Republicans hold off Dems in recalls, win enough seats to keep majority in Senate
After tens of millions of dollars spent by outside interest groups, dozens of attack ads and exhaustive get-out-the-vote efforts, Democrats on Tuesday fell short of their goal of taking control of the state Senate and stopping the agenda of Gov. Scott Walker.
Republicans won four of six recall races, meaning the party still holds a narrow 17-16 majority in the Senate — at least until next week, when Sens. Robert Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie, and Jim Holperin, D-Conover face their own recall elections. A third Democrat, Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, easily survived a recall attempt last month.
Okay, so they got two (R)s out rather than the six they had hoped for. With two of their own on the line, they needed more than the two they got to swing the makeup of the state Senate. How does the Wisconsin left handle this defeat, you might ask. Not well, would be the answer. Try this on for size:
"The revolution has not occurred," said UW-Milwaukee political science professor Mordecai Lee, a former Democratic lawmaker. "The proletariat did not take over the streets."
Or, you know, maybe they did. With millions coming in from all over the country trying to repeal the last election, the folks that got elected - stayed elected. Some might consider that the "proles" *did* take the street - because they wanted the candidates they chose in 2010 to actually stay in office, not be removed because of forces outside the state.
Or are the "proles" only useful when they vote for Democrats?
That is all.
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Also, what kind of sick, twisted, Marxist asshole do you have to be to refer to the people as "the proletariat?"
Apparently the proletariat likes the streets just the way they are.
But if they don't blindly trust the Ruling Class, are they still proles?
Yeah, I wonder what will happen if Ohio Senate Bill 5 (No more Union Free Ice Cream come Contract Time, basically) doesn't get Repealed up here. Will this "Poli-Sci" Double-Dipping from the Taxpayers Wallet Marxist Free Loader start whining about how Buckeye Proletariates didn't show up? Remember, one has to Win the Revolution FIRST!
Got Bayonets?
Proles are Dems. All Reps (and Tea Partiers, and libertarians, it seems) are apparently the rich ruling class. Which begs the question: Where the ^%@$! is my giant bag of money?
tweaker
It's a good thing for Professor Lee that the revolution did not occur because one of the first things successful revolutionaries do is put people like Professor Lee up against a wall and shoot them. That's because once the revolutionaries become "the man" they don't want any rabble rousing political science professors around to rouse the rabble.
The proletariat he likes did take to the streets.
All they did was make it smelly and dirty.
When you're a lazy, ignorant and ineffective union thug whose only recourse is to thuggery and death threats and your targets are better armed, much more intelligent and knowledgeable, well, you're not going to really accomplish anything except to make Teh Peepul mad at you.
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