Wisconsin forges ahead to become a Shangri-la for the overprivileged

Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen didn't waste any time seeking to reenlist the safely right-wing Supreme Court as coconspirators in the Walker regime's war on the non-overpriviliged.

by Ken

I suppose it's just a coincidence that the day after the revolutionary far-right regime in Wisconsin secured -- perhaps fairly, perhaps not -- the reelection as a Supreme Court justice of the sociopathic hooligan who called the chief justice a bitch and swore to destroy her, a life form who should be out in the fields pulling a plow, not banding together with his three lockstep right-wing goons on the court to make their Stalinist enclave a sweller haven, a veritable Shangri-la, for the economically overprivileged (can you spell K-o-c-h?), the regime's attorney general announced that he will try to get the high court to reverse the judge who said that no, the radical rightist are not free to break the law quite that flagrantly when it comes to legislating.

From WTAQ.com:

AG wants collective bargainning enforcement order tossed

Posted Friday April 8, 2011

MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he wants the state Supreme Court to take jurisdiction of the case.

The AG is asking the court to throw out a judge’s order banning enforcement of the law limiting collective bargaining by public workers. Van Hollen says he’s not talking about an appeal.

The controversial law has gotten national attention, brought thousands of protesters to the Capitol building and been the subject of several hearings in state and federal courtrooms. The original plan was to help the state deal with its budget shortfall.

The basic theme of the regime is now set: We're in charge here, bitches, and all you nonfascists are our bitches, bitches! And that includes you Democratic bitches on the Supreme Court, bitches! F&#k you all! Bitches!"

I keep thinking of the pathetic oaf who puked up a comment when I reported on Justice Prosser's proud history of psychotic breaks (about which the dickwad Prosser commented, "I probably overreacted, but I think it was entirely warranted," going on to blame the "bitch" for making him so-o-o-o mad), as if he had "gotcha"-ed me but good. Free speech, he shrilled! How dare I suggest that the dickwad Prosser isn't free to say whatever he darned pleases. How dare we libruls question anyone's free speech?

Is it really possible for a human being to be that stupid? You betcha. The Far Right has devoted vast quantities of money and labor over the last several decades into transforming the U.S. into a nation of imbeciles whose brains have been rendered incapable of human function, the functional equivalent of mashed potatoes.

At the risk of belaboring the grotesquely obvious, a risk I'll take since there are apparently people who have trained themselves to be too stupid to grasp the distinction, which should be clear to anyone with a measurable IQ: Of course the justice had a legal "right" to rage like a fugitive mental patient. But the whole point of free speech is that everyone who speaks is answerable for what he or she says.

The concept of "responsibility," or of responsible behavior, has of course been expunged from the modern far-right sensibility. The fact that they have allowed their brains to rot into toxic sludge doesn't stop them from spewing their cretinous mental vomit, as viciously and menacingly as their primitive neural networks allow.

These are, by the way, the same people who came to Washington determined to shut down the government as part of their all-out war on sense and decency. And unlike the case of the government shutdowns in the Clinton administration, the savages are playing to an audience heavily weighted with unsocialized cretins.


APROPOS OF THE WISCONSIN SUPREME
COURT ELECTION MESS . . .

"Justice" Dickwad Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg

Madison's progressive Cap Times has a great editorial, "Scandal in Fitzwalkerstan: Federal probe, full recount required in high court race." Considering the makeup of the court that will presumably have final jurisdiction over an effort to figure out what the heck happened in that election, I don't see much point in dwelling on it. I'm afraid that by the time enough Wisconsinites -- that is, outside Milwaukee and Madison -- wake up to the mayhem the Walkerites have inflicted on them, it will be too late to undo the damage.

Kind of like in the country at large.

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Scott Walker Was Dead Wrong About Madison Being At Odds With The Rest Of Wisconsin

Stunned by the clear rebuke he suffered Tuesday from Wisconsin voters, Scott Walker continued his divisive tactics by trying to blame his defeat on the dirty hippies and commies in Madison. Very much in contrast to state Senator Chris Larson (above), who represents a district in Milwaukee County, Walker was still trying the old divide 'em up strategy on Wednesday, yelling about "two very different worlds in this state."

