Tuscaloosa is the home of the University of Alabama, the Crimson Tide. Over forty percent of the population of the city is african-american. The county sends seven representatives to the state house. Until a few hours ago, four were Republicans. The house has 95 members, 66 were Republican. Now without looking at individuals, one immediately comes to some conclusions, that, the Republicans can do whatever they want legislatively in the chamber (and they do) (the other chamber and the governorship is also controlled by the same party); the state is slightly more than a quarter black, several of the house members must be african-americans, meaning that there are few white Democrats.
The Republican wave of November 2010 (their most successful since 1928, pre-Roosevelt) was successful in the south too. Now, one Republican has had too much, Daniel Boman. Mr. Boman has changed parties. This does nothing to change power in Alabama, but is a coming tide going to roll upon the beaches and sweep away the ruthless recklessness of Republican revels?
It is apparent that an half year after the last general elections there is much voter remorse. Walker would be recalled and voted out of office to-day. The other new governors of Republican overreach (Kasich, LePage, Scott...) would never win election to-day. Fortunate are they that such is not the case.
The Republicans and their corporate masters ginned up the electorate extremely effectively. Now, after getting their desires the bankers, oil men and other moneyed interests are trying to implement their programme. People are finally realising how vicious it is, and how they were duped. The examples can go on for pages for national and state items.
Part of the lies were the calls for jobs. Rob Portman won an Ohio seat in the US Senate by disingenuously repeating nonsense about the 'Portman Plan for Jobs'. What has he delivered? Metaphorical bullshit cannot be transported in a wheelbarrow for the fields. It is nothing but empty lies.
Paul Ryan (Wisc. R) has this grand worship of Ayn Rand, and wishes to keep subsidies to the oil industry, cut taxes for other millionaires and abolish Medicare, and this he insists magically balances the budget. People can be fooled for only so long, but they can be further distracted. It is quite discernible, the repukes want an all powerful oligarchy to replace representative democracy. At first they will need the electorate to allow them. They cannot do it yet, so they need to continually deceive the voters on the national level, and state by state. They did so in 2010. With the November victories they rushed to implement, and it has become apparent to many whom were duped how onerous their plans are. The outcome for 2012 will not be that.
The bill that Rep. Boman could not accept was one that makes it easier to fire teachers. When Republicans (and many others) wish to do something evil, they use euphemistic [lying] language. Here they call the bill, 'Students First Act'. This is not the most extreme bill against teachers made by a Republican legislature this year, but it is of the same nature. These teabagging repukes, whether they be in Alabama, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine or elsewhere, are all the same. The elimination of the rights of workers is part of their agenda — 'All power to the ruling class'.
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