Keith Olbermann: "Wis Repubs & Their Corp Puppeteers - Tonight Guaranteed Themselves A Recall"

[kpete]

The Suicide Of The Republican Party
Posted on March 9, 2011

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.

http://foknewschannel.com/the-suicide-of-the-republican-party/#more-116

[regnaD kciN]

1. So what?

Recall them all. It won't mean a thing -- the law will still stand the moment Walker signs it. :-(

I hate Republicans with ever fiber of my being.

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[fascisthunter]

3. I have to Repeat what another poster said, "So What?"

recalling is shit! What about the fucking legislation????? Recalling should be done, but the damage has been done!

[regnaD kciN]

5. Yep, and even if we prevail...

...and get a Democratic majority in the Senate and a Democrat replacing Walker, any attempt to undo this bill will be killed in the Republican-controlled House.

Face it: We. Lost.

The only lesson to take from this is that deciding to sit out midterm elections because of disappointment with our own party/president is merely cutting our own throat.

[hlthe2b]

4. May KO's words be rapidly realized...

GAWD... I'm beyond words tonight...