Friday, February 18, 2011

Bleeding Kansas in Wisconsin

Can't help but make that comparison.

The divisions are running deep.  Perhaps not as deep as then, but it is indeed getting pretty deep.

What could be more anti democratic than card check?  Some are comparing this to the filibuster rules, but the US Senate gets to make its own rules according to the Constitution.  If the legislators are supposed to be in session and are refusing to do their duty which they are bound to do under the law, how can that be compared to the use of the filibuster, which is legal?

Now you get outsiders who are filtering into the state in order to try to overturn the law governing the state.  That looks like trouble to me.  None other than the President of the United States is getting involved in what should be a state matter.  The President swore an oath to support the Constitution which means among his duties is to enforce the rule of law.

Update:

This isn't "Bleeding Kansas" yet.  If the events unfold at the rate that they are right now, something has to give.  If the governor gives way, that will set a bad precedent.  If the union gives way, they will be behaving rationally and reasonably. You can't unscramble an egg.  If you break the rule of law, how can you put it back to what it once was?  There is a way for them to get what they want without violating the law.  If they get their way by violating the law, then there is no law, but the law of the jungle.  If that occurs, the rest will follow.  It will be worse than Bleeding Kansas.  The law is everybody's shelter. Tear that down and what is left?

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