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They pay for. everything republicans wanted in terms of fiscal concessions from people that work for the state, they got them. public employees conceded. they gave republicans everything they asked for in terms of paid give backs, pension, healthcare, everything with budget impact, the public employees gave up right away, right at the outset. if it was really about the budget, then those concessions would have sort of solved the problem. would have been enough. but it is not about the budget. and so instead we have had 22 days of protests over what? over the stuff that's in the e-mails, the st...

These e-mails. governor walker's office releasing e-mails to milwaukee journal sentinel. e-mails that show him caving on big parts of the union stripping bill, offering modifications, offering compromises. budging. this, of course, is not over yet. senate democrats in wisconsin have not returned to the state capitol. the begrudgingly e-mailed offers from the governor are not the same as legislation being withdrawn or new legislation being introduced. but essentially "i won't budge" has been forced to budge. he lost this one. and more importantly, he lost it on the substance, and he lost it pub...

Governor refuses to meet with senators. this is from fon due lock, walker says no to meeting. daily tribune from wisconsin rapids, their headline is walker refuses to meet senators. the lacrosse tribune. walker rebuffs request to meet. newspaper after newspaper after newspaper all across wisconsin this morning, essentially slamming governor scott walker on their front pages for not budging, for not negotiating, for not being willing to talk, for not being willing to even meet with the state senate democrats. with these headlines across wisconsin newspapers this morning, another conservative fi...

The entire nation. even though that paper endorsed scott walker, even though they leaned right, they are also now editorializing against walker's union stripping folly. then came news today that scott walker's own party, the state's senate republicans caucused, and the news was not good for the governor. remember, he can only afford to lose three republican senators and still get his union stripping bill passed. and three republican senators have now made public comments that the republican governor should compromise. and so after 22 days of escalating protests, after effectively locking down ...

I promise you, as if this was some story about the budget. as if this was a fight about whether or not wisconsin is going to be able to balance its budget. when the stories are inevitably written, they will be wrong. this was never about the budget. as soon as scott walker was sworn in, td very first day, he called special session of the state legislature which ultimately passed four pieces of legislation that he favored. collectively, those four pieces of legislation will end up making the state budget deficit in wisconsin $140 million worse, not better, worse. that was governor walker's firs...