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Wisconsin judge blocks Republicans’ lame-duck power grab

When Walker was first elected the assembly and Senate voted on several bills giving him unprecedented power.

For the last eight years he has been the most powerful governor in the US.

When the people finally took back the governor's seat the weasels realized that they had given all their power to a Democrat, so in a last ditch illegal effort they tried to take back the powers they had forfeited...
 
Harshaw said:
If you read very carefully, or, indeed, with any competence at all, you'll find I didn't say that.
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Yeah you didn't say that. You're attempting to equate protest with scorched earth legislative action by an ousted administration.
Sorry but you can't compare protests to scorched earth. The latter is the textbook definition of "sore losers".
It's as if the Scott Walker boys watched a replay of Saddam setting the oilfields on fire in Iraq and said to themselves, "Hey, that's awesome, I have a GREAT idea!"
 
The takeaway from all this:
"Wisconsin judge blocks Scott Walker's lame-duck power grab".

Yes, because it needed to be blocked, because it's an example of not accepting defeat with grace.

You can "litigate" this to death and it doesn't change the fact that Walker's move deserved to be blocked.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Yeah you didn't say that. You're attempting to equate protest with scorched earth legislative action by an ousted administration.
Sorry but you can't compare protests to scorched earth. The latter is the textbook definition of "sore losers".
It's as if the Scott Walker boys watched a replay of Saddam setting the oilfields on fire in Iraq and said to themselves, "Hey, that's awesome, I have a GREAT idea!"
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No, I'm talking about accepting defeat with grace. And I didn't mention only protests, nor are protests the only things I could mention with respect to the 2016 election (like trying to monkey with the Electoral College).

If you have to continually misrepresent what I say, then you can't be on very solid ground.
 
Harshaw said:
The OP's deeply partisan declaration of who "accepts defeat with grace."
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More right wing deflections. Can't actually argue the topic. It's sad how pathetic right winger are
 
ElChupacabra said:
Once people choose teams it's can quickly devolve into only being concerned with winning as it relates to party only. Instead of viewing political parties as idea pools to solve problems, we're devolving into chimps throwing turds.
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no, the right is chimps throwing turds. The left have actual facts, logic and reasoning to their positions, and are able to defend their position, and that's displayed all the time on this forum, liberals providing arguments, right wingers nothing but one line deflections. The right flings turds, deflects, just read this thread. Look how many respond and provide no argument to defend the actions.

And I provided other examples of this. for crying out loud, they stole a SCOTUS seat, didn't even provide a vote, and the right has a nerve to complain about democrats opposing Trump appointments.

Mainstream liberals provide argument, sure there a a few poo flinging nuts, but democrats don't cater to them. Republicans pander to the extremist nutjobs pretty much exclusively

I'm so sick of the both sides BS, its not true
 
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Harshaw said:
No, I'm talking about accepting defeat with grace. And I didn't mention only protests, nor are protests the only things I could mention with respect to the 2016 election (like trying to monkey with the Electoral College).

If you have to continually misrepresent what I say, then you can't be on very solid ground.
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Scorched Earth is the penultimate example of "not accepting defeat with grace".
Come 2020, I fully expect to see examples from the White House that will dwarf Walker's gambit.

Then we can watch you litigate that, too.
 
Harshaw said:
My response wasn't about anything the judge did. It was about the OP's deeply partisan ideas about who "accepts defeat with grace."
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Your response ignored the OP to divert to whataboutism. The entire comment was, "Republicans cannot legislate with honor, nor accept defeat with grace." It makes no claims about Democrats, pro or con.

And in the meantime, you've ignored the OP entirely, to rehash the sins of Democrats which aren't the subject of the thread. That's what partisans do.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Scorched Earth is the penultimate example of "not accepting defeat with grace".
Come 2020, I fully expect to see examples from the White House that will dwarf Walker's gambit.
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Like what?

Then we can watch you litigate that, too.
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What did I "litigate" the first time?
 
JasperL said:
Your response ignored the OP to divert to whataboutism. The entire comment was, "Republicans cannot legislate with honor, nor accept defeat with grace." It makes no claims about Democrats, pro or con.
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:roll: Don't insult your own intelligence to claim you don't see an implication that Republicans do it while Democrats don't. Even his response to me confirms it's what he meant.
 
Harshaw said:
:roll: Don't insult your own intelligence to claim you don't see an implication that Republicans do it while Democrats don't. Even his response to me confirms it's what he meant.
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Any comment on the OP - "Republicans cannot legislate with honor, nor accept defeat with grace"? That statement is either valid or not without regard to what Democrats may have done, in situations NOT involving state legislators desperately trying to hamstring the incoming administration.

THEY DID OTHER BAD THINGS TOO, MOM!! isn't actually a comment on the OP. It didn't work for me as a child, and I'm not sure why you think intelligent adults are impressed with it here.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Wisconsin judge blocks Republicans’ lame-duck power grab

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Former Wisconsin GOP Governor Scot Walker. Good riddance.



Republicans cannot legislate with honor, nor accept defeat with grace.

Related: Judge Restores Wisconsin Governor's Powers, Strikes Down GOP Laws
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Haha. Suck it GOP.
 
JasperL said:
Any comment on the OP - "Republicans cannot legislate with honor, nor accept defeat with grace"? That statement is either valid or not without regard to what Democrats may have done, in situations NOT involving state legislators desperately trying to hamstring the incoming administration.

THEY DID OTHER BAD THINGS TOO, MOM!! isn't actually a comment on the OP. It didn't work for me as a child, and I'm not sure why you think intelligent adults are impressed with it here.
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Then insulting your own intelligence, it is. Have at it.
 
Harshaw said:
Then insulting your own intelligence, it is. Have at it.
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Have it your way I guess. :shrug:

From my seat, what's insulting everyone's intelligence is your entire contribution to this thread being some version of BUT THEY DID IT TOO MOM!!! Do you want a cookie for your efforts?
 
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