Daily Topics - Thursday March 3rd, 2011
By shawnt56
Hour One: Latest from the trenches...war on labor - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine / Plus, why do conservatives think bombs are the answer to everything? Dr. Michael Ledeen, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Hour Two: Should bigots be able to become foster parents? Bryan Fischer, American Family Association / Plus, Wisconsin voters move to recall 8 GOP state senators - Graeme Zielinski, Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Comments
#2
How about Shih Tzu
For Scott Walker as David Koch's dog.
#3
Sadly, part of that B-roll they showed did happen last weekend in Sacramento. Some idiot wearing a Teamsters jacket got into the face of a tea bagger. And, there happened to a video camera - behind the tea bagger, of course. Now whether the "Teamster" was an agent provocateur appearing to be a union man or not, I still don't know.
#4
SB5 passed the Ohio Senate yesterday after some of the most corrupt maneauvering since the age of the robber barons. It IS going to pass the House and become law. For a time.
The Ohio Constitution does not include a recall mechanism for the removal of state officials, but citizens can use the initiative process to put an amendment to the State Constitution on the ballot. No reason it couldn't be used to remove a governor and state senators.
#5
mathboy - the problem isn't that Walker controls the WI capitol, it's that his fellow Rape-Public-CONS do. If there's any extent to which they allow him to exercise any control, it's because they do like a "strong" leader, after all. Sieg Heil, y'all.
:-(
#6
This whole "contempt of the Senate" thing is ridiculous. The high quorum threshold was set in the Wisconsin Constitution precisely so that a large minority could prevent bad ideas from passing. It would be like the Democrats in the U.S. Senate holding the Republicans in contempt for filibustering.
#7
THOM!!!!!
I remain disappointed at your support of and association for PD America.
Rather than urging Israel and the folk living in the Palestinian territories to actively deal with one another in an open and forthright manner, the express (written) platform of Progressive Democrats of America actively seek to associate with folk whose express intention to foment the destruction and elimination of Israel.
PD America actively advocates and campaigns for the unilateral divestment of Israel.
Their proud association with “End the Occupation” is wholly inappropriate. The reasons that the Palestinian territories exist is the folk living in those regions on-going refusal to accept the selfsame U.N. Resolution that created Israel and Israel’s Arabic neighbor wholesale dumping the welfare and protection of those peoples solely upon Israel.
If PD America wanted to do something appropriate in the Middle East their focus would be directed forcefully at the real bad actors in the Region like Saudi Arabia. PD America has notably avoided doing so AND have shunned folk (including myself) who have suggested these for more beneficial and effective policies.
I wholeheartedly urge you to review your association with PD America.
Respectfully,
Richard L. Adlof
#8
It would be like the Democrats in the U.S. Senate holding the Republicans in contempt for filibustering.
Yes please
A filibuster here or there, fine. But when it is on every single thing the Senate does ... contempt qualifies.
#9
Boehner passed out those checks in June 1995.
#10
How about Wanker...I mean Walker... (dog Walker, that is) is the Koch brothers' wiener dog! He's more of a short hair and he's definitely a wiener!!
#11
I suggest Wiener Dog!
#12
Thom,
You should have asked Bryan Fischer if he believes kids should be placed with homosexual couples. Would have been interested to know his answer to that....
#13
Walker is not a Badger - He's a Weasel.
#14
Notice how the mainstream media has dropped the Wisconsin story. Surprising? We've got to stop the dictator from ruining our state. I cannot believe this is happening. I'm not going to let this drop. I will send out emails to everyone I know about this - where and how to sign recall notes.
#15
Governor is a Kochadoodle
#16
Koch's Show Dog (no need for a breed)
Ever watched a dog show? Walker is a pretty boy and he is so well trained - the perfect face to disguise a perfabricated adjenda. Can you believe he refuses to budge from the masters behest? If the citizens of Wisconsin are the master voice Walker responds to, he would be for compromising along with the call of the people. Ever see a well trained dog that isn't yours? they do not listen to anyone but their master... put pressure on the masters or skew their communication and the dog is unable to function of free will. all of the show dogs are always pampered... like Walker is. It is identicle to the request of Walker to the fake Koch for pampering for his constituents to keep there spirits up.
Humans are animals too. Unless a person is completely aware of ALL the influences in their respective lives, they continue to believe they have free will without effect. THIS IS FALSE. Everything you hear, see, feel, smell, taste in a day reminds you of things in your past. At night, dreaming allows the 'noise' of the day to resonate into memories. But free will is easy to fake. it is the entire foundation of all psy-op related philosophy.
Walker is a human that has probably been lead to believe he is doing something right. If he has seriously never talked to or met the Koch's, then their influence on him is indirect. So how does one go about indirectly influencing someone else? If it was me, I would want that person to have an absence of doubt and time... because even simple statistics or arithmatic is not easy to do in ones head. Thus, concluding any opposition would be entirely on the individual in a fixed time. But absence of doubt... being that there are only 5 senses, smell and taste and touch don't really influence major descisions. But what you see and hear does! Thus I would want to surround this person with actors to feed a false impression of ideology.
So I have sort of concluded that Walker is not even able to change anything. If he changes even one word of pre-authorized legislation written by lobbiests, he would be ruined. The adjenda of the right wing is a multigenerational event that is still unfolding.
#17
@LAlameda, I love the name!!!!!
#19
Jefferson Nailed It:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
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I can't figure out why Gov. Walker is in control of the Wisconsin capitol. Usually the executive branch operates from another building and the capitol is under the control of the legislature. For example, the President does his job in the White House and can't shut down the U.S. capitol. So why does Walker have this kind of authority?