It was time to quit playing this dance about are the Dems coming back, the media is never going to put any pressure on the Dems and the Unions will keep funding their stay and keep playing this game of we’ll come back and then the Unions say No. You have to move the ball, staying in suspended animation when you have a substantial majority is not an option, the Dems were trying to take as much time off the clock without running a play. That’s over
Walker and the Pubs need to get out that FDR, George Meany, Harry Truman were against it and Jimmy Carter repealed JFK’s collective bargaining for Federal Employees. Mitch Daniels did it Indiana 5 years ago and it’s one of the more healthy fiscal states right now.
They need to say look does anyone think the Federal Employees are treated poorly because they don’t have collective bargaining.
After reflecting on it and a good nights sleep :) I think it’s possible that the Republican’s should have done this even sooner. They should have given the dems 24 hours to get back or they were going to vote on what they just voted on. Instead of waiting several weeks. Which I can see why they did really. They were playing out all the options, I think and this is just a guess. To show they were being completely reasonable and fair. And it was the dems and the unions that were acting like 2 year olds having a tantrum. Which personally, that’s what it should look like to any reasonable person.