GOP Long-term Plan To Destroy Democratic Party
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Canny Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has brilliantly outlined the Republican Party's long-term plan to destroy the Democratic Party by removing collective bargaining for union members and by corporations out-spending both unions who are supporting their workers' rights and ordinary citizens.
Unions are the largest donors to campaigns which involve their members and support the Democratic Party and its candidates as the DP supports workers' rights.
Republican strategy is simple. Republican corporate PACs rushed over $2 million into Wisconsin to underwrite an aggressive defensive campaign to retain former Republican Speaker of the House David Prosser in the Wisconsin Supreme Court so that Governor Walker's union-bashing budget-repair bill would pass the Court challenge.
Supreme Court terms are for 10 years and Court's eight Justices are supposed to be neutral and impartial in their rulings.*
In the non-partisan primaries (not running as a designated Party candidate), Prosser trounced JoAnne Kloppenburg by a margin of approximately 25%.
Kloppenburg, Assistant Attorney General, is considered a liberal who did not have a chance to be elected a month ago.
Koppenburg defeated Prosser in the April 5 election by 204 votes and declared herself the winner on Wednesday.
Prosser may demand a recount and his advisors may insist on time-consuming court appeals if he loses a recount.
If there is a recount and appeal, neither candidate will sit on the Supreme Court when the law suit, which blocked Governor Walker's controversial budget-repair bill which strips public employees of their collective bargaining rights, comes before the Court in two months.
Republican strategy would happily deprive workers of a liberal's vote on the Court; however, international coverage and national support for teachers and other workers who will be forced to take massive pay cuts, may sensitize the Court to the potential U.S. Constitutional challenges it faces if it supports a bill that was passed without due process of WI Constitutional law.
Allowing a bill to stand as law that was passed without proper Congressional notice and without a quorum present is illegal.
The governor's repeated flauting of a Court order to stay the bill's publication and enforcement is also illegal. He has been forced by a lower court to abide by its temporary order before it can hear arguments on the legality of Congressional procedures taken by Wisconsin's House and Senate majorities in ramming the bill through.
People came from all over the U.S. to support workers in massive demonstrations.
Unions with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy saw the vote for Kloppenburg as a referendum on Walker's policies.
They telephoned over 96,000 voters to get out the vote for working people and Kloppenberg.
Prosser helped the campaign against himself by by expressing his partisan support of Governor Walker and for calling the Chief Justice of the WI Supreme Court, a woman, a "bitch" and threatened her with "I'm going to get you" on video.
That same woman will appoint the judge who will hear any Prosser appeal.
The City of Milwaukee trashed Walker's Republican successor at its Board of Commissioners leaving no doubt of voters' displeasure with the governor.
Walker limply blamed Wisconsin's second largest city and distinguished education center, Madison, for the losses.
The governor, whose candidates lost 19 counties that Republicans won in 2010, still does not see the vote as a referendum on his policies.
Voting patterns show that Democrats are revved up, Independents are disillusioned and many Republicans do not support Walker's confrontational policies either.
Democrats are gathering recall votes for six or more Republican Representatives and Senators. They have enough for one and almost enough for the second in just a few weeks.
The April 5 vote indicates that other Republicans who are vulnerable to recall in a fast-changing political landscape.
Walker continues to vow to continue his policies to destroy unions and he is joined by Republican governors in Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, etc. All their approval ratings have dropped dramatically and some are softening or backpeddling in response to concern from their own Republican constituencies.
Walker himself faces recall in January 2012, which is the earliest date by law, unless he is impeached.
The reputation of the State is badly damaged and it has taken major financial losses from wasted, illegal actions which have increased taxpayer costs.
With ordinary taxpaying people as the only ones who are expected to sacrifice to balance budgets and impending local and national government shutdowns, the spotlight is now on the Republican governors, vicious Koch-stooge Tea Party and incompetent, self-serving politicians who cannot punch their way out of a paper bag.
All the corporate money in the world will not hide the 'long game' forever from the 99% of Americans who have to pay the financial 'blood' price for the rich and corporations who pay no taxes.
What will happen to the 1% when the sleeping giant of 99% finally wakes up?
In country after country, the people are rebelling and overthrowing rulers.
Can America's rulers not see that they may be next?
©Posted April 7, 2011.
*The danger of endless court challenges with charges of fraud from a sitting WI Supreme Court Justice is that he will further undermine trust in the SC, the courts and the whole voting process over a few votes.
It could also prompt questions about partisan activist judges on courts where they are required by law to be impartial and fair.
It would prompt questions about the U.S. Supreme Court which has five activist Republican Justices who are re-writing the Constitution (by their decisions) for their corporate and conservative friends.
They have ruled that corporations have the right to invest unlimited funds, including foreign funds, to influence U.S. elections.
Even in aggregate, individual citizens and unions cannot compete in campaign spending.
©Posted April 7, 2011.
Susan's Views http://www.susansviews.com
Canny Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has brilliantly outlined the Republican Party's long-term plan to destroy the Democratic Party by removing collective bargaining for union members and by corporations out-spending both unions who are supporting their workers' rights and ordinary citizens.
