Not chastened by defeat, Walker remains as loathsome as ever.
Republicans can only win if they cheat.
No surprise at all … it’s right there in the playbook:
“Will the last Republican out the door please disable the alarms, remove the fire extinguishers, arm the booby traps and detonate the IED’s?”
If this isn’t a coup, I’m not sure what is.
One word - Shameless
This is what passes for governance within today’s GOP.
–Limit Democrats’ ability to cast ballots
–Gerrymander districts so a GOP vote has more impact than any other
–Taint the voters (Exhibit A: NC-9th)
–Send out incorrect information about voting procedures to Democratic blocs
–Lie
–Pass questionable legislation in the hopes they get a sympathetic judge to uphold it
–Break campaign finance laws
–Solicit non-US support
Warning to the GOP: Karma can be a bitch.
“For all the talk about reining in power, it really doesn’t.”
And the real world replies:
The lame duck legislation would, prevent Mr. Evers from fulfilling a campaign promise to take Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act. It will also diminish the governor’s control over the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, a scandal-ridden public-private agency created by Mr. Walker to foster job creation, by giving the legislature an equal number of appointees to the board as the governor and revoking the governor’s power to appoint the board’s chief executive.
The lame duck legislation will also weaken the attorney general’s office by eliminating the solicitor general’s office in the state’s Department of Justice. And it will take away the attorney general’s power to determine how to spend settlement winnings and give that power to the Legislature. The bill also gives the Legislature the right to effectively act as its own attorney general by granting the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization the power to hire its own special counsel if it determines it is in the “interests of the state” to do so
There may be a happy ending to this. The NC election board is empowered in certain circumstances to call for a new election, and the absentee ballot tampering would be one of them.
They figure they’ve rigged it enough so that karma will never happen. Or that Dems are too spineless to actually do anything remotely similar (which is probably true).
You would want the dems to do something “remotely similar”?
Point to me to a republican (or republican voter ) that has any sense of shame. They all recur to delusions to justify their lack of shame.
Republicans can only win if they cheat and the press doesn’t report it as cheating.
So what’s happening with Wisconsin voters? Will they go to the streets / their congress critters offices and what not over this?
They would argue that they are following the rules, and if there is no specific rule, they can do what they want. That was the justification for not holding hearings or a vote on Merrick Garland. Constitution doesn’t say we have to, nyah, nyah.
This goes forward and Beavis is going to do hard time with the rest of his butt buddies.
The voters are already protesting at the capitol. the republicans couldn’t care less.
All kidding aside, this is a serious problem. How can you maintain a functioning two-party system when only one party is committed to real elections and peaceful transfer of power?
Needs to enact one last act of spite considering he knows he’ll never cut it in the private sector. The Kochs will not help him
If you noticed that Republicans are sore winners (and who has? surely not the media), just wait till you see them when they LOSE.