The groups, including MoveOn.org, Democracy for America, USAction, the Service Employees International Union and People for the American Way, plan to hold “Save the American Dream” rallies in 50 state capitals on Saturday. “Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response and vital human services,” the groups declared in their call to action. “The right to organize is on the chopping block. The American Dream is slipping out of reach for more and more Americans, and we have to fight back.” – Liberals to stage Tea Party-like revolts against GOP spending cuts
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said recently about Gov. Walker’s union busting strategy that “This is a Wisconsin story, not a Washington one.” Unfortunately, there never seems to be a “Washington one” for the Obama White House, which was echoed by some in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
If there is a more clueless, damaging Democratic message I haven’t heard it. This was in response to Republicans flooding the zone that Pres. Obama is “butting into Wisconsin’s business,” to quote a Newsmax blast this week. But if Pres. Obama isn’t going to fight for the middle class what good is he to the Democratic Party? The Left doesn’t have an answer for that question.
Once upon a time, Barack Obama did have an answer. In fact, the words still live on BarackObama.com. But that was before he got the job to which he applied. Daily Caller pulls out the video today.
When I am President, I will end the tax giveaways to companies that ship our jobs overseas, and I will put the money in the pockets of working Americans, and seniors, and homeowners who deserve a break. I won’t wait ten years to raise the minimum wage – I’ll raise it to keep pace every single year. And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States.
Mother Jones lays out why the union fight in this country is so critically important to the middle class. It’s because America doesn’t have one anymore.
I’m sure Pres. Obama didn’t mean to make the Republicans’ job easier for them, but that’s what he’s done. I have no doubt that Barack Obama’s heart is in the right place when it comes to workers. It’s just he doesn’t have the ideological instinct for when he’s being suckered, while his staff has the collective wingnut I.Q. of 2. They’ve also so fetishized Independent voters, as has the entire traditional media, that they don’t know a trap when it’s being laid.
No one has been a bigger sucker for austerity than Pres. Obama.
He was the right man for 2008, but it’s clear that the ideological battle brewing going into 2012 makes him a weak spokesman for what Democrats need, but he’s all they’ve got. So what’s going to happen as the Right takes aim at the heart of what Democrats are all about: supporting the working, middle class against all odds through policy? So far all Obama’s done is yield the field to the Right, which is why we’re now seeing an assault on public unions.
The Obama White House still hasn’t figured out how the Right, in whatever party it lives, wages political warfare. Look at health care and how they targeted women on reproductive services. Both Obama and Pelosi gave Stupak-Pitts the power to serve women up, which culminated last week with Rep. Mike Pence taking the Right’s war on women to target Planned Parenthood, while states like South Dakota and Nebraska tout “justifiable homocide” bills.
Maybe this all started when Sarah Palin beat Pres. Obama on health care messaging when she squealed about “death panels.” The lack of fight was evident, because Obama preferred making the deal with big pharma and private health insurance companes, instead of fighting for the public option in the open. The Right sensed he didn’t have the steel for the battle, which is turning out to be any battle at all.
One of the biggest moves from Pres. Obama that legitimized the austerity craze came when he authorized the deficit commission, teasing a bipartisan solution in the midst of all out ideological war coming from the Right. He even teased he’d put Social Security on the table.
Listening to Rush Limbaugh talk about “busted” unions and “Armageddon” for the labor movement this week, there can be absolutely no doubt the battle in Wisconsin is an ideological fight.
Same with Gov. Walker, who basically said on “Morning Joe” that it doesn’t matter what concessions Wisconsin unions serve up, he wants to break their ability to collectively bargain, which would make the public sector unions obsolete. Walker also said that any taxes would be wrong, including those for the wealthiest Americans. That’s likely because they’re the people who paid for Walker’s ride into office.
This tax message was aided by what Pres. Obama and the Democrats said in December when they extended the Bush era tax cuts. Coming after Obama’s deficit commission, the message Obama sent to the Right was that he was buying that the deficit was the main issue, but more importantly that the primary way of dealing with it is through spending cuts and tax cuts, basically adopting the Republican economic message that got us into this mess in the first place.
It was the set up for what’s happening in Wisconsin and beyond, with Republican governors and legislatures across the country primed to take unions out. The midterms were a Right rout, which is why I kept emphasizing the state houses turned over & the number of seats lost after November’s elections. There was simply no way Republicans would gain such an advantage and not use it through policy.
