We hear people are lining up outside the hearing room, where 13 of the 24 Republican committee members have taken money from the Koch brothers. One Democrat has also accepted Koch funds.
The hearing will be an utter farce, as are most committee hearings in Washington. Today's exercise in deception has to do with the phony budget crisis that Walker created so he could strip workers' collective bargaining rights. Most sentient beings understand that Walker was simply paying back the Koch brothers for putting him in the governor's office.
Walker will be joined on the witness stand by two other "witnesses" who owe their livelihoods to the Koch brothers and their fellow anti-worker billionaires, like the Coors and Wal-mart heirs. Another witness is Mark Mix, president of National Right to Work, one of the oldest union-busting outfits in the country.
National Right to Work posted a weird screed on its website yesterday; weird, because it read as if a nine-year-old had written it. Every sentence contained either a serious error of grammar or of fact. For example:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is coming to Washington just after winning his multi-week battle with Big Labor that gave, among other things, state government employees the choice to pay a union or not.Actually, Walker hasn't won -- not yet. Judge Maryann Sumi still has to rule on whether the anti-worker bill can become law. What's in doubt is whether Republicans violated the state's open meetings law when they rammed the unpopular and destructive bill through the Senate. Sumi may rule today.
