Like in North Carolina, Wisconsin GOP to limit new Democrat governor's power - Polidicks

http://www.startribune.com/vos-meets-with-walker-about-limiting-evers-power/500611811/ MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin's assembly speaker said following a private meeting Thursday with Gov. Scott Walker that he thinks the exiting Republican governor will be "generally supportive" of plans to limit powers of the governor's office before Democrat Tony Evers takes over. Speaker Robin Vos and Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke met with Walker in his office for about an hour. Shortly after the meeting, Walker announced an afternoon news conference during which he will take questions from reporters for the first time since Evers beat him last week. As Walker prepares to leave office, Vos and Fitzgerald have talked about limiting the governor's rule-making power; changing the makeup of boards and commissions, likely to limit the governor's influence; enshrining rules related to the state's voter photo ID law to make it more difficult to change; and making it more difficult for the governor to block a work requirement for Medicaid recipients. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday, citing four unnamed Republican sources familiar with the plans, that the GOP also wants to change the date of the 2020 presidential primary so it doesn't fall on the same day as a spring election for a state Supreme Court justice. Democratic turnout is expected to be higher than Republican turnout in the presidential primary, so moving that election to March would increase the odds for Walker's conservative Supreme Court appointee, Justice Dan Kelly, to win in April, the newspaper reported. Democrats are fearful Republicans will try to do even more to handcuff Evers as he prepares to work with a majority GOP Legislature. Vos said he and Walker discussed ideas that have been reported publicly and "hopefully he'll be generally supportive of those." Evers has accused Republicans of trying to cling to power, but on Wednesday told reporters he didn't have "a red line or a line in the sand" about what he would oppose. Evers' spokeswoman Carrie Lynch had no immediate comment in reaction to what Vos said following the meeting with Walker. Walker, 51, has not said what he plans to do after leaving office . He's been in elected office since 1993 when he was 25-years-old.

Hopefully Wisconsin, and North Carolina, voters instead just beat the fucks responsible for this in to red paste.

The good ol' salt the land approach to when you are told to go. Which doesn't surprise me as they want to limit the amount of "damage" that could be caused by losing that seat.

The lame-duck session is unique to presidential systems, parliamentary ones just have the new dudes go straight to the job. Fucking retarded.

Why are republicans so fucking pathetic?

They know their voting block is diminishing with every new elderly dying off so they're trying to hold on as much as they can.

Because they have no values or objectives beyond winning. They don't care about fiscal responsibility unless it's a talking point. They don't care about freedom of speech or religion unless it's used to galvanize voters. They don't care about judicial activism with wide things like Citizens United.

So they refuse to see the Democratic party itself to be legitimate?

One day they're gonna go too far and they're gonna end up hanging from a tree.

tbqh we aren't that far from that point at this rate.

I hope we are. I hope to all the heavens and hells we are moving away from all that.

Taking the House was a tiny ray of hope, but I gotta say, even with that I'm not optimistic.

"BETTER RED THAN- ...Oh..."

The current President literally thinks his predecessor is illegitimate.

you act as if you are suprised by the gop believing they are the only legitimate force in this country, that they act as if they are even ordained by the lord himself.

Wouldn't blocking work permits for medicaid recipients being a good thing, even if all the other issues being addressed are not?

Walker just put in a work requirement and they want to make it harder for his successor to remove it.

Oh right - I thought it meant that people who don't have work still get medicare. I guess I'm optimistic by nature.