The rally today at the Georgia state Capitol protesting extreme bills proposed by extremist state legislators went waaaay beyond bipartisanship.

The hundreds of ralliers, shouting, "We Own the Dome," represented a strange-bedfellows coming together of union activists, tea party members, faith activists and others, united against S.B. 469—the anti-free speech bill that would impose serious penalties for picketing a business or a CEO's home if it interferes with his or her "right of quiet enjoyment."

Flanked by union activists, Debbie Dooley of the Atlanta Tea Party said the bill "is a violation of the U.S. Constitution. It’s in violation of the Georgia Constitution....It is time for our legislators to say we stand for the Constitution and we stand for freedom of speech.” (Read more in The Huffington Post.)

Meanwhile, the National Employment Law Project reported that another of the extreme proposals—devastating cuts to Georgia's unemployment program—are "among the harshest in the nation."

This cut is particularly devastating to Georgia’s unemployed since Georgia already has the stingiest benefit formula in the country with regards to weeks of eligibility. The average jobless Georgia worker was able to collect only 13 weeks of [unemployment] insurance [UI] in 2011, the lowest average duration of all states. This is not because Georgia workers are finding work faster than in other states. In fact, more than 50 percent of all unemployed Georgians exhaust their state UI benefits without finding a job. Georgia’s low 13-week average duration is largely a consequence of an existing state law that restricts benefits to no more than one-quarter of the wages the worker earned in the prior year. In every other state, benefits available to unemployed workers are a larger percent of their prior earnings. Already Georgia workers with low earnings prior to layoff are not receiving the current maximum 26 weeks of benefits; if H.B. 347 passes, neither will any other laid-off workers, no matter how high their prior earnings.