Well….with all of the furor and the shenanigans going on here in Michigan driven by the repubs…I have one message to the independents who elected ole Snyder to office and believed he would do what was right for all of Michigan and not just the Kochs and DeVoses….REPUBLICANS LIE! They lied in Wisconsin, they lied in Indiana, they lied in Ohio, and they continue to lie that they have the workers in mind with their right to work nonsense…remember that in the next election if you have any thought of voting for another one of the wholly-owned corporate party here. These guys do not give a damn about you but they will lie to you and use you to get elected and then stab you in the back as fast as they get to Lansing. The one thing you have to know about ole Snyder’s explanation of why he pushed these bills was that the even the repubs on “Morning Joe” eviscerated him on the nonsense that these bills will benefit workers…they went so far to laugh at ole Snyder when he tried to trot out the ALEC talking points…this is what you independents have given us…making our wonderful Michigan no different than Alabama or Mississippi and we are now the laughing stock of the country….vote these idiots out in 2014 so we can start to take our state back from the billionaires that just want more and more and more for themselves and do not give a damn about anyone else….geez…
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Dark days in Michigan…
Well…it is a dark day in Michigan as the Koch brothers and the Chamber of Commerce, along with the DeVos family have bought themselves a right to work law that will go a long way to gutting organized labor…the House has just passed the bill in this lame duck session with no debate allowed by the repubs. One thing everyone has to understand is that this bill was written by ALEC…the extreme right wing organization that is behind the “stand your ground” laws that have resulted in murderers getting away with murder in the states where they have been enacted, and it is wholly funded byt the Kochs and the Chamber…the most anti-American worker organizations in this country. The bitch about this whole thing is that the Koch’s ideas and candidates were rejected at the ballot box in the last election but they still found a way to hurt the American economy by this new law…what do you think will happen when people have 1,500 dollars less in their pockets? They are going to spend less and the economy will head back into recession…just what the repubs want….so they can say it is the failed policies of Obama that did it…what a cynical, terrible group of people…geez…
The 6% solution…
Well…have been sitting here stewing about the liar Snyder here in Michigan and his betrayal of our state and the workers here….in this whole mess, a new fact popped up in the news tonight about a poll that was taken over the past few days on how much support this labor attack law has…when the question was asked if people supported this new law, only 6% of the people said they wanted something like this passed…only 6%…so how can Snyder sit there and lie through his teeth saying that most of the people want this? Just another instance where the Kochs and DeVos’s have purchased a legislature and whose voices count for more that the people who actually work here…..I am getting excited for 2014…we will take back this state and return it to the path of a labor/management cooperation where the workers share in the profits that derive from their labor and have a true voice in their lives…geez…
Lost in the shuffle…
Well…with all of the uproar over the repubs latest gift to their corporate masters…the Kochs and the DeVos’s…another piece of legislation is being jammed through in this same lame duck session that is not getting any attention…although it should. These middle class/worker hating folks that now control our state are stabbing them in the back with new legislation that would allow employers to use their own “conscience” to decide what they will provide in the health care plans for their employees…don’t like abortion? Don’t have to cover it….don’t like smokers? Don’t have to cover anyone who smokes….don’t like people that ride motorcycles? Don’t have to cover any of them either. Can’t anyone else see how big an intrusion this is into people’s lives? It’s bad enough how workers are treated here in the US; why do employers need another tool to make their lives even more miserable? But, that is the repubs across this country…all of the rights that have been fought for by generations of workers will be gone if they get their way…and, I’ll bet that a lot of these jokers passing these laws have benefited from the sacrifices of labor over the years…but they don’t give a damn about that…can’t wait for the next election when we can send them back home….geez…
The Koch brothers and the DeVos’s buy another state…
Well…I am so ashamed of my state right now it is hard to even come here to right this…but, if you didn’t know, the idiot repubs here in Michigan, backed by the Kochs and the DeVos’s, have made Michigan a right to work state in a transparent attempt to destroy the unions here and with it, the middle class. Up until now, I had thought that our governor was a reasonable repub, yeah, I know, no matter how much they lie, there are no reasonable repubs here…and just like ole Walker in Wisconsin, Snyder hid his true colors while he was running for election; never once mentioning right to work because, if he did, he would never have been elected. The most galling thing is how the repubs are breaking their own legislative rules to jam this bill through…with no debate or no chance for the dems to speak against it…more like the Soviet Union than America…but, this is just what the repubs do…speak of their reverence for the country out of one side of their mouths while they destroy the American dream. There will be hell to pay in the next election if Snyder signs this bill…I can see a permanent dem majority being built here…and none too soon…
Some good news and bad news…
Well…kind of bombshell today when the crazy bastard Jim DeMint decided to resign his seat in the senate to take charge of the Heritage foundation…a right wing “think tank” that is one of the echo chambers funded by the crazy billionaires in the repub party. Now, if you are a progressive like me, this is a great bit of news since ole Jim was the biggest backer of “legitimate rape” Todd Akin, and gave him almost 100k for his election run. But, this is not the only bit of craziness that ole Jim has exhibited in his time int he senate…this idiot once promised to put holds on any bill introduced in the senate unless it was cleared and approved with his office first….and on and on…he even criticized Boehners stupid plan for debt reduction for not being far enough to the right…what a maroon.
