'The Rachel Maddow Show' 3/8/2011 : ("We Won in Wisconsin", Maddow's premature celebration)

MSNBC Transcripts ^ | March 8th, 2011 | Rachel maddow

[sickoflibs]

Thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour.

Hey, Wisconsin, you won. There has been no ceremony, there has been no applause yet, there has been no formal surrender ceremony—but I am telling you, you have won. Congratulations, Wisconsin.

After 22 days of protests in the state that is the cradle of the rights of Americans who work for a living, after 22 days of protests against Republican Governor Scott Walker‘s efforts to strip union rights in Wisconsin, the governor has started to crumble. The governor started to cave. The governor started to do what he said he would never do.

(Walker clip played here by Maddow)

MADDOW: No room to negotiate. That was Governor Scott Walker more than two weeks ago insisting as he did repeatedly that he was not willing to negotiate. He was not willing to budge on union stripping.

But as it turns out, that after picking this fight, after saying he would never negotiate, Governor Walker is negotiating now

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Then came news today that Scott Walker‘s own party, the state‘s Senate Republicans caucused, and the news from that caucus was not good for the governor. Remember, the governor can only afford to lose three Republican senators and still get his union-stripping bill passed. And three Republican senators have now made public comments that the Republican governor should compromise

[NRA1995]

Nothing like unbiased news coverage! /sarc

[MiltonFriedmanFan]

It is March 11th, the 3rd day since Maddow’s Mission Accomplished!!!!