Prediction: A Hero Is Born
Democratic legislators have run away from the capital rather than vote on a proposal by the new Republican governor to end collective bargaining rights for nearly all state workers. Gov. Scott Walker says that the measure is necessary to close a $3.6 billion budget gap. Thousands of professors and other state employees turned out for protests today.
Gov. Walker doesn't have to win. But if he does not back down, he is going to be a hero like Chris Christie. In fact, he's already getting words of encouragement from Gov Christie, Gov. John Kasich in Ohio, and House Speaker John Boehner. I don't think the protestors realize that their tactics are turning public sympathies against them -- and helping rather than hurting new Republican governors who are serious about returning their states to fiscal sanity.
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Jan '11
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Here's some words of encouragement from me.
I congratulate Governor Walker. He is proving himself to be a good Republican.
The public service employee unions long ago became voluntary subsidiaries of the Democrat Party. A good Republican knows what that means.
They must be lawfully crushed.
This is a WIT moment: Whatever it takes.
Elect no Democrat anywhere, ever.
Jun '10
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The Wisconsin Dems have developed two sure-fire ways to impress voters:
1. Spend like drunken sailors.
2. Run away from a fight.
The messages: we're both stupid and cowardly.
Edited on Feb 17, 2011 at 2:12pmMay '10
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Walker and the GOP should flood the airways with fake "Amber Alerts" and "MIlk Carton" ad's for the missing Democrat legislators. Let the public be acutely aware of just who fled the scene when tough work needed to be done.
Aug '10
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First Ron Johnson, then the Packers and now Governor Walker - I may have to relocate to the other side of the river!
Sep '10
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I posted this in Mike Riscili's thread on the member feed..
The last election basically wiped out the Democrats from moderate districts in rural areas. The only ones left are the hard core leftists from Madison and Milwaukee. Imagine a Democrat caucus filled with Sheila Jackson Lee and Dennis Kucinich types.
Jun '10
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Against all odds, this may be the year to put some money on the Brewers.
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If only we had someone in California to break the back of the public employees union. On Wisconsin!
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Kozac, I like the way you think!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Democrats are likening Gov. Walker to Mubarak. If the governor needed to demonstrate how difficult it is to deal with these people, they have now done that for him.
Jul '10
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I suspect more than a few of the Democratic senators (who have apparently LEFT THE STATE to prevent a quorum) have just cost themselves re-election. There's no way that kind of response isn't a gross underestimation of public support, no matter how many pro-union "voters" have converged on the Capitol.
Oct '10
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We need an honest debate on labor. The trade union and workers protection movement has clearly failed worldwide. Things are especially bad in Europe, where it's common to have a two-class society of highly protected "insiders" and temporarily-contracted or unemployed "outsiders."
We need a new union model that works, but no one wants to discuss it. There are only two choices: no unions at all, or new unions that work. There are no other choices.
Dec '10
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In fairness, Democrat Cuomo is also inviting these protests, in New York. I have also seen some garbled information from California, under Democrat Brown, that indicates that he, too, is contemplating something similar. Especially significant, as, if I remember correctly, didn't he bring collective bargaining into the public sector when he was first governor?
I know John Kennedy first allowed federal public sector employees to unionize, but I think Wisconnsin started it at the state level, then Brown brought it in, in California.
If I am correct, between, WI, CA, and NY, we are seeing Democrats attempting to kill their own zombies.
Jun '10
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Milk cartons & amber alerts ---- Brilliant!
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This should be done in every state where the Republicans are in control. It keeps the focus on the public-sector unions, and it forces the Democrats and Barack Obama to show their true colors.
Dec '10
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Ooops! As soon as I had hit POST, I realized WI didn't belong there. I still think they started the state employee unions, but, obviously, Walker is a Republican. Maybe that's why he his being targeted. First.
Jan '11
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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit just reported that the missing Democrats had been tracked down at a hotel in Rockford, Illinois. He urged Tea Partiers to go there and take video and pictures of the runaways. It seems to have worked! At any rate he reports they are fleeing the hotel now.
YIPPEE.
Texas has had its own problems with legislators hiding out, but at least you have to make a serious commitment if you want to get out of state from Austin. It's a looooong way to any border.
Oct '10
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EJHill, can you get working on some graphics of those Amber Alerts and milk carton ads? That'd be great.
Dec '10
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Seems that the public employees in Wisconsin are stating clearly and for the record that they think they have first dibs on every Wisconsinite's paycheck.
Sep '10
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Mr. McGurn, I read the article you linked to, but there was no mention of professors protesting. High school teachers, yes, and they're taking their students with them, which is appalling. But I'm not seeing the professors there (unless you mean this term to include high school teachers).
I'm hoping that my part of academia, at least, hasn't completely lost its dignity up there.
Edited on Feb 17, 2011 at 4:35pmDec '10
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Ann Althouse has some photographs showing the condition in which these distinguished public servants left the State Capitol grounds.
Jan '11
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It seems to me that the real issue here isn't the politics involved - although I agree with the analysis here - but rather how this weakens an already fracturing Rule of Law in this nation. This vote is trying to be conducted on legitmate, republican (small r) process that adheres to the procedural aspects of due process and rule of law. Putting the policy aside, what the Democrats are doing is saying that Rule of Law doesn't matter and should play second fiddle to their purely self-interested matters.
Of course, this shouldn't come as a shock given what Democrats have done in the past. One only needs to think the Texas redistricting episodes of the previous decades, let alone Obama and Pelosi's chicanery with Health Care and practically every other issue they have faced such as "bankruptcy" and takeover of GM. This is but another sad example of Rule of Law for thee but not for me.
This, I think, is the most troubling aspect of this whole ordeal.