Tag Archives: endgame

Senate Bill 652, which will likely be signed into law Friday, ensures that handpicked Republican judges will hear cases brought against the State by the citizens of Michigan

By Mark | November 7, 2013

Remember how, last winter, Michigan Republicans, flush with corporate money and well armed with legislation drafted in far right think tanks, set out to kill unions, and systematically roll back women’s rights, gay rights, and public education? Well, it would appear that they weren’t quite done… Unsatisfied with having just control over the House, Senate […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged checks and balances, coup d’état, Court of Appeals, Court of Claims, Gretchen Whitmer, Ingham County, Ingham County Circuit Court, legislative end run, Michigan Republican Party, Michigan Republicans, Michigan Supreme Court, NERD Func, Open Meetings Act, partisan politics, Rick Jones, Rick Snyder, Senate Bill 652, threats to Democracy | 13 Comments

Deficit Supper Committee fails due to Republican refusal to roll back Bush tax beaks

By Mark | November 21, 2011

I went to the gym after work this evening and watched coverage of today’s admission of failure by the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. I found myself getting incredibly pissed off, to the point of inadvertently blurting out “asshole” a couple of times, and flipping up my middle finger at the television set in […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bush tax cuts, class warfare, deficit, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, entitlements, Eric Cantor, grand bargain, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, John Boehner, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Obama, Paul Ryan, Russ Feingold, social security, tax the rich, taxation, the plight of the overtaxed rich, theology of tax cuts, treason | 8 Comments

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