Above The Borderline

3/02/2011

Wisconsin Gov. Denies 'Union-Busting'

"Bling" for the Christian Left

Order At: Sojourners

3/01/2011

Madison WI Capitol Rally 2-27-11 Do You Hear the People Sing - Les Mis.avi

ATaleOfTwoCapitals.mp4

KSTP Questions Teachers-Not Koch Brothers

2012 GOP Race To The Bottom: Sarah Palin

"Dolphin-loving food co-op members are perverting our cultures so they can pack you into Priuses and take you off to a place to be slaughtered."

Sarah Palin
Speaking at the 2011 Nutpac Convention
North Hudson, Wisconsin
Feb. 29,2011

John McCutcheon "This Land is Your Land"

Scary Union "Thug" Teachers Message to Gov. Scott Walker

Quote of Note

"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their
right to strike." Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933

On Tuesday, Republicans plan to move on with business as usual in hopes that they can put the pressure on their exiled Democratic colleagues to return. As long as the self-described “Wisconsin 14” remain in Illinois, they cannot be dragged back to the Capitol by the sergeant-at-arms.

The protests have drawn national attention from the left and the right. The liberal group ActBlue has now raised more than $300,000 from nearly 12,000 donors for the Wisconsin Senate Democrats since they fled the state, and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sent a fundraising appeal to his supporters as well.

And it’s not lost on either side that the nation’s most visible policy stalemate is unfolding in one of its most historically progressive states, particularly when it comes to matters of labor.

Wisconsin was the first state to provide its employees with collective bargaining rights, which Walker now seeks to eliminate. It was also the first state to institute workmen’s compensation. And the “Wisconsin Idea” was the primordial soup for Social Security, which was authored by two former faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.