Sunday, June 19, 2011

Adding Collusion To The Corruption

Some days, it is just an impossible feat for a rational mind to understand how Wisconsin's Republicans can even think they are anywhere still close to representing the people of Wisconsin.

It seems like we can't go a day without another example of corruption from their side raises its ugly head from the miasma they're swimming in.

Take*, for example, our not so supreme Supreme Court. Apparently the Republicans weren't happy with having the majority bought and paid for by the likes of WMC and the Koch Brothers.  They also weren't happy with just having them making an uninformed, dishonest and predetermined decision based on ideology and not the law.

Now they can add collusion to the ongoing list why the whole lot of them needs to be removed from their respective offices:
Four Republican legislators met with Sheboygan County department heads Monday as part of monthly sessions involving state and local officials.

After the meeting, county corporation counsel Carl Buesing briefed other county attorneys across the state on information pertaining to the collective bargaining bill’s inclusion of employee contributions to their pension and health care.

“This Monday morning we met and were assured that the Supreme Court was going to rule by Wednesday and that that legislature was going to clean up all the loose ends,” Buesing wrote in the email.
If you wondering why they would do this, besides the simple fact that this is one of the most unscrupulous lot you could find, well the article explains that as well:
“If the legislature had to fold the collective bargaining package again into the state budget, that would re-inflame the passions of February and March,” Common Cause executive director Jay Heck said. Legislative consideration of the collective bargaining bill drew thousands of protesters to the capitol in those months. Heck said as separate branches of government, it was expected the court would act independently of any legislative deadlines.
So what now? Again, back to the article:
Heck of the government watchdog group told WKOW27 News the possibility an assurance was given about a pending state Supreme Court decision requires more answers.

“There needs to be a full explanation by the speaker, the supreme court spokesperson or the justices themselves to make it clear, that there wasn’t coordination on this matter.”
And any investigation into this needs to be done by a non-state agency, preferably on the federal level and one that cannot be unduly influenced or coerced by Scott Walker and his bully boys.

After all, we already know that they are not above political retaliation.

*Insert your own "Take our Supreme Court...please." joke here.

6 comments:

  1. You folks are nuts. Just plain nuts. You see conspiracies everywhere.

    Common sense helped the rest of us know a decision was imminent. Basic understanding of the law led the rest of us to know that Sumi was wrong.

    Probably the funniest false premise of them all was that the legislature was colluding. Everyone seems to be ignoring that the Republicans had already introduced and were ready to take up the first amendment to the bill which included all of the collective bargaining provisions. Certainly, if they had known with a certainty that it wasn’t going to be necessary, they wouldn’t have bothered.

    Oh, to be a liberal – no thought required. No proof. Just feelings and finger pointing. What a joke.

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  2. They were ready to take it up and then stopped everything for eight hours? Not a likely scenario.

    The facts don't support your argument. I feel sorry for you when the inevitable occurs.

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  3. Common sense helped the rest of us know a decision was imminent

    O RLY? It's "common sense" that, for the first time in its 158-year history, the court would take up a case and issue an opinion - in a single document - on the same day? Now that's insane.

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  4. Well fred, at least we know you're not a conservative.

    It's called the SEPARATION of powers. The WMC and the Koch brothers have bought the WI SC, both houses of the legislature and the Governor. Feudalism is when the top 1% buy government and use it for themselves.

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  5. Hey Liebenthal, have you also seen any little green men riding on pink elephants? It must really be tough for lefties like you watch Liberalism-Progressivism disintegrate and die before your own crossed eyes.

    germantown_kid

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  6. Hey GK, might want to turn off Fox and turn on the news. Recall of Michigan's governor, people in Ohio striking back, at least three Repub senators, including your precious Darling, going down the toilet. Yeah, we're dead all right. Keep dreaming, kid.

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