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Posted by: Linda Carbonell on March 11, 2011. 03-11-2011 by L. S. Carbonell
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Governor Scott Walker signed his union-busting bill in private Friday morning. He had to. He couldn’t risk the signing being disrupted in any way or providing the press with more opportunity to film the Capitol Police dragging Wisconsin citizens away. His office had sent out a notice of the formal 3 p.m. “singing ceremony” but the only thing that Walker was singing was his never-ending chorus of how stripping away union rights would help his state create 250,000 jobs and save the middle class. Walker is on a tape loop. He really has that smug, superior Republican look down. Remember how people used to say “be careful or your face will freeze that way?” Republican faces have frozen that way.
Ever since the election, John Boehner has insisted that “the American people have spoken.” No we hadn’t. We were quiet on election day, too warn down by the arguments, too rudderless to decide, too easily persuaded by the big money being secretly poured into our election to speak up for our own interests. Scott Walker has ended that. We are pissed off.
Taking Howard Dean’s statements on The Last Word Thursday night to the obvious analogy, the Republicans are lousy poker players. When they think they hold all the cards, they expose their hand. What Scott Walker exposed was the absolute power the Koch brothers hold over the Tea Party. Those supposed grassroots candidates owe their souls to David and Charles Koch. What Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald exposed was the plan by the Republican Party to use their power in select states to destroy the public sector unions in order to choke off money and support to the Democrats. They tend to think in big money contributors. Other Republican governors have exposed a conspiracy to deny voting rights to minorities and college students through new verification laws and barriers to student voting. That’s after they killed ACORN to destroy voter registration drives that tended to favor the Democrats. What Paul Ryan exposed Thursday is the Republicans’ determination to hack apart Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while preserving the billions of dollars of tax breaks for the rich and subsidies for the oil industry. Let’s just make sure no one hears how we dug our way out of a far greater national debt with high taxes and growth. The Republicans in the House have a bill they disingenuously call a “National Right To Work Bill” which would make certain that no one has to join a union to work at a particular job. Of course that means we have no guarantee that a person who is hired for a job actually knows how to do that job. That’s the silent aspect of unions – control of the training and certification of occupations like electricians. Right-to-work laws are what made it possible for the Carolinas to drain the textile industry out of the Northeast, before it went to Central America for even cheaper labor. Wall Street just announced that they have handed out $144 billion in salaries and bonuses to the men and women who collapsed our economy
One by one, these poker players have shown their hand. The one and only objective of the Republican Party is to gain absolute power and hand our nation over to those who can afford to spend millions on political campaigns. They really don’t give a damn about protecting the Constitution, being fiscally responsible or restoring America’s honor. All they care about their own power and protecting the robber barons in the custom suits who screwed this country’s economy.
It’s now up to the Democratic Party to seize the moment.
2010 was the worst Democratic Party election performance I have ever seen, not because of the losses, but because of the lack of a coherent message. The economic recovery was taking too long, the benefits of the health care bill were too far in the future, the financial reform bill was too incomprehensible. There was nothing solid the Democrats could run on. Well, now there is. The trick will be to balance the negative – hammering home what the Republican agenda really is – with the positive – the future the President laid out in his State of the Union address. It is all right there, laid at the Party’s feet.
Failure of the Democratic Party to take the offensive here will only serve to prove to Americans that the Democrats are just as guilty of collusion with the forces that are threatening to take our rights and reduce us to a third-world country. Fancy, reasonable speeches are not what is needed now. We are quite frankly in the middle of a class war – the super rich against the rest of us, those 400 individuals who hold as much wealth as the bottom 155,000,000 of us, those Wall Street gamblers who put together the “shitty deals” that cost us our homes, the banks that take our money from us with greater impunity than taxes, the companies like General Electric, Halliburton and Bank of America who pay no taxes at all. And this isn’t just our war either. The same scenarios are being played out in Europe with governments announcing “austerity” budgets while only Germany’s Chancellor Merkle is willing to take on the problem of tax shelter countries like the Cayman Islands.
The first 10 weeks of 2011 was a clarion call for the American people. We watched the Tunisian and Egyptian people fight for, are watching the Libyan people dying for the rights we have been letting slip away. We watched all those poker players admit publicly what they are trying to do to us, so arrogant that they don’t think we are listening. We have heard and seen and are beginning to understand.
John Boehner is wrong. “The American people” did NOT speak in 2010. We are speaking now. If the Democrats don’t hear us, if they fail to step up and lead, they will be left behind. We can always form the Coffee Party. After all, isn’t coffee far more American than tea?
