gwhit715 wrote:

The Suicide Of The Republican Party

Still having never learned to be calm, retract their claws, and sit around and act rationally in a situation that calls for panic, Wisconsin’s Republicans and their Corporate Puppeteers tonight guaranteed themselves an unprecedented and disastrous recall next January.

That's the legitimate electoral process.  Unfortunately for the Democrat left, the last election didn't go their way---and they don't seem to remember that "elections have consequences."

More over, they also guaranteed themselves that any cloak of stealth under which they have operated in their attacks on teachers, firefighters, policemen, unions, and the settled law of collective bargaining, has been stripped away. If you pass a supposedly urgent “budget repair” bill with key budget components cut from it, you forfeit the fiction that you are doing anything remedial, anything essential, anything except a naked power grab on behalf of corporations who will get the money stolen from organized labor – civic or private.

Yes, it was hidden right under the noses of the entire nation as the White House and lap-dog left-leaning MSM did everything possible to support fourteen cowardly and irresponsible Democrat Senators who refused to honor the legislative process in the aftermath of the election of a Republican Governor and establishment of Republican majorities in the legislature.  Forget the obligatory catch phrase about corporations, at issue here was the direct theft of taxpayer assets and income through the adoption of unaffordable public service union defined benefit retirement and health care plans.

And further, when you accomplish all this by parliamentary trick – after your national party has spent two years and more decrying Congressional reconciliation – when you deny the minority the right to participate in the outcome whether by compromise or protest, you cut through the cacophony of political-speak in this country and you transmit your sneering indifference towards democracy to ordinary citizens who do not normally pay attention.

There was no parliamentary trick, the bill was passed according to the letter of the law.  The sneering indifference was provided by fourteen cowardly WI Senators as they sneered on legislative responsibility. 

This is not to try to mitigate the disaster for Wisconsin and its public servants and its immediate future. Governor Scott Walker, the cross-eyed Koch-sucker, will make inchoate sounds of celebration, like a seal with a rack of horns before it. The Right will claim victory. Good workers who were under the illusion that their public service earned them just as much protection from irresponsible and uncontrolled management as any private employees, will have their lives and families damaged and risked.

There is no problem with "good workers"---but operating with their purchase of political favors from corrupt Senators, the unions weren't after just protection, they were out to empty the State Treasury with outlandish retirement and health care benefits greatly exceeding those offered to their employers---the taxpaying public.

 But the Republicans have overplayed their hand in a way that seems startling even for them, and they shall inherit the proverbial wind. They have taken another step, neither to be retraced nor erased, towards their political suicide – an event that cannot come a minute to soon for the real America of fairness, the sanctity of a contract, rules, and equal opportunity.

Well, perhaps---Democrats ought to know---they greatly overplayed their hand for the last two years while governing without the consent of the governed---and had their heads handed to them on November 2nd of last year.  If Republicans lose in 2012---they will likely exhibit better citizenship and responsibility to the nation than the mobs of union thugs who converged on WI to trash the WI Capitol and will continue to prove the extent to which bankrupt States and the White House have sold their integrity and public responsibility to the unions.   

  

Edited 1 time by Stalag18 03/11/11 18:06.