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Subscribe to RSSConservatives have organized a counter-protest in Wisconsin on Saturday, "I Stand With Scott Walker."
Here is a Facebook listing for the rally, which will take place at the state Capitol.
The counter-protest will feature, among others, Andrew Breitbart and Herman Cain, who has formed an exploratory committee to run for president.
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Andrew Breitbart? Now THAT adds credibility to it, eh? NOT!
Party like it is 1966.
Scott Walker, newest GOP superstar! God bless you, Governor, your fight is our fight.
Christie-Walker sounds like a winning ticket for 2012.
That would be a good ticket...............maybe they will form a posse and look for some Democrat Senators that fleed the State. Why is Obama getting involved in State's matters anyways?
Call it civil disobedience or a "rumble"; it doesn't look good.
The GOP's vision of Amerika is an authoritarian overbearing govt. that tells you what to do in your bed, bath, life and job. Wake up - the GOP is determined to ruin this country and bring it down to 3rd world status. Of course everyone will deny this as too extreme - until the GOP police are at your door demanding to know your religious alignment, voting record, etc. and with every intent to haul you away into a "re-education camp" - the oven thing, in case you are not to bright.
Wow, I can't really believe someone actually wrote this, let alone published it for others to read.
I think that tin foil hat might be a bit too tight and cutting off circulation to your brain...
This is a prime case of why we need real HCR, so that people like this can get the help they need and the medications they require to live a nromal life.
No, No, No.......let's all take a deep breath and THINK. Exactly.......
Let's see if I've got my terms correct . . .
A peaceful protest by the left is a 'riot' conducted by 'union thugs' who want to 'take away rights' and bring about 'communism'.
A protest by the right where guns are openly carried, people who disagree are beat up and physically harassed, where signs depicting the President of the US as Hitler, where signs with crosshairs, depicting guns or encouraging a right wing violent revolution and are funded by large corporations are just a 'bunch of freedom loving Americans' fighting for their rights.
Am I missing something here?
Last I checked the pictures of Walker depicting Hitler, Mussolini are there now (and teaching your kids...great). Peaceful and civil my butt. I support the will of the voters who spoke in November and probaly not a damm one out there now voted for Walker anyway. Elections have consequences. Where have I heard that before?
And will you support the will of the voters who elected Barack Obama in 2008? Elections have consequences, and I've heard that one before.
Good one, Matthew!
Add to that: When citizens of Wisconsin protest an action by their governor, it's bad. When conservatives send in out-of-state counter-protestors, it's good...
Damn Paul, GOOD POST!!!!
Why is the President of the AFL-CIO in Wisconsin? Why is the Democratic National Party in Wisconsin? Why is Obama involved in Wisconsin?
Why are the Koch brothers bussing in counter protesters? You really are not very good at this, Paul.
To the other Paul, how about some links to pictures of that?
More: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/18/business-teaparty-wisconsin/
I don't know Matthew, why are they, that's wrong too. Don't think I would support that too. This is why you're wrong most of the time, you assume to much.
thinkprogress is a BS site. I don't even waste my time.
BS site? Really? Why? Because they show the lies of the Republican/TP Inc. party? Because they show how the right wing is trying to bring about a plutocracy controlled by the rich and corporations? Because the truth hurts? Show me one, just one thing they have reported that was wrong. You won't because you can't. Go ahead, try to prove me wrong, if you can.
Did you enjoy your weekend, Paul? Yes? Thank the union for getting that for you.
Paul in FL,
ThinkProgress writes with a Left slant but the information is accurate. Like most media outlets they use misleading headlines to get people to read the article. I don’t appreciate that style but I guess it works. If you can read through the biases in the writing the real information is truthful.
Much of the information surrounds direct quotes from radio, TV and written statements.
The Gov of Wisconsin told the President to stay out of Wisconsin state business . . . he should say the same to all non-Wisconsin people who support him!
?? huh?
That's exactly what the Republican Party Did in Florida when Gore lost. They sent in Aides pretending to be protestors, this is their favoriate game. Until CNN showed the replay and identified each AIDE and they were all aides for Republicans folk thought they were real Americans protesting the election. This is the Republican Playbook and Americans will make sure to have cameras ready to expose every operative they send.
I bet you the counter protest will undoubtedly be smaller but the main street media will eat it up. Can't wait to hear all the reports about those so called 'real americans' that show up at Saturday's counter protest.
I've complained about Ed Shultz in the past, but clearly he is the only one that jumped on this story and pushed it to the main stage.
All you Baggers out there ought to be ashamed that you allow yourselves to be wet-nursed by the Koch brothers to vote against your own interests. Wise up - worker's rights are human rights. You didn't have to work on Saturday because a union fought and bled for a 40 hour work week.
"You didn't have to work on Saturday because a union fought and bled for a 40 hour work week."
That's nice....true back in 1915 or so, perhaps...today, though, the corrupt socialist public employee unions fight and bleed, so they can give millions to crooked Dem politicians, who will do their bidding and loot the treasury .... they 'fight and bleed' to protect incompetent lazy workers who cant be fired....they fight and bleed for gold plated pensions, and the entitlement attitude that they are the rulers of the public, rather than their servants ...
Those of us in the dreaded private sector have to 'fight and bleed' to survive, because the public sector leeches have bled us dry...
All you Repubs that want to sell the country out to the Koch Bros for what ever minuscule gain you think you will attain, be prepared to be blamed for your ignorance and short sightedness by the working class out here that are losing ground every day in the work place. Companies that show big profits are cutting back on wages and benefits now and using the excuss that they need to, in order to compete. What in the world do you think is going to happen when there is no one to protect the interest of the working class? It will be you that the rest of us out here blame for this. Just like the WMDs in Iraq or that you didn't know the banks were using risky lending practices, don't pretend you were lied to or just didn't get the right information. It is your fault, you are selling out our country.
The richest Americans are not in a recession. Breaking the public sector unions is an early stage in a much larger assault on America, intended to further sever the economic classes and eventually wipe out the middle class. The logic is simple: the poorer your rivals, the less power they wield. And that means, simply, the richest Americans (who already run the country, regardless of political affiliation) are free to take more and more. Unopposed.
Does anyone think that sucking wages out of the middle class is going to result in ANY improvement in the fiscal situations of the individual states, or in reduced taxes? Never, to both. History has proven, taxes never roll back. Someone said on FOX, the welalthiest Americans pay 40% of taxes. BULL. The welathiest Americans hide their wealth so well, they pay no taxes. I know some very rich people, and the ones I know pay no income tax.
Without a voice in govt, without organized labor to stave off the onslaught, more and more Americans will drop in economic class, the rich will get richer, and we'll wind up with a third-world oligarchy from which we'll never be able to vote ourselves free. People, the attack on public employees is stage one. The next stages will be to attack the private sector, hike taxes (more) and the cost of living will rise to to unparalleled heights, ultimately relegating more and more Americans (those who can find any work at all) to benefit-less, minimum-wage jobs. Hope will be ripped away and the American dream (what's left) crushed.
It greatly benefits the rich to have less competition for wealth, and that's what all this is about. The worker bee Republicans find themselves allied with party leaders on social and ethical issues, but that's the big rub - their party leaders couldn't give two hoots about abortion, religion, etc. MONEY IS THEIR ONE AND ONLY GOD, and the soldier-drones they recruit to do their bidding and fight their battles on the streets of America are being duped, entirely dispensible patsies in a century-old fraud being perpetrated on unwitting Americans who think they are making a moral stand. All they're doing is sticking out their necks and taking the bullets" for the rich - who are too smart and powerful to jeopardize themselves.