Weekend week, Wisconsin circus

Wow I could get used to these two day work weeks.  Just imagine how many chores I could get done around the house with 5 day weekends?

Man what is going on in Wisconsin is pretty incredible.  Their new tea party governor is cutting his own throat if you ask me.  He has been unwilling to budge one inch on his union crushing proposals and the state workers affected as well as a huge portion of the middle class labor in America are f’ing pissed off about it.

It almost reads like fiction.  Democratic senators leave the state to delay the vote?  Republicans sneak a vote through and then immediately march out of the building while democrats scream at them, calling them cowards?  I mean wtf, this is just nuts.

The Wisonson governor’s stance is controversial enough that even our newly elected tea party governor has stepped away from it, refusing to endorse the madness that is going on in the midwest.

Just like most things that involve politicians, things are not as they seem.  This has been touted as the ONLY way to balance the Wisconsin state budget.  The governors office released a ton of numbers that would paint state workers as some ridiculously overpaid and lavishly benefited group of people.  When you look at real numbers, you see just how stupid these claims are.

The true culprit behind this is the larger tea party agenda.  If they are able to castrate unions, which are one of the largest financial backers of the democratic party, they castrate the democrats in campaign spending.  You need to look no further than the election results in Florida to see that spending tons of cash DOES sway weak minds.  If you further tip the scales it only makes that situation exponentially worse.

Hopefully you saw and heard the fake phone call that was made to the Wisconsin governor.  If that doesn’t pull back the curtain for you I don’t know what will.   The guy is just a puppet pushing through the agenda of the ultra-rich. The funny thing is that the tea party PR geniuses are very good at making the average Joe Shmo middle class think they are actually working for them.  Read this too.

The political division in the country is reaching Civil War type levels.  It is pretty disgusting.

Ali will be away for a good portion of the weekend for a half marathon she is running Sunday.  I have a number of things planned like normal house chores, visiting mom to set up her fax machine/pick up her tax documents, running 7, swimming and maybe finally watching Predators which has been sitting in it’s Netflix envelope for weeks.

I have a bit of the post trip blah’s. It’s odd that I would be missing the arctic-like weather.  It’s probably just missing the fun we had while being immersed in it.  Since we have been back I have thought several times how cool it would have been if my dad and Teresa would have bought the house next to us that was on the market forever. The fun would have been endless.