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Financial emergency. and how do you know when you're in a financial emergency? because the governor tells you you're in a financial emergency. or a company he hires to do so does that instead. the senate version of the bill in michigan says it has to be humans declaring the fiscal emergency. the house says a firm can do it as well. this is about a lot of things, this is not about a budget. this is using or fabricating crisis to push an agenda you would never be able to sell under normal circumstances. so you have to convince everyone these are not normal circumstances, these are desperate circ...

Not just because they haven't won yet like the protesters in wisconsin have, michigan protesters are telling them they are about to lose their right to elect local government. the government is going to take care of that from now on. the governor knows best. this whole democracy thing turns out is very inefficient. haven't you heard, there's a crisis. big government conservativism gets really astonishingly big, that's next.

Crisis, and we have to essentially rule by fiat. the first stage is to consolidate power. it is not just to hoard the power, it is then to auction off the states. because these guys really don't believe in the governments that they are running. this is an old story. if you look at what's going on in wisconsin, why are they so desperate to tie the hands of unions? why are 16 states facing similar battles? unions are the final line of defense against privatization of the public sector. unions are the ones who fight privatization of school system, of the water system, of the power system. that's ...

Negotiating. 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 the begrudgingly e-mailed offers from the governor are not the same as legislation being withdrawn or new legislation being introduced.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 h...

Apart. but loyalty and home state favoritism have strategic limits as well. consider the republican national committee. right now, if you want to go to the republican national committee website, you go to the internet machine, type in rnc.org, and it repopulates to this. stop obama's union bosses. the entire republican national committee website has been overlaid with pro-scott walker, pro-republican thing from the day that walker caved on this fight, republicans in wisconsin have essentially lost this thing. but at the republican national committee, not only is it the front page of their webs...