Walker attacks Dems, succeeds in making them more resolved to hold out

[babylonsister]

Walker attacks Dems, succeeds in making them more resolved to hold out
By Greg Sargent


Governor Scott Walker held a press conference this afternoon in which he hammered away at missing state senate Dems in an effort to force them to cave and return to Wisconsin to pass his proopsal rolling back public employee bargaining rights.

But if anything, Walker's presser has only stiffened Dem resolve to hold out longer. That's what Dems agreed upon this afternoon in a private conversation after Walker's appearance today, one senate Dem tells me.

In the presser, Walker made the surprising claim that two senate Democrats were privately negotiating with him and senate Republicans to reach a deal to end the impasse. As Eric Kleefeld reports, Walker singled out Dem senators Tim Cullen and Bob Jauch, claiming that they had met with Walker and Republicans near the Illinois state line in an effort to reach some kind of compromise. Walker then charged that Dem leaders keep blocking these efforts.

But in going public with this claim about Cullen and Jauch, Walker has only succeeded in antagonizing them and making them less inclined to deal with him, senator Chris Larson just told me in an interview.

"Walker just knocked down the last two people who thought Walker could be reasonable," said Larson, who said he had heard this directly from the senators in question on a call after the Walker presser. "He threw those two guys under the bus. It hardened their resolve."

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/03/walker_holds_press_conference.html

[emulatorloo]

1. Good for them. Once again, Walker overplays his hand n/t

[opihimoimoi]

2. The dude is a GOD FREAK...claims he converses with GOD....

And yet....HE LIES....some Christian he is....no turning of cheeks,,,, no mercy......no love......no sharing....

[ShadowLiberal]

3. Walker is such an idiot, the state senate should try to make a deal without him

At this point I'm starting to think we're more likely to resolve this conflict by the legislature coming to an agreement and passing it over Walker's veto.

I bet that if the state senators come up with some other deal to close the budget gap that Walker would be stupid enough to veto it just because it didn't cripple unions.

[handmade34]

5. did you just hear

Scott Fitzgerald? He's as absurd as Walker... ain't gonna happen

edit to say he was on LO'D

[tallahasseedem]

4. I am so proud of these...

Democrats. I really hope that these great poll numbers and momentum run strong into 2012.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Wasn't there something about the Democratic 14 requesting Walker

to come down to the Illinois border and negotiate? And he publicly refused.

Yet he claims he was down there negotiating with Cullen and Jauch?

[lunatica]

7. I think the Dems set him up to show the public that he refuses to compromise

There are Democrats who can and do use politics to upstage their opponents. It sounds to me like Walker may have been set up by Tim Cullen and Bob Jauch and the rest of the missing Demos.

To be a politician is to think in warped ways about how to come out on top. It's innate.