Classic Wisconsin
Page out of Joe McCarthy
Within seconds, the digital vote system on the wall announced 51 ayes and 17 nays, and voting was suddenly closed. With a total of 96 members, that got to a majority for the bill but left 28 members who hadn't had a chance yet to vote.
At that point, the Democrats got up, chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" and similar exclamations, as the Republicans filed out of the room.
There were many Democrats I spoke to and overheard in the chamber, who said they didn't get a chance to vote, or that they were pushing the "No" button at their desks as hard as they could -- keep in mind that a majority of their 38-member caucus was recorded as casting no votes at all.
Rising Hegemon
12 comments:
This is the Tea Party. They exist to terminate representative government. Why grace any of them with the name "Republican" any more?
What SP said. The Tea Birchers have made it clear that representative democracy doesn't work for them - the "people" in "We the People" is them.
This is about two things--dominance (rubbing the Dems noses in shit for the demonstrations) and the next election (hoping to convince the Dems' constituents that they didn't care enough to vote, even with all the demonstrations).
This one falls into the dirty tricks bin, so the Wisc. Dems had better be prepared for yet more to come. The governor is a royalist jerk, the Assembly speaker is no better, and Wisconsin had better put on its collective crash helmet, because there's rough sledding ahead.
can you say "vote rigging"... I knew you could.
not that it will matter one iota, but I hope the D's that were attempting to vote demand an investigation into why their votes weren't tallied with the others...
Republikkkan respect for democracy in action. They don't even pretend not to be corporate tools anymore.
hillary said something about a vast rite wing......
The governor is a royalist jerk,...
Actually, I believe that he's said that he doesn't like monarchy. I'm assuming that he has some other totalitarian system in mind.
"Actually, I believe that he's said that he doesn't like monarchy."
And, you have reason to believe him? ( ! )
And, you have reason to believe him? ( ! )
You do have a point.
Walker surely believes in oligarchy and plutocracy: not 'monarchy' by definition but similar in nature. Perhaps he doesn't believe in monarchy because some monarchies aren't totalitarian?
crapitalism.
"Crapitalism for me, idiocracy for thee."
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