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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
From: http://www.readersupporte...-of-the-republican-party

