because Gov. Walker plucked three Republicans out for his cabinet,

Confirm this with people there, but my understanding is that Walker had no choice but to give idiots like Mike Huebsch the best jobs they ever had.

The Walker faces gaping holes – in cabinet
He says nominees are close at hand

Even Republicans don’t want to work for the Wanker. The leading edge of Scott’s managerial acumen is “fix it.” That’s short for keep it out of the papers and do whatever Charlie Sykes (AM radio) tells you.

You’re also exactly correct about those upcoming special elections. Big, early referendum on Gov. Dropout.

The misnamed “Tort Reform,” bill he signed is so bad, attorneys can’t wait to use it to defend drunk drivers. Since they didn’t “intend” to kill anyone, they’re not at fault.

Appreciate you being there.

These demonstrators in Madison have been a perfect example of how it should be done – peaceful. Law enforcement has also shown cooperation and assistance. I have great admiration for all sides. Hope it continues this way and that the unions win, of course.
Really bad governor.

The Capitol police are bound to know that it was cops beating University of Wisconsin students protesting against napalm and Dow Chemical that kicked off student protests all over America in the Vietnam War era. If they beat those people at the Capitol, I’m on my way to Madison.

LYING LIARS ALERT

The latest line of bull shit propaganda by the right-wing (to make them feel better about supporting Scott Walker’s union busting) is that Jimmy Carter and a Democratic congress stripped collective bargaining rights from federal employees when they passed the Civil Service Act of 1978.

The truth is that the CSA guaranteed federal workers the rights to join unions and to collectively bargain. However, collective bargaining rights were limited to labor practices and union representation during dispute resolution. Civil service pay grades and benefits were already set by statute.

So what Carter did and what Walker is attempting to do are not the same thing.

Time for American labor to take the offense. There are over two million non-uinion employees of Wal*Mart working for below-subsistence wages and without benefits, causing additional demand for social services from already strapped local governments.

Time to launch a major effort to unionize all two million Wal*Mart employees.

AFL-CIO? United Auto Workers? Teamsters? Someone please step up to the plate.

Let’s all hope it stays that way and that there are no (patsy false flag?) Sterling Hall incidents.

What is the NLRB saying about all of this? Maybe I’ve missed it.

This all is about momentum….http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175355/tomgram%3A_michael_schwartz%2C_weapons_of_mass_disruption/

Good points there.

The video choked me up.
Keep up the good fight, WI protesters!
I’m with you in spirit.

And no Kent State incidents.

Obama could wrap up the 2012 election tonight by piling his family into Air Force One and spending the night at the Capitol in Madison.

Once again:

First They came… – Pastor Martin Niemoller

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Ah but that’s what Walker wants. Maybe his pal Andrew Breitbart can arrnage to have a fake rpotester start something so that he can call in the National Guard and kille everyone.

Dick Durbin will be speaking at the rally in Chicago and Van Jones speaking in DC. Move-On has pictures.

What did people think they were going to get by electing right wing thugs? It’s sad so many bought into their jobs lies. They don’t care one way or another if any jobs are created. They like the idea of masses of desperately poor people it keeps wages and salaries low. Destruction of the Public service Unions is on the top of their agenda and whose going to stop them? They don’t care how many people protest now that’s obvious. Walker , Christie and the rest of the thugs are going to do what they have planned if they have the power.

Just got back from the Raleigh, NC solidarity rally to the Wisonsin folks. There were around 1000 pro-union/pro-wisconsin protestors and about 200 teapartier/anti-union counter protesters.

At one point I thought I heard the Teapartiers chanting “We are Koch! We are Koch!” which I found pretty odd considering the always pretend to not be corporate astroturf. A few chants in I realized they were chanting, “We are broke! We are broke!” I assume suggesting that Walker needed to do these things for fiscal reasons, even though thats been shown to be completely untrue at this point.

I think “We are Koch” would have been better. At least it would have been honest and intellectually accurate.

It’s sad so many bought into their jobs lies. They don’t care one way or another if any jobs are created. They like the idea of masses of desperately poor people it keeps wages and salaries low. Destruction of the Public service Unions is on the top of their agenda and whose going to stop them? They don’t care how many people protest now that’s obvious.

That sounds a lot like Obama to me…

Capitol Culture in Madison

http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages#!/album.php?aid=76087&id=1329739469&fbid=1581347816830

Is there a live cam for today’s protests?

