Republicans Biggest Constitutional Dummies!!! Unknowingly Bash Free Market too!!!

Two examples of conservative stupidity in one week!!! What a Christmas gift.

Both Scott Walker and Sarah Palin blew all their credibility (let's pretend they had some) as "constitutional conservatives" over the most pointless issues.

Scott Walker mistakenly believes having racist public school mascots is a free speech issue because..."there's a variety of different opinions out there." You just never know, it could be constitutional.

Walker: "I'm not a lawyer...I don't think you need a lawyer to say that free speech invokes a variety of things..."

So it's okay to deny the truth. This same theme is used to make the comments by the suspended Duck Dynasty star a constitutional violation too. First, here's Walker's embarrassing nod to the tea party, from WISC:



Ed Schultz exposed the right wing stupidity and confusion as well, as they conflated the free market with constitutional rights. Add Bobby Jindal to list of constitutionally clueless governors. Ironically, conservatives are actually railing against their beloved free market:



Howard Kurtz point blank said it wasn't a constitutional issue, but free market decision too. And yet, the Fox News host believed that if enough people are offended, it does become a free speech issue. Breathtaking:



Constitutional conservatives? Again, just the opposite. John Nichols wrote a nice piece on this in the nation.

Walker calmly signs Racist Mascots bill, Divides State Again, still Claims Government Entities have Free Speech Rights.

Scott Walker apparently doesn’t read, or he would already know how stupid he sounds uttering absolute nonsense about free speech. WISC: 

Here’s more readable material if our wondering governor can sit still long enough to educate himself.

WSJ: The bill cuts against the grain of a decades-long movement away from American Indian mascots.

Barbara Munson, an Oneida Indian who chairs the Wisconsin Indian Education Association's mascots and logos task force, said Walker's free speech arguments make no sense. Government entities such as schools don't have free speech rights, she said. "(The bill) is an example of institutionalized racism in content and process," Munson said. "It's a poke in the eye with a sharp stick to all Wisconsin tribes, and it is an act of discrimination leveled directly at our children."

Walker is all about divide and conquer.

We already know about Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, who represents a portion of Mukwonago, this guy is about as racist as they get. He’s relieved he’s getting cover from the governor who "is providing moral direction to all sides" that will lead to more dialogue and a less confrontational tone.

The roving bands of Mukwonago racists are safe to taunt and demean outsiders again. What a town, what a place to avoid.

Blatant racism returns....

Berlin schools to revisit nickname issue

Scott Walker says Government has no place meddling in racism, which to him is a free speech issue. Racist Mascots...Punt!!!

Mr. Unintimidated has decided to “punt” when it comes to doing away with racist mascots.

That takes real courage.

If it were up to Walker, local governments in the 60’s would have had to deal with racist policies, because racism is all about free speech. Who’s to say “where do you draw the line” when it comes to racism.

Walker’s real colors are showing, whether he appreciates the spot the legislature just put him in or not. We're finally seeing the weak career politician we knew was lurking underneath that empty unemotional gaze:

jsonline: Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday that school districts should drop Indian team names and mascots on their own and questioned whether the state should force them to do so, signaling that he will sign a bill this week making it harder for state officials to end the practice.

Walker is full of advice and supposed good intentions, but it’s a smoke screen for a much more radically mean spirited tea party agenda, and it stinks with racism.

…he said he would prefer to see schools do that voluntarily. He said he empathized with those who are offended by Indian team names, but cast the ability of schools to choose their team names as a First Amendment right.

"I get the concern" of opponents, Walker said. " But the counterbalance to that that I'm looking at is, by the same token, from a free speech standpoint...where do you draw the line on free speech? While I may not like or necessarily approve of others' speech, where do you draw the line to say, 'It's OK to do things that you like but not that you don't?' " he said.

Mascots objects and logos. But an even better, more legal point of view was offered up at Uppity Wisconsin:

Wisconsin public schools aren't businesses-- at least not yet. Public schools don't have any First Amendment rights-- they're part of a larger statewide school system and can be regulated the same way the state can dictate statewide standards such as the number of hours per week of physical education. As Milwaukee attorney Brian Pierson correctly points out, "A school district doesn't have a First Amendment right to adopt an Indian mascot any more than it has a First Amendment right to adopt the swastika as school symbol or 'white supremacy' as school slogan."

