Round One: The People’s Grassroots Recall Crusade versus Boatloads of BLOATED BIZ BUCKS

A disquieting thrill/chill is running up and down the Citizens United cabal's spine. Imagine the single most expensive single state legislator race/ election in the nation's entire history-over$ 9 million spent just to attempt to retain/unseat a single TeaPublican in Wisconsin!

With the dirty work of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) just breaking on the national consciousness, with the $40 billions' Brothers Koch schemes and "walk-all-over-you" hobnail boot prints smearing the hallways and in-and-out of legislators offices in Madison, the "We are One" people's crusade winning 2 of 6 recalls against Republicans - in solid, rock-ribbed Republican districts - is an electrifying near miss. It's a shot across the bow of the TeaPublican's pirate frigates chartered to make confiscatory runs on: local control, public service and collective bargaining.

Spending a reported total approaching $40 million dollars in last night's Wisconsin Recall Races to save TeaPubicans ensconced in their HISTORICALLY BULLET PROOF/ GOP STATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS (backed by mindboggling outside influences and juice) is utter insanity. Who says that money isn't the lubricant of all politics? Who can say that there isn't a MAJOR, MAJOR EFFORT AFOOT IN THE COUNTRY - A VERY DANGEROUS, AGGRESSIVE CORPORATACY/CONSERVATIVE COUP-which fuels such citizen recall efforts?

As such, THIS COUP D'ETAT IS DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO GO FAR BEYOND THE FABLED REAGAN REVOLUTION. It 's designed and determined to remake the entire economic and political landscape of America-one state legislature at a time. It intends to become-the new order. Wisconsin is but the beginning. We are seeing their MARCH OF MADNESS sweep other states.

Whatever you thought you knew about America; it's supremacy, it's stability, it's sustainability, its promise and dream, is entirely on the line. Not one aspect of public life is exempt from these profit-takers, the privatizers, the rampant profitization of government via the rancorous and Corporatist networks. Democracy be damned.

BIG BIZ has spoken. We have the BIG BUCKS to do whatever it needs to do to forward their agenda. STEP ASIDE... BUSINESS-CONTORLED DEMOCRACY IS PROPOGANDIZED AS THE NEW NORMAL!

One man, one vote has been the pervious standard. Now elections are most like stockholder meetings; the more one holds in terms of money, economic, and corporate control, the more votes one gets to cast to achieve the desired outcome.

Incumbent Wisconsin State Senator Alberta Darling won in her contested recall race. She was forced to defend her close relationship and support for Gov. Scott Walker's radical putsch. However this anecdote from the Wisconsin source (The Whitefish Bay Patch) yields an important swing voter insight:

"At the Cahill Park polling center in Whitefish Bay, Jane Collins said she voted for Darling in the past election, but on Tuesday, she voted for Pasch.

"'When Darling seemed to fall in lock step with Walker's agenda, I just decided that she no longer is looking out for the individuals. She is looking out for the party. It's very disappointing'," she said. 'You can go to the parade and wave and shake hands all you want, but it doesn't mean you are listening to the people.'"

On the larger stage the underlying "lie" festering in Walker's Wisconsin is exposed thus:

"Whatever happens tonight in Wisconsin, it has been a constant of this fight that Republicans have consistently falsified the reason labor and Dems have waged this battle so bitterly. They have steadily downplayed the most extreme union-busting aspect of Scott Walker's proposals, and have falsely asserted throughout that Dems and labor only made this stand because Walker asked public employees to cough up health and pension benefits."

So it's fitting that as the recall elections hit their climax, THE LEADER OF THE NATIONAL GOP REPEATED THIS LIE IN THE MOST HILARIOUSLY BLATANT WAY yet.

Here's RNC chair Reince Priebus on CNN this afternoon:

"ANCHOR: Is there buyers' remorse in your home state of Wisconsin with Republican/Tea Party policy making?

"PRIEBUS: No. I don't think there's any buyers' remorse at all. You have a leader in Scott Walker who asked state employees to pay just a little bit more in pension and healthcare benefits, which was about half of what the rest of the state pays in those benefits. And that's all he did. Now, in reaction to that, the public employee unions took $25 million, they put together a petition drive, and now they're dumping millions of dollars on television trying to recall the senators for trying to balance a state budget. It's the same type of tough choice that is were made in Wisconsin that the Republicans are trying to present to Americans in Washington.

"This is a completely false rendering of what actually happened. In reality, THE PROTESTS FROM DEMOCRATS WERE PROMPTED BY SCOTT WALKER'S PROPOSAL TO STRIP PUBLIC EMPLOYEES OF THEIR BARGAINING RIGHTS, protests that were later sustained by the deep cuts in his budget, leading to the recall drive. Priebus doesn't even mention the collective bargaining piece of the story, only citing the demand for pension and health concessions as the reason for the entire standoff. In the real world, of course, labor unions actually agreed to those concessions, yet WALKER PRESSED AHEAD WITH HIS UNION-BUSTING PROPOSAL ANYWAY, WHICH IS WHAT PROMPTED THE WHOLE BATTLE." 

