Winning in Wisconsin [Fight for Reform Continues.]

On Wednesday evening, Wisconsin state senators finally voted to end collective bargaining for government employees, bringing to a close three weeks of protests and public controversy. Upon hearing the news, leftist demonstrators outside the state capitol went berserk, forcing the Republican senators to leave the capitol.

The vote sidestepped Senate Democrats’ much-reported stalling tactic of fleeing the state to prevent a quorum. Instead of waiting until their absent colleagues deigned to do their jobs, last night the Republicans removed fiscal provisions within the bill, enabling passage without a 20 member quorum. The final vote was 18 Republicans in favor, 1 against. The Senate Democrats have yet to return to Madison. Now that the initiative has passed, the bill will go to the state Assembly, where it is expected to pass quickly: the lower house approved the original version of the legislation last month.

From the beginning, Governor Scott Walker framed the fight over collective bargaining as a fiscal issue, and despite the seeming contradiction in the bill’s passage, it still is. What the Wisconsin senators eliminated were the budgetary specifics which prevented an up-or-down vote on a technicality, nevertheless, fiscal solvency has always been central to the push to forbid collective bargaining in the public sector. The ability for teachers, police, civil servants, and others to negotiate deluxe benefit packages through binding arbitration is an economic concern in and of itself, regardless of whether particular funding provisions are included in the bill...

This is doing it right; but there is so much more to go.

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Obama’s Friday press conference did not include a single question about the events in Wisconsin, which makes clear the actions taken by Governor Walker were a defeat for Obama, media acolytes and Democrats in general. The absence of comment is a time honored political strategy to deal with such a defeat. Nearly 70 years ago Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the gifted political strategist of the Nazi regime, managed an allied political initiative as follows:

“A much more clever form of propaganda against the Reich has been proposed by the United States. The idea is not to go against the German people, but against Nazism. I sense a certain danger. Fortunately the enemy propaganda is not so unified and consistent as to be able to stick to such a propaganda slogan for a period of years. If this were the case, we would face great difficulties every time we were under a new, heavy strain.

If I were on the enemy side, I should from the very first day on have adopted the slogan of fighting against Nazism, but not against the German people. That’s how Chamberlain began on the first day of the war, but thank God, the English didn’t follow through. I gave orders that the German press is not to publish or discuss turns of speech such as are being used increasingly in the American press. One should simply not talk about these things. Even if you argue about them you nevertheless spread them.”

I agree with the strategy, but in this case it’s a tough call.

One one hand you’ve got the dems in WI talking about recalls and telling everyone “it’s not over!”

Then you’ve got Obama pretending it was a non-event.

The dems in WI who watched his speech must have asked each other “Why didn’t he mention us?”

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Forget it! No matter what happens the left will never “see it” NEVER. If the MSM ever says anything nice about Palin or Walker she and he should demand a retraction. Be proud when they deride you. Wear it like a badge of honor.

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