Michissippi’s TeaPuritan (Michigan's Republican) Legislative Purification Campaign Powering Up for 2012

Response to Dan Calabrese in "Will Michigan GOP blow it?" on the Michigan View January 03, 2012


The Salem Witch Trial Principals Were Not America's Founding Fathers. 2012's MI legislative year promises to reveal the full TeaPuritan agenda: They are rallying now to hold the modern equivalent of infamous witch trials and pass fanatical religiously tainted laws and acts designed to allow harsh church-think to dominate state affairs and citizens rights.

Dan Calabrese gets it. Our Calabrese Pray Group has given it up for Dan! Hallelujah...light has shone in.

Calabrese:

"If Michigan Republicans fumble away their leadership opportunity before it's even really begun, they won't be the first. Just the latest - and one of the stupidest.

"It's not often one political party is handed so much power and has free reign to do anything it thinks it should for the benefit of those it has been entrusted to govern. And on the rare occasions when it happens, the empowered party inevitably spends much of its political capital pandering to various constituencies by enacting nonsense that has long been demanded of them - thus ensuring a short reign with limited achievement."

We, here in the Calabrese Prayer Group aren't near as excited about what the "one political party handed so much power" and "free reign to anything it thinks it should" has done for the state, that's a tragic mistake and an enduring embarrassment. Beating down the poor, the elderly, and the school children is anti-caring. But Dan's warning is so apropos! So insightful!

Sez Dan:

"The empowered party inevitably spends much of it political capital pander to various constituencies by enacting nonsense that has long been demanded of them." 

Dan is spot on!

Calabrese's accurate assessment of the Michigan Mess:

"Michigan Republican can't seem to stop there (having achieved a number of their radical legislative goals), largely because they have a determined constituency of social conservatives and angry knee-jerkers who want what they want, regardless of whether it accomplishes anything. So along with the economic changes the state badly needs, we get proposals to mandating the Pledge of Allegiance, drug-testing welfare recipients, and banning domestic partner benefits for some public employees."

"They even passed a law "banning" partial-birth abortion, which is already illegal at the federal level, just to make anti-abortion activists happy."

"(W)hen it comes to manipulating the democratic process for their own self-serving purposes, Michigan Republicans have been second to no one. They drew congressional and legislative district maps so contorted and absurd, the only defense anyone can come up with is to suggest that Democrats would have done the same thing if given the chance. The GOP has been so blatant about grabbing power through redistricting, it even passed a law that allowed it to throw out Democratic-drawn Oakland County Commission districts - after the fact - because it didn't like the outcome. REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF STATE RUTH JOHNSON IS MISUSING HER OFFICE TO PUT RIDICULOUS REQUIREMENTS ON VOTER REGISTRATION GROUPS, WHO TEND TO LEAN DEMOCRATIC."
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Calabrese's balanced conclusion:

"This is all stupid. REPUBLICANS DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES THAT IT'S NOT GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE. They don't know how to tell haters that welfare recipients are entitled to the same equal protection under the law as everyone else."
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