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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:47 PM
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Pro-Walker bus tour ends in rally in Madison
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/117481938.html


these people look pretty comfy inside their warm arena and warm buses, no?

Madison — A bus tour around the state of Gov. Scott Walker supporters ended Sunday in Madison with several hundred coming to the Alliant Energy Center holding signs that said "Collective Bargaining is Not a Right" and "Remember November? Wisconsin Majority Stands with Gov. Scott Walker."

Joe the Plumber, who rose to national fame during the 2008 presidential election, told the group that many workers in the private sector don't have lifetime job guarantees.

"The state of Wisconsin is in dire straits along with a lot of other states," said Joe, who's full name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. He added that union members had "had a guarantee most of their life."

Nancy Mistele, a former Madison school board member, said Walker has been "demonized" for trying to balance the state's budget and she took aim at the 14 Democratic senators who fled to Illinois to avoid a vote in the Senate.

"They instead attempt to nullify our November election by running away," Mistele said of the 14 Democrats.


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:grr:

The real people are outside.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:50 PM
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1. Joe the Plumber - what a parasite
A couple of hundred people, huh? If they had to come out every damned day and stand in the cold, I wonder how few there would be after a couple of days. Not many.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:51 PM
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2. Are those Peeps blind?? How pathetic they sound/look
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:52 PM
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3. "Several hundred" supporters --
vs. the tens of thousands who've been demonstrating all over WI because they think Wanker is a total douche? Notice they had professionally-printed signs, probably so the Kochs wouldn't be embarrassed by the misspelled ones that those knuckleheads would have made themselves.
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:32 PM
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13. yes...several hundred supporters who apparently think Joe
the Plumber is the poster child for working hard. Even better, these people don't even see the hypocrisy of their whining for three weeks about "overpaid, underworking" teachers and public servants - and then they haul out Joe as an example of earning his keep? I'm laughing my ass off at how hilarious this is. . .
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:34 PM
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14. My gosh - I thought these people were broke!
I mean. . .completely tapped out and couldn't afford to pay one thin dime in taxes. And here we have every stop on their wild bus tour packed into rented facilities or dinner rallies while the real worker rallies are held outside in the elements.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:52 PM
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4. Sam Wurzelschnitzel is their mascot?
Sam the Tax Cheat?

How pathetic--reduced to tossing out E-list celebrities.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:53 PM
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5. You know an event has credibility problems when Joe the Wingnut Welfare Queen is featured.
nt
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:55 PM
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6. These people the real scuz of America! n/t
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 07:59 PM
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7. Pathetic.
Idiots! :silly:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:18 PM
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8. boy are they pathetic
don`t have the courage to go to the capital grounds on a cold wisconsin day. i did`t know people of wisconsin were afraid of a little cold weather...oh shit i forgot! there are palm trees in madison!
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Berserker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:18 PM
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9. Now that there is
some good humor.
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:20 PM
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10. I stand with Walker.....while wearing an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt.
:evilgrin:
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:21 PM
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11. Gee, I remember how some RWers were claiming that all the signs held by
lefties at some protests a few years back were "all identical" and "probably printed in China" ...

These signs seem identical, and professionally printed ... but no problems there, eh RW "liberal media"???
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:30 PM
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12. Joe "the Plumber?" ROTFLMAO!
So. . this is an example of what the Teabaggers think is NOT "overpaid and underworked?"
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Rectangle Donating Member (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:40 PM
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15. Do the Koch Brothers and the other corporate overlords pay these
Edited on Sun Mar-06-11 08:44 PM by Rectangle
minions ANYTHING, for enthusiastic ly cheerleading the destruction of the middle-
class which they belong to also?
I mean, these people do everything for the Corporate Billionaires and their
puppets the GOP/TeaParty, and these rich entities do essentially ,(to my knowledge),
NOTHING for these poor delusional people.
It should be pointed out to them,(perhaps to no avail), that this is
a One-Way-Street affair for them.
They do all the giving, and the Ultra-Rich do all the taking!!


This is zombie-ish, cult-like, mind control behavior!! Straight up!!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:45 PM
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16. I'm sure they are paid like the busloads that were
brought in to cheer Bush at his closed Town Hall meetings.
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DaisyDeedles Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 08:47 PM
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17. Americans For (the) Prosperity (of the Koch brothers)
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 11:17 AM
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18. Nullify the November election by running away?
Mistele is sorely mistaken about that notion. She has the thought that if the majority of State Senators and Assembly Persons were of one party that the minority should vote with them in lock step. If that were the case then what is the point of the Democrats even showing up? What a witch.

And she doesn't realize that the vast majority of Wisconsinites are now in opposition to Walker, cronies and the agenda. An agenda that was not laid out for the voters to see so they could make an informed decision when voting.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 11:24 AM
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19. Collective Bargaining is Not a Right?
Have they read the constitution?

What the hell do they think Jefferson, Madison, Adams and others were doing before they signed the Declaration of Independence?


Is this not an act of collective bargaining found in the Declaration of Independence?
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Would not the act of declaring independence also be a form of a strike?


Are they saying that what was done to declare independence from Britain is wrong and not a right for us to have used?
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