What happened in Wisconsin signals a shift in political mood and assumption. Public employee unions were beaten back and defeated in a state with a long progressive tradition. The unions and their allies put everything they had into "one of their most aggressive grass-roots campaigns ever," as the Washington Post's Paul Whoriskey and Dan Balz reported in a day-after piece. Fifty thousand volunteers made phone calls and knocked on 1.4 million doors to get out the vote against Gov. Scott Walker. Mr. Walker's supporters, less deeply organized on the ground, had a considerable advantage in money.
But organization and money aren't the headline. The shift in mood and assumption is. The vote was a blow to the power and prestige not only of the unions but of the blue-state budgetary model, which for two generations has been: Public-employee unions with their manpower, money and clout, get what they want. If you move against them, you will be crushed.
Mr. Walker was not crushed. He was buoyed, winning by a solid seven points in a high-turnout race.
TONY DIGIROLAMO- OH MY PEGGY NOONAN GLAD YOU'RE ON BOARD WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU DOING ON THOSE MSNBC SHOWS IN 2008? YOU GOT SUCKED IN BY "THE ONE". YOU SPOKE OF HIM IN SUPERLATIVES.
This article you've penned here speaks to what we've know all along.
"There is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration." indeed there is... And he was dealing from the bottom of the deck. The American people ended up the losers.
But now that's turning around.
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