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Police say nearly 70,000 people have converged on the Wisconsin Capitol to join in protests over a Republican bill that would strip public workers of most of their collective bargaining rights.
According to the Madison Police Department, 60,000 people gathered outside the building with another 8,000 inside on Saturday — easily the largest crowd yet as the protest stretched through its fifth day. The demonstration was far more intense on Saturday, though, as hundreds of tea party supporters staged a counter rally outside the Capitol.
Police spokesman Joel DeSpain says there have been no arrests. He refused to say how large the tea party contingent was, but union supporters clearly outnumbered them.
- wonder what's gonna happen when they lose that battle? burning couches?********
- No, but they will have engineered Scott Walker's loss in the next election thats for sure********
- wonder what's gonna happen when they lose that battle? burning couches?
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Representative Gordon Hintz on the "Budget repair bill"
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Koch Industries Slashed WI Jobs, Helped Elect Scott Walker, Now Orchestrating Pro-Walker Protest
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02…"A number of the big business interests standing with Walker are beneficiaries of his administration’s tax giveaways. But the greatest ally to Walker is the dirty energy company Koch Industries."
- hey dipshits, you cannot squeeze water from a rock, states, like WI are fucking broke, they have to make********
- cutbacks somewhere. You free hand morons********
- I live in WI. The Gov extended 140 million in new tax cuts to corps.DrBombay
- And created the deficit, we actually had a surplus. So STFU JazXDrBombay
- hey dipshits, you cannot squeeze water from a rock, states, like WI are fucking broke, they have to make
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Missouri Republicans introduce bill to repeal child labor laws
http://www.politicususa.com/en/r…
"Some of the provisions in S.B. 222 are: eliminating the restriction on the number of hours or when a child is allowed to work, eliminates work permits, removes the authority of the state Labor Division to inspect records on child employees, allows children to work in any industry, and eliminates the age requirement for child labor."
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Muslim Cleric Plans White House Protest in Attempt to Spread Sharia Law in America
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/0…- Fear-mongering BS********
- Ha, spread sharia law... Yeah we are stoning rape victims.DrBombay
- Meanwhile you Republicans are actually dismantling the country. Neat trick.TheBlueOne
- nothing to do with parties, just stating the obvious here********
- Fear-mongering BS
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- They are********
- according to whom, you? fucking right********
- more like history perhapsspifflink
- They are.TheBlueOne
- Agreed. They are.luckyorphan
- conquer and divide baby!********
- They are
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House GOP pushes through historic spending cuts
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…Flexing their new large majority in the House, Republicans early Saturday morning pushed through a bill that cuts more than $61 billion from last year’s spending levels, setting up a showdown with Senate Democrats, who have vowed to block it, and President Obama, who has said he’ll veto it.
The bill, which funds the government for the rest of fiscal 2011, marks the deepest dollar-amount discretionary spending cuts in history, and Republicans said it makes good on their campaign promise to return spending to pre-stimulus levels.
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O'bummer can veto it all he wants, it makes him look stupid as fuck. The economy is in the shitter, and saving money is the way to go, not spending it insanely. Have fun next 2012 in this shit state of affairs there Mr. President.
- hey hey hey...********
- the programs they want to cut will be the reason why they're going to lose again in 2012.zarkonite
- doubt it********
- sure, a bunch of neophyte politicians cutting funds to help the elderly and the sick will go somewhere. You're trying to make the middle east look good right?zarkonite
- ... make the middle east look good right?zarkonite
- hey hey hey...
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chilamont, you represent everything that is absolutely pathetic with modern day political discussion. Slogans, fear mongering, right wing pandering. You're a fucking lemming sprung right from the loins of Fox News...
- what is concerning is that huge number of americans are just like him.Boz
- When the shooting starts, and it will, he'll be the first under the couch/TheBlueOne
- no, I'd be the first to pull out my gun and exterminate your kind fucktard********
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"Anyone who believes that we need some counterweight to the political power of big money should be on the demonstrators’ side."
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I guess I don't get what's wrong with calling Israel's settlements illegal? They ARE illegal under UN law, its not really a question of interpretation or opinion.
The idea that we can't question anything Israel's government does is idiotic thinking. I'm glad to see the U.S. slowly moving away from that policy.
Also if you are really concerned about Muslim extremism the best way to counter it would be to move towards giving Palestinians their own state. Israel is facing a demographic reality that will make Palestinians a majority sooner or later.
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"Keep your lazy spoiled Marxist federal government train programs away from my God-fearing patriotic federal government highways which I drove on with my god given pick up truck using gas I buy at government subsidized artificially cheap prices!". Tea Party Logic™
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Video: Qaradawi speaks in Cairo
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2…
Looking at the video of Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf Al- Qaradawi’s speech on Friday in Cairo courtesy MEMRI, I’m struck but hardly surprised by two things. One, the incredible size of the crowd. Even Obama, at the height of his drawing power, had to have the Decemberists as his opening act to get that kind of crowd assembled and energized.Secondly, what Qaradawi says is shrewd and chilling. He has been exiled for his radicalism for about 30 years now, and when he returns it’s as if he has a lot of radical things to say, all pent up and ready to burst.
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Gaddafi on the run: Dictator may already have fled and be on his way to Venezuela after Libyan air force attacks civilians
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
I bet he's going to meet them too~!- funny how shit changes so fast, hahahhaha********
- I mean aren't they all "boys" and shit?********
- funny how shit changes so fast, hahahhaha
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And I thought American conservatives were pro democracy. Judging by endless talk about the Tea Partes, Founding Fathers and the Constitution
So why are so many of them so weak when it comes to advocating Middle East democracy. Is it because there are scary brown-skinned people in that part of the world?
- it's dem mooslams ya hear!BusterBoy
- nope, it's because of their relationship with Israel. Whole knowing some nasty shit will come about with this********
- democracy is simply mob rule. and mob rule is the mother of all tyrants.********
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Report: Congressman urged to get psychiatric help
Staffers became increasingly worried at Rep. Wu's erratic behaviour
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4167…
