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How nice to be able to vote on some loopy "principle," knowing enough others will do the sensible thing and save you from yourself.
Case in point, Sen. Ron Johnson, one of only 12 Senators, way out there on the fringe, to vote against a bipartisan compromise spending bill to keep from shutting down the federal government.
Actually, that's probably giving RoJo more credit than he deserves. He probably actually wanted to shut down the government, because it spends money. And that's what he's against, on principle. Here's the roll call.
How nice to be able to vote on some loopy "principle," knowing enough others will do the sensible thing and save you from yourself.
Case in point, Sen. Ron Johnson, one of only 12 Senators, way out there on the fringe, to vote against a bipartisan compromise spending bill to keep from shutting down the federal government.
Actually, that's probably giving RoJo more credit than he deserves. He probably actually wanted to shut down the government, because it spends money. And that's what he's against, on principle. Here's the roll call.
Channel 58 in Milwaukee tonight followed up earlier reports in other news outlets on the decision of most state public employee unions to decline participation in the state's new annual "recertification" process -- which requires costly union member elections to decide whether the unions will retain their formal collective bargaining designations.
After quoting various union officials who said that the provision was designed to make it nearly impossible for unions to succeed, and that the annual requirement would be expensive to pursue, the news reporter contacted Gov. Scott Walker's office asking whether the recertification provision was indeed designed to kill collective bargaining. According to the newscast, the entire response from the governor's press office consisted of this: "No.
Channel 58 in Milwaukee tonight followed up earlier reports in other news outlets on the decision of most state public employee unions to decline participation in the state's new annual "recertification" process -- which requires costly union member elections to decide whether the unions will retain their formal collective bargaining designations.
After quoting various union officials who said that the provision was designed to make it nearly impossible for unions to succeed, and that the annual requirement would be expensive to pursue, the news reporter contacted Gov. Scott Walker's office asking whether the recertification provision was indeed designed to kill collective bargaining. According to the newscast, the entire response from the governor's press office consisted of this sentence:
"No.
The Scott Walker-Paul Ryan-Rick Perry tax-cut mania, destroyed in two paragraphs
GranholmFormer Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm puts the lie to the current Republican mantra that tax cuts and smaller government will boost the economy. Granholm, a Democrat, faced an economic crisis in Michigan that at one point in the Great Recession pushed official unemployment to 20 percent.She explained to Salon.com's Andrew Leonard why Michigan's experiment with tax cuts and smaller government was a resounding failure. In her new book on fixing the economy:
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