The lie wasn’t missed by the national media. Will the State Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel pursue this flip-flop. Check out this Daily Show Walker protest intro:
Washington Post-Greg Sargent: Here's what Wisconsin Republicans accomplished tonight: In a situation where they had repeated opportunities to resolve this standoff and plausibly declare victory for themselves, they have now ensured that this battle is only going to escalate.
Wisconsin Republicans took the drastic step of breaking up the budget repair bill and passing only a measure rolling back the collective bargaining rights of public employees. A committee removed some parts of the bill, allowing Republicans to pass it by a simple majority, without (the) missing Dems.
Republicans control the governorship and state legislature. The fact that they were forced to resort to this trick is itself a concession that they had lost the battle … And in so doing, they were forced to pull a maneuver that will only lend even more energy to the drive to recall them.
This kind of conduct is exactly what recalls are for.
By treating the collective bargaining piece as a non-fiscal provision, Republicans have also revealed that Walker's repeated claims that the anti-union push was all about the budget to be a complete falsehood.
What's more, Wisconsin unions agreed early on to the fiscal concessions Walker demanded, on the condition that he preserve their bargaining rights. He refused, on the grounds that the rollback was a fiscal issue -- which has today been revealed to be bogus.
This is exactly the sort of conduct that justifies recalls. This will only escalate from here on out.
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