The minute Pres. Obama embraced the Right’s economic world view, as well as their austerity craze to cut spending, he emboldened Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican Right to attack government spending as the only problem and make taxes the enemy of the public good, which Obama and the Democrats aided by extending the Bush tax cuts, but also by buying into the notion that the deficit should be handled through spending cuts alone, instead of including tax increases on multi-millionaires and billionaires.
Pres. Obama has miscalculated horribly by handing the Republican Right the biggest advantage on economic policy since Ronald Reagan won in 1980. Through the deficit commission and extending Bush era tax cuts, he handed the Right the only thing they needed to further threaten and weaken the Democratic Party worse than what the Tea Party did in the midterms.
It’s gotten so bad that last week on “Real Time” with Bill Maher, CNBC’s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera said that Social Security was one of the biggest problems we have today, while actually lauding Sharron Angle for saying it should be privatized. At one point John Heilemann looked at Bill Maher and said that maybe it was time to realize that Pres. Obama just doesn’t think the same things as many Democrats do is all that important, because he agrees with Republicans. It was the first time I heard someone in the traditional media world say what I’ve been writing since 2007.
It’s clear Pres. Obama has no intention of countering the austerity craze to tackle the deficit. The only hope is that the Left will see this as their own Tea Party moment and force the issue into reality. The super wealthy aren’t paying their fair share, because nobody in either party is asking them to.
It’s time to ask the comfortable what they can do for their country.
However, anyone waiting for candidate Obama to show up to do just that is going to be very disappointed.
yep. glad to see folks protesting though. as these guvs make their moves on cuts im hoping this spawns into something very real. its even happening in tx! and soon i hope on the fed level. take it to the streets is the only way i see it right now.
barrack is no dennis kucinch. this link (c.o. ramsgate/thks) shows obama never stood up to fight for workers. he is an all show no show, just rhetoric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKJVHjZVD60
remove the packaging you see the real obama. he is mincemeat. the h-o-p-e now is the republicans overplay their hand; they will of course but the middle class will continue to fall.
Oh. My God.
Taylor, I had forgotten about that “promise” and the other promises that you linked to at BarackObama.com. What an utter disappointment! Watching that video was pretty painful for me.
As you have stated so well, the middle class has totally disappeared. 90% of us have been made “bottom feeders” because we reside at the bottom of the chart.
Our only hope is to fight every injustice, to be passionate about keeping, holding and even expanding those rights. And for those who think/believe that collective bargaining rights are unnecessary because “we have laws to protect us” need to wake up. Because the same forces that want to eliminate unions and bargaining rights are the same ones who are pushing for “tort reform” in the courts. Why is that important? Because if your only redress as an employee is the courts you may find that damage caps have made your case essentially worthless to an employment lawyer, depending on the situation and the court.
People, don’t take your rights and the rights of others for granted. If you do not fight for them (Barack Obama), somebody will be more than happy enough to take them away (Scott Walker). Due diligence required us to fight for them in the ’90′s as well as in this New Millennium.
What you said, absolutely.
It doesn’t even appear the Pres has any fight in him for anything. I saw a video of Jay Carney reponding to a question yesterday, and he appeared as if he wanted to be anyplace but there. Robert Gibbs had more life in him than Carney.
Ed Shultz was on fire last night. To build on your John Heilleman comment, Ed basically said that if Pres Obama can’t get behind the Wisconsin workers , and the fight of unions and the middle class maybe Pres Obama doesn’t deserve to moninated for re-election. James Hoffa was also on the show and basically said he expects and wants Pres Obam to do more.
I expect to hear and see more of this as the union issue progressess. It is starting to look like that no matter how deplorable the Republican candidate for Pres might be, Pres Obama by his lack of leadership on all issues is slowly, and now the pace is picking up, killing any desire on the part of the Dem base to get out and vote for him or the Dems.
Someone in the Dem leadership needs to step up and build the fire and support the unions. If not, 2012 will be more destruction for the Dem party. Senior Dems need to get to Madison and walk/stand with the protestors. The fact that they don’t seem to grasp that, or acknowledge the problem, just shows you how bankrupt the Dem leadership is.
