The Democratic National Committee, typically incompetent, clueless and short-sighted.
Wisconsin
Noted VERY SERIOUS POLITICAL WEBSITE (TM) Politico only employs the finest reporters. Take its political reporter Donovan Slack. In reporting on Obama's visit to Wisconsin today, she determined to show.
So the recall vote against Scott Walker will happen. But progressives are really worried about one unforeseen problem: there really isn't anyone to run against Walker. The Wisconsin recall law.
Scott Walker using prison labor to decorate the Christmas tree (and in this administration, it ain't no holiday tree like here in Rhode Island) in the Wisconsin state capitol building. The use of prison labor means he didn't have to use and pay unionized state...
The Dems -- who need three wins to take over the state Senate from the reactionary and anti-labor Republicans --are 2 out of 5 so far, and are leading (but.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, feckless bully. The last paragraph (a Prosser quote) is hilarious. h/t Mary Dudas, John Emerson.
Probably not terribly significant -- the legislature can just re-pass the law unless the courts fail to defer to its judgment of what constitutes a budget act -- but a temporary victory. The judge was probably intimitaded by "union thugs."* *Note: may not contain unions...
A superb idea. The key: "fourteen out of 19 GOP state senators preside over districts carried in 2008 by Obama."
Not surprisingly but still depressingly, the authoritarian faction of Wisconsin politics is beginning to assert itself over the pro-speech/pro-dissent faction, as Scott Walker has closed the Capitol to any citizens.
Translated from Teabagger, it means "selling state assets for pennies on the dollar to your wealthy cronies." ...see also. ...and also. ...yet more.
James Joyner makes a valiant but inherently doomed attempt to defend people who have lionized the Tea Party and the Republican opposition to health care, but have now discovered that.
Talking Points Memo is doing some great reporting on Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's odious little stunt, whereby he essentially committed arson and then announced he needed to get rid of.