# Wis. GOP strips public workers' bargaining rights (not want to...did it)

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**Created:** [March 10, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wis-gop-strips-public-workers-bargaining-rights-not-want-to-did-it/574119 "2011-03-10T02:07:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wis-gop-strips-public-workers-bargaining-rights-not-want-to-did-it/574119/74 "2011-03-10T21:07:54Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> I don’t recall ever posting that the Democrats had no right to try to implement health care reform in 2008. I do remember posting (in 2006) congratulating them for their win, and also in 2008 congratulating Obama on his.
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> Of course, if you have anything in mind, by all means let’s see it. And I will remind you that saying the other side has bad ideas is very far from suggesting that elections do not have consequences.
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

Took me about 5 seconds to find this.

> [@Theocracy NOW!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theocracy-now/468367/50):
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> I think it is mostly because I get this all the time, and I don’'t really give a shit.
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> I have basically given up on the election. Obama is going to win. The Blessed One is going to turn the White House beige. He will inherit a whole shit load of problems, and no doubt create a whole shit load more on his own.
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> So one derives what pleasure one can from the debacle. I am going to make fun of those things I find amusing, and the worshipful reverence the Obamaniacs expect of their Chosen One is a big, bad, juicy target, and I intend to kick it until it stops amusing me or my toes get tired.
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> All this huffy “how dare you!” is richly entertaining, in a _fin du siecle_ kind of way.
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> Expect it to continue, and get worse, for the next four years or so. Or, perhaps he will screw up badly enough that it will be less than that. In which case President Biden’s pasty white ass is the next target in the sights.
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

Looks like sour grapes to me.

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