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If you think republican governors across the country are using fiscal crisis as a pretext to do stuff they otherwise want to do, this is something i don't think i would have ever believed republicans want to do. this is what they are proposing. hasn't gotten much national attention. check it out. rick snyder's budget in michigan is expected to cut aid to cities and towns so much that a lot of cities and towns in michigan are expected to be in dire financial straights. right now, governor snyder is pushing a bill that would give himself, governor snyder and his administration, the power to decl...

Going to do anything to help your budget deficit. it is not about the budget. they say it is about the budget, it is not about the budget. in ohio, john kasich delivered his state of the state. mr. kasich and state republicans have sort of forgotten to make it look like it is their agenda has anything to do with the state's budget. they put forward a more draconian union stripping proposal than the one being tried in wisconsin. again, stripping collective bargaining rights is not a fiscal issue, it is a rights issue. but mr. kasich and ohio republicans outdid themselves on the it's not about t...

Won yet like the protesters in wisconsin have, michigan protesters are telling them they are about to lose their right to elect local government. the government is going to take care of that from now on. the governor knows best. this whole democracy thing turns out is very inefficient. haven't you heard, there's a crisis. big government conservativism gets really astonishingly big, that's next. ♪ i was diagnosed with copd. i could not take a deep breath i noticed i was having trouble. climbing the stairs, working in the garden, painting. my doctor suggested spiriva right then. announcer: spi...

They say there's no clarity yet that governor walker's budging move at this point. they say the moves are confusing and suspicious and they're right to be suspicious. we heard the governor talking about his strategy for tricking the democrats to come back to the state capitol on the prank phone call when he thought he was talking to david koch, the oil and chemical billionaire. as a wisconsin senate democrats continue to be cautious and don't claim victory, it should be noted that implications nationally of the democrats winning the fight in wisconsin should probably wait for a bit. that would...

Here is how else you know it wasn't about the budget. governor walker's emergency budget repair bill, that's what he called it, found the time in the midst of the emergency to overturn a wisconsin law that says insurance companies have to cover contraception. what is the fiscal impact of that? what does that do to wisconsin's state budget? nothing. he cuts all the money the state spends on family planning services, places that provide access to contraception, cancer screening, prostate screening. the state spends under $2 million annually on those services. but if they stop spending that money...