Maddow: Working People To Union Rights-Stripping Republicans: "Make My Day" (At The Ballot Box)

Clip from March 17, 20011, The Rachel Maddow Show, where Rachel highlights the ballot-box backlash among working people against union rights-stripping Republicans (like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Rick Snyder in Michigan), many of whom are facing recall efforts and/or referendums against their odious pieces of legislation that strip union rights in states across the midwest.

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• rachel maddow
• republicans
• scott walker
• wisconsin
• rick snyder
• michigan
• stripping
• union rights
• wage earner
• working class
• backlash
• ballot box
• recall
• referendum

[zpgJiggleBilly]

The biggest lie the people of America have been fed is the lie that there is a difference between democrats and republicans.

[incitebytes]

@zpgJiggleBilly, Thanks for being the voice of the lazy and uninformed.

[stevepants]

@iamavet It's quite the art form that's developed with people who leave comments like yours. What does how she look have anything to do with what she says? I imagine this is how your meetings go.

"Okay, first up, Rachel Maddow makes to many valid points. Any ideas on what we can do?"

"Well, you can't refute the facts that she actually talks about so why don't we just attack how she looks, and THEN claim she lies and tells half truths."

"Great idea! Next, blacks and jews, any ideas?"

[incitebytes]

@iamavet, You forgot to mention one other minor difference. One of them is an uneducated goof (Hannity), who's lucky to solve tying his shoes every morning, while the other (Maddow) is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD in poli sci w/honors from Oxford. I have no illusion that someone like you would have any appreciation for someone who's gotten themselves well educated, so, let's simply put your kiddie thesis to the test - please point out the untruths that you claim make up 1/2 of what Maddow says.

[TAz69x]

Carlin was right; Democracy is the illusion of choice in the US

It's funny how you can predict and win elections with political science knowledge of mob behavior!

[BelgianBrain]

Maddow can stop pretending dems are any better than republicans already...

The DNC has no interest in populism, are you blind?

[BelgianBrain]

Maddow can stop pretending dems are any better than republicans already...

The DNC has no interest in populism, are you blind?

[MrOne4truth]

@incitebytes So you would like all farm workers to join a union? you would starve to death, Good thing there aren't many people in the unions, or we all would be broke, unions are dying, and will be gone very soon

[incitebytes]

@MrOne4truth, Yes, it's the unions' fault. Thank god we're not like some 3rd-world country where the richest 1% take home 24% of the nation's income and own 35% of the nation's wealth (45% if you subtract primary residences). Or where the top 1% have more income and wealth than the bottom 90%. There's even a "3rd-world" country where the 400 richest people own more than the bottom 150 million and on average CEO's get 400:1 line workers' pay. Oh, wait, I'm sorry those are all U.S. statistics.

[MrOne4truth]

@incitebytes If it wasn't for the union there would be more products made here, less unemployment ,

[MrOne4truth]

@snowiedognorth Not blaming the workers, I do blame union leaders