[Eric in the Ozarks]

Stand tall, Wisconsin.

[scooby321]

This is a telling sign if Obama has a chance.

Its unreal that a President would even be involved in a state's budget its time to tell these Progressives we are a nation of laws.

[sbark]

I think the push Gov Christie put on in N.J. caught the left by surprise.

They now look at Wisc. as ground zero, the main battle they now cannot loose or the entire public union facade erodes down around their necks.

This is a battle the people must win.....the Tea Party better saddle up once again, their work is not done.

[oldbrowser]

As the Wall Street Journal pointed out, campaign contributions by government-sector unions, collected through mandatory dues, help elect the public officials who are then supposed to negotiate with them: "The unions sit, in effect, on both sides of the bargaining table."

Public sector unions should be outlawed as a conflict of interest.

[lurk]

This moment in Wisconsin and other states bears symbolic resemblance to Gettysburg. This is a pivotal moment in our country’s history.

[canuck_conservative]

What’s going to be the Left’s battle cry?

“We support the right of a tiny elite to force the rest of the taxpayers to cover their over-inflated salaries and benefits”? How can these turkeys win with that? And how can the media defend that stance??

Eventually it becomes like the movie “Network” and the Joe Taxpayer just says “Enough!”

[loveliberty2]

The Administration's taking sides pits the interests of one group of citizens, the unions, against the interests of the entire community--"We, the People" who create the wealth and pay the bills. That is a pattern. The same can be said for the so-called "waivers" on Obamacare being offered by Sebellius for certain picked special interests or companies.

"Ideas have consequences"

- Weaver

Americans who, in 2008, voted for abstract, fill-in-the-blanks concepts of "hope" and "change" might have dug a little deeper into the philosophy upon which those concepts were based. They might have explored the associations and the voting record of the one who promised, instead of substituting their own hopes and dreams for his illusory promises.

The ideas of Mao, Marx, and Lenin, implemented with the strategies of Alinsky, cannot be expected to yield liberty, opportunity, and plenty. On the other hand, a pledge of return to the principles of liberty expressed in America's Declaration of Independence, the 1787 Constitution, and the 200-year history of American freedom, accompanied by a record of study of those ideas and a voting record which supported the promise, would have been a better foundation for measuring a leader worthy of the role.

"I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and for increasing by every device the public debt on the principle of its being a public blessing." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:77

[KeyLargo]

Fleeing Wisconsin lawmakers bring circus to Illinois resort Democratic Senators who decamped to stall an anti-union bill briefly interrupt a chocolate festival, and a leprechaun, in Rockford, Ill.

[Texas resident]

Government unions vs. taxpayers who fund them.

Hey unions, what if we went on strike?

Since the unions want to play hardball, the good Governer ought to starve them out. They won’t take cutbacks, then cut it all back. Be done with it. Don’t fire them, just quit paying them. Put that money toward cleaning up the state’s contsitutionally required balanced budget.

[DuncanWaring]

[Truth29]

This is Obama as community agitator. He will cheerfully destroy Wisconsin if it advances his agenda of remaking and largely destroying the US. His agents were involved in destabilizing Egypt. He would do no less to the US.

One of the tactical issues is that the right is generally polite and employed in the private sector. They plan a demonstration today from Noon until 3pm. The left is disruptive and violent when needed. They block the Wisconsin legislature from doing business. (The Assembly has recessed because of fears for physical safety). They stay for days and public employees call in sick to demonstrate and paralyze public services. Some teachers even brought their students under the guise of citizenry study field trips.

The right needs effective strategies to counter these disruptions and constant media coverage.

[TheBigIf]

The left is crying about a possible end to collective bargaining but they fail to see how they are the ones trying to undermine the People’s right to bargain in regards to how their tax payer dollars are spent. As usaul the democrat party is fighting against the People’s ‘right to representation’. The People are tired of the corruption that comes with public sector unions and the ‘pay to play’ type corruption of politicians making unsubstainable deals with special interest unions in order to get re-elected.

[The Great RJ]

In Wisconsin it is just a mob trying to overturn democratic elections...just like the Bolsheviks in 1917.

[devistate one four]

Does zero have to prove to in Wisconsin that he is a natural born citizen?