{"id":4585,"date":"2011-04-15T03:17:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T10:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2011-04-15T03:17:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T10:17:41","slug":"kucinich-and-others-blast-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/kucinich-and-others-blast-dictator\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich and Others Blast Dictator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oligarch of Fitzwalkerstan visited the US today, planning to receive praise from Republicans on Issa\u2019s oversight committee on his goose-stepping abilities.  He failed to take into account that there would be Democrats there, including Dennis Kucinich, who exposed him for the the misanthrope he is.  Walker even perjured himself.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"16recall\"In a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing exploring state and municipal debt, Rep. Dennis Kucinich <\/strong><\/span>(D-OH) challenged Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker <\/strong><\/span>(R) to admit his legislative campaign aimed at stripping public employees\u2019 collective bargaining rights did nothing to help solve his state\u2019s budget deficit.<\/font><\/p>\n

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"If the unions agreed to the financial cuts you demand," Kucinich told Walker, "I don’t understand how repealing collective bargaining rights for public workers shows us anything about state debt."<\/font><\/p>\n

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The longtime Ohio congressman accused Walker of politicizing an important state fiscal debate and claimed his legislation impacting unions saved no money whatsoever. Citing a document published by the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau asserting that Walker\u2019s efforts to the repeal the rights of state workers were non-fiscal, Kucinich briefly clashed with committee chairman Darrell Issa <\/strong><\/span>(R-CA), when he asked for unanimous consent to have the document included as part of the official record. <\/font><\/p>\n

Issa said, while "we fully expect to include it in the record," he reserved the right to object to the document until it had been vetted by committee members. That outraged Kucinich.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPWiscFlag\""In the 14 years I’ve been on the committee," Kucinich said, "I’ve never had a chairman reserve the right to object to a document that is central to this hearing. It’s a political issue!"<\/font><\/p>\n

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Kucinich continued his assault on Walker and other Wisconsin Republicans, blaming them for the $137 million budget shortfall that roused this entire debate. Wisconsin allowed their estate tax to expire on Jan. 1, 2008. Kucinich argued that had Wisconsin not let the estate tax expire, the revenue that would have been collected from wealthy estates would have totaled enough to cover the $137 million deficit. Concluding his questioning, Kucinich did thank Gov. Walker in the hearing — if only backhandedly.     <\/font><\/p>\n

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"Gov. Walker has done an inadvertent public service — by exposing the mindset that is privatizing government and bringing the public sphere to the forefront. Is government going to be auctioned off to the highest bidder? To corporations who drive up the cost of government and services?"\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I have said that I would not support Dennis as President, because he said he would endorse that horrid racist, who would trash the safety net, Ron Paul, as his running mate., But I do both support and appreciate him in his present role.  Here, he was magnificent.  Kudos and Thanks!<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow <\/font>covers the roasting Democrats gave Walker and discuses it with Elijah Cummings.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Kucinich was not the only one who put Walker in his place.<\/font><\/p>\n

At one point during the hearing, I heard Walker state that he had received no funds at all from the Koch brothers directly, but did not know how much he had received from organizations they support.  That is perjury.  He has received $37,000 from them.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oligarch of Fitzwalkerstan visited the US today, planning to receive praise from Republicans on Issa\u2019s oversight committee on his goose-stepping abilities.  He failed to take into account that there would be Democrats there, including Dennis Kucinich, who exposed him for the the misanthrope he is.  Walker even perjured himself. In a House Oversight and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}