(emphasis added) 

Source: "Wisconsin recall fight ends where it began: With a Big Lie", Greg Sargent in the Washington Post.

The recall movement is not out of the larger political/coup game. If, according to the senior seer, Bill Ballenger, just one successful recall in Michigan could stall and obfuscate the Snyder schemes; Just think what these two successful recalls in Wisconsin mean to those who are ardently working to save community and democracy from the Koch/A.L.E.C/ corporate usurpers!

There's much more Recall Action on tap!


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To the Original Tea Party Members of Our Republic We Owe Our Liberties...

"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men."
-- Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980)

However to corporate servants like governors Snyder, Walker, Kasich and we owe much resistance, for they are the elected men of "insolence," against such sell-outs it was the Founding Tea Party leaders became "unruly men, disturbers of the peace..."

The leaders of workers' associations laid down their lives and their occupations in order to achieve a voice in their workplaces and a seat at the counting house table on behalf of their fellows-the common men.

Now these brazen Retro-Republican Governors, backed, funded and encouraged by such as the Brothers Koch, the wealthy Waltons, and the Amway clan, in our hour of great economic woe, seek to lock the workers and public servants out of their place in the commons.

These wealthy elites attempt to bar the workers from their place in the bill-making legislative halls of states (via Koch funded A.L.E.C. private/corporate serving legislative members, inserting A.L.E.C. -ala cart bill writing into state law) across the country.

Such corporate benefiting, usurpation of democratic process has virtually denied ordinary Americans' their voice in the workplace. A.L.E.C. private legislating has given great advantage to corporations in all areas of the workplace, elections, and in the arenas of governance and public finance. Even resulting in Michigan in direct take-over of local governmental units by corporate firms being given the powers of Emergency Finance Managers.

Yet:
- Who harvested the grain, that made the dainty tarts and goodies on the table at Vanderbilt's Biltmore?
- Who dug the sooty coal from unsafe pits that heated the vast caverns of the J. P. Morgans' palatial homes?
- Who forged the molten steel that made Henry Ford's autos?
- Who carts, by semi, the millions of crates and boxes bearing Chinese goods to Wal-Mart's Super Stores all across America?
- Who peddled the special MLM soap that made the Amway twins billionaires?
- Whose retirement funds were brazenly harvested by the banksters and crooks via dishonest investment instruments and chicanery on Wall Street in 2008?

This aggressive and Koch et.al. funded/coordinated attempt to effect a coup against American labor is a vast and endangering overreach.

When it is all said and done, if the mega-wealthy are to be the arbiters of all values and wages, working conditions and privileges, what is left for the common man and woman in a nation said by Abraham Lincoln to be "of and for the people?"
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The Grover Norquist & Newt Gingrich Tag Team Goad The Nerd (Rick Snyder)

Gingrich outlined the program for the National Republican Governors which outlines the radical tack that is being pushed on states as an attempt to enact anti-union legislation nationwide. The purpose is to de-fund the unions and thus "enhance" GOP chances in the 2012.

The Nerd is swept up in this morass.

Michigan is being beset with vicious attempts to sweep unions from their ability to participate in public policy formation and retain their rights to pensions and benefits, and most significantly retain the "right to bargain"-collective bargaining as public unions.

Gov. Scott Walker implicated Snyder as part of a network of governors with whom Walker plots.

Snyder has used legislative trickery to camouflage his earnest efforts to de-certify the role of unions. Certain bills on the fast track through the Legislature contain elements which will accomplish "Walker's Wisconsin Anti-Union crusade."

How is the Gingrich mandate moving in the Nerd's Michigan?

Yesterday, the (Michigan) State House passed a bills package granting emergency financial managers the dictatorial power to toss out union contracts and summarily dismiss (fire) elected officials in cities, counties, townships and school districts operating at a deficit. And barring those officials (in this extreme economic downturn which is the real cause of their budget shortfalls) from the right to hold office for years into the future is troubling. Punitive? That's putting it far too lightly.

Dangerous to democracy? Absolutely.

Karl Rove, soon to come to Livingston Co., has reinforced the Norquist/Newt Gingrich gameplan, both as a point person and a fund raiser. Rove clearly outed his purpose in engaging the unions in "do or die." Karl revealed the GOP national campaign is targeted to undercut the Democratic Party with the unvarnished purpose of achieving partisan homogeny in 2012.

Gingrich told told both the American Enterprise Institute and the National Republican Governor's Association: "The first great laboratory (using the state legislation to attack unions) for replacing the left will not be in Washington. It will be in the states.

As the Walker remarks state: Wisconsin is "the first domino."

Can the Nerd trickery be far behind?

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