Wisconsin Dems Chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" After Walker's Budget Bill Passes

[Sosa]

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[PhoenixAsh]

Fox news gets it right

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[Crux]

What's with the orange t-shirts?

[Red Commissar]

What's with the orange t-shirts?

Democratic legislators trying to join in on the sentiment. Here's a zoom in:

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/US/3431a1297d1a4070ad2e87d92f0fc708.jpg

"Assembly Democrats"

"Fighting for Working Families"

[Lucretia]

Can somebody please tell me WTF a "working family" is, besides some gimmicky bourgeois label liberals use to out-family the right? Is a "working family" one in which the children work the smaller machines beside their parents in the factory?

[the last donut of the night]

as heartening as this may be, fuck the democrats and their bedfellow, the union leadership. now is the precise time to reject the democrats and republicans

[Sosa]

Democrats are just as guilty in my eyes

[scourge007]

Democrats are just as guilty in my eyes
You got that right. The Democrats left Wisconsin for a few days or maybe a few weeks if I remember correctly.

[NGNM85]

Democrats are just as guilty in my eyes

How so?

[PhoenixAsh]

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[The Man]

How so?

Because do you think these elitists really care about us? or their own damned power? In the end, there is no Democrat or Republican, Conservative or Liberal, Libertarian (In the american sense), or Authoritarian. They are all the same thing: Freedom hating, power hungry, elitist tyrants. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

[syndicat]

Can somebody please tell me WTF a "working family" is,

"working families", like "middle class," as used by union officials and liberals, is a way to avoid having to use the phrase "working class."

I find "working families" offensive because it leaves out single people. I find "middle class," as used by people like Rich Trumka, offensive because it says that better paid workers should have no solidarity with the poor.

[Amphictyonis]

Democratic legislators trying to join in on the sentiment. Here's a zoom in:

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/US/3431a1297d1a4070ad2e87d92f0fc708.jpg

"Assembly Democrats"

"Fighting for Working Families"

Fuck them. They should have eggs thrown at them. This bullshit- this stupid bullshit pisses me off. Sorry about the foul language but fuck the Democrats. Opportunism at it's finest. Democratic governors across the nation are getting ready to attack workers/the poor/elderly BIG TIME and Obama is telling them how to do it. .

[NGNM85]

Because do you think these elitists really care about us? or their own damned power? In the end, there is no Democrat or Republican, Conservative or Liberal, Libertarian (In the american sense), or Authoritarian. They are all the same thing: Freedom hating, power hungry, elitist tyrants. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

This is largely hysterical nonsense, I was hoping for a straight answer. I also wasn’t aware Sosa had appointed you as his/her official representative.

[Geiseric]

To answer your question, I believe the democrats are just as bad because they stood by and watched as bush did his tax cuts, they backed up Clinton on NAFTA, and they can't band togather to pass Obama's legislation that he believes will help our economy, and in his desperation he agreed to the Republicans tax cut deal. All politics behind, if I was a liberal that would be my answer.

[Lucretia]

This is largely hysterical nonsense, I was hoping for a straight answer. I also wasn’t aware Sosa had appointed you as his/her official representative.

The answer is very, very simple as to why the Democrats are as much to blame for this (presumably meaning the draconian budget cuts and slashing of benefits to state employees). The Democrats support all these austerity measures except taking away the right to collective bargaining. As has been reported at the SEP news site:

"Only hours before the vote, a delegation of assembly Democrats met with a top Walker aide, reiterating their offer to vote for all the cuts if the provisions ending dues check-off, automatic union recognition and union bargaining rights were removed. Walker has flatly refused any such deal, insisting that the destruction of collective bargaining is an essential feature of his strategy for dealing with the state fiscal crisis."

The Democrats differ from the Republicans not in opposing these budget cuts, but in attempting to protect the unions as a mechanism through which to discipline the workforce into accepting these cuts. Perhaps if you didn't rely so strongly on Larry O'Donnell's hard-hitting "socialist" show you'd be more attuned to these issues.

[Lucretia]

"working families", like "middle class," as used by union officials and liberals, is a way to avoid having to use the phrase "working class."

I find "working families" offensive because it leaves out single people. I find "middle class," as used by people like Rich Trumka, offensive because it says that better paid workers should have no solidarity with the poor.

Oh, I see. So if you are just a single worker, and not part of the much touted "working families," then I suppose you just aren't worth a shit to these right-wingers in sheeps' clothing.

[the last donut of the night]

This is largely hysterical nonsense, I was hoping for a straight answer. I also wasn’t aware Sosa had appointed you as his/her official representative.

this thread just got fun