Tea Party Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Adopts Soviet-style Authoritarian Powers Over Michigan Citie

[Donnachaidh]

http://blog.buzzflash.com//node/12610?utm_content=backtype-tweetcount&utm_medium=bt.io-twitter&utm_source=direct-bt.io

We talked about Scott Walker's Orwellian rhetoric yesterday, but Michigan Tea Party Gov. Rick Snyder leaves Walker in the dust when it comes to turning the book "1984" into a reality.

Snyder recently signed a bill that gives him powers to unilaterally take over local governments by appointing "emergency financial managers" with near absolute powers to supersede decisions made by democratically elected officials.

If this strikes some as an example of the type of governmental tyranny that the Tea Party deplored (but never existed before in a state as far as we know), that is because it is.

The Tea Party - and the Republican Party - have shouted to the rooftops that local government and individual liberties are the true "patriotic" freedoms in America.

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[Kablooie]

1. I wonder if any of these guys are going to become dangerous?

Most are certainly buffoons but if some power hungry, truly sly SOB gets in there he might find some machiavellian way to consolidate his power and begin to really cause trouble.

[Donnachaidh]

3. I've been wondering that myself

This guy is really in need of a french *cravat*, if you get my drift... :evilgrin:

[MedleyMisty]

5. They are already dangerous

And we need to take action now before it gets to that point.

[Avant Guardian]

6. I say let them

Let the cards fall where they may. Their ideology is making them self destruct.

[Kablooie]

7. People said the same thing about the early Nazi movement.

[Avant Guardian]

8. Republicans are Nazis with a Keystone Kop makeover

[MichiganVote]

2. K&R

[highplainsdem]

4. Both ALEC and the conservative majority on the Supreme Court appear to be involved in this. See

these topics:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x900810

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x910439