This is quite beyond belief. Wisconsin's GOP, worrying as some deadlines approach and as union threats to attempt recalls of eight GOP state senators begin to be heard, are floating a "compromise" plan:
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The
Wall Street Journal reports that one moderate Republican, state Sen. Dale Schultz, has proposed changing the budget proposal supported by Walker slightly but fundamentally: instead of losing their collective bargaining rights in perpetuity, as the governor wants, they would only lose the right to negotiate for benefits through 2013.
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Commenter "Rich" on the thread to the linked post has the perfect response:
[T]here's a very old joke about liberal Republicans (that's how old it is). If someone had fallen off a boat and was 50 feet away, the liberal Republican would try to solve the problem with a 26 foot rope. Why, it would show that they were willing to go more than half way. This is is the same kind of solution and it doesn't address the underlying problem of taking rights away. If anything, it would make it easier in the future. ...
Stand firm, Wisconsinites!
OMG! That liberal Republican thing sounds just like Obama. We are now enlightened. The mystery is solved! LOL
ReplyDeletemandt, no more half measures. I've had it with half measures.
ReplyDeleteThis is a state-level matter over which Obama may have no real direct control, but surely he could threaten the Wisconsin GOPers with the cutoff of something they really want from the feral guvmint. Yes, and I'd also like a pony with sparkles on it. Obama has been worse than useless to us.