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" While many people were justifiably overjoyed at the clubbing that the people of Ohio seem to delight in giving Governor John Kasich, elsewhere in the Midwest, assorted Republican governors are up to serious mischief with varying degrees of success. Out in Wisconsin, a once great state now d/b/a a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, as if he didn&amp;#039;t have enough to worry about, goggle-eyed homunculus Scott Walker found his administration hit yesterday with the first indictments stemming from the John Doe investigation into the political misuse of funds intended for the families of the war dead, including, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, money that ended up helping a Walker crony... ...attend a weekend political strategy session in December 2010 with Herman Cain and his chief of staff, Mark Block, to discuss Cain&amp;#039;s now-defunct presidential campaign. &amp;quot;Whatcha in for?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Multiple murder. You?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Embezzling from widows and orphans to help Herman Cain run for president.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Jesus, dude, you really suck. Get away from me.&amp;quot; Walker was out of town when the hammer came down, sucking up sympathy at the American Enterprise Institute, a policy chop-shop where the goggle-eyed homunculus told them, &amp;quot;Collective bargaining in the public sector is not a right, it is an expensive entitlement,&amp;quot; to undoubtedly wild applause. Of course, using your public sector employees to help people get elected, and using money intended for war widows, is what democracy is all about. And, apparently, collective bargaining is not just an &amp;quot;expensive entitlement&amp;quot; in the public sector. Down in Indiana, former David Brooks swoony swoon Mitch Daniels is at the forefront of trying to turn Indiana into a right-to-work state. In pursuit of that end, the Republican leader in the Indiana House is threatening to fine Democrats $1000 a day if they stall the legislature. Last fall, the Democrats walked out for five days, delaying the bill&amp;#039;s passage. (Remember this the next time you hear Mitch McConnell bitching about recess appointments.)  But all of that pales to what&amp;#039;s going on in Michigan. To sum up: The governor of Michigan has been granted the power to suspend unilaterally the democratically elected government of any city based on criteria that he alone can determine. He will then install a crony to run the place, generally at a higher salary than the mayor whom the governor has chosen to replace. This crony will be fully in charge of all city government functions. He will determine what company gets the contract to pick up the garbage. He will determine which company will plow the roads. I am sure, of course, that cronyism and favoritism will not infect any of these decisions, because that only happens when people are elected to do these jobs, not when they&amp;#039;re appointed by a governor who been given himself alone the power to do it. I spent three days in Iowa listening ad nauseum \u2014 and I do mean nauseum \u2014 to Republicans tell me that an insurance-friendly health-care reform bill was the end of liberty here in America. Singe-entendre candidate Rick Santorum even compared it to the actual fascism that drove his sainted grandfather out of Italy.  (And, yes, my friends who are Ron Paul fans, by his lights, a state is empowered to do everything that is being done in Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan, if that state chooses to do so. That&amp;#039;s why Ron Paul&amp;#039;s concerns for civil liberties are a mile wide and an inch deep.) If the Affordable Care Act is the thin edge of the fascist wedge, then what in the hell do we call it when we have one-man rule, through cronies, displacing elected government on the grounds that the governor&amp;#039;s crony and his hired cronies can make the trains run on time. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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