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Onto it, that story will be told 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...

The power to overly and suspend elected government justified by 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 every...

So far on this show, we have done one, precisely one, cell phone text poll question thingy. last week we did one on a lark, mostly out of jealousy that the other shows do them and we never had. but it sort of went spectacularly. we are going to try it one more time. get out cell phones, get ready to weigh in on what's more embarrassing? first, consider alan simpson, former republican senator, co-chair of the president's fiscal commission nicknamed the cat food commission because of the commission's proposed cuts to social security. in that cat food commission co-chair capacity, mr. alan simpso...

Still out of state. they are not claiming victory on this yet. they say there's no clarity yet that governor walker's budging move at this point. they say the moves are confusing and suspicious and they're right to be suspicious. we heard the governor talking about his strategy for tricking the democrats to come back to the state capitol on the prank phone call when he thought he was talking to david koch, the oil and chemical billionaire. as a wisconsin senate democrats continue to be cautious and don't claim victory, it should be noted that implications nationally of the democrats winning th...

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...