DeMint’s Rules Of Democracy
by digby
Think Progress has an exclusive from conservative leader Jim DeMint:
KEYES: Senator, would you like to see some of these bills that we see at a state level curbing the collective bargaining rights of public employees’ unions, would you like to see those on a federal level?
DeMINT: I don’t believe collective bargaining has any place in government.
KEYES: Including at a federal level?
DeMINT: Including at the federal level. That’s what elections are, collective bargaining, for people who are [inaudible]. I think it just doesn’t make sense. When we’re elected as representatives, to determine the fiscal condition of the government, then to have an unelected third party bargaining at the table with monopoly power, it just doesn’t make any sense.
It’s an interesting view, especially considering the fact that DeMint’s primary method of governance is to use undemocratic means (the filibuster) in an undemocratic institution (the Senate) to prevent the majority from enacting its agenda.
Aside from the nonsensical view that government workers could get a fair shake through a legislative process that’s financed and dominated by people who’s life mission it is to drown government in the bathtub, it’s particularly absurd in the sense of federal workers in DC. After all, it’s the Republicans who refuse to allow the district to have any representation in the congress. Talk about a catch-22.
But then democracy isn’t really a fundamental principle for Republicans so this has a certain logic to it, doesn’t it?
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