What is going on in Wisconsin is not just a watershed moment for the Right about their over reach. It is also a major watershed moment for the Dems and the progressive base. If the Dem leadership can’t stand up for the workers, unions and middle class, it will become apparent to everyone that there is no need for a Democratic Party and time to look elsewhere.
The person who consistantly stands up for the things I think are important and right is not even a Democrat – it is Senator Bernie Sanders. I would like to see him run in 2012. He would get my vote.
I’m writing him in anyway in 2012. I figure there is no one who represents the interests of the people on the ballot so I’ll write my own ballot.
The lesson here is that elections do have consequences.
And I would imagine that there are a lot of union workers in the mid-west that have always voted Republican believing that their rights would never compromised who are having a rude awakening.
I think it would be a huge mistake for the President to get involved in what is a an actual grass-roots movement (as opposed to Koch-financed astro-turf movement) on the left. What would be the point of taking an organic movement and turning it into a David and Goliath story pitting the Wisconson governor against the big bad federal government. States rights anyone? Why make a martyr out of Walker?
People are free to carp about what this President has done, or not done, but if you truly want change then the last thing you want is for the President to co-opt your movement. This thing in Wisconsin has the power to change the narrative of political thought in this country in a way that no Presidential action could ever do. State house Democrats are showing Federal level Democrats what it means to have that D by your name. It actually STANDS for something besides incumbency. I think this has the power potentially to swing the pendulum in this country the progressives way and we could easily see tea-party style politics being practiced on the left as in primaries against Incumbents that don’t have progressive values.
Allowing DC democrats (including the President) the opportunity to co-opt that would be a disaster. It is clear to me that the American people are waking up to the truth that all politics is local and that neither party on a national level has any interest in them.
You make some interesting points BuckHill.
Excellent POST!! Thanks!
President Obama, unlike Candidate Obama, only sides with the winners. That is why it takes him so long to come out with a position on matters such as Iran, Egypt or Libya. But, in the end, he comes out and states that he was always on the right side. Such is the case here. He knows the unions have already lost, that is why he won’t do or say anything to align himself with this sinking ship. The game is already over.
An indication of this can be found in an article this morning suggesting that Senate Democrats are working on spending cuts in order to finalize negotiations with the house. If they were playing from a position of strength they would not be working on a compromise, they would be digging in. Their actions speak much louder than their words.
“Present.”
The Mother Jones article is definitely worth the read. So is what you’ve been writing, Taylor … things really are this bad.
I’m seeing that clip of candidate Obama in several places. Over at Corrente (http://tinyurl.com/4zponrb), hipparchia focuses on:
“And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States.”
And then proposes one possible way to respond now: “My suggestion would be to just c&p the quote … and add a link to some comfortable shoes.” Clip art, or even an actual pair of shoes, along with the quote … and send to the WH.
No, this isn’t going to make Obama change his plans and fly to Wisconsin to join the protestors. But I still like it, if for no other reason than it made me smile. And I need all the reasons I can find for that.
I have to disagree Taylor.
The more I watch this man, the more I have to come to the conclusion that candidate Obama was a confidence game. It was so good that it even fooled Obama. At best the Con being pulled is that Obama stood for anything. We should have followed the money and the history Taylor. His record in Illinois or more to the point lack of record should have been a big flashing light.
His instinct is avoid conflict when he can, and if that fails it is to concede to the complaining party. Curse Shelby Steel’s evil right wing heart, he was right about this man. Obama is too wrapped up in proving he is a safe black man for anything else. That is why he gets played. He is and always has been a moral coward. He is a Democrat for convenience sake. He is a Democrat because to be a Republican in Chicago is to be a non-entity. He is a Democrat because in his part of the chattering class it is not cool to be Republican.
But there lies the rub Taylor; again I hate bringing Marxist tropes into the discussion but you can not get Obama unless you understand class. Specifically you can not get Obama unless you get this strata of the Upper Middle Class Intelligentsia that he belongs to. He is the product of his Professorial mother. He belongs to that Ivory Tower mind set.
That class still has not recovered from the shock of Nixon. It always somewhat amusing to see what happens when the Chattering Class actually has to come to grips with actual working class people and not the Proletariat of Marxist myth. The Chattering Class always thought that once the grubby little workers got some money they would naturally become more “enlightened” with that word being, of course, defined by the Chattering Class. Nixon knew better and was able to ruin the assurance of the old Liberal elites.
