I just want to throw a tantrum. I want to flop on the floor and pound my fists, scream and holler. I want someone to hear me! It isn't that I haven't ranted before but boy do I ever need a rant right now.
The rethuglians have simply gone around the bend. Here in Wisconsin and in Washington. In Wisconsin doors are slamming on DMVs in the state - only in Democratic neighborhoods mind you - and opening in republican strongholds to shift the weight in the next recall effort. We all know this shabby game based on the truth that when Democrats vote in numbers the election goes to them, when they stay home the election goes to the repubs - unless, of course, the repubs lie and cheat and buy votes and make people wait in line for hours upon hours and rig the voting machines, etc ad nauseam ala Florida in both presidential elections when King Bush Jr. "won".
Earlier in the month we were treated to fake candidates the repubs were running in an effort to draw votes away from the recalls. That didn't work. We The People were too smart for cardboard scarecrows. Now we are being abused in neighborhoods where there are 'just too many uppity, recall-voting Democrats'. So Walker et al waltz in and shut down the DMVs so voters can't get the ID everyone now needs or they can't vote. Then they drive to another neighborhood where there are gobs of conservative voters and open a brand new, shiny DMV right down the block so those poor tea-party folks don't have to be bothered to go too far to vote. And by the way, this disgusting ploy came right on the heels of redistricting which scribbled all over the map and has the potential for disrupting the ease with which citizens are able to vote.
Fair? Hell no! Illegal? I surely wish it were so but we have no laws on the books to prevent this sneaky, under-handed, low, dirty manner of doing what apparently is our Governor's business. Do not forget, though, who pulls Walker's puppet strings. Charles and David Koch and all the sub-Koch's who are currently filling Scottie's coffers with "donations". He wants to make sure he has money to ward off the recall effort when it comes his way. That, of course, means citizen action!
And Washington?! Each day I get out my dot-to-dot coloring book and make damn positive I am connecting the dots with bright colors. Like this: Scott Walker is connected to the Koch Money which is connected to the WalMart Money which is connected to the DeVos Money. All that money is connected to people like Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Michelle Bachman, and all the rest of the tea party elites. This money is connected to oil, gas, guns, power and greed. That connection is deep in many states now and deep in Washington where it is stalling any way through our serious debt crisis.
I use some softer colors to connect another set of dots. Like these: People with disabilities do not often have money, sometimes no family. They are connected to nursing homes, day care centers, group homes which are connected to a combination of state, county and/or federal money. Elderly people are connected to this same money which is connected to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security which is connected right now by thin, stressed threads to the same money Eric Cantor, John Boehner and the tea party retuhglians are connected to - except - this coloring book's pages are more like a stack of papers with the Boehner's and the Cantor's and the Bachman's and the tea party at the top with the money and the disabled, the veterans, the elderly and the ill at the bottom trying to hang on to the pale strand that might break and leave them without money.
All the money then would be in the hands of the wealthy, of course.
What will happen to the men and women my friend works with? She's a nurse and works at a facility which takes profoundly mentally and physically handicapped adults and older children. These people have no family. None. They have come through the system over years and ended up here. One gentleman has a body two feet long, no arms and no legs. His head is twice the size it should be. He is 55 years old. He has no one to care for him. He is in this facility because he has no one to take him in and attend to his difficult, round the clock needs. My friend tells me funds are being cut for these people's care. Nurses and CNA's are being let go. What will happen to the residents if the facility shuts down? Will they be transferred? To where? Will they be - what?!
Is this how we see ourselves as a country? Is this what we wish to model for our children? See, kids, this is how we treat one another. Forget what the Christians tell you about loving one another - that's a bother. Focus on the money - that's what the tea party does.
Concealed guns, fake candidates, closing DMVs so you can win, economical brinksmanship, stalling, lying, cheating. I am so disgusted in the republican party and their new owners, the tea baggers, I could scream.
I believe in the Power of the People - we must respond to this coup!
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