Cheeseheads Vote Against Collective Bargaining

The Wisconsin Assembly got in the act today to deny public employees the right to collective bargain. Wisconsin police were out todday with riot gear and crowd control implements. Even a few students got arrested--the first in weeks of demonstrations.

Fox and Friends celebrated the union busting measures in Wisconsin, even though all the hosts are union members whether they know it or not.

There was a vote to replace the Republican Speaker of the Senate. It lost but it was accompanied by a series of speeches by Democrats. Speaker Fitzgerald claims that the recall efforts in the state were being orchestrated by President Obama as a payback to the unions. Even Fox News was skeptical.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is investigating the e-mail threats against the Republicans. Alot of people suspect this will turn out to be another one of those B girl incidents--named after the girl who carved a backward B into her cheek and claimed it was black supporters of Barack Obama who did the did. Of course, she did it.

The demonstrators in Milwaukee started picketing the Governors' office there. Minutes later they saw him fleeing the bullding through the back door.

The police union is asking for legal protection against charges they illegally performed duties for the Governor. Only a few days ago they publically told the Governor they were not his pretorian guard.

One Democratic Senator came back to attend a demonstration, the rest are remaining in Illinois.

The lawyer for the state employees is the former Democratic Attorney General. All day he has been outlining how the whole bill was unconstitutional and how unorthodox last night's proceedings were. he was very confident that all of this would be declared unconstitutional.

Jesse Jackson, the only man who can save us now, has returned to Wisconsin. When the protests first started, he was one of the few known outsiders who appeared. I would imagine demonstrations will increase over the weekend.

One little detail about the bill, which people neglect to mention, is that it defunded Medicaid in the state, which will be crippling to poorer people and those with disabilities.

Richard Trumpka said that Scott Walker was the AFL-CIO's Mobilizer of the Year. What started as a one state issue has now gone regional, with large crowds turning out in Indiana and Ohio. The collective bargaining issue is now moving on to Iowa.

Besides leading his own wildcat strike, the mayor of Madison has also filed papers in the court asking for the bill to be voided.

Meanwhile back in Washington, if there is no budget deal by Friday,the government will shut down. Of course, there is no human cost to any of this.

NEA and CATO both blasted Karl Rove's anti-Obama and anti-union ads in Wisconsin. NEA said that everything said about them and their president was taken out of context. CATO was more snippy saying that the aid misused the information from their study and just lied about the results. Karl Rove is standing by the accuracy of his ads but will not tell you the donors.

Speaking of which--Can we seize all the businesses and personal assets of the Koch Brothers under the RICO Act? This could then be distributed to the states to pay for their shortfalls in education budgets.