News Mar 7, 2012 at 4:00 am

GOP Hardball

How 22 Scheming Republicans and Three Democratic Defectors Seized the State Senate, and the Gridlock They're About to Create

Eli Sanders & Goldy
Pissed.
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Bipartisanship here is just as broken as the Capitol. Democrats don't give a fuck about anyone's ideas but their own. It would be great if a super majority was required to pass a budget because then those fucks would ACTUALLY have to work together and come up with a centrist budget.
Lew Siffer on March 7, 2012 at 9:36 AM Report this
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@1: The exact opposite. Supermajority requirements hand control to the fringes who are least likely to compromise.
Goldy on March 7, 2012 at 11:23 AM Report this
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@1 slashing education and basic health isn't an "idea".
JonnoN on March 7, 2012 at 3:11 PM Report this
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Great news, love it!
on March 7, 2012 at 5:36 PM Report this
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This is sounding woefully like Wisconsin. A snake-in-the-grass new governor like McKenna will make the picture complete.
katrat on March 7, 2012 at 7:23 PM Report this
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Are any of the three Dem traitors up for re-election this year? Is it too late to recruit primary challengers against them?
AlaskanbutnotSeanParnell on March 7, 2012 at 8:59 PM Report this
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#4 why do you "love" the idea of education and basic health getting cut? Only the rich benefit from reductions in either, and if you have time to pose here, you're not ever going to BE rich.

Scott Walker is about to be recalled as governor or Wisconsin, btw. Your kind of greed-based politics is dying out.
AlaskanbutnotSeanParnell on March 7, 2012 at 9:01 PM Report this
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Can't we just push Republicans off a cliff and call it done?
auntie grizelda on March 7, 2012 at 9:10 PM Report this
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We have seen what a Republican future would hold for education, for kids, for the poor, for higher education and for open government. I can fill out my November ballot right now!
1971 on March 7, 2012 at 9:25 PM Report this
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Rob McKenna, our Republican State Attorney General, running for Governor, is not allowed to do fund raising while the legislature is in session. Perhaps the special session can drag on until he begs the Republicans to compromise. Perhaps the Dems can decide what they want, then wait until he begs the Repubs to let them have it. LOL.
peteywheat on March 7, 2012 at 9:42 PM Report this
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Republican State Attorney General Rob McKenna is not allowed to do fund raising for his campaign for Governor while the legislature is in session. Perhaps the Democrats should consider waiting until the Republicans come around, maybe a few of them encouraged (begged) to defect to the Dems side. Or a fun fantasy, just run out the clock on ol' Rob and don't pass a budget until November, LOL.
peteywheat on March 7, 2012 at 9:54 PM Report this
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"...with the aid of their three Democratic turncoatsā€”proceeded to, as Senator Murray aptly put it, shove "a narrow, extremist agenda... down our throats."

What a disappointing idiot. To use the identical, obnoxious rhetorical metaphor used by the prevent-all-progressive-bills U.S. House and U.S. Senate, in order to decry the same tactic, is a pure rookie move that will come back to haunt the otherwise-clever legislative tactician, state senator Murray.
Texas10R on March 8, 2012 at 12:06 PM Report this
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And people complain about Vladamire Putin?

Corruption Ignorance supplyer of weapons all over the world?

5 bucks to cross a bridge and gas with Information technology is hacked and manipulated to a commodity as the staples of life it self are?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXukJGFag…

Its design is for overtime
slade on March 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM Report this
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Wow, someone proposed a budget?

I'm having a bit of difficulty getting outraged.

I thought the morons in Olympia were supposed to do that. Actually more surprised that Rodney Tom showed up for work, he tends to miss 90% of the votes.
Slam1263 on March 10, 2012 at 2:32 PM Report this
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More of that Media based politics that we are to ooh! and aww! at. Gingrich will make gas cheap and Rommney will make America great and Sanatorium will make America Catholic again.

I have to wonder if its just so we can take a picture (like the Karaoke pic above)and show it to the public?

She looks like shes singing "the end" by the doors? This is the end! my only friend thee end.
slade on March 12, 2012 at 12:07 PM Report this
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The Dems and the Reps have ALWAYS shared a basic ideology:to think otherwise is to ignore their concerted effort to destroy the Political Left (not only in the US of A,but abroad as well!) American,Inc. is cuntrolled by a Feudalist Party with various factions--and the two largest are the DemoliKlans of the Middle Right,and the RepubloKrats of the Far Right . . . .
5th Columnist on March 14, 2012 at 5:02 PM Report this
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I apologize for posting this late. If partisanship is what the GOP is looking for, they have accomplished their task. I *was* a moderate Democrat, guess I'm a hard-core liberal now.
DarthTagnan on March 15, 2012 at 7:44 PM Report this
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Hi there all you shiny happy dumbfucks! How are we today? "Good", you say? Excellent, excellent! Just a quick lesson in political partisanship today, and then we can all be on our way, okay?

Um, regarding that left-wing/right-wing thing: You probably should consider getting over that hopelessly tired garbage. If ANY of you fucking lemmings had ANY functional neurons firing withing those echo-prone craniums perched so precariously on your shoulders, you'd realize that they're just two wings of the same hideous vulture that just loves picking your bones clean via the division it creates. Yes, it's pretty effective, isn't it? All I see here are the typical zombie dregs parroting the typical whitewashed BS brain-rot. But I must say it DOES have entertainment value. It's really quite comedic watching you all take shots at each other. Better than watching anything on the TV, to be sure.

Sorry if that stings a bit. Just trying to illustrate how incredibly silly you all look. Progressives? Conservatives? Dems? Repubs? Nah. You actually all belong to the same party - the Neo-Regressive Clusterfuck party. Carry on.
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