One Party Rule not the same for both Parties.

It's those damn Democrats again, making  society safer with popular common sense gun regulations and safety nets for the displace worker.

The Washington Times article starts with the false premise that both parties are the same:

The Colorado and North Carolina state legislatures were unusually productive in 2013 … Polar opposites ideologically, Colorado Democrats wielded the same unchecked control this year over state government in Denver as North Carolina Republicans did in Raleigh, with predictable results.

Then they trotted out the false equivalencies. In reality, the Democrats are pushing a populist agenda based on issues receiving high polling numbers, and Republicans are passing laws that appeal only to their base in safe gerrymandered districts. They don't trust us, so instead, they would rather attack voters, labor, local control and push gun crazy vigilantism.

In Colorado, the upshot was a legislative session marked by sweeping new laws on gun control, election reform and benefits for illegal immigrants.

In Raleigh, the legislature proposed a record 18 amendments to the North Carolina Constitution, including measures aimed at curbing the government’s power of eminent domain, an anti-union right-to-work provision and an expansion of concealed-carry gun laws.

As the conservative Washington Times puts it;

The concentrated power has sparked backlashes in Colorado and Minnesota on the left and Wisconsin and Michigan on the right.

Poll numbers support tax increases on the wealthy and the elimination of corporate welfare:

In Minnesota, Democrats passed a $2.1 billion tax increase at the behest of Gov. Mark Dayton targeting high-income earners, smokers and businesses.

Yet that compares somehow to the Republican wrecking ball to every Democratic law that came before:

“Republican-led Indiana sliced income taxes and Alaska slashed oil taxes,” said a June 10 report in Stateline.org, which tracks trends at the state level. “Kansas is paying for an income tax cut by hiking sales taxes (the rate will still decline next year).

Midwestern Republican governors such as Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio have had their agendas challenged as they moved to cut the power of public-sector unions.

The first Republican-dominated state government in more than a century in North Carolina is now the target of so-called Moral Monday weekly protests in Raleigh, led by liberal clergy members, teachers unions and environmentalists. 

The difference: Republicans ante up lots of money through special interest groups during elections. Democrats hit the pavement and protest. Still hurting from the anti-war protests of the 60’s, Republicans resent descent, and are happy to push an authoritarian one party government, vilifying the Democrats as outcasts:

State Sen. Thom Goolsby, New Hanover County Republican, dismissed the protests as “Moron Monday” in a biting op-ed this month. “The circus came to the State Capitol this week, complete with clowns, a carnival barker and a sideshow,” he wrote in the Chatham Journal.

The same has been said about the protesters in Madison, as if the First Amendment doesn't apply to Democrats. And you know, maybe under their authority, it won't apply.

Republicans Pass Trash Legislation, while Democrats don't Promise to Repeal Anything.

So where are the promises to roll back the last year of the Walker administration? If we had heard one threat, one promise to repeal any particular proposed bill, you would think the other side might moderate a little? Forget it.

We've moved so dramatically right in this state, that a total flip of power would never bring us back, even just a little. Democrats typically don't have the balls to pass their own agenda. I wonder what'll it take to breath some life into these people when they do control state government. Look at the radical list of lost rights passed by these corporate thieves:

Channel3000: The Wisconsin state Senate has passed a bill that would remove a requirement in state law that voter registration be offered to students in high school … saying high school students have many other options for registering and it's a burden for elections officials to offer it at the schools. pointed out testimony from the Fond Du Lac County Clerk pointing out a situation in which 80 students at a local high school registered to vote, but only five ended up voting. Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, retorted by saying "So what?"

josonline: A Racine County man couldn't vote Tuesday after poll workers refused to accept his U.S. Veterans Administration card as a qualifying photo ID. Gil Paar, 69, of Mount Pleasant, told the Racine Journal Times that he has a state driver's license he could have shown, but instead just declined to vote. “Basically I was trying to make a point,” Paar told the newspaper. “I gave them four years of my life, why shouldn’t I be able to use my vet’s card?”

Jsonline: The Assembly approved major changes to wetlands regulations to ease restrictions over development in Wisconsin … current law hamstrings development. The aim was to balance environmental interests and the rights of property owners … developers would not be required to look for suitable sites elsewhere. It also establishes a balancing test that evaluates the economic and environmental effect of a project. Advocates of the bill say the changes would allow the DNR to spend more time on complicated projects.

The Assembly has concurred in a bill that would, in part, eliminate damages in employment discrimination cases.

Scared, Frightened Fitzwalkerstan Republicans now Whine about Running Up Ridiculous $8 million Security bill at Capitol.

Republicans showed all of us why they want to carry guns. They're afraid. Scared to death of another terrorist attack, scared to death of their fellow citizens, and envious of the all the benefits doles out to the poor.

But the best example of that fear came when they chose to hide from the peace loving, latte sipping protesters by spending $8 million for protection. They still don't understand that we're not like them, with threats of Second Amendment remedies and revolution. I've written about this before.

jsonline: The Legislature's budget committee approved paying $8 million to cover the costs of having scores of law enforcement agencies provide security at the Capitol during this year's protests.

How wasteful were the scared Republican lawmakers? Would you believe…

The Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously to have the state pay the costs to 199 local law enforcement agencies, four state agencies and three University of Wisconsin campuses for helping provide security at the statehouse.

Even more outrageous were the accusations the Madison police were helping organize and encouraged protesters to terrorize Republican lawmakers. You can’t make this stuff up…

Some GOP lawmakers questioning whether Madison's officers and its liberal elected leaders had been trying to help in good faith.

Aw, not everyone agreed with conservative authoritarian lawmakers to give up, go home, and wait two years?  With just the right response:

"It's an insult to the very individuals who protected you more than anything. They escorted you, they didn't escort us," Rep. Tamara Grigsby (D-Milwaukee) told her Republican colleagues.

Big Government Republicans propose statewide building code, ending targeted and stricter local controls.

Busy Republican hands are happy hands. With nothing else to do after remaking government to their own Republican specifications, lawmakers continue their big government assault on local municipalities by proposing a one size fits all regulation that give absolute power to our permanent conservative majority.

Chippewa Herald: A bill authored by state Republican Sen. Terry Moulton and supported by state Republcian Rep. Kathy Bernier to set a statewide uniform building code for commercial buildings is drawing concern from the fire inspector in Chippewa Falls.

John A. Bowe is concerned the bill would wipe out restrictions by local municipalities that are stronger than the state code. In Chippewa Falls, than would affect a sprinkler code passed in 2004. Moulton and Bernier said the intent of the bill to provide uniformity for builders. Both legislators said they are open to suggestions by firefighters in shaping the bill.

 If it isn’t broken, why fix it? One party rule, that’s why.