Come all you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good old union
Has come in here to dwell

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?

The Wall Street Journal: February 18, 2011

There were two big speeches this week, and I mean big as in “Modern political history will remember this.” Together they signal something significant and promising. Oh, that’s a stuffy way to put it. I mean: The governors are rising and are starting to lead. What a relief. It’s like seeing the posse come over the hill.

The first speech was from Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor who is the answer to the question, “What if Calvin Coolidge talked?” http://peggynoonan.com/

Good old Peggy; former speech writer for an Alzheimer ridden corporate front, former star of Bewitched and current lackey to Murdoch.

WHAT A COUNTRY.

Don’t bother with scanning the entire article. Once I hit ‘What if Calvin talked…” that was enough for me.

The man who was THE substantial contributing factor in the creating the Great Depression is lauded once again by a ‘moderate.’ Yeah sure.

(This is more of that nod to the propagandist right that would have you believe that market forces would have acted to get us out of the Great Depression—as if it were merely a normal downturn in economic forces)

All these ‘moderate’ repubs.

But this was not what caught my ire folks. It was a paragraph further down from her moronic opener:

Rush Limbaugh, who is rightly respected for many reasons—lost in the daily bombast, humor and controversy is that fact that for 20 years he has been the nation’s most reliable and compelling explainer of conservative thought—saw Mr. Daniels’s remarks as disrespectful. Radio listeners aren’t “irrelevant or unnecessary.”

I would rather forget this woman’s primary essay point for a minute—since it stinks in the end anyway. But she makes a point that I was making thirty years ago.

Rush and his followers constitute the REPUBLICAN BASE; no ifs, ands or buts.

What dear Peggy and the other repub ‘moderates’ would do is simply to put lipstick on these corporate pigs and fool the masses—that portion of the masses that is most easily fooled—into believing that the aims of the corporate party are strickly pro bono publica.

What really was the most memorable task of the Reagan Administration?

Why it was to bitch slap the public unions. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12292.html

It is merely the hats off to this racist, corporate oligarchist; this misogynistic anti union billionaire who threatens to leave the country because of high taxes… that pisses me off.

You see, like all repub moderates, the nose twitcher knows which side of her butt is properly buttered.

More than a few times I have been ‘reminded’ that there are good repubs and bad repubs and good dems and bad dems.

No, no and no has been my response to that inane statement.

The dems are almost always the lesser of two evils.

Wisconsin voters, buying the current right wing propaganda during the last corporate funded election cycle voted for a repub governor and a repub legislature.

And what does the repub government wish to do; and do immediately?

Destroy the unions that were instituted during the thirties and forties and fifties that created a middle class in this country.

Fifteen different state legislatures are working right now to destroy the right to collective bargaining for public workers.

This is not a simple Wisconsin issue; it is a 15-state campaign to weaken workers and their organizations' rights.

In all 15 states, it is being led by one party.

Exempting police and firefighters—and requiring changes that undermine a union's legal standing—are politically, not fiscally motivated.

Wisconsin's fiscal and pension issues are merely the crisis that provides conservatives with the opportunity for a good old-fashioned power grab, political payback, and a smokescreen for an agenda of disempowering people…

An editorial comment for the "unions are the problem" enthusiasts: Nevada and Texas do not have collective bargaining for state workers, while Illinois and New Jersey do. My analysis of the list of states with 2012 budget deficits, and their correlation to collective bargaining for public workers, finds no significant correlation between state budget deficits and public-sector unionization rates.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-20/wisconsin-union-fight-is-really-a-15-state-gop-power-grab/?cid=hp:mainpromo5

Here folks is the core, the head of the current repub party and make no mistake about it:

Folks, I don't think the people in Wisconsin, the unions, the teachers, and some of the protesters, I don't think they got the memo on civility.  Have you seen what's going on? I mean this is Greece!  It's Greece.  All of these people who live off the largesse of taxpayers are just marching in the streets, calling in sick.  Schools have been closed in parts of Wisconsin today for fog.  There isn't any.  Well, there's certainly not enough in these areas where it's been canceled.  We have some photos I want to show you from the protests in Wisconsin.  Let me turn the Dittocam off while I zoom in here and get this.  I don't want you to see the zoom-in happen  http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021711/content/01125106.guest.html

Rush would like to give us a lesson on civility.

Yeah, just like a feces tossing monkey is going to teach me something about decorum.

Somebody bitch slapped me a few months ago while I was on some tyrade:

I hate to say it but you are asking all of your readers here, and all of America (given your comments) to hate Fox but love MSNBC.  It's not that simple.  Sure, Fox is at its worst a propaganda machine for the right wing, but put your foot in the other shoe and look at MSNBC from a Repulican standpoint and it's nothing but the same thing - a propanda machine for the liberal side.

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/jon-which-side-are-you-7366

BULLSHITE.

The repubs are showing their true colors, their true aims and their true base. And by the way, the repubs do not just wish to destroy collective bargaining rights for public workers, they wish to destroy collective bargaining rights for all workers.

Again I ask

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfWzLa1faLA

Until the line is drawn clearly in the sand, a proper battle may not ensue.

We need Ed Shultz now more than ever.

When Limbaugh called protesters in Wisconsin whiners and freeloaders late last week, it sent Schultz -- himself camped out in Madison among scores of angry demonstrators -- into one of his trademark tirades   http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/

LET THE BATTLES BEGIN!!!