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Dick Morris on Sean Hannity, 2/28/11:

We may at long last have a way to liberate our nation from the domination of those who should be our public servants but instead are frequently our union masters and free our politics from their financial power…What is at stake here really is freeing our schools so that we could keep good teachers and fire bad ones, freeing our state government so we don’t have high local taxes (and exactly how are those good teachers going to be paid?) and obliterating the financial power base of the Democratic Party.




The money quote is underlined above. This attack on collective bargaining is not about helping kids. It’s about establishing what amounts to a one-party system. Eliminate the power of unions and the G.O.P., with its corporate backing, gets to run things pretty much unopposed.

These people do not grasp the most basic principle of an open society – equal access to the political process as a voter and as a candidate.

Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes

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Date: 2/3/11 02:22 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
To a deafening silence from the rest of the Tea Party. He and Rand Paul, kooks though they are, are the only ones with sufficient Cojones to do that.

So, those are only two of many plans. Thus my point - you have no clue these things are going on.

Yes, they killed the F-35 years after everyone else *but* them realized it was never going to be anything but a waste of funds. And as I remembered, the GOP was willing to shoot down the Democratic budget but promised their own sometime in the summer.

You realize how the votes broke down? Right?

No, no, of course you don't.

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Date: 2/3/11 02:33 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com
Just like you've forgotten all the times where you in fact have claimed that state and local Tea Parties do not represent "Da T Partee".

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Date: 2/3/11 02:34 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
Also zero times, yes. As proven by you.

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