The Patient Affordability Act took about two years to pass, as Republicans whined the Democrats were jamming it down their throats. Yet the GOP decided they would not have to be held to the same standard. The public pushed back, were discounted as 60's protest reenactors.
Here’s what has happened to turn the state from blue to deep red:
WSJ: Nearly all 175,000 public employees will not have collective bargaining rights except over base wages… will have to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot … backing the legalization of concealed weapons … support during the campaign for an Arizona-style immigration law … dramatically cuts public education while expanding vouchers for private and religious schools, rolls back environmental protections, cuts health and welfare programs and eliminates a state grant for Planned Parenthood … cutting tax credits for poor people and freezing enrollment in a program designed to keep poor elderly people and those with disabilities from entering nursing homes and other institutionalized care … cutting taxes for businesses, partially privatizing the state's Commerce Department, making it more difficult to sue companies for damages and consolidating the governor's powers over state agencies.
Not even 7 months!
Will we finally see the Democratic Party learn something from the speed of this conversion? Oh god I hope so. Can we carry out our agenda without looking back...just once...please. Remember what they gave as an excuse; the protesters are from out of state and don’t represent the majority of Wisconsinites. It’s that easy to pretend.
Faster just got Faster!!!!!!!
Faster just got Faster!!!!!!!
In an extraordinary move to bypass debate, time and a repugnant budget, Assembly Republicans intend to ram anything and everything they want down Wisconsinites throats at super speed in an extraordinary session 11 a.m. Tuesday.
There’s no emergency, just a partisan wish list the GOP waited decades to sweep through, on the unhappy out of state residents who have lived in Wisconsin all their lives and protested at the Capitol.
Did I say ram down our throats as a way to get your attention? Are you kidding:
No notice of hearing before a committee shall be required other than posting on the legislative bulletin board, and no bulletin of committee hearings shall be published.
The daily calendar shall be in effect immediately upon posting on the legislative bulletin boards. A printed calendar isn’t required.
Any point of order shall be decided within one hour.
There can be no motions to postpone action to a day or time certain.
Any motion to advance a proposal and any motion to message a proposal to the other house may be adopted by a majority of those present and voting.
The session can be expanded to include any other legislation, including new legislation.
The Senate is scheduled to take action on the budget on Thursday.
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