Popcorn summary of the WI Republican Convention

[CatholicEdHead]

Well, there was some popcorn at the Republican convention this weekend. The WI-6 resolution to secede went down in flames. Buried in the article is the reason why it is all about money, all about right to work, and school privatizing. No matter what they do it is all about someone making big money at the expense of many others.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/upbeat-walker-tells-gop-convention-that-wisconsin-is-back-on-b99261727z1-257803521.html

They snuffed out a proposal on secession, nullification and state sovereignty. The resolution that would have permitted lawmakers to nullify Obamacare, Common Core and drone usage in Wisconsin was approved earlier by a regional caucus and a state GOP committee.
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Delegates killed off an attempt to call out state Sen. Luther Olsen of Ripon and Rep. Steve Kestell of Elkhart Lake for championing Common Core educational standards. Three of eight regional caucuses had earlier approved the measure.
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The convention approved resolutions that included backing "right-to-work" legislation, election reform, gun rights and an expansion of charter school and voucher programs across the state "without limits or strings attached."
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Delegates rejected a measure that demanded Wisconsin pass a bill to declare the Affordable Care Act null and void in the state and forbid state and federal agents from enforcing the act. One delegate said on the floor, "If we pass this, we'll be the laughingstock of America."
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[Scuba]

1. They're already the laughingstock of America, except here in Wisconsin where we're crying.

Thank CEH.

[unionthug777]

2. so true.

[hue]

3. Indeed WI Teapublicans lack any capability for self concept & reflection.

Most really do not know just how very stupid they are! The 1% depends on it!

[CatholicEdHead]

4. More infighting to continue in Republican Party

http://wuwm.com/post/political-scientist-internal-gop-conflict-will-continue-establishment-vs-insurgent

While the convention dismissed those items, the coalition that advanced them is obviously "strong, organized and vocal," according to Assistant Professor of Political Science Julia Azari, of Marquette University.

Azari says the factionalism and philosophical debates occurring within the state GOP reflect what's happening within the national party. "The Tea Party and more broadly, this emphasis on more procedural questions about does the state have the right to secede, does the state have the right to nullify federal law which, nullification hadn't been taken seriously since 1830s, up until recently. These kinds of things are probably not going to have a substantive impact, but they demonstrate this symbolic commitment to rethinking the federal government, rethinking everyone's agreement about the rules of the game."

Azari says she foresees conflict within the GOP continuing that "is not just about moderate and conservative but really is about establishment versus insurgent and this impulse in the party to break away, to embrace rebellion as a political strategy as opposed to people within the party, like Walker, who might be very conservative in their policy views but want to distance themselves from some of these radical strategies," Azari says.

It is not unusual, Azari says, for infighting to have developed within the Republican Party. She says the GOP that developed in response to the Obama Administration was strong, united and understood what it stood for and against but now faces different viewpoints, now that the administration's tenure is winding down.