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" The state of Michigan is being treated to a festival for fruitcakes just in time for the holiday season as a lame-duck session of the state&amp;#039;s Republican-dominated state legislature takes advantage of lame-duckitude to fashion Michigan into Mississippi-With-Snow-And-Better-Football. Most of the attention has been paid to the way a right-to-work bill favored by duplicitous pond-scum Governor Rick Snyder got hustled through the legislature while a few thousand people hit cops in the pepper spray with their eyes. Naturally, Snyder has only his constituents at heart. &amp;quot;It is a divisive issue,&amp;quot; he acknowledged. &amp;quot;But it was already being divisive over the past few weeks, so let&amp;#039;s get this resolved. Let&amp;#039;s reach a conclusion that&amp;#039;s in the best interests of all.&amp;quot; Also influencing his decision, he said, were reports that some 90 companies had decided to locate in Indiana since that state adopted right-to-work legislation. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s thousands of jobs, and we want to have that kind of success in Michigan,&amp;quot; he said. And thus does the race to the bottom go from a marathon, to a sprint, to a competition among rocket sleds. If we had a serious national Democratic party, there might be a push for a national solution before Mississippi \u2014 or Vietnam \u2014 becomes the national model. However, elsewhere in Lansing, the legislature pushed equally hard to pass a whole passel of new laws and regulations beloved by the Every Sperm Is Sacred crowd. In short, they passed the Blunt Amendment on the state level, and they&amp;#039;re daring the feds to come after them on it. I can hardly wait for this Sunday when we hear important national voices tell us how the Republican party&amp;#039;s only problem in the election was its &amp;quot;messaging&amp;quot; and how the public face of the party is going to change as a result. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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