| As noted yesterday, MnPP's Joe Bodell appeared on local Fox9 News last night. Video is below the break.
To no surprise, GOPer Ben Golnik starts out by telling a whopper about Wisconsin's Fighting Fourteen walkout: "unprecedented."
Yeah, "right."
A quick google search of "lincoln illinios legislature walkout" - and there, on the first page, from CNN:
Wisconsin legislators aren't the first to walk out, leave town
February 18, 2011 | By Phil Gast, CNN
This week's bitter budget showdown in Wisconsin isn't the first time state legislators have fled a state, left a building or refused to show when votes were called.
The "Killer Ds" and the "Texas 11," for example, skedaddled from Texas in 2003 to prevent consideration of a redistricting bill.
In 1839, a young Abraham Lincoln, serving as a Whig in the Illinois House, jumped out of the building in a futile bid to prevent Democrats from getting a quorum to vote on a banks bill. (CNN.com)
The northern part of the Whig Party morphed into today's Republican Party; Lincoln went on to become a Republican President. Not only is the walkout by Wisconsin's Fighting Fourteen NOT unprecedented, there IS a precedent by the very Party GOPer Golnik was there, last night, to represent.
I don't know why, but it is: reasonable people cannot reasonably believe anything a GOPer says. Today's GOPers are ready, able, and perfectly willing to smile at a camera and lie through their teeth.
And they certainly cannot expect Fox9 News to follow up and let their viewers know GOPer Ben Golnik started out with a whopper, can they? |