I no longer expect anything good from this idiot-savant in the White House. I expect him to be at best AWOL from the fight that must be made to right our Republic. In results I expect him to be a Fifth Columnist. His goal is reelection and he will send the working and middle classes into peasantry if that is required. He might not mean to be evil Taylor, but the results are evil. It is past time to take that basic truth on board and plan accordingly.
“Present”This is much closer to my concept of Obama. To me, he’s an amoral guy who is looking out for number one. He can talk the talk, because he’s a con artist and that’s what con artists do – at least until they skip town with your money. I don’t count on the guy to do any more for us than to forget to steal something on his way out the door.
Meh my canine friend. Remember both you and I were PWND by Edwards.
Too bad the message and the messenger were at such a disconnect, eh? God knows this nation needs the politician that Edwards pretended to be; there has never been more Two Americas then there is right now.
Still the man does provide a cautionary tale. You never really know what is hiding behind the mask of candidate and most times you don’t want to. Edwards suite turned out to contain nothing more than egomania and libido.
I think I’d feel like I was PWNED if I was looking for an angel back then. My feeling then was that they were all egotists, and I had concerns about all of them. All I was looking for was someone whose instincts would make him remember the little guy (or gal) when he was making policy. Whether we would have gotten even that much with Edwards is certainly open to question, though. Right now he looks more like someone who would say or do anything to get elected, and that didn’t turn out to be a desirable trait in the guy who did get elected.
Plus, Edwards didn’t have much of a record in politics. What he had could have been explained away at the time, and I seem to remember doing some explaining away…
In the end, the lesson for me is that you look at everyone skeptically as much as you can, and make a choice. And you may find out that your choice wasn’t such a good one, either.
All the information we needed about Edwards was available in public records from the start. He was another Obama with his narcissism and opportunism. The lawsuits he boasted about that made him rich did not make anything better for anybody except himself and his clients. He never championed the poor or vulnerable, he exploited them. But he was pretty and had that charming smile and if a glimpse of his vanity showed through people brushed it off as “endearing.”
If Americans don’t stop getting fooled by superficial markers and being manipulated into believing we know who a person is because of how he presents himself rather than weighing objective evidence — well we’re going to end up right where it’s now clear we are headed.
Republicans aren’t the problem. They’re just nuts. The Koch brothers aren’t the problem. They’re just successful capitalists (we are a capitalist society). We are the problem. We have a Democracy, Democratic principles work, and we have some good candidates, but a few citizens get fooled about people like Edwards and Obama, they talk more people into being fooled, and over and over America votes for the candidate that makes it worse for us. We’re not the oppressed that rose up in Russia or France, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Piffle. The public record that you seem to think justifies that claim actually shows that his first big case was on behalf of the family of a girl who was disembowled by a faulty drain in a swimming pool. The jury awarded far more than the plaintiffs were asking for.
It would be a whole lot better if people actually looked up what they were talking about before they shot off their mouths. Maybe it would be easier to tell when things weren’t right with politicians if it weren’t so often the case that people write crap when they don’ know what they’re talking about.
That’s funny because you demonstrate how the lawsuit benefitted Edwards and his client, and that’s exactly what I said, as I’ve boldfaced in my quote you included in your post.
I stand by what I said.
We should have followed the money and the history Taylor. His record in Illinois or more to the point lack of record should have been a big flashing light.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Follow the history???
I reported the damn history. I interviewed people in Chicago about his history. I couldn’t get Alice Palmer to go on the damn record, but I did what I could without it. I talked to people scared to death to tell the truth about Obama on the record. I reported his “present” votes. I reported his flyover when no one wanted to bother:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/obamas-nevada-flyover_b_41455.html
Long before I backed Clinton, months before I had any interest in doing anything but covering the race, I wrote how Obama showed up unprepared on health care.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/hillary-shines-at-health-_b_44209.html
No one gave a shit.
A year later I was still reporting it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/i-have-a-dream-becomes-ob_b_87199.html
That does not take away what Candidate Obama SAID.
Not sure who you mean by “no one”, but I caught onto him pretty early, and part of the reason was things I read here. Of course, there were an awful lot of people who didn’t catch on, and I’m afraid that many still haven’t.
