wisconsin governor scott walker for the dick cheney prize as the republican who does the most good for democratic politics, as the republican who most unifies and mobilizes democrats and independents and even many republicans against really unpopular extremism in the republican party. governor snider s union stripping, his imposition of what s being called financial martial law to rip contracts and union rights and even local elections away from michigan cities and towns if snider decides to, his massive new taxes on the old and the poor in michigan in order to give away those revenues to corporations as tax breaks, to not only fix the hole in the budget, this is an agenda that has shocked and galvanized and angered a lot of people in michigan, just as it has in wisconsin. i want to show you the headlines that ran in newspapers around the state of wisconsin on the day that scott walker signed the union-stripping bill there. now, this was the day that walker held his big bill signing. r
for the dick cheney prize as the republican who does the most good for democratic politics, as the republican who most unifies and mobilizes democrats and independents and even many republicans against really unpopular extremism in the republican party. governor snider s union stripping, his imposition of what s being called financial martial law to rip contracts and union rights and even local elections away from michigan cities and towns if snider decides to, his massive new taxes on the old and the poor in michigan in order to give away those revenues to corporations as tax breaks, to not only fix the hole in the budget, this is an agenda that has shocked and galvanized and angered a lot of people in michigan, just as it has in wisconsin. i want to show you the headlines that ran in newspapers around the state of wisconsin on the day that scott walker signed the union-stripping bill there. now, this was the day that walker held his big bill signing. right? this is supposed to be his
contraception. the horror. pushing yet more anti-abortion legislation, including their latest bill, which is a beautiful reverse toe loop triple axel hypocritical message disaster of actually raising taxes in order to make access to abortion more difficult. now, in washington it is not only nothing new right now, republican politics are so old school it s like a time machine, right down to today s headlines about newt gingrich still wanting people to think he s running for president and the way he thinks he s going to get that is by being really super anti-gay. for washington republicans e.r. and touched by an angel just aired their pilot episodes. for washington republicans robin williams is still best known for mork & mindy. this big shift that is happening in republican politics is happening not in washington. it is happening in the states. this is footage from the michigan state capitol last night, where thousands of people protested and several were arrested. they were prote