Scott Walker Appointee News Today

Its a criminal misdiagnosis of the problem. >> economics professor at cornell university. appreciate your time in helping to understand this. thank you. >> always a pressure. >> so there has been a lot of excellent coverage for the last couple of weeks about the big political stand under arrest r off in wisconsin. this is about the future existence of the democratic party and it is the sharpest relief we had in this country about why we have two parties and what the difference is between them. n...

Chunk of the get out the vote infrastructure that democrats rely on. the republican party more than anything else represents corporate interest the democratic party more than anything else represents people who work for corporate interests or people who represent something other than corporations. the longer this goes on, the longer this stretches out, the clearer it gets that this is not a fight about the budget. at the out set, there was a strange fact that the specific unions that would be ex...

As the thing went on longer, the unions offered to give all the consessions he asked for. if he were just concerned about the deficit would have meant he won. game over. governor walker did not accept the concessions he didnt want to talk about them. today as this keeps going on comes the threat that if he doesnt get what he want, he may have to lay off people. why tomorrow? its the deadline for refinancing the states debt. that will add another $14 million. whats the reasoning? we have a defici...

When you ask them about it. the republican party is not rebutting that what they propose is less growth for america and less jobs in america they are not rebuting it. they admit it when pressed. they are counting on you not paying attention the associated press interviewed a number of governors for the governors association meeting, the meeting with president obama today. the ap noted in their article that governors are turning down money and undermining federal initiatives designed to create jo...

Scrapping their dues or whatever they meant. the official republican party decided to bet on scott walker in this fight in wisconsin in a really big way. real, live republicans who have governing responsibility on the other hand, not so much. the apparatus is on board. the politicians are not. when scott walker took what turned out to be a prank phone call from a man he thought was a conservative billionaire named david koch, one of the things scott walker got wrong in the call was the idea that...

Decided to bet on scott walker in this fight in wisconsin in a really big way. real, live republicans who have governing responsibility on the other hand, not so much. the apparatus is on board. the politicians are not. when scott walker took what turned out to be a prank phone call from a man he thought was a conservative billionaire named david koch, one of the things scott walker got wrong in the call was the idea that republican leaders across the country were going to fall in line behind hi...

Scott walker let the cat out of the bag on that prank phone call. he thought he was having it and let the cat out of the bag when he admitted that republicans are just counting on the protests going away. from the looks of it, they are not going away. the longer it goes on, the less governor walker and republicans have to stand on here. the longer it goes on, the clearer it becomes that this whole fight is not about what they say its about. this fight is not about the budget. this fight is about...

Scott, dont come to nevada, i would be afraid you would beat me running for governor. thats all they want to talk about is what are you doing to help the governor in wisconsin. >> the last gentleman governor walker mentioned was brian sandoval, the new republican governor of nevada. according to scott walker, sandoval is behind him all the way, unless of course you ask governor sandoval. here was the headline last week in the las vegas sun. sand oh val wont draw the line like wisconsin governor....

State of wisconsin and the collective bargaining issues. rather than spending constructively time on coming up with inside to move us forward together, they are taking the copying right privileges. its a joke. >> is that going to have know effect on whether or not you guys are able to stay away and stay in coordinated and keep doing what you need to do to be able to make this time as constructively as possible. >> i know all of them on the capital and a lot on the republican side. dedicated hard...

>> pretty tough, amazingly, a much smaller group of protesters, almost all of whom are in from other states today. sooner or later, the media stops finding it interesting. the guys we got left are largely from out of state, and i keep dismissing it in all my press comments. >> all of those people in wisconsin, theyre all from other states. really? want to ask them? part of the reason governor walker and the republicans think they are going to win in wisconsin is because they keep thinking the pr...