"After claiming for weeks that it was essential to strip government workers of collective bargaining rights in order to help balance the budget, Wisconsin Republicans pulled a neat legislative trick on Wednesday night: By defining the collective bargaining rules as non-budgetary in nature they were able to go ahead and pass their stripped down bill.
"Let's repeat that: Wisconsin Republicans stripped the "fiscal" elements of a "budget repair" bill in order to pass it. If that sounds like a contradiction-in-terms to you, you're not wrong."
It looks inevitable that these Senators, as well as Governor Walker, will be recalled. So we'll see just how long this bill lasts and, if it does, in what form. But this has been one of the more disgusting political acts in a decade absolutely overflowing with them.
In other news, noted racist and Islamophobe Peter King, who once said that he believed 80 percent of mosques were controlled by "extremists" and wants to label Julian Assange a terrorist, all while claiming that the IRA are in fact not a terrorist group because "The IRA's violence is only a reaction to violence started by the British Government," (Someone educate this guy on US foreign policy in the Middle East, please) is holding "anti-radicalization" hearings today, in which he will continue to posit that American muslims should bear more responsibility for policing their own, insinuating not at all subtly that all muslims bear the burden of responsibility for the actions of a very small minority amongst their very large number. So that is what racism looks like.
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