Okay…now the bad news…our wonderful governor here in Michigan has broken his promise to the people of Michigan by changing his mind and supporting right-to-work legislation that is the darling of the owner class and a direct attack on the middle class. All I have to say to him is actions have consequences…and the amendment that didn’t pass last time that would have protected workers right to organize is going to win in a landslide in the next election. Why do all of the repubs need to participate in the race to the bottom for our middle class…thankfully, in two more years these clowns will be gone and we can begin to repair the damage that has been done to workers here…geez…
Here they go again…
Well…it seems to me that the repubs never learn…even with the smackdown they got in this last election, they are still up to their right wing nonsense here in Michigan…with the new bill that has been introduced in the legislature here that would grant a tax credit to fetuses…never mind they took away the tax credits to actual children, these idiots just want to continue to try to take away the rights of women to make their own health decisions…thinly veiled attempts to eliminate abortion here in Michigan by making it unaffordable…all I have to say is keep it up…the people started to see through your nonsense in the last election and this will make it even easier for us to take back the state house…the days of the right wing repub party are numbered and I can’t be more happy to see a return to respect for everyone that lives here and to legislate for all of us…not just the loonies on the right..geez…l
Just a few things…again…
Well…after the over the top output over the past few days, I think I’ll just take it easy today and noodle around again to see if anything starts to work…I did want to talk about the new conference that ole Mitt did on Tuesday….did anyone else get creeped out by the smarmy, smirking, exit? A serious situation like the one in Libya and all this guy can do is smirk? It is getting too easy to take shots at this idiot…so, that will be the last one for the day. Good news with the polls here in Michigan…the latest ones show that ole Mitt is 10 points behind and has stopped spending money here…yay…and other polls show that senator Stabenow is leading Hoekstra by 11…and Hoekstra keeps making mistake after mistake…kinda like ole Mitt…okay…I won’t talk about him anymore. I did go back to watching the news yesterday and I think it will be a one time thing since it has gotten way too strident for me…that’s about it…can’t really think right now…I may be back later for more, though…who knows?
More good news…
Well…the good news just keeps on coming here in Michigan…read an article in one of the Michigan newspapers that ole Mitt has abandoned Michigan and will not spend any more money here since the state is a lost cause…it just seems to me that this is the second time he has abandoned Michigan…opposing the auto bailouts and now this…and to that I say good riddance…geez….I told you these were going to be short…almost tweet like…
Ole Jase is running from Roy…
Well…this is a topic that I just need to come back to since it is the most egregious attempt at voter fraud perpetrated by the repubs this year…well…not really, the voter suppression laws that were voted on here in Michigan were worse but at least Snyder vetoed some of them. What happened in the past couple of days is that Jase Bolger the speaker of the repub controlled house here in Michigan has basically thrown Roy Schmidt under the bus as he tries to protect his power in Lansing…even though his fingerprints were all over ole Roy’s change to the repubs from the dems and the manipulation of the process to make sure there would be no dem challenger. Ole Jase has said that Roy is basically dead in the water and has abandoned him as his plans have blown up in his face. That is just like the repubs…no moral compass, just political nonsense to win at all costs…geez…