One can only imagine Teddy’s response to the tinhorn dictator who has seized the statehouse in Madison. The Rough Riders would be charging up the isthmus to Capitol Square. No, he would clearly confront the newly-minted demagog and surgically separate the state budget from this trust-loving, union-busting hidden agenda.
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a governor and legislature that are doing what they said they’d do is now a tinpot dictator. The only people subverting the democratic will of the people who elected the leadership in Wisconsin are the cowardly Democratics hiding out in Illinois.
Didn’t I read in a ruby-tinted variation of this theme about how Obama was shoving Romneycare down our throats? Didn’t I read a ton of stuff about overreaching his mandate?
EaBo is unlikely to answer: your comment hits way too close to home.
What percentage voted?
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p>What percentage WISHED they had voted against Walker and the other Koch Kwislings?
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p>What percentage regret voting republican?
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p>How about what percentage would support a recall campaign??
Or ask for another poll?
There are “Push Polls”
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p>I have to wonder if the folks who voted for this Koch Kwisling (for so it seems to me as to Walker) knew what kind of a draconian, pro-plutocracy idealogue they were getting.
You certainly support all the filibusters that McConnell and his gang have been wreaking upon the democratically elected Democratic majority. And all the Democrats on this blog support the obstruction of the Senate minority in this instance as well. I am non-partisan in my support of both institutions, since they are part of parliamentary procedure and essentially to defending the rights of the minority from the dictatorship of an ill informed majority.
I do like Teddy, but I’ve always been a bit unsettled by the Great White Fleet.
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p>And yes, he’d have some choices words for Governor Walker.
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That said, he is one of my favorites as well, especially for establishing the national parks system. And even as a police commissioner, he was all about rooting out overspending, waste and fraud in government – so his response in WI may not be as predictable as you think.
Also I would argue Wilsonians are far closer to the neocons than TR.
I love Theodore Roosevelt. He was the first major political figure in the U.S. to call for women’s suffrage, the first President to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and he was calling for National Health Insurance and Living Wage legislation back in 1912. He was truly a man not only ahead of his time, but in many respects ahead of ours. Here’s a few of my favorite T.R. quotes:
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p>The object of government is the welfare of the people. – Theodore Roosevelt
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p>The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare, who rightly maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. – Theodore Roosevelt
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p>There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done. We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs. – Theodore Roosevelt