Linda Kaboolian in a blog post for the NY Times appropriately titled, 'It's Not About Money':
The rallies in Madison and other cities are about whether working people have any protections against the moneyed interests that bought the last election, not about wages and health insurance premiums. While the rich get richer and middle class prospects diminish, they've seen every opportunity to level the playing field crippled by the same people who supported Governor Walker’s election.
The playbook has been written: block the appointment of Elizabeth Warren who argued for consumer protection against credit card and mortgage predators. Gin up fear about the federal deficit to defund student loans, home heating oil assistance, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Labor Relations Board, federally guaranteed home mortgages. Change layoff rules so better paid workers go first, revoke public sector collective bargaining[.]
She forgot to mention the GOPer attempt to pull a 'Mubarak' by undermining Net Neutrality and thereby choking off the Internet until it becomes just another version of AM Radio/Cable TV.
