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Side saying that there shouldnt be. the workers on friday said that well accept the contributions to the pension, well accept contributions to health care. given the governor gave them what he sought, whats this really supposed to be but an attack on collective bargaining. i love -- we were talking early, i love the smell of democracy. its so inspiring that so many people feel moved to come out and express themselves. but this in wisconsin, make no doubt about it, everybody understands cuts need...

Compensation. that is whats at stake here. it goes way beyond this budget issue. this governor of wisconsin is not setting out just to fix a budget hes setting out to break a union. thats a major move in terms of american history. i believe the president should have weighed in. i think we should all weigh in and say do the right thing for wisconsins budget but do not destroy decades of work to establish the rights ever workers to speak for themselves. >> david, if i could just add. this is a cam...

Its important to understand that you cant look at all these states as one. the governor touched on it very well. this issue in wisconsin deals with whether or not public employees ought to pay in their health insurance program which they dont now and their pension prom which they dont. the unions agreed to do this. this has now become and president obama was right in his description of it, questionable whether he should have gotten init, but this has become an assault on unions and the ability t...

Be. the workers on friday said that well accept the contributions to the pension, well accept contributions to health care. given the governor gave them what he sought, whats this really supposed to be but an attack on collective bargaining. i love -- we were talking early, i love the smell of democracy. its so inspiring that so many people feel moved to come out and express themselves. but this in wisconsin, make no doubt about it, everybody understands cuts need to happen but this is really ab...

Dont now. the unions agreed to do this. this has now become -- and i think president obama was right in his description of it, questionable whether he should have gont into it, but this has become an assault on unions and the ability to organize in wisconsin. im hopeful that the governor if hes serious about the math, which he obviously is, that he will take the unions at their word and say were now prepared, which is the right thing to do in other states where public employees are not doing thi...

Job where they dont really have a choice as to whether or not they can union representation. i think democracy is a good thing. they need to have more. >> harold ford, look at the numbers from 2008 in wisconsin and the presidential race. this was a state that the president carried 56 to 42. a swing state. you wouldnt know it by those numbers. but more republicans certainly in the mid-term elections had strong gains and make no mistake, the president is elevated to governor walker. this is about ...

Earlier. i love the smell of democracy. its so inspiring that so many people feel moved to come out and express themselves. but this in wisconsin, make no doubt about it, everybody understands cuts need to happen, but this is really about collective bargaining. >> ed gillespie, is this open season on unions by a republican governor? is that what this is about? thats what the president said. >> i was interested in seeing the president insert himself and i agree with lindsey graham he might want f...

Here it is. look at this picture. the sea of red. union protesters in the rotunda in madison, wisconsin, over the move by governor walker to take on the unions in this battle. this is how the "new york times" reported it on saturday. framed the issue. the images from wisconsin with its protests, shutdown of some public services, and missing democratic senators who fled the state to block a vote, evoked the middle east more than the midwest. the parallels raise the inevitable question. is wiscons...

Where wisconsin unions said if you elect this guy scott walker hes going to reform or limit collective bargaining. he was open about what he was going to do about contributions to pensions and retirement, and he told the people of wisconsin im going to change collective bargaining because it impedes progress when it comes to education, its too hard to fire anybody, its too complicated, and im going to change that system. so in a democracy, when you run on something you do have an obligation to f...

It is about politics. it is about who wins the next election and the elections after that. thats whats going on right now in wisconsin. this is about the survival of the democratic party. there are parts of the story that actually dont make any sense unless you understand that. one thing that doesnt make sense, wisconsins republican governor, this guy scott walker has proposed essentially dismantling all the unions for everybody who works for the government, right, thats what this is all about, ...