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 probably more likely to lose than not) in the one outstanding race. Even replacing two...
Wisconsin
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.
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 subsequent to an election new governments should be able to immediately pass their agenda and...
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.