- The Wisconsin Labor Fight: An Attack on Women, Too – Dana Goldstein
- The Wisconsin GOP's war on public sector unions–except those representing police officers, firefighters, and state troopers–is not only a craven attack on the Democratic base, but sexist, too, since predominantly male professions are deliberately protected while female ones are targeted.
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- No, seriously, they want this to be the Republic of Gilead
- [Pandagon - Amanda Marcotte]
While the Republicans in the federal government unleash an unprecedented attack on women’s access to abortion, STD screening, contraception, and cancer screening (as well as sexual health services for men), on the level below that, the turn to the right is even more severe…
Example #1: A Georgia legislator is trying to pass a law that would literally treat every miscarriage as a crime scene…
I will note that the bill also says that the word “fetus” defines every stage of human development after the sperm joins with the egg. Since many fertilized eggs are expelled without ever attaching to the uterine wall, I suppose every menstruation should be called in for a police investigation, as well…
Example #2: …a Republican candidate for the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida “jokes” that he entertains the thought of bombing abortion clinics…
- American worker infighting — it’s what we do
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
…the Wisconsin public employee unions have already capitulated on all financial requests. They did so early on. What they will not give in on is their right to be unionized. All of Walker's arguments about this being a budget issue are therefore moot…
This is the result of the aristocracy's strategy since time began — pitting the serfs against each other to fight over an ever shrinking piece of the pie…
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- Walker has a Koch and aspirin for breakfast
- [Hullabaloo - digby, on the phone call Walker accepted from someone who claimed to be billionaire David Koch. Includes link to the Mother Jones page where you can hear the recording.]
…Walker just admitted that he was luring Democrats into talks so that he could get a quick quorum and then stab them in the back. I'd think he was pretty wily if he wasn't spilling the beans to a phone prankster…
Update: The Governor admits he had the conversation and that the tape of the call is accurate.
Update II: And no, this is not like the ACORN videos. First, and most important, [Breitbart and co] edited [the ACORN videos] in ways that made them misleading…
- Fox Reverses Results Of Gallup Poll To Claim Americans Oppose Union Collective Bargaining Rights
- [Think Progress - Zaid Jilani]
Yesterday, USA Today and Gallup released a new poll that found that a whopping 61 percent of Americans oppose efforts …to strip public sector unions of collective bargaining rights. The poll also found that only a third of Americans support such a policy, indicating that Walker is pandering to the far-right of the American electorate…
This morning, during a debate about the situation in Wisconsin and collective bargaining rights in general, the Fox News show Fox & Friends referenced the USA Today/Gallup poll.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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