You'll have to excuse me if I don't.
The Dem legislature isn't missing because they're afraid Walker might demand pay and benefit concessions from the union. They're missing because Walker is unflinchingly calling for the end of the collective bargaining rights of the union. In fact, in yesterday's interview with the Madison newspaper, they asked him that very question - would he be willing to just talk wage and benefit concessions, and take the collective bargaining prohibition off the table. Walker said unequivocally, "NO". And then, he went on to calmly explain why.
Palin, in her first comments about this mishigas, says NOTHING about that. Instead, she spends three paragraphs talking about "rank & file" and their relations with management. THIS has nothing to do with THAT.
Palin had the opportunity to say something in support of Wilson and the Republican legislators in Wisconsin. She didn't. She had the opportunity to specifically address right-to-work in Wisonsin. She didn't. She had the opportunity to address the much needed prohibition on public union collective bargaining in Wisconsin. She didn't.
Instead, she penned a three paragraph love-letter to Wisconsin public service union members, where she blames not the union, but the union leadership. Isn't that nice?
The problem isn't the union leadership or the rank-in-file membership. The problem is that there is collective bargaining, period. Until Palin addresses this as these events unfold, it says to me that she's unwilling or unable to speak strongly for conservative solutions to the problems presented by state public service unions.
This whole situation has nothing to do with “Union Bosses”. Period! It is all about having unions in any form, and the fact that they disrupt fair and logical bargaining between the employer and the employee.
All Palin’s recent ramblings show, is that she is painfully out of touch and definitely not any where as conservative as most here would have us believe.
In fact, here track record over the last 2 years has clearly demonstrated what I just pointed out above. The more she talks, the deeper she gets and the less support she gains.
I guess you haven’t read her other stuff so it never happened, kind of like the tree in the forest.
Inform yourself then what you say will have value.
Typical liberal!