Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Fitz' Snit Fits

Last week, I wrote about Senator Scott Fitzgerald's credibility problem.  In a nut shell, he was lying so bad that even the Faux News reporter couldn't go along with it.  And to top it off, ol' Fitz then goes and stabs his buddy Scott Walker in the back by letting the cat out of the cellophane bag.

To be honest, I thought this was just another example of typical right wing hypocrisy and flat out lying.  I'm starting to have second thoughts about that conclusion.  It's starting to appear that this is something a bit more than the usual run of the mill Republican behavior.

It appears that this was just the beginning of a series of emotional meltdowns as the Fitzwalkerstan cabal started to realize that we Wisconsinites weren't the sheep they thought we were.

A day or three after his faux pas and Faux News, he was back on the pseudo-news channel, saying this (emphasis mine):
F&F: The democrats have returned home after three weeks across state lines and described as a hero's welcome. 100,000 People turning out, cheering them, thank you, thank you. Does that surprise you? 
Sen Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI): It didn't surprise me that the protesters that have trashed the capital over the last month or you know,basically ruined everything in and around the building, put law enforcement in harm's way, tore the senate rule book in half and basically broke every personal relationship in the building. It doesn't surprise me that they offered them a hero's rally. It's disappointing.
The only problem with Fitz's faux concern about the Capitol is that he still can't tell the truth.  We know that Fritz is again lying for a myriad of reasons.

We already know that throughout the four weeks of protests, the Madison Police Department has commended the protesters for their peacefulness. In fact, this past Saturday, which saw one of, if not the, largest protest in state history, there was not one single arrest.

Another probably for snit-throwing Fritz is the the fact that Walker's administration perjured themselves in saying there was all that damage.  Protesters even offered to clean up whatever mess there might have been. Not exactly thuggish behavior, is it?

Nor could the Republicans convince a judge that the protesters were so awful, since he ruled in the people's favor saying that the People's House stay open.  Unfortunately, Fitz the Snit and Walker feel they are above the law and still aren't following the court's directive.

If anyone was endangering the public safety, it was the Republicans, during their snit, that wouldn't even let fire fighters responding to an emergency call into the Capitol.

Then again, given the past course of events, whatever damage that might have occurred at the Capitol or any where else, or any danger that police might have been, one would have to give serious thought to who might have caused said damage.  Remember, Walker already admitted that the Fitzwalkerstan cabal had considered using outside agitators to cause problems in order to turn the public's opinion of the protesters.  Just because Walker told the fake Koch that they didn't do it, doesn't mean that they really aren't doing it.

Today the news came out with Fitzgerald's latest snit fit.  Still mad that their sinister plan is being foiled by those meddling Democrats, he has said that even though they have returned to the state like he wanted, he won't let them vote on anything in committee.  In other words, because he has his undies in a bundle, he is disenfranchising a couple of million people and denying them representation.  This decision, not coincidentally, came just two days after the WI14 were given the appropriate hero's welcome in Madison.

And don't give me that mewling that the Dems did it by leaving in the first place. They were representing their constituents in the best way they could with the little authority they had.

So why is Fritz having all of these snit fits?

Some have opined that he is sending a not too subtle message to his fellow Republicans that if they step out of line, he can make their lives miserable.  One cynical friend thought he might be having a bout of Napoleon Complex.

I think it is a sign of panic.  The cabal of Walker and the Fitzgerald boys thought they had this thing wrapped up and would be able to ram it through before anyone caught on or, even if they did, before they could do anything about it.

Now he is faced with a growing groundswell of pure grassroots protesters that are mightily outraged and not about to tolerate their unethical power grab.  This is only being bolstered by various parties filing one lawsuit after another and learned attorneys finding their actions to be unconstitutional.

So now stuck in the unenviable position of having unilaterally pushed through an extremely unpopular bill, with no one to blame but themselves, he is stuck.  Unfortunately, being as full of hubris as he is, he simply won't try to work with the Democrats or even the moderate members of his own party.   The only thing that Fitz can think of doing is getting into power struggles which only make him look weaker and more inane than he already does.

It's more than a little sad that when the people of this state elected Fitz, his brother and Walker, no one realized that we had also forgotten to hire a babysitter to deal with their tantrums.  Or that we would have needed to.

1 comment:

  1. As usual, today's republicans represent the very worst of humankind. Greedy, selfish, stupid (not ignorant since they could learn), and above all, hate-filled.

    These individual's behaviors are the predictable culmination of a reproductive strategy that rewards exclusion, conflict and extreme genetic selfishness. Evolutionarily, this strategy may have reproductive payoffs over time but eventually, in a social species, the need to cooperate overwhelms the need to "take it all and get out", particularly when population density increases.

    Now, these anachronistic (but still emotionally satisfying) behaviors can backfire, both reproductively and somatically. Unfortunately, they can do serious harm to society and the rest of us who have not had these base behaviors rewarded and nurtured by their parents and families/friends.

    It is up to the good people of Wisconsin and the nation to fight these fear-based reactionaries and put them in the dustbins of political history. One way to do that is to shun them and those who support them. Physical shunning, where one doesn't speak to or otherwise interact with another person is perhaps the most potent mechanism for changing the behaviors of a social mammal like human beings.

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