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The Future of America
03-11-2011 by L. S. Carbonell
United States Registerd Party Affiliations
Governor Scott Walker signed his union-busting bill in private Friday morning. He had to. He couldn’t risk the signing being disrupted in any way or providing the press with more opportunity to film the Capitol Police dragging Wisconsin citizens away. His office had sent out a notice of the formal 3 p.m. “singing ceremony” but the only thing that Walker was singing was his never-ending chorus of how stripping away union rights would help his state create 250,000 jobs and save the middle class. Walker is on a tape loop. He really has that smug, superior Republican look down. Remember how people used to say “be careful or your face will freeze that way?” Republican faces have frozen that way.
Ever since the election, John Boehner has insisted that “the American people have spoken.” No we hadn’t. We were quiet on election day, too warn down by the arguments, too rudderless to decide, too easily persuaded by the big money being secretly poured into our election to speak up for our own interests. Scott Walker has ended that. We are pissed off.
Taking Howard Dean’s statements on The Last Word Thursday night to the obvious analogy, the Republicans are lousy poker players. When they think they hold all the cards, they expose their hand. What Scott Walker exposed was the absolute power the Koch brothers hold over the Tea Party. Those supposed grassroots candidates owe their souls to David and Charles Koch. What Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald exposed was the plan by the Republican Party to use their power in select states to destroy the public sector unions in order to choke off money and support to the Democrats. They tend to think in big money contributors. Other Republican governors have exposed a conspiracy to deny voting rights to minorities and college students through new verification laws and barriers to student voting. That’s after they killed ACORN to destroy voter registration drives that tended to favor the Democrats. What Paul Ryan exposed Thursday is the Republicans’ determination to hack apart Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while preserving the billions of dollars of tax breaks for the rich and subsidies for the oil industry. Let’s just make sure no one hears how we dug our way out of a far greater national debt with high taxes and growth. The Republicans in the House have a bill they disingenuously call a “National Right To Work Bill” which would make certain that no one has to join a union to work at a particular job. Of course that means we have no guarantee that a person who is hired for a job actually knows how to do that job. That’s the silent aspect of unions – control of the training and certification of occupations like electricians. Right-to-work laws are what made it possible for the Carolinas to drain the textile industry out of the Northeast, before it went to Central America for even cheaper labor. Wall Street just announced that they have handed out $144 billion in salaries and bonuses to the men and women who collapsed our economy
One by one, these poker players have shown their hand. The one and only objective of the Republican Party is to gain absolute power and hand our nation over to those who can afford to spend millions on political campaigns. They really don’t give a damn about protecting the Constitution, being fiscally responsible or restoring America’s honor. All they care about their own power and protecting the robber barons in the custom suits who screwed this country’s economy.
It’s now up to the Democratic Party to seize the moment.
2010 was the worst Democratic Party election performance I have ever seen, not because of the losses, but because of the lack of a coherent message. The economic recovery was taking too long, the benefits of the health care bill were too far in the future, the financial reform bill was too incomprehensible. There was nothing solid the Democrats could run on. Well, now there is. The trick will be to balance the negative – hammering home what the Republican agenda really is – with the positive – the future the President laid out in his State of the Union address. It is all right there, laid at the Party’s feet.
Failure of the Democratic Party to take the offensive here will only serve to prove to Americans that the Democrats are just as guilty of collusion with the forces that are threatening to take our rights and reduce us to a third-world country. Fancy, reasonable speeches are not what is needed now. We are quite frankly in the middle of a class war – the super rich against the rest of us, those 400 individuals who hold as much wealth as the bottom 155,000,000 of us, those Wall Street gamblers who put together the “shitty deals” that cost us our homes, the banks that take our money from us with greater impunity than taxes, the companies like General Electric, Halliburton and Bank of America who pay no taxes at all. And this isn’t just our war either. The same scenarios are being played out in Europe with governments announcing “austerity” budgets while only Germany’s Chancellor Merkle is willing to take on the problem of tax shelter countries like the Cayman Islands.
The first 10 weeks of 2011 was a clarion call for the American people. We watched the Tunisian and Egyptian people fight for, are watching the Libyan people dying for the rights we have been letting slip away. We watched all those poker players admit publicly what they are trying to do to us, so arrogant that they don’t think we are listening. We have heard and seen and are beginning to understand.
John Boehner is wrong. “The American people” did NOT speak in 2010. We are speaking now. If the Democrats don’t hear us, if they fail to step up and lead, they will be left behind. We can always form the Coffee Party. After all, isn’t coffee far more American than tea?
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