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His office admits it, the 20 min interview is tedious, but quite telling. I particularly liked when Walker was talking about the planning with his Cabinet on the up coming process, and referred to the Budget bill, as "dropping the bomb". I guess he really snuck up on the people of Wisc, huh?
He didn't seem too surprised that Koch would personally call him...
I'm not a liberal, but I think Walker's backed himself into a political corner on this one--not a good place to be. His only strong support for this seems to be from his hard core republican base, so if he refuses to compromise, (especially after the unions accepted the cuts he requested) he loses with the swing voters who put him in office. If he backs down and compromises after taking such a hard stand, he looks like the unions "won" and he loses with his base. Wisconsin is a heavily union state, with both republican and democrat union members who are really ticked off about this. He's not in a good place with this.
Rasmussen did what's been widely criticized as a push poll that shows Daniels has support in Wisconsin, but another Wisconsin poll commissioned by the AFL-CIO shows that 67% support the stand the public workers are taking there. It matches up pretty well to the national Gallup-USA today poll that says that 61% of the public is opposed to restricting collective bargaining rights.
Rasmussen Poll on Wisconsin Dispute May Be Biased - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com (http://community.nytimes.com/comments/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/rasmussen-poll-on-wisconsin-dispute-may-be-biased/ - broken link)
In Indiana, Mitch Daniels (who's very anti-labor) told the R's to drop the Right to work bill there, and Rick Scott in Florida has backed down as well--that might have something to do with the fact that his approval rating is only about 35% after 2 months in office.
The far right end of the R party did a massive over reach with this one--they didn't campaign on gutting unions--and the fall out for them might not be pretty. Last week the House of Representatives tried to pass a bill defunding the National Labor Relations Board, but a fourth of the Republicans sided with the House Democrats to kill it. It's become very obvious that there's a national planned effort to gut the public employee unions, but they've got to be able to sell that to the American people, and it's not happening.
Walker is obviously dancing to the tune of the tea people controlling the GOP plan.
This whole Wisconsin situation is truly a testbed for the ultra-right agenda.
No doubt. Walker was one of the biggest recipients of Koch brothers funding and also was in attendance at the recent "secret" Koch meeting. I'm sure walker and the Koch's are thinking "oh $***" right now.
I don't know how anyone can support these kinds of tactics.
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