconsin says so!" a thousand thousand more times, thank you.
Sumi, Sumi what can you do me?
Is this the part where the Koch Brothers switch Scott Walker's life with that of a homeless vagrant for the "usual wager"? Oh wait, that's the Duke Brothers.
There goes his trip to Cali. Just as well since the radiation moved in – wouldn't want Walker to turn into a monster or something….
This liberal activist judge was a Tommy Thompson appointee, also, too. lol
likely is not a strong judicial stand, just wait till the bottom suckers go to work, and then see what happens.
I call dibs on Ann Arbor!
Does "argle bargle fleeen" remind anyone else of the sound effects in the old Don Martin cartoons?
This is just plain sad (and good for us). He can't do anything without botching it. Even if this is overturned, this is just another example of how inept this guy is.
"I AM ABOVE THE LAW!!!"
– bad comb-over guy on South Park
"[Expletive] the Cubs and their [invective]-ass old piece of [detritus] ballpark, we gonna [act of love] their li'l blue asses from the Cell to Wrigley!!" –Ozzie Guillen
Except for Cubs fans, in my experience; they seem to hate them.
A Cubs fan in Phillie?
It's a love-hate relationship of the most dysfunctional kind. Go Cubs! (kill me now)
Our own personal Hugo Chavez. Go Sox!
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