The Real Political Math in Wisconsin: Howard Fineman

[Stuart G]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/25/the-real-political-math-in-wisconsin_n_828429.html

WASHINGTON -- The real political math in Wisconsin isn't about the state budget or the collective-bargaining rights of public employees there. It is about which party controls governorships and, with them, the balance of power on the ground in the 2012 elections.

For all of the valid concern about reining in state spending -- a concern shared by politicians and voters of all labels -- the underlying strategic Wisconsin story is this: Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

Last fall, GOP operatives hoped and expected to take away as many as 20 governorships from the Democrats. They ended up nabbing 12.

What happened? Well, according to postgame analysis by GOP strategists and Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi -- who chaired the Republican Governors Association in 2010 -- the power and money of public-employee unions was the reason. "We are never going to win most of these states until we can do something about those unions," one key operative said at a Washington dinner in November.

[montanacowboy]

1. Well, there you have it

crush the unions and there will be no money to politically support dem candidates and repukians can win everything on a state as well as national level

[MasonJar]

2. And of course the Kochs want their little boy to help them out simultaneously.

[Marnie]

3. Which is why a boat load of congressional Dims and

Obama needs to go and camp out in Madison till this thing is over, or there may not be a Dim party to have a candidate in 2012, or definitely by 2014.

Since I believe Obama is a Repocon, and a coward, I assume he is OK with what Walker is doing, and even if he isn't he won't move his skinny butt to help, cause it would make Republicans mad at him. What remains is the spineless Dims of Congress and whether they want to have a political party after this spring.

[Maraya1969]

4. Is there a tape? Please let there be a tape.

[Stuart G]

5. I don't know if there is a tape with Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi ,saying this..

But you had better believe he did........that is what this is all about..