Well, we have our own genius to contend with. This affects all of us, as it seems what one GOP governor will do, so do others. I second a comment by First Read last week where they said journalists were doing the public a disservice by not clearly stating what is factual, and not, about the health car law, amongst other things, as that is their responsibility. This is awful and frightening. It seems they have done another disservice by not reporting on this very important issue so the good folks of Wisconsin could make an informed voting decision. I wonder why no journalists are questioning Governor Walker about this – since it is in black and white. AND by not now having Governor Walker explain himself. If he cannot run a county how can he run the state.
The building closed at 4 p.m., but many demonstrators remained inside, including at least one state representative. On Sunday, with rumors flying that the building would be closed and protesters arrested, members of the police association announced that they would remain with the protesters and be arrested, should it come to that. What the Capitol police really wanted to do was to clean, and they managed to figure out how to do it around the demonstrators. This is Wisconsin – it didn’t.
I watched that show on Sunday, and I knew in my gut something was “off” in Walker’s answers, especially in regards to the insurance issue, but Gregory never seems to be prepared with any real facts in his interviews. To his credit, he did keep asking the governor why he ‘wouldn’t take yes for an answer ,’ however, he allowed Walker to claim this insurance issue as an answer, implying the unions are corrupt. I nominate Anna Molly to replace David Gregory on Meet The Press. I won’t even go into how angry Friday night’s broadcast news made me. It’s really disturbing how far journalism has fallen, that you learn more from the comment section of a blog than from a glitzy Sunday show.
In fact, I didn’t even watch MTP yesterday, having seen it the week before, where Lindsay Graham just repeated all of Walker’s lies while Gregory said nothing and asked no real follow-up questions. Too much time in the gym, I suppose. What you describe is the general pattern with the Main Stream Media these days, and not just as it relates Scott Walker. It’s mostly people who get paid a lot of money to look pretty and not say anything even vaguely controversial. LoL Amy ~ That’s exactly why I did this.
By doing this it could hold crime down! saving money;, it could help the real estate markets, and when this is all over, and the economy is growing, these people would not need near as much assistance, saving more money, they would have all ready been helped, as they helped the country as they spent the money to provide for their families.
Does anyone really think the state employees are worth this much more than private sector workers? Of course not. The outcome will either return balance to the country and put the taxpayer once again on an equal footing with unions or we will permanently (until violent revolution occurs) have two levels of citizens. The US must dismantle collective bargaining for public employees. It would be inevitable because government employees have a sense of entitlement and unbelievably actually think they deserve these levels of benefits, etc. The rseults of the past 40 years is proof enough it creates a stacked deck against the taxpayer. Everyone with a brain knows that most public employees are drawn to public service jobs by the amount of time off, womb to tomb health benefits, pension and yes wages even not because they are creative and producers. If Walker settles for only the health and pension portions of the bill he will (or some other governor and local government mgrs) sooner than later be faced with the same greedy bastards looking to reinstate the no pay health & pension benefits. One class the worker bees that produce the honey and the other class the drones who eat the honey. This crisis is one of the most significant domestic issues in the history of the country. Do public employees have jobs that they can simply be absent from and the states just keep operating? How important are they? Walker is 100% right. Dem politicians elected by massive union money and feet on the street are controlled 100% by the unions and no one represents the taxpayer.
Which, by the way, he lost in the election. Failure to even talk about it will never resolve it. I agree that we need to solve the problems — but misdirecting people about what the problems are won’t get them solved. That’s why Scott Walker will fail the state the same way he failed Milwaukee County. We need to acknowledge the REAL problems first and then unite to form a solution, which may involve raising taxes. p.s. They were so impressed with his service as County Executive that they thought it would be better not to pass him up the ladder.
Go and interview a wwII german soldier. They have barely been able to live with how they have been used. “Tools” is a nonsexual double entendre. I used to think the comparisons of Walker and Hitler were excessive, but they use the same tools. I am afraid that a whole lot more suffering will have to happen before the shooting half of the working class realizes they have shot the wrong ones.
Mark Murray Mark Murray is NBC News’ Deputy Political Director.Since joining the network in 2003, he has reported on and written about political races, trends, and issues — including the 2003 California recall, the 2004 Bush-Kerry presidential race, the 2006 midterm elections, the historic 2008 presidential race, and the upcoming 2010 midterms.
He occasionally appears on-air, writes feature-length pieces for msnbc.com, reports from Capitol Hill, field produces and provides editorial guidance for correspondents and producers working on Nightly News, the Today show, Meet the Press, MSNBC and affiliates. He writes, reports and edits for First Read, the network’s political blog. Domenico Montanaro Domenico Montanaro is an off-air Political Reporter for NBC News.
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