This opinion was forwarded by the ACLU today:

Today, ACLU of Wisconsin executive director Chris Ahmuty issued this statement:

“This is a bogus appropriation of the First Amendment. The governor apparently does not understand that the First Amendment protects citizens from government censorship. Government programs are not allowed to offend, harm or otherwise discriminate against citizens on the basis of the First Amendment. The First Amendment simply doesn't apply when it’s the government taking action.

School team names, mascots, logos and all that go along with them are the responsibility of the public school district. It’s highly likely they are discriminatory. If the public school district doesn't change them, it is necessary for the Department of Public Instruction to do so.

Why would a public school district want to harm some of its students? Free speech is no justification.”

Walker says "I have nothing to do with it!" Oh but he does. National media spotlighting Scott Walker's big decision on racist Indian mascots.

Racism is now an official plank of the Republican platform. With every conservative think throwing in their word salad to disguise racism, Republicans can now use that language to fool themselves while at the same time spread the hate.

Walker Republicans have actually written a law making it impossible to stop or remove blatantly obvious racial mascots. That's how in your face these guy want to be. Leave well enough alone? Never.

This national hot button issue about racial mascots is now on Scott Walker's desk, waiting for his signature. With the media spotlight on Walker now, he's about to make it clear to the nation where he stands on the racial divide. Would he be an inclusive candidate for the nations highest office, or will he let racism fester and grow...on a local small government level as he states below? 

Daily Beast: Battles over Native American names are raging nationwide, with none fiercer than in Wisconsin, where a GOP bill awaits the governor’s signature … and the governor ... finds himself caught in a battle he doesn't seem to want to fight.

“I have nothing to do with it,” Walker said. “Other than that I have to choose whether or not I am going to sign it or veto it, it is nothing that I have advocated. In fact, all the while they were debating it I was asked at press conferences what I thought about it, and I would say, ‘It is not on my radar. If it is not about jobs, lower taxes, improving schools, it is not on my priority list.’”

It’s so hard being the accidental governor...what will he do? He knows exactly what he’ll do, even after feigning disinterest in the whole hot button issue conservative voters want passed to justify their deep seated racist feelings.

“I don’t know exactly what I am going to do with it,” Walker suggested that he favored simply repealing the 2009 law and leaving the decision up to local school districts rather than signing into law the “weird hybrid” that passed this month. 

Let's create the "The Fighting White Racists" mascot to see if new Republican bill would disallow it!!

Wisconsin has become deep red with the introduction of the "protect racist mascots" law proposed by the states Walker Authority. The Republican bill mostly tells American Indians they can leave if they don't like race based mascots. We're (whites) here now, get used to it, says Rep. Steve Nass.

Cap Times: Happy with the Wisconsin GOP are school districts under fire for Native American-themed school mascots — a bill in the Senate would make it much harder for offended residents to get those mascots changed.

Because school officials would risk their livelihoods actually changing a team mascot to "The Fighting White Racists," why not have a "White Racist" mascot night. Hey, it's just for fun.

Wisconsin Proud to pass a law supporting Race Based Mascots!!!

Rep. David "haggis-hunter" Craig (R-Vernon) wants to make sure race based mascot names, now and in the future, proliferate and become just another proud fixture of our state image.

"Haggistani" Craig would make it almost impossible to ban an offensive mascot. "(It) violates the basic foundations of due process that our nation holds so dear."

Forget about the name, let's focus on due process…! "Bloody jock" Craig has a few supporters too, like "bog trotter" Shawn McNulty, Mukwonago's school superintendent, who defended the schools American Indian name by saying it “amounts to a guilty-until-proven-innocent policy that ‘hasn't been used since the Salem witch trials.’"

State Representative Steve "the Kraut" Nass, is another big supporter of racial mascots.

From this WISC coverage, watch Craig do his best "Fat Bastard" impression responding to the argument reversing the law would "set(s) an acceptable level of discrimination in state statute," putting the state into a tailspin:

"Talk about a tailspin this state has been in. The state was put in a tailspin when you all had the majority economically and otherwise."  

