Eclectablog reports on a new Republican strategy: How to solve non-existent problems.
“If you think the billionaires aren’t rich enough, women have too much control of their bodies and workers get paid too much, this GOP is for you.
“The 112th Congress prepares to go down as the least productive in modern history, we in Michigan can remind you that the only thing worse than a Republican legislature that won’t pass laws is one that will.
In an historically awful “inflamed duck” session, Governor Rick Snyder and the Republicans in our state houses have made their biases against workers, women and democracy perfectly clear.
They tackled the problems of workers being paid too much and too little poverty by passing union-busting legislation that guarantees workers won’t be able negotiate fairly with management. They replaced an undemocratic Emergency Manager Law rejected by the voters with nearly the exact same law. Then they took on the problem of women not having enough abortions by making it much more difficult to prescribe emergency contraceptives.”
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To borrow Scott Wooledge’s word, I weep for Michigan, too.