"Recent rankings and surveys have shown that business leaders here and nationally like what is happening in Wisconsin," said Kurt Bauer, president of the Madison-based Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the State's biggest business group. "Breaking News! Wisconsin's Working!" ran the headline on a statement from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.Top of the index page. All day.
Democrats are going to look bad if they dont get healthcare and the debt fixed.
ReplyDeleteThe Democrats and the Republicans will both look bad if they default. This isn't all on one or the other. They are ALL seriously in trouble with every independent voter in the USA. It's time to cut the b.s, get real and get to work.
ReplyDeleteI can't see the "Tea Party freshmen" impressing too many independent voters. Polls are already showing the newbs in position to get turfed out. I think the Framers understood that dynamic well, making the House the only directly elected chamber, and limiting its members to two-year terms. The Framers anticipated a high turnover of yahoos both beneficiaries and then almost immediate victims of popular whims.
ReplyDeleteWhat's happening in Wisconsin now is democracy in action - speaking freely, peaceably assembling, petitioning the government, a textbook demonstration really. These are fundamental rights not because they're kind of nice, but to enable the citizenry to engage each other in order to form and reform public opinion and ultimately to elect the representatives they want. This is what democracy looks like.
ReplyDeleteA free press is in there too, but that has not worked out so well, now or in the past. Murdoch is nothing - Hearst literally dictated policy and utterly destroyed any who dared to defy him.
Republicans look bad because they are wrong on Medicare...
ReplyDelete"I can't see the "Tea Party freshmen" impressing too many independent voters."
ReplyDeleteOh, you are sooo right about that. Half of them don't understand the Constitution or process. They just bitch and whine a lot and are not grounded in reality.
If we default on our debt because of those nincompoops, every investment and 401K on Wall Street is going to be re-rated and WE'RE going to lose what's left of our a$$es. Not them, not the fat cats, but us, the frickin' middle class.
Want to see things get ugly? You think Wisconsinites are ticked now? Wait till you see a whole nation rage over the b.s. happening in DC. This ain't no blip on the screen. They've worked us over too many times. There's a firestorm brewing as we write, just waiting to explode.
"Half of them don't understand the Constitution ... "
ReplyDeleteWhich is funny because that's what they campaigned on. And that was the good thing about the Tea Party, they reminded us of the principles on which the nation was founded. But then when they started talking about what is and what isn't in the Constitution, yikes. Or in Ron Johnson's case, barely having read the thing.