Thanks for this post, “NPL” (re: I requested same on an earlier thread). Will “send it up”…

“These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under Communist domination who have been willing to go into the Gulag and suffer the torture of imprisonment because of their dissidence. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here or it will not be passed on to our children and it would disappear everywhere in the world. Today the workers in Poland are showing a new generation how high is the price of freedom but also how much it is worth that price.

Ronald Reagan, 1980

I would not be so much worried about a Kent State incident as much as a Sterling Hall incident.

David Fine, who was 18 at the time of the bombing, eventually completed work for a bachelor’s degree at the University of Delaware, and for a law degree at the University of Oregon. He passed the Oregon bar exam but was denied admission to the bar. His appeal to the Supreme Court of Oregon was also denied. The court’s written decision:

He has not shown himself to be a credible person and did not establish that he now has the good moral character required to practice law. We base our decision on applicant’s present statements about his past acts. We recognize that persons can and do reform. However, in this case applicant’s deceitful, self-serving conduct persisted at the time of the hearing.[1]

If Fine went to all the trouble of completing law school and passing the state bar exam, why would he make statements that would ensure the denial of his bar application? What was it that he said that would have caused the Supreme Court of Oregon to deny his application? Was he accusing someone else in the plot, i.e. someone who needed to remain anonymous?

Here’s what Campus*Progress thinks about Rayguns.

Is Scott Walker Taking Union-Busting Cues from Ronald Reagan?

What did people think they were going to get by electing right wing thugs?

The right wing thugs were elected because Obama, Biden, Rendell, etc. went out of their way to keep the progressive turnout down. Credit the thugs’ victory to those who deserve it.

Patsies – America’s great tradition.

Meanwhile …

Taiwanese animators report “Gaddafi dead set on clinging to power” (video, Feb 24, 2011, Chinese with English subtitles)

“Tiananmen 2.0: Why China Is Not Immune to the Tunisia Effect” (Feb. 24, 2011)

From “China asks foreign media to follow rules ahead of ‘protests’” (Feb. 26, 2011):

Asked whether there was any curb to travel to Wangfujing where the overseas dissident group website Buxon.Com asked people to launch strolling protests or close by Tiananmen Square, which witnessed heavy protests in 1989, the PSB official said Foreign Correspondents can travel anywhere but should follow the rules.

If those kids had been rich, they never would have gone to jail. They would have gotten their degrees and been rehabilitated as part of the academic community. Maybe even gone on to pal around with a President or two. Only in America.

vegan, did you find the livestream yet?

(OT) Bill Maher, you give “Stand Up and Be Comedy” a new bad name…

As for Walker being run out of the restaurant. I would like to see him shunned in every private enterprise in the state as well as out. I believe they call that the “O.J.” treatment. Let him be personal non grata everywhere. Perhaps he can find a few friends at Cato or Heritage. They can have him.

UCFW has been trying to organize them forever. The company is vehemently anti union though and even has training modules that extol the “evils” of union (Yeah I did a 3 year stint there)

Hehe I wonder how many others thought they were saying “we are koch”?

The weenies might want to come up with a different talking point since the chant sounds remarkably like they are a bought and paid for org.

Good to know that even in a right to work state that the workers had a 5-1 advantage.

Funny, I was a U.S. Postal Service employee from 1988-1995. I was a member of the postal workers union during that time and paid dues. The union was free to negotiate contracts with the federal government and we got raises, etc. under those contracts. If collective bargaining was stripped by Carter, etc., how was the union able to negotiate contracts? I was employed under FERS, the Federal Employees Retirement System, not the CSRS, Civil Service Retirement System. Both FERS and CSRS employees were covered by those collectively bargained union contracts.

It does not look like police will evict protesters.

BREAKING: Wisconsin Police Have Joined Protest Inside State Capitol

“Police have just announced to the crowds inside the occupied State Capitol of Wisconsin: ‘We have been ordered by the legislature to kick you all out at 4:00 today. But we know what’s right from wrong. We will not be kicking anyone out, in fact, we will be sleeping here with you!’ Unreal.”

http://understory.ran.org/2011/02/25/breaking-wisconsin-police-have-joined-protest-inside-state-capitol/

Don’t make lame excuses for ignoring your duty to vote.