Posted on 03/06/2015 10:39:29 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"...Regardless of whether you’d characterize the right-to-work law as fanatical or not, it’s remarkable the extent to which Madison kept mum about its passage. Besides a few dozen Democratic legislators and a few hundred labor protesters the day before, the famously liberal city was placid as the conservative legislation rolled along. The liberals who have faced Walker have lost, and lost,and lost again,and progressive Wisconsinites’ stores of outrage seem,at least for the moment,to be exhausted.
That’s not to suggest the left has given up. But Walker and the Republicans in the Legislature have more ideas they plan to advance,including cutting funding for the state’s universities.
“I think that this is purposeful on the part of Walker,” said Rep. Terese Berceau after the vote. “It’s not just about running for president. It’s just flooding us,flooding us so that it’s difficult for us to really focus in on one thing,because the next day it’s something else.”
“One day it’s workers’ rights...[t]he next day it’s the university and cutting that,and the day after that it’s abortion restrictions,and the day after that it’ll be the environmental regulations that they are destroying.”
...And if there’s one lesson from Thursday night’s calm,it’s that there’s little Democrats can do right now to come between Walker and his agenda. Walker talks often about his success in fighting for change. But Republicans’ overwhelming victories in the last few election cycles have let them dominate the state government,so they don’t really face much of a fight anymore. That’s why the state that birthed the organized labor movement in the United States is now right-to-work.
In Madison, it’s clear that Walker,and his allies have learned how to take charge, get things done, and render their ideological foes irrelevant. First Wisconsin,then the country? The governor’s presidential prospects hinge on the possibility that that idea isn’t too far-fetched.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Actually they're giving UW more flexibility from dictates so that they can fund programs they deem vital [they'll just have to prioritize and reevaluate the rinky dink stuff - maybe have professors actually teach a class or two].
So many liberal sacred cows, so little time. Yee haw cowboy Walker.
Does Slate have a problem with Obama running roughshod over the country?
You mean Barack Obamacare and his Pelosi-Reid Congress?
I’ve never sensed any outrage at Slate about them.
Gotta honor the hypnotist
....”And while some unions have banded together, reinvigorated by a sense of betrayal by Republican lawmakers, they recognize that it might take decades to completely recover from the blows.
‘‘You’ve got to fight back, but this kind of thing is going to be a generational process,’’ Jerry Papa, a 62-year-old bus driver from Milwaukee, said during a rally against right-to-work on Thursday. ‘‘It’s going to take 25 to 40 years to correct problems Scott Walker’s done in 4½ years.’’....
LOLOLOLOL, too cold to protest too much? Suck it, commies.
You know a house a block away from me (here in CHICAGO) had a "Recall Walker" sign in the window back during that. I tried to get my dog to crap on their lawn.
” I tried to get my dog to crap on their lawn. “
You could do it yourself too, ya know ;)
I knew a guy that was always at the State House calling for this or that. He said “Well, they say you can’t fight City Hall. But you can sure go crap on their steps was in awhile!”
Yup. That’s all the libtards in WI are good for now.
Governor-elect Scott Walker had vowed to kill the planned 110-mph Milwaukee-to-Madison passenger train route that was to be funded with Wisconsin's share of $8 billion in federal stimulus dollars. Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich had issued a similar promise for a planned 79-mph line connecting his state's three largest cities, funded by $400 million in stimulus cash.
Now, almost all of the $1.2 billion from the two projects will be divided among other states. California is the big winner, with up to $624 million, followed by Florida, up to $342.3 million; Washington, up to $161.5 million; and Illinois, up to $42.3 million. Smaller amounts will go to New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Missouri, Oregon, North Carolina, Iowa and Indiana.....
In a meeting with reporters in Waukesha, Walker called the decision a "victory" because he sees the rail line as a symbol of excessive government spending.
"That's the decision they've made and we're going to move forward," the Republican governor-elect said.
Even with the federal government paying all construction costs, Walker has said he didn't want state taxpayers to bear any of the operating costs. ......."
“It’s just flooding us,flooding us so that it’s difficult for us to really focus in on one thing,because the next day it’s something else.”
Taking a page out of the demobrat playbook. Overwhelm the system. Is anyone in the GOP listening?
Well, now, that sounds just like Princess Barry's strategy, doesn't it?
You mean a “WORKING” strategy?
I thought so.
YES!
This is simply more proof that the adults on the left, few though they are, have known all along that union shop laws are ultimately destructive to workers. A few gain disproportionately under these laws, but the majority suffer.
Ah, so she's essentially saying that Walker gets it and is beating them at their own game?
Yes. The “unknowledgeable” Walker.
“... It’s just flooding us,flooding us so that it’s difficult for us to really focus in on one thing,because the next day it’s something else.”
Sounds familiar. It’s exactly what Obama has done since 1/20/09. Overwhelm the opposition, hit ‘em from every front. Kinda nice to see it going the other way in WI.
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