That that is is, that that is not is not

The law is the law despite the law. Pretty commonplace for Wisconsin these days. After illegally ramming through union rights-stripping legislation, now state republicans have illegally published the bill, henceforth, it is now the law. Or is it?

A judge last week issued a temporary restraining order blocking any further implementation of the law while the court considers several lawsuits. The order specifically blocked Secretary of State Doug La Follette from publishing the law. So he didn’t.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald got Wisconsin’s Legislative Reference Bureau to publish it instead:

“It’s my opinion it’s published, it’s on the legislative website, it’s law,” Fitzgerald said. “It was clear to me after our discussions this morning, if it in fact it is posted and it says published and there’s a specific date on it, it would be very hard to argue this was not law.”

Wisconsin is still part of the United States, isn’t it?

Redistribution of wealth

Can we talk facts for a minute?

New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie’s budget calls for cutting mental health services, withholding property tax rebates for seniors, and $540 million in cuts to Medicaid. While giving $200 million in tax cuts in business tax cuts this year, on top of the breaks he gave them last year.

Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder’s budget calls for slashing $1.2 billion in funding for schools, universities, local governments and other areas, and raising personal taxes on Michigan’s lowest income residents by 30%. While cutting business taxes by 86%.

Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott’s budget calls for laying off 6,700 state employees, cutting education funding by $4.8 billion, and cutting Medicaid by almost $4 billion. While slashing corporate income and property taxes.

You know what. This post would be too long if I recorded all the incredible, head-scratching schemes that 12 Republican Governors are currently working on. Read the whole sordid story here. The other victims are Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Kansas, and Arizona.

Let’s be absolutely clear about this – it’s not about cutting deficits. It’s not about jobs. It’s about redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich.

Forget about Libya

We have a new enemy of the state to be worried about, a new monster hiding in the dark for politicians to play the fear-card over. A six year-old first-grader in Edgewater, Florida, with an allergy to peanuts so bad her school has had to resort to drastic measures to accommodate her. They have little choice, thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

To protect the girl, students in her class at Edgewater Elementary School are required to wash their hands before entering the classroom in the morning and after lunch, and rinse out their mouths. A peanut-sniffing dog was even brought in over spring break. Parents of other students are outraged. They’ve been protesting, calling on peanut-girl’s parents to home-school her.

One of those irate heroes put it this way:”If I had a daughter who had a problem, I would not ask everyone else to change their lives to fit my life.”

And of course the greedy union-thug teachers are bending to the will of the girl’s parents, doctors, the school board, and federal laws.

The bastards…