Let's all boycott this Alabama of the North. With all those cheeseheads up there, the place must smell like an unwashed foreskin.

Irish blarney is nothing new, but Fascist blarney is. BEWARE WISCONSIN !

I think the real Point here is the mere "thinking" of such a heinous thing. The true colors of Fitzgerald and his ilk is clearly seen. These all too familiar types are - to make a long story short - Nazis. I do not use that term flippantly. They are Authoritarian Type 'A' and they are dangerous.

Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

scabdemocrats put your coat on and stand outside with your picketline. ...bet you don't get arrested there.

whocares;)

It's rumored that Scott Fitzgerald's next step is to declare himself dictator of Wisconsin and to secede from the United States to continue his political temper tantrum.

Fitzgerald and Walker are what Wisconsin want. To hell with Wisconsin until it changes its tune.

"Today’s Conservatives
Are Fascists
by Justin Raimondo, January 04, 2005

The idea that today’s conservatives are in any way defenders of individual liberty, the free market, and what Russell Kirk called “the permanent things,” i.e., the sacred traditions that have accumulated over time to constitute the core of our Judeo-Christian culture, is no longer a defensible proposition. Instead, what used to be called the conservative movement has morphed, almost overnight, into a coterie of moral monsters, whose political program is one of unmitigated evil.

My good friend Lew Rockwell has recently come to this conclusion:

“Year’s end is the time for big thoughts, so here are mine. The most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of 1994, to almost totalitarian statist nationalism. Whereas the conservative middle class once cheered the circumscribing of the federal government, it now celebrates power and adores the central state, particularly its military wing. … What this implies for libertarians is a crying need to draw a clear separation between what we believe and what conservatives believe. It also requires that we face the reality of the current threat forthrightly by extending more rhetorical tolerance leftward and less rightward.”

Various libertarian scholars and writers – see here, here, and here – seem to be drawing the same broad conclusions. I might add, for the record, that I reached a similar conclusion a couple of years ago, except that, far from abandoning my efforts to reach out to authentic (i.e., old-style) right-wingers, this merely accelerated my efforts to split off the authentic Remnant from the neoconized conservative movement.

In any case, by this time the evidence for the malevolent transformation of the American Right is all around us – in the ravings of Fox News “commentators,” in the sheer existence of Ann Coulter, in the usurpation of a formerly respectable political tendency by the greasy evasions of the “neo”-conservatives. This change is most starkly dramatized in three disturbing trends: (1) Widespread support on the Right for internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, touting Michelle Malkin’s shoddy-to-nonexistent scholarship, with the implication that we should be contemplating the same treatment for Americans of Arab descent, (2) the justification of torture when utilized by the American military in the name of the “war on terrorism” by “conservative” legal theorists, and (3) advocacy of a ruthlessly aggressive foreign policy of military expansionism, supposedly in order to spread “democracy” around the world. "
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2005/01/03/todays-conservatives-are-fascists/

I said it before, I'll say it again:

Eff Scott Fitzgerald!

analysis of events in Wisconsin outside the lens of two-party manipulation:

http://www.socialistappeal.org/content/view/948/71/

Anybody notice a theme in these responses? Looks like some Koch Bros. PR hacks may have invaded our forum: m60green, Stone, whocares, corvo.

More than 100,000 protesters gathered in Madison last Saturday.

Recall signature drives for eight GOP senators are well under way, with poll results showing at least three — and as many as six — of them will be replaced by Democrats, thereby flipping the WI Senate from Republican to Democrat.

In Wisconsin, a labor/farmer/academia/leftist coalition is WINNING through mass demonstration and political action, beating back the corporatist attacks and showing the rest of the country the way to victory.

But, here on CD, these anonymous posters show up and encourage us to dismiss, and even boycott, all things Wisconsin.

The sad thing is: If and when the dems win a majority again, they will want to "look forwards, not backwards", and pander the the GOP minority, not wanting to ruffle their feathers, like the sad sacks that they are.

Too many defeatists today!

Some here seem to need reminding that each failure to uphold their end that the Dems commit is just yet another turning of the screws on the machine forcing Naturally's labor/farmer/academia/leftist coalition to see the light and abandon the Blue Party to the trash heap of history along with their Red Party friends.

-matti.

Make no mistake, the Capos aren't rethinking anything on policy. They just got the word from their in-house legal and pollsters that the contempt continuation wouldn't fly legally or politically. They have unmasked themselves and the non-fascist conservatives simply couldn't stomach their vitriol. I've heard more than one say "poor winners" about it all.

Yesterday, a certain governor appeared at a supporter's factory and the workers were "given" a paid break opportunity to hear how the Repugs did it for their sake. The camera pan of the audience was priceless. They quite obviously would rather have been working and the two local interviews of two different employees made it clear they weren't buying it. Oh and it looked like they were packaging the sorts of paper products that Koch brothers can't move around here any more. My son tells me Walmart has huge blank spots for the alternative products and all the Koch crap is still right where it stands after carts pass by. My husband tells me Walmart will not tolerate that 3 days in a row, at least where his job's products (drink mixes,etc) are concerned. We're betting Specialty Plus workers were repackaging Koch crap, the corporations hoping to fool consumers. It would be ironic if those worker abusing Walmart stores were backing up other workers' purchase statements about those bastards. Of course it wouldn't be about ethics, just the bottom line. But we'll take it.

Is it my imagination or not? But it seems as if the most obstinate, obstructive, obstreperous, off-the-wall, out-of-kilter, and odious politicians seem to be concentrated in the Republican Party these days. I really miss the Eisenhower Republicans.

In Wisconsin as in my home state of Ohio, the entire GOP has become contemptible. Shady practices don't bother people with low moral values like these right-wing puppets of industry.

In Ohio when one of their own took a stand to block a bill to strip workers rights the party retaliated by stripping that Republican of his seat on the committee and replaced him with one that would do the party bidding.

So much for "representative" government when you are forced to represent the party over your own people.

Perhaps the few ethical Republicans remaining will see the light and switch parties.

Why doesn't this article question Fitzgerald's stated view that elected officials, in this case Republicans, do not have any obligation or responsibility to represent all the people of the state, even those of another party. All elected officials take an oath to represent ALL their constituents, not just those who give them money and not just those who voted for them. Nor is it honest to claim that being elected gives them free reign to then ignore their constituents and do whatever they want once in office. They are still obligated by that oath to listen to the public when it rises up against them, as Wisconsin citizens have done, repeatedly over the last few week. No matter what they campaigned on (and they certainly did not campaign on much of what they are trying to now do), they still have an obligation to listen to and continue to represent the voters honestly and fairly, and be responsive to their wishes. Elected representatives also have a responsibility to keep to the democratic process of fair, reasonable, and open re discussions with their opposition party(s), the public, and any special interests - especially powerful corporate lobbies. Republicans are perhaps more egregious in disenfranchising the public but they are hardly alone in that. Both parties have a lot to answer for keeping secrets and suppressing their constituents' ability to exercise their First Amendment Rights by refusing to do their jobs as their "representatives". They all too often choose to ignore the public when it speaks loudly and clearly, if it doesn't suit their personal agenda. They favor the powerful few instead via crony capitalism and a revolving door between government and business re jobs. By choosing to represent their personal interests or the interests of the few over the majority, they have broken their oath of office and betrayed the people in so doing. Now that is what I call real contempt.