The oppressed people of the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan took a giant step towards making their state Wisconsin once again. Teabagger Pam Galloway, one of the four Republican Senators slated for recall, has resigned effective midnight this morning. That means that the Republican Party no longer controls the Senate, putting the kibosh of Fartfuhrer Walker’s plans to do more damage, between now and his own ouster in June.

…On Friday, one of four Republican state senators facing a recall election in the next several months, Pam Galloway, announced she was resigning. While the timing of her resignation would make any normally skeptical person wonder if this is a case of a you-can’t-fire-me-I-quit exit, she cites family reasons. (Republican Gov. Scott Walker faces a recall vote, too.) While her resignation doesn’t change the fact that a recall election will take place, according to a state official quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it does create a Wisconsin senate that will be evenly split between Republicans and Democrats with both parties controlling 16 seats apiece. Once the recall election is held, one or the other party will have a one-seat majority. For the time being, however, the top Republican and top Democrat will be the co-leaders of the chamber. That could prove interesting in a state where the bad blood between the two parties rivals the nation’s capital and protests in the past year rocked the statehouse in Madison… [emphasis added]

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She may cite “family reasons”, but it is far more likely that she simply lacks the courage to face the consequences for the total disconnect between what she and other Republicans said they would do when elected and what they actually did after too many voters believed their lies.

Ed Schultz has more details with John Nichols.

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