Unions are the largest donors to campaigns which involve their members and support the Democratic Party and its candidates as the DP supports workers' rights.
Republican strategy is simple. Republican corporate PACs rushed over $2 million into Wisconsin to underwrite an aggressive defensive campaign to retain former Republican Speaker of the House David Prosser in the Wisconsin Supreme Court so that Governor Walker's union-bashing budget-repair bill would pass the Court challenge.
Supreme Court terms are for 10 years and Court's eight Justices are supposed to be neutral and impartial in their rulings.*
In the non-partisan primaries (not running as a designated Party candidate), Prosser trounced JoAnne Kloppenburg by a margin of approximately 25%.
Kloppenburg, Assistant Attorney General, is considered a liberal who did not have a chance to be elected a month ago.
Koppenburg defeated Prosser in the April 5 election by 204 votes and declared herself the winner on Wednesday.
Prosser may demand a recount and his advisors may insist on time-consuming court appeals if he loses a recount.
If there is a recount and appeal, neither candidate will sit on the Supreme Court when the law suit, which blocked Governor Walker's controversial budget-repair bill which strips public employees of their collective bargaining rights, comes before the Court in two months.
Republican strategy would happily deprive workers of a liberal's vote on the Court; however, international coverage and national support for teachers and other workers who will be forced to take massive pay cuts, may sensitize the Court to the potential U.S. Constitutional challenges it faces if it supports a bill that was passed without due process of WI Constitutional law.
Allowing a bill to stand as law that was passed without proper Congressional notice and without a quorum present is illegal.
The governor's repeated flauting of a Court order to stay the bill's publication and enforcement is also illegal. He has been forced by a lower court to abide by its temporary order before it can hear arguments on the legality of Congressional procedures taken by Wisconsin's House and Senate majorities in ramming the bill through.
People came from all over the U.S. to support workers in massive demonstrations.
Unions with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy saw the vote for Kloppenburg as a referendum on Walker's policies.
They telephoned over 96,000 voters to get out the vote for working people and Kloppenberg.
Prosser helped the campaign against himself by by expressing his partisan support of Governor Walker and for calling the Chief Justice of the WI Supreme Court, a woman, a "bitch" and threatened her with "I'm going to get you" on video.
That same woman will appoint the judge who will hear any Prosser appeal.
The City of Milwaukee trashed Walker's Republican successor at its Board of Commissioners leaving no doubt of voters' displeasure with the governor.
Walker limply blamed Wisconsin's second largest city and distinguished education center, Madison, for the losses.
The governor, whose candidates lost 19 counties that Republicans won in 2010, still does not see the vote as a referendum on his policies.
Voting patterns show that Democrats are revved up, Independents are disillusioned and many Republicans do not support Walker's confrontational policies either.
Democrats are gathering recall votes for six or more Republican Representatives and Senators. They have enough for one and almost enough for the second in just a few weeks.
The April 5 vote indicates that other Republicans who are vulnerable to recall in a fast-changing political landscape.
Walker continues to vow to continue his policies to destroy unions and he is joined by Republican governors in Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, etc. All their approval ratings have dropped dramatically and some are softening or backpeddling in response to concern from their own Republican constituencies.
Walker himself faces recall in January 2012, which is the earliest date by law, unless he is impeached.
The reputation of the State is badly damaged and it has taken major financial losses from wasted, illegal actions which have increased taxpayer costs.
With ordinary taxpaying people as the only ones who are expected to sacrifice to balance budgets and impending local and national government shutdowns, the spotlight is now on the Republican governors, vicious Koch-stooge Tea Party and incompetent, self-serving politicians who cannot punch their way out of a paper bag.
All the corporate money in the world will not hide the 'long game' forever from the 99% of Americans who have to pay the financial 'blood' price for the rich and corporations who pay no taxes.
What will happen to the 1% when the sleeping giant of 99% finally wakes up?
In country after country, the people are rebelling and overthrowing rulers.
Can America's rulers not see that they may be next?
©Posted April 7, 2011.
*The danger of endless court challenges with charges of fraud from a sitting WI Supreme Court Justice is that he will further undermine trust in the SC, the courts and the whole voting process over a few votes.
It could also prompt questions about partisan activist judges on courts where they are required by law to be impartial and fair.
It would prompt questions about the U.S. Supreme Court which has five activist Republican Justices who are re-writing the Constitution (by their decisions) for their corporate and conservative friends.
They have ruled that corporations have the right to invest unlimited funds, including foreign funds, to influence U.S. elections.
Even in aggregate, individual citizens and unions cannot compete in campaign spending.
©Posted April 7, 2011.
Susan's Views http://www.susansviews.com
Posted by Susan's Views at 4/7/2011 11:32 AM 
Categories: U.S. Elections, Politics
Tags: Rachel Maddow Wisconsin US Elections Republicans Democrats Supreme Court Governor Walker
Categories: U.S. Elections, Politics
Tags: Rachel Maddow Wisconsin US Elections Republicans Democrats Supreme Court Governor Walker
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