Mining Bill Removes Any Doubt - - The State Is In Extremist Hands, And In Extremis

It began with Walker's imperious derailing of passenger rail, continued with Act 10, gathered speed with proposed expansion of voucher schools and refusal of Medicaid funding - - but the mining bill's decimation of environmental regulation to enable open pit iron ore mining at the Bad River clarifies that GOP extremists are fully in charge of Wisconsin state government and are willing to attack a native culture and the state's constitution for political and partisan hegemony.

I think we're entering a long period of crisis, and an even longer recovery.