"Welfare Queens" + Overreach = Tipping Point?

The Noise Machine has been busy setting things up, with the "public employees are welfare queens" campaign.

The Right has the advantage of thirty years of de-industrialization and gutting of employee rights in the private sector, leaving public employees as the last large group of the unionized.

Still, those unions have been so weakened that in Wisconsin they had conceded to Walker's fiscal demands, while trying to just retain basic bargaining rights.

Today the Capitol Building in Madison is closing for maintenance, after yesterday's biggest rally to date.

Wisconsin's labor traditions are too ingrained, and an impressively sustained organizing effort has kept demonstrations going (and growing), in the last two weeks.

And, until the other team staged their improper vote, the public was in the building on official business: to testify on the bill's impacts at the hearings still being held by the Democratic members of the Assembly.

Democrats who have insisted on representing the people who elected them.

As have the fourteen Senators who continue to stay out of state, despite all threats from Walker.

It's as much about privatizing government functions to the profit of the Kochs, et. al., as it is about destroying labor rights and rolling back any chance of middle-class pay in this country. And in the bargain, destroying education for the masses is always a plus for the owners.

As Republicans in test states were suddenly ramming through bills against Welfare Queens, forces on another front were at work in more places. They were busy in multiple states—and coordinating with the DC House of Tea—to wage war against Whores; that is, war on the health of all reproductive-age women.

We're so far beyond what a normal country would put up with, but given where these states' GOPlutocrats are taking their "mandate": for the non-brain dead segment of the public, will this be a tipping point?

And can it start to reverse thirty years of radicalism: Reaganism gone wild and made Bipartisan; no credible news reaching the average audience; no accountability for the worst of crimes, from those of Bush/Cheney/Rove/et.al., to a Wall Street "not in jail."