"You've got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of Wisconsin."

If you want to be generous about the deranged governor, you could say he hadn't seen the election results. No one from Madison voted in the landslide election to reject his handpicked successor as Milwaukee County Executive. His right-wing Republican ally, campaigning as a Walker doppleganger, was defeated by a barely qualified self-sunder with drawsful of unpaid traffic tickets in a rout-- 60-40!

As for the Supreme Court battle, all those "red counties" far from Madison... they sure seem to have liked JoAnn Kloppenburg and disliked Walker's much better known shill candidate, David Prosser.

Kloppenburg pulled off the biggest flip in Milwaukee Co., which went 54-46 to Prosser in the primary-- about the same as his Statewide figures-- to 57-43 in favor of Kloppenburg. She couldn't have won the election without turning that margin in particular. But on account of a disappointing turnout in Milwaukee and the slender overall margin of Kloppenburg's victory, she clearly couldn't have won on that accomplishment alone, and that is where the predominantly Republican territories throughout the State came to her rescue.

Since the February primary, Kloppenburg gained in 22 of the State's 24 largest counties, only dropping a couple points in Marathon Co., which went from 51-49 Prosser to 54-46, and Sheboygan Co., where Prosser profited by one, closing out Tuesday with a 63-37 romp.

More impressively, Kloppenburg added eight, five, and nine points respectively amongst the State's three most notorious Republican county-enclave-bunkers: Waukesha (3), Washington (7), and Ozaukee (14). In addition the AAG picked up six points in Racine Co. (5), ten in Jefferson Co. (18), 11 in Fond Du Lac Co. (16), and a startling 14 points in Winnebago Co. (8), where Kloppenburg choppenburg'd Prosser's margin from 66-34 in February to 52-48.

Other of the more populous Justice Prosser-won counties where JoAnne Kloppenburg produced significant headway were: Dodge (19), 11 points; Outagamie (6), 11 points.; Kenosha (12), nine points; Walworth (17), four points; and Wood (22), three points.

That is, all over the State, not just in Madison, and especially in counties otherwise heavily dominated by Republican voters.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dave Prosser Was Never Prosecuted For His Role In Serial Child Rape Cases

April 5 is the first day voters will be able to go to the polls and give a clear verdict on Scott Walker's runaway extremism. No, his recall won't be on the ballot until next January. But one of his cronies, extreme right Supreme Court Judge, David Prosser, is seeking reelection. He's been an avid, loud and unapologetic Walker booster-- who vows to never recuse himself from the cases beginning to pile up against Walker in Wisconsin's courts. He compared criticism of Walker and his agenda by working families "a drive-by shooting," showing his vicious and insulting tirade against Chief Justice Shirley Abrahmson (when he called her a "total bitch" and threatened to destroy her) wasn't just a one-of-a-kind slip up. It's who he is.

When he was Speaker of the state Assembly he was every bit as extreme and dedicated anti-family values as Walker was at the time-- and continues to be as governor. Walker admits he will act on the bench to "complement" Walker's policies and that he "closely mirrors" Walker's pro-Big Business, anti-worker ideology. He brags about this, daring Wisconsin voters to defeat him.

“Prosser’s rulings as a Justice clearly show his commitment to Scott Walker’s brand of scorched-earth politics against working families,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO.  

As you can see from the video above, Prosser's history of malfeasance in not only consistent, it goes way back. When he was District Attorney for Outagamie County he conspired with high Church officials to cover up for John Feeney, a predator priest who was raping young boys for 30 years, and had him sent to another parish... where he continued raping young boys. Prosser was never charged or prosecuted and, in fact, the Republican Party made sure he kept rising through their hierarchy until he wound up on the state Supreme Court itself. Prosser still defends his actions-- “I’m not uncomfortable with the decision made back then, even in 20/20 hindsight"-- and he told the victims and their mother that he didn't want to prosecute the case because the priest's brother was a "celebrity" because he appeared on the Lawrence Welk TV show.

Prosser doesn't belong anywhere near the bench, unless it's in front of it to face up to his own criminal behavior.