In a sad piece of press from NorthJersey.com:

DPI Superintendent Tony Evers said it wouldn't be proper to transfer name-change orders to the Department of Administration, which is controlled by the governor. He said no one would be able to meet the minimum signature requirement, allowing race-based mascots to remain in place forever.

Barbara Munson, an Oneida Indian who chairs the Wisconsin Indian Education Association's Indian Mascot and Logo Task Force, called the measure racist.

"That's terrible. That's anti-educational. It's racist," she said. "For 21 years I've avoided that term. But it's almost impossible to ... describe this particular action in any other way."

Barbara Munson, an Oneida Indian who chairs the Wisconsin Indian Education Association's Indian Mascot and Logo Task Force, called the measure racist.
"That's terrible. That's anti-educational. It's racist," she said. "For 21 years I've avoided that term. But it's almost impossible to ... describe this particular action in any other way."
- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/sports/225382552_Wis__bill_would_guard_race-based_school_nicknames.html#sthash.87lqoIba.dpuf

Nothing says Racist like Rep. Steve Nass' Race Based Mascot Protection Law.

It's no secret Steve Nass is proud of his racism, his past commentary is legendary, but for him to enshrine his dislike for minorities into state law should make every Wisconsinite question "why."

Ask yourself, who would think to pass a law defending race based mascots,  seriously? American Indians don't want them, so why choose to ram these mascots down their throats anyway?

Is it any surprise this guy is against public education? We should all be as stupid.

Doing the peoples business, or Republicans marking their racist territory?

Nass' response: “It can’t be just that people are offended it has to be that there’s an actual harm being caused.”

Republican Rep. Steve Nass backs racist Political Incorrectness on School Mascots: "...the Indians are coming after all of them!"

Confirmed: Rep. Steve Nass is a racist. How does he feel about offensive mascot names? A lot of things in life are offensive, so deal with it, because Republicans aren't about to give up on Aryan superiority.  This from the sensitive party of whiners who blame Democrats for name calling?

Throughout the interview with Upfront's Mike Gousha, Nass warns local school districts about the "Indians." Could he have said "American Indians," or "Native Americans," sure.

But Nass doesn't care, and has probably never been in a conservative conversation where anyone objected to the use of racist terminology. But that's another big topic.

It's funny to hear Nass push local control over racist mascot names, but not over local control over vouchers, school funding, district negotiations with teachers over working conditions...etc, where it's one size fits all.

Nass is even outraged over the very idea Democrats passed a law when they had control of the legislature that Republicans objected too. Political incorrectness gone amuck. Add to that Nass' dislike that one person can get the ball rolling on an issue. Heck, he even defends forcing taxpayers  to support a district dumb enough to spend $30,000 to $80,000 to fight the law.

That's the problem with conservatism, it's filled with stark contradictions that would embarrass a normal person. I blame it on stupidity and a sociopathic disconnect with other people. But then I'm not a doctor.

Rep. Steve Nass and “The Fightin’ White Racists” Push em back, push em back…way back!!!

There’s only one conclusion I can make regarding Republican Rep. Steve Nass’ fight to keep racist mascot names at schools across the state; he’s probably a blatant racist trying to appeal to fellow racists.

Come on, have you seen this guy. Based on Nass’ logic, a mascot is not racist if you don’t think so, even if everybody else does. So...Nass isn't a racist because...well, he likes racist mascots, it's that simple.

Since Nass is fighting FOR symbols everybody else finds racist, I’m proposing an amendment to his bill that would require at least one school in the state adopt my idea for a sports mascot; “The Fightin’ White Racist.” WISC:

Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, drafted a bill to put those decisions back in the school board’s control.

“Every school district with an Indian name, logo or mascot will eventually come under fire,” Nass said. “The Mukwonago school district and all citizens of Mukwonago do not believe it's discriminatory. I don't believe it's discriminatory,” Nass said. “And there is a difference, there is a difference.”

But of course, there is no difference.

Rachel Byington is a Wisconsin Indian Education Association representative. She said there is no excuse, historical or otherwise, for what she sees as discriminating mascots. “We find this offensive and we want it to end, and for people to keep saying, well we're honoring you, but yet the people say we don't feel it's an honor, there's a real mismatch in cultural understanding,” Byington said.