Republicans Vs. Democracy: Michigan Edition

Your sentence structure should be considered assault with a moronic weapon.

Back to the OP -
Does this have to stay the Michigan Edition? Because Virginia has some Ideas...

9/13 = .69
3/5 = .60

Republicans still have work to do.

Don't forget the voter ID law! Pennsylvania is truly at the forefront of this brave new era of voter disenfranchisement.

Voter ID aside, the rest of that is why we just need to scrap the electoral college entirely and go to a popular vote for president. Makes it much harder to play games with things like those 2 states are trying to do.

But I thought they were justified in that you once found a story about a woman who voted twice. Are you now admitting that these are disgracefully undemocratic efforts by the Republican party with no Democratic analogue?

As you'll never answer that question, I think I'd be okay with eliminating the electoral college, the upshot would be a concentration of campaigning in huge population centers. Retrograde rural outposts like Wyoming would lose whatever sway they currently hold. The negative upshot could be that marginalized smaller states would feel less invested and elect even more radical bombthowers out of a sense of frustration.

Nope you would be wrong, I still don't think voter ID is undemocratic or a bad idea. I voted for the amendment for it here in MN that sadly failed.

And even with the electoral college candidates spend most of their time in the states where the people are because that is where the electoral college votes are as well.

Hey Brett what do you have to say about Ryan's post?

As an added bonus Gerrymandering has been used to exacerbate racial segregation in the South by creating districts where white folk couldn't vote for a black candidate even if they wanted to.

Voter ID laws are a good idea to solve what problem brett?

How can laws specifically designed to disenfranchise old, poor and minority voters be considered "democratic"?

Today Ezra Klein wrote a post explaining why the concept of right-to-work is such bullshit:

Also, here is a paper that concludes the primary macro effect of right-to-work laws is to distribute income upward.

At this point I think it's safe to say that "union stuff is icky" sums up Brett's feelings pretty well.

I know, that was a gratuitous troll on my part. :)

Didn't we once send him into paroxysms of... whatever it is brett does, when on qt3 we spent like five pages of a thread asking him to reply to someone's post?

oh yeah! It's hard keeping the conservative trolls straight. Man, that was good times...

Michigan Governor claims union-busting is good for unions. Cast of MSNBC Morning Joe zoo crew interrupts him with laughter.

What is your value proposition!!!!!

What's really shocking is that Americans for Prosperity tent that union backers tore down!

Oh, wait, no. It looks like they may have torn it down themselves, but Fox is blaming union fans anyway.

Also, maybe a longer, somewhat less edited video of the Crowder incident might be a little more useful, Fox News?

When the alternative is exactly the same services for free, they have none. Guess unions are going to have to start selling merchandise or something.

Useful to whom?

Lizard_King with $1 words is just as much fun as Lizard_King with $10 words.

The poor innocent souls who also just watched that Global Warming video Charles posted about. Their minds have been blown this month.

More wtf out of Michigan today.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/12...-churches-moves-through-michigan-legislature/

Lame duck sessions are pretty lame, since it's a time for a rejected majority to go bat shit crazy and do all the unpopular things they think they'd have lost votes over.

What a sniveling dickweasel.

The Libertarian Shithead literally said this, that it won't harm unions in the least, won't take power, won't limit their power, just stop Unions from bullying innocent workers

Right to work is "freedom to freeload." This guy nails it.

Apparently we also outlawed sharia law here in michigan, in addition to passing a new version of the emergency manager law that voters just repealed in november.

I view the former as tin foil hat idiocy and the latter as effectively treason.

MOAR BULLSHIT INCOMING

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/lame_duck_legislature_action_a.html

I wish I could vote with my feet and GTFO of this state but I'm stuck here due to my house being worth less than I owe on it, and less than half of what I bought it for.

Nice abortion rider, bro.

Jesus christ. "We Republicans really need to re-make our image...Oh, I know, let's ram every motherfuckin' controversial bill we have left in our pockets through without reading before the end of the year."

I just love it because the ACA was quickly rammed through by taking a fucking YEAR to discuss, but the same people have nary a peep about hammering out everything you can in two weeks before you lose power.

Jesus, they even changed the rules for recalling to make it more difficult to get them out of there. This right here is why I couldn't bring myself to vote for any Republicans in the election, no matter how progressive their views were.

That's the thing...they'll STILL control both houses I believe.

Never trust a republican, ever...or was it never trust a commie. I'm so confused these days.

Either way, fuck these guys.

The party that doesn't believe in evolution is slowly changing the rules to give themselves permanent power...

I believe they retain control, but they got mauled a bit in the senate and lost the ability to just ram controversial shit through without so much as a whimper.

Anywho: the reason to oppose Right to Work: If it's so good for workers, why do the bills keep exempting Police and Fire Unions?