Not long ago, the repressive union-crushing SB 5 sailed through the Ohio House and Senate, and was promptly signed by Gov. Kay-suck. As the House voted its approval, a crowd of teachers, nurses, safety workers, and other public employees showered them with a chorus of boos and shouts of "Shame on you!" House Speaker Bill Batchelder had the protesters removed, then sarcastically quipped, "Now that the intellectuals have left, . . ." Oh, ha-ha. That same day, a (Democrat) Representative asked the Speaker for a bit of floor time to honor a deceased friend. The inexplicably surly Batchelder snarled, "Well, you may or may not goddam get it!" What a classy guy. (Obviously, Buster cannot credibly condemn profanity. Then again, I'm not the Speaker of the Ohio House of Fuckin' Representatives!)
I have a piece of advice for King John, Batchelder, Niehaus, and the rest of Ohio's Republican "leaders": Beware the revenge of the intellectuals!
King John's approval ratings are in the 25%-30% range. Could Ohio be made of 70%-75% intellectuals?
A recent national poll found 48% of Americans support the public employee position, 39% back the dipshit GOP governors, and 13% admit that they've been napping, but say they are nonetheless intellectually inclined. At least a plurality of the nation is intellectual.
It was reported that of the thousands upon thousands of emails on this topic received by our genius Guv, 16% support his bald-faced attempt to destroy unions and their political and financial clout, while 84% are opposed. We are 84% intellectual! In a pathetic spin-job, a Kasich spokesman said this shows that the Governor "doesn't stand alone" (yep, the lunatic fringe is right there with him) and he is "prepared to govern by his own convictions" (while utterly disregarding anyone else's).
This past Saturday, 15,000 intellectuals went to the Statehouse to once again protest against this rotten law, and to learn how to use the referendum process to overturn this abomination. That's a lot of intellectuals!
In the weeks to come, somewhere on the order of 250,000 intellectuals will sign a petition to put this damn thing to a vote of the people in November (as opposed to what was basically a royal edict from His John-ness.) Even more intellectuals!
And in November, you'll notice John-Boy walking around with some expensive, high-quality paper sticking out of his rear end. That's because millions of Ohio intellectuals will have gone to the polls and voted to stuff SB 5 up his ass!
I hope.