Wisconsin
So the recall vote against Scott Walker will happen. But progressives are really worried about one unforeseen problem: there really isn't anyone to run against Walker. The Wisconsin recall law.
Scott Walker using prison labor to decorate the Christmas tree (and in this administration, it ain't no holiday tree like here in Rhode Island) in the Wisconsin state capitol building..
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, feckless bully. The last paragraph (a Prosser quote) is hilarious. h/t Mary Dudas, John Emerson.
Probably not terribly significant -- the legislature can just re-pass the law unless the courts fail to defer to its judgment of what constitutes a budget act -- but a.
Not surprisingly but still depressingly, the authoritarian faction of Wisconsin politics is beginning to assert itself over the pro-speech/pro-dissent faction, as Scott Walker has closed the Capitol to any citizens.
Translated from Teabagger, it means "selling state assets for pennies on the dollar to your wealthy cronies." ...see also. ...and also. ...yet more.
Talking Points Memo is doing some great reporting on Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's odious little stunt, whereby he essentially committed arson and then announced he needed to get rid of.