wisconsin
We won’t know for sure until he double-sucks the withered old peckers of David and Charles Koch on live television while simultaneously pooping on the grave of a 9/11 firefighter and strangling a pre-schooler, but Wisconsin’s Scott Walker is quickly shaping up to be the Republicans’ top choice to run for president in 2012. He’s [...]
M&I Bank is Wisconsin’s biggest, and it gave a ton of money to union-busting kochsucker Scott Walker. Now the unions are targeting both M&I and the Canadian banking giant in the process of acquiring it. A couple of firemen stomped in on Saturday and withdrew $192,000 on Saturday, in the branch across from the state [...]
Haha, afraid much? M&I Bank’s branch on the Capitol Square, at 1 W. Main St., closed Thursday after demonstrators, protesting campaign contributions by bank executives to Gov. Scott Walker, gathered outside the bank and several pulled their money out. Sara Schmitz, a spokeswoman for M&I in Milwaukee, said in an e-mail the bank shut its [...]
One of Scott Walker’s top orcs in the union-busting thuggery, Republican Randy Hopper, was thrown out by his wife and is now shacked up in Madison with a 25-year-old right-wing lobbyist who (of course) formerly worked with Hopper as a legislative aide (writing law for Hopper’s corporate backers). And now Hopper’s wife has joined the [...]
Wisconsin’s GOP/teabagger leadership broke the backs of the labor unions! (Until it’s all overturned in court, months or years after the Great Civil War that will hopefully reduce America to a Great Smoking Rubble Pit between Canada and Mexico.) Here’s the news bulletin: “Wisconsin lawmakers have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from [...]
Hey look, the black boots have been brought in to protect the state senators and their illegal lawmaking in the locked-down capitol building. Republicans sure do want the protestors to get violent, huh? A fatal shooting is just what this situation needs. Or perhaps it needs more noise? Some guy sent us a link to [...]
Well, they did it — probably unconstitutionally, certainly amorally, but the Wisconsin state senate Republicans crammed through their union-crushing bill tonight, and the response wasn’t very happy from the union workers and protesters and plain decent people of Wisconsin (and beyond) gathered for so long in Madison.
Ugh, the Wisconsin stuff is almost too dispiriting to follow. But what else can a “politics blog” do but follow the Koch Brothers’ Scott Walker/GOP thug-life show? Here’s a snippet from Mother Jones’ excellent, ceaseless coverage: Republicans in Wisconsin’s state Senate passed Republican Governor Scott Walker’s “budget repair bill” on Wednesday night without the 14 [...]
Times are tough for journalists covering the standoff over collective bargaining in Wisconsin. Just how many days in a row are you supposed to write this “There are still protests and the state senators are still floating on a lazy river at some hotel in Illinois” story? The protestors and the legislators may be able [...]
Scott Walker’s new cops are really good at their jobs! This state representative should know better. You have to pretend to be a Koch brother to enter that building.
Famous people like Howard Stern and Rahm Emanuel have “verified” Twitter accounts, meaning they get a little green checkmark next to their name on the Twitter. This serves some purpose, we suppose, for those Twitter users who require assurance that the banal “tweets” from whatever public figure are truly from that public figure (or the [...]
What is Meghan McCain up to these days? When she’s not buying AC/DC pajamas at Walmart for her new Daily Beast colleagues Howard Kurtz and Andrew Sullivan, she’s been very hard at work composing her fortnightly column. Yes, that’s every two weeks. What a workload! Tina Brown should be careful; Meghan could hurt her back [...]
Masses of people in Wisconsin have been peacefully protesting for weeks now, because of their governor’s decision to take away worker’s rights for no good reason; not a single protester in Madison haseven been arrested. But that hasn’t stopped Fox News from trying to convict them all. Witness this hilarious report from Fox’s Mike Tobin [...]
Scott Walker asked the greedy working people of Wisconsin if they would kindly remove themselves from the capitol by 4 p.m. Sunday. And surprise surprise, the trust fund teachers did not listen, forcing poor Governor Walker to order policemen to clear out the building. But treasonous Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubb allowed dozens of protesters [...]
After three straight days of debate, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly passed Scott Walker’s erotic union-busting fantasy earlier this morning, “before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening.” The bill now heads to the Senate, where it will probably stay for quite some time, since Senate Democrats are still eloping in Illinois. Anyway, here is what happened, [...]
