The Wisconsin Wipe Out [ Unions spent the equivalent of 29% of Wisc deficit on this! ]
Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug 10 2011 | Kathleen McKinley
Posted on August 11, 2011 8:30:49 PM EDT by NoLibZone
Ok, not exactly a wipe out, but pretty amazing, and as The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza calls it, “an undeniable defeat for labor and progressive activists”
Why? Unions poured tens of millions of dollars into recalling six Republican state senators. They were hoping to win a majority in the Senate, but it was not to be. Out of the six, only two Democrats won, and one of those was against a Repubican who was scandal plagued. Remember the angry (Union) crowds piling into Wisconsin’s state captiol building in Feb? They swore revenge for the Republicans and Gov. Walker who asked them to provide more of their own money into their own healthcare fund instead of taxpayers, and passed a bill of budget cuts and layoffs of state workers .
And as Ed Morrissey points out:
It doesn’t help these progressive activists that Walker and the GOP produced the best budget proposal in 15 years, and that the PEU reform has already begun to save Milwaukee $11 million this year and much more across the state. It also doesn’t help Democrats to have President Obama “leading” us into a credit downgrade, massive deficits, and no apparent plan to pull us out of the economic stagnation his policies have produced.
Then, to pile on more bad news for the Democrats, next Tuesday, two more recall elections take place for the state Senate for the Democrats. This was pushback for the Democrats recalling ours, but things look good for the GOP now.
It was amusing to watch MSNBC reporters and anchors practically cry into their teleprompters (MSNBC was the only news network to carry the results live). If you haven’t seen this clip of Al Sharpton during the vote, then you haven’t had the laugh you deserve.
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