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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

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pushing yet more anti-abortion legislation, including their latest bill, which is a beautiful reverse toe loop trim 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 protesting the package of bills ju

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are doing here and that exacts a political cost from the republicans for having done it in the first place. a couple of states over from wisconsin, in ohio democrats have been under no illusions that they have any real chance of stopping a union-stripping bill there. because they re so outnumbered by the republicans in the state legislature. and what republicans excuse me, what democrats have been saying from the very beginning is if and when you republicans do this this is what we re planning on doing, a statewide referendum. you want to pass your union-stripping bill you? go for it, republicans. we re going to let the voters decide what they think of that. this is not an idle threat from the democrats in ohio. this is a threat that means something there. the reason ohio democrats have been threatening that and, i don t know, maybe the reason why republicans there are slow-walking their union-stripping efforts there, it s because they know the history on this. the last time republic

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110318:08:52:00

giving but they get nothing back. i used to be a republican but after what s happening, after what s been happening, i just can t do it. wisconsin republicans wrote their union stripping legislation so it essentially can t be cleanly recalled by the voters as a stand alone measure. it is tucked inside a big omnibus budget repair bill so the wisconsin state legislature would have to overturn it and that s why you re seeing all of this energy, all of this mobilization around these efforts to recall the republican state senators. if wisconsin democrats can keep everybody focused on the fact that recalling those senators is how you start to overturn this bill, they will have the tiger by the tail. in michigan, it s the same story. expect general election ballot measures to overturn what rick schneider and the republicans have done in michigan. maybe even to amend the state constitution to protect union rights for teachers and firefighters and other public sector workers. maybe even an effo

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110318:08:42:15

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110318:08:42:15
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