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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and His Allies Drop All Pretenses
Tweet Share on Facebook March 10, 2011 Comment (46)There’s a sports saying that comes up whenever a player signs a huge, multimillion dollar megadeal: When they say it’s not about the money, it’s about the money. A similar principle holds true in politics. When a politician says that something is just about the budget and not about grinding ideological axes, it’s really grinding ideological axes. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his allies on the right made that abundantly clear on Wednesday when the state legislature passed Walker’s “budget-repair bill” stripped of its budgetary pretenses leaving only its union-busting ideological nub.
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Sarah Palin Obliviously Weighs In On Wisconsin Labor Standoff
Tweet Share on Facebook March 8, 2011 Comment (19)Memo to Sarah Palin: You’re really not in a position to criticize anyone for ‘retreating.’
Palin appeared on Fox News Channel’s Justice with Judge Jeanine over the weekend and was asked about the Wisconsin stand-off wherein 14 Democratic state senators have skipped over state lines to foil GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to strip public sector workers of their bargaining rights. The host asked the former half-term governor whether the absentee lawmakers should be fired. Palin’s answer:
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Another Poll Brings Bad News for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2011 Comment (80)The bad news keeps on coming for Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker. The results of poll after poll show that his union-busting overreach has backfired in Wisconsin (and that it’s not popular nationally either).
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Mike Huckabee Criticizes Natalie Portman (and Then Backtracks)
Tweet Share on Facebook March 4, 2011 Comment (21)So what is going on with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee? Following closely on the heels of his foray into anti-Obama fantasyland (stating incorrectly that the president was raised in Kenya, among other things), he has blundered into and quickly tried to extricate himself from another politico-cultural thicket, criticizing Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman for being unashamedly pregnant while unwed.
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New Ad Targets Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for 'Class Warfare'
Tweet Share on Facebook March 2, 2011 Comment (36)As if we needed another sign that the labor standoff in Wisconsin has become a national proxy fight, an air war has broken out on Wisconsin televisions. The latest salvo comes from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, which has bought time on Madison and Milwaukee television stations for a one minute ad blasting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s anti public union budget proposal.
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New Polls Bring More Bad News for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (54)A trio of new surveys bring more bad news for embattled Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker. All three show that the public is taking a dim view of union-busting efforts, and all three have results that more or less dovetail with each other.
Robert Schlesinger
Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of "White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters." E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.
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