Ms. Marsh
Your reporting was the reason I pulled the lever in the CA primary for HRC. I was paying attention. Unfortunately most were not. When I use we, I mean we the general voting public.
Millions of Americans voted for Hillary.
And there were shenanigans that pulled delegates from her, giving them to Obama.
That’s history and not worth rehashing, but it’s important to know that a lot of citizens voted for Hillary and it seems without doubt that if the Democratic powerbase, including new online media, and old media that had the shimmer of new resurgence like MSNBC, and old media like Time magazine had not been beating the drum for Obama and calling for Hillary to drop out, she would’ve won. There just is no way to prevail against that kind of constant propaganda. But it’s not true that nobody listened — millions of Americans are not “nobody.”
As a reporter and as someone who has played the political game Taylor you should know the disconnect between what a candidate says and what he does is huge. It is always over-promise and under deliver.
I had a bad feeling about this man all the way back to his vote for FISA. When a constitutional law professor sells the 4th Amendment down the river for political convenience you are in deep kimchee Taylor. It was then and there my fear that Obama had no political compass came to the fore-front of my thinking about the man.
This is why I followed your lead and campaigned against McCain instead of for Obama. This decision I felt is still justified by at least two Supreme Court nominations. While Obama’s appointees have shifted the court to the right, it is less catastrophic than it would be under McCain.
But back on point. The inadequacies of Obama and the Democratic Party leadership are plane to see. What do we, the rank and file, the grass roots do about it? If we don’t hold Obama accountable, if we don’t take out the leadership for its incompetence we deserve this bunch of sell-outs and losers.
Sometimes politics is complex, other times it is easy. The entrenched, corporatist controlled, Pols in D.C. need to fear us. They don’t. Obama and his advisers can keep trolling for the mythic middle because the left is supine. President Obama is able ignore the promises that candidate Obama made because the Progressive movement did not keep him honest. Obama is able to get away with cowardice because of the cowardice of the movement.
Well we are up against it now aren’t we? Our last line of defense , public employee unions, are under siege. What to do? Well if I were a public employee in WI I would have the union declare a walk out. Then every union member who is threatened by SB-5 should walk out and stay out until SB 5 was killed. If the TEA Party wants no government, give it to them; in spades. Make the Republicans and their corporate backers fear the working man and working woman again.
That’s not true, Taylor.
A lot of us gave a shit. And that’s why we came here.
But in the end you and your loyalists here shit all over those few of us principled liberals – the FDR kind that the Democratic Party has come to dismiss while Obama hearts Reagan – who stood our ground while you insisted anybody who was really a Democrat had to vote for Obama. And this is what we got.
We would have been better off with McCain so the majority Democratic Congress would’ve fought him, which would’ve made progressives stronger and more powerful and they’d have control of Congress. Then we could’ve fought for someone better than Obama in 2012. Now we’re stuck with this double mess, Republicans and Obama Dems. And we’re only two years into Obama’s reign.
You’re sure, huh? No doubt, huh? That’s the same mind set you had during the general in 2008. You are wrong. And you’re part of what made this mess and what’s going to get him re-elected.
And you’re part of what made this mess and what’s going to get him re-elected.
If you think McCain-Palin was a rational alternative you’re as delusional as the puma crowd remains.
The reason Obama will get re-elected is because the Left won’t challenge him. They’re afraid of taking on the first African American president whom they cannot unseat, simply to challenge him on principle. They’re scared they’d infuriate a critical Dem constituency forever, thereby electing a Republican.
The Left today has no spine; that’s the reason Obama will get re-elected, that is unless Chris Christie or Mike Huckabee is the nominee.
You’re right the Left today has no spine.
They’re terrified of everything from Republicans to standing firm for core Democratic principles.
A fine example is being afraid of McCain when it was clear we had a wide majority of Democrats about to run both Houses of Congress. A Democratic Congress fighting McCain (he can’t sign a law Congress hasn’t given to him) would have been a much stronger position for progressives than going along with the crap Obama wanted and signed.
Should have followed the money and looked into him more? My head is going to explode!! Believe me, not EVERYONE was in love with Obama. Many of us knew (and know) he’s nothing but an opportunist empty suit, looking only for the next opportunity, without doing ANYTHING to put ANY work into the job at all. He’s easily bored, which some (Valerie Jarrett comes to mind) show as evidence of his superior intellect. What if he’s merely easily bored, because doing work is too hard? That’s what is really the case, in my own opinion, of course.
