“Mike Papantonio from Ring of Fire Radio fills in for Big Eddie Monday. John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, joins the 2nd hour of Monday’s show to discuss Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to strip nearly all government workers of their collective bargaining rights. Phil Neuenfeldt, President of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, joins the…
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Moderate Republicans: An Endangered Species
When the first few Tea Parties started popping up across the country, they were nothing more than a fringe offshoot of the GOP. Unfortunately, Republican leaders decided to join forces with this fringe, pushing their party as far to the right as possible, and casting out any Republican politician who refused to pander to Party’s…
Papantonio: Wisconsin Recalls Spell Doom for Scott Walker
Wisconsin Democrats have won the last two of nine state Senate recall elections held over the course of the summer, meaning that the opponents of Governor Scott Walker’s attacks on collective-bargaining rights have prevailed in the majority of recall elections and claimed the majority of votes cast in what many saw as a statewide referendum…
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