Wrestlin' in Wisconsin

if you can call a man who is recorded in a phone conversation of thinking of hiring troublemakers to pretend to be union protesters to discredit them as a straight shooter!

you seem ignorant that the consensus take away from that tape is the Scott Walker says in private the same things that he says in public.

And that this tape has had zero negative effect on his effort to rub out collective bargaining. The people have already made up their minds about this event, and they mostly do not agree with you.

I did not hear the call, but my understanding is that Walker said that someone brought this idea to him and that he rejected it.

The Wisconsin standoff escalated a notch today when Senate Republicans threatened to hold their missing Democratic colleagues in contempt if they don’t return to the chamber in Madison today by 4 pm central time. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said, “They’re insulting the very fabric of our representative democracy.” The 14 Senate Democrats have been hiding out in Illinois since February 17th to stall a vote on Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to dismantle collective bargaining for state employee unions. Fitzgerald said the Democrats could be taken into custody if they enter Wisconsin. Attorneys who drafted the contempt order point to precedents including the U.S. Capitol Police carrying “Senator Bob Packwood feet first into the Senate chamber” when the Senate ordered the arrest of absent senators to fulfill a quorum during a campaign finance debate in 1988.

Democratic Senator Spencer Coggs told ABC News the stalemate “has taken an ugly turn” and that Republicans were attempting to be “punitive” instead of negotiating in good faith.

The consensus according to who? Are you 'speaking for America' again? Didn't you just tell me not to do what you are currently doing?

We keep hearing this out of the Dems......"But but but but....they are not negotiating! they are supposed to be NEGOTIATING! "

The people of Wisconsin are going to have to decide who is right, because both sides can not be right about what the people want. We have seen Conservatives overreach enough to wonder if they are doing that here, and we have seen libreals clueless about reality often enough to wonder if they are doing that here. It will be interesting watching how this plays out...

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The consensus according to who? Are you 'speaking for America' again? Didn't you just tell me not to do what you are currently doing?

I watch the Journalism traffic, this story had no legs which informs me on what the people think.

This is a bridge too far for the the super rich and their GOP lapdogs is my guess.

You had not taken notice that when the GOP overreach they are thrown out of power for a time as a result?

The only thing is that the public sadly had too short of a memory however this is too open not to get the kind of a reaction to it is getting now.

But on the other hand, he cheers them on in WI!

You had not taken notice that when the GOP overreach they are thrown out of power for a time as a result?

It works both ways, but at least the dems will never try to destroy the unions.