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Using fiscal crisis as a pretext to do stuff they otherwise want to do, this is something i don't think i would have ever believed republicans want to do. this is what they are proposing. hasn't gotten much national attention. check it out. rick snyder's budget in michigan is expected to cut aid to cities and towns so much that a lot of cities and towns in michigan are expected to be in dire financial straights. right now, governor snyder is pushing a bill that would give himself, governor snyder and his administration, the power to declare any town or school district to be in a financial emer...

Your budget deficit. it is not about the budget. they say it is about the budget, it is not about the budget. in ohio, john kasich delivered his state of the state. mr. kasich and state republicans have sort of forgotten to make it look like it is their agenda has anything to do with the state's budget. they put forward a more draconian union stripping proposal than the one being tried in wisconsin. again, stripping collective bargaining rights is not a fiscal issue, it is a rights issue. but mr. kasich and ohio republicans outdid themselves on the it's not about the budget front by including ...

Are editorializing against union stripping thing, but poorly in terms of conservative politics in wisconsin. what is the national impact of wisconsin? >> i think there is now a small national impact. i don't think it rippled out as as far as some of my friends on the left would like and hoped. but i think there are a couple of things to start with rachel to look at. the first issue that the governor had to deal with was a fundamental one, and an important one, and that is the privilege of state employees to collectively bargain versus the right of individuals to freely associate. and i think t...

Trying to achieve ideological aims that people wouldn't necessarily vote for, but also about changing the process, putting our thumb on the scales so that the process is easier for them to keep making more decisions like this in the future? >> absolutely because unions are a political force. i mean, they represent their members, but they also give them a political voice, and you know, in that fake conversation with david koch when scott walker thought he was talking to david koch, there was something really revealing that he said. he said this is our moment to change the course of history. tha...

About changing the process, putting our thumb on the scales so that the process is easier for them to keep making more decisions like this in the future? >> absolutely because unions are a political force. i mean, they represent their members, but they also give them a political voice, and you know, in that fake conversation with david koch when scott walker thought he was talking to david koch, there was something really revealing that he said. he said this is our moment to change the course of history. that's what he said when he thought he was talking to david koch. >> and the reason he pur...