Hour Two Guest: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) on finding common ground between liberals and libertarians, the corporate takeover of the Tea Party, etc.In Wisconsin, protesters are still occupying the state Capitol, and the Koch brothers are still occupying the governor’s office. The Koch brothers are the money behind the front group Americans for Prosperity, who would be more correctly named Americans for the Koch Brothers’ Prosperity. Americans for Prosperity bussed in counter-protesters to the demonstrations in Wisconsin. That has to be a long bus ride for those people—all the way to planet earth. The Koch brothers actually assembled a group of protesters to agitate for the interests of billionaires over working people like themselves. I don’t know what Koch Industries sells, but if they can sell that, they can sell anything.
Union leaders have already conceded to the Governor Scott Walker’s fiscal demands. They’re just trying to stop him from stripping their collective bargaining rights. Scott Walker doesn’t want to win the debate, he wants to end the debate. This isn’t about money, it’s about power. Well, actually it’s about the power of money.
Developing: Dems in Indiana have reportedly fled the state to stop GOP union-busting
The GOP House passed a budget bill on Friday at 4:30 a.m. Well that makes sense. 4:30 in the morning is the time you generally do things this stupid… or shameful. I’ve done some pretty twisted things at 4:30 in the morning, but I’ve never been so completely out of it that that I hurt millions of women and poor people. If the House Republicans had a shred of dignity left, they would have spent all day Saturday calling up everybody they hurt at 4:30 in the morning and apologizing. The New York Times reported “Republicans seemed to grow more excited as the final vote neared shortly after 4:30 a.m.” Growing excitement at 4:30 a.m… I think that’s usually followed by a severe nosebleed. But then to my knowledge, no coke or speed freak has ever done anything nearly this damaging in the wee hours of the morning. And I’ve watched a lot of A&E’s Intervention. Republicans were in some kind of feeding frenzy at 4:30 in the morning. Actually, the opposite of a feeding frenzy—a frenzy of pulling food out of other people’s mouths. Hello, the budget has to also go through the Senate and be signed by the President. The Republicans in the House need to realize that they can’t just dictate what’s going to happen. Who do they think they are… the Governor of Wisconsin?
And it was just a matter of time of time before the “Jasmine Revolution” reached Libya. Between yesterday’s 20-second ‘van down by the river’ speech (below) and today’s rambling diatribe, Muammar Gadhafi has already made Hosni Mubarak seem sane, rational, peace-loving and well-adjusted.
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