TIME Article: Wisconsin's Governor Wins But Is He Still Dead Man Walker?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

I hope this hasn't already been posted - I couldn't find it here and it is a good one with links to more good TIME articles on this!

The state capitol of Wisconsin had taken on an eerie quiet on Friday. Gone were the throngs of protesters who occupied its marble floors like a campground in summer. The midnight honking of cars circling the white building had ceased. The chalk "dead man" outlines etched with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's name on the sidewalks remained in dismembered parts, incompletely washed away by clean-up hoses.

It was the Governor, however, who had walked away the legislative victor in the showdown. On Friday, as angry protesters chanted "shame" and blew horns and vuvuzelas, Walker took up a dozen pens, one at a time, to sign into law a bill that not only takes away the ability of unions to bargain collectively over pensions and healthcare but limits pay raises of public employees to the rate of inflation and ends automatic union dues collection by the state. It also requires each public union to get recertified every year. It was a coup by Wisconsin Republicans against the labor movement in one of its strongholds.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2058601,00.html#ixzz1Gb3VXOTT

[rfranklin]

1. Dead Man Walker!

works for me...figuratively and literally. (Only if Jesus decides his time has come.)

[aquart]

3. Well, he's happy and cheerful and new study says

those are the ones who don't live long.

[elocs]

2. I was there Friday and it was amazingly quiet. I watched as the sidewalks were chalked.

On Friday I was able to park my car in a ramp just a few blocks away. I was able to pretty much just walk into the capitol building and inside I was able to use the men's restroom and there was nobody in there or near the door. I walked up the steps and did hear the chanting of "shame, shame". I had brought my 19 year old goddaughter and I told her that on Saturday there would be tens of thousands of people there, but there turned out to be more than I thought.

[KansDem]

4. Funny how Time calls this a "win"

First Walker tells how this bill is necessary for WI's budget;
Then the 14 Democrats leave the state, denying the Gov. a quorum;
Then Walker threatens them and intimidates them;
Then Walker strips the union-busting part of the bill out and has a closed-door session to pass it with all the WI Repubs...

Yeah, some "win" :eyes:

on edit: Perhaps "craven win" is more like it...

[eowyn_of_rohan]

5. it is no win - it is a theft

but at least they call it a coup elsewhere -

[virgdem]

6. More like a "Pyhrric" victory...

this so called victory will probably cost the pubbies of Wisconsin down the road. Time magazine is a right leaning magazine since the 1970's at least. I canceled my subscription a long time ago - not worth the paper it's printed on.

[Blue Owl]

7. Cheat to win, Scott Walker

Cheating is the only way Republicans can win.

I'll go tell the children that cheating pays.