If America, including, most damning of all, the reporters, had not been so in love with the idea of electing a black guy (who’s, let’s face it, a really light-skinned black guy, as he’s half white — a much darker black guy, I remain convinced, would never have gotten in — not yet, anyway), hadn’t gotten swept away with a message that clearly lacked specifics, if they hadn’t swept everything negative under the rug … well, it would be President Clinton right now. I did my part. I wrote her in.
“Many of us knew (and know) he’s nothing but an opportunist empty suit, looking only for the next opportunity, without doing ANYTHING to put ANY work into the job at all.”
“the reporters, had not been so in love with the idea of electing a black guy (who’s, let’s face it, a really light-skinned black guy, as he’s half white — a much darker black guy,”
Ah, nice, any more racist dog-whistles you want to put in there Beth? Come one, there must be whole lot more provided by Rush and the TEA Party knuckle-draggers who you are channeling.
Nothing Beth wrote is racist.
And that’s another problem Obama Dems brought to the party in 2008 and still reach for: calling other Democrats racist when, objectively, there’s nothing racist there.
If Democrats don’t smarten up fast — I mean the evidence pours in every day, don’t you see what all this is bringing about?
Taylor posted: ***I have no doubt that Barack Obama’s heart is in the right place when it comes to workers. It’s just he doesn’t have the ideological instinct for when he’s being suckered, while his staff has the collective wingnut I.Q. of 2. They’ve also so fetishized Independent voters, as has the entire traditional media, that they don’t know a trap when it’s being laid.
No one has been a bigger sucker for austerity than Pres. Obama.***
Well said, Taylor!!!
BuckHill said Obama should stay out of the Wisconsin issue so as not to co-opt that great movement. I totally agree. Obama is not who we were waiting for, WE are we were waiting for…
A local Democrat wrote a letter to the editor today pining for Obama to be a Democrat instead of a closet Republican. Yep!!!
This is a class war, was never the *culture* war the RWers tried to make it. We need to be united to take down who owns all our politicians. Boycotts, protests, rallies, etc. Obama is not in our class, nor are most politicians. We don’t need them!
No it’s not well said.
Obama’s not a sucker for austerity or anything else.
He doesn’t care. You can’t understand what Obama does if you don’t understand that.
Obama’s a narcissist opportunist. All he cares about is his own aggrandizement. Any political or government policy, including spending or cutting back, is as important to him as a cotton ball in the ocean, it’s all the same to him. The only thing that matters is how a word or action will impact his interior ambition.
Well, Taylor, Obama can’t show up. While all the noise about “giving the minority a voice” sounds good in the narrative, there is only one truth here. The voters in Wisconsin elected the Republicans in November, and by running away, the Democrats are attempting to deny the majority their abilty to govern. That’s a repudiation of democracy. As elected officials in their own right, the President or any Congressman from DC would be playing with fire to show up in Wisconsin – something about that oath they take when sworn in, maybe?
Sagesgram,
Did you tell the Republicans the same thing when they voted against EVERYTHING Obama proposed. In fact, they filibustered more than half of it. Obama and the Democrats won big, but then it didn’t matter to Republicans. Those peoples votes didn’t count. When does Republican politicians start applying their own standards on themselves?
When is the Republican base of white morons going to realize the RNC doesn’t serve them? They serve Wall Street at their demise! *triple sigh*
I am proud of those Democrats in Wisconsin that had the courage to stop the fascist conspiracy funded by the Koch Bros. Protesting your government is democracy. Wisconsin’s citizens didn’t vote to end “collective bargaining” in their state last November. Quite obvious, except to people who watch Fox News.
Citizen United ruling also was not about democracy. It was about allowing Wall Street to buy our elections. Last November is the proof. All five of those Federalist, RWer Supreme Court justices should have been impeached for passing that UNCONSTITUTIONAL legislation. Corporations are not human beings and therefore, should have no *special* rights over We The People. Now they do. Shame on you, so called conservatives!
spincitysd says:
25 February 2011 at 9:44 pm
Ah yes, the “we” thing. got it.