The Huffington Post's Senior Political Editor Howard Fineman appeared Tuesday night on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" to discuss Wisconsin and the current dispute over labor unions.
Fineman pointed out that "the public is already on the side of the public employee unions." He elaborated, "lots of other Republican governors, Mitch Daniels in Indiana, Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania, Rick Scott in Florida, all have said to one degree or another that they would not go after employee bargaining rights in order to cut the budget...the Governor of Wisconsin is way out there on a limb and Obama wants to just leave him there."
Expanding on the political calculations of the White House, Fineman said, "the President and his advisors feel that they're getting some political benefit out of this nationally. And one way they are is a fired up labor movement."
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Just as the Tea Party has been duped by the ruling oligarchy, so the so-called progressives have been duped by the unions--neither side is immune to propaganda. Sooner or later, however, reality is going to intrude into these pipe dreams.
They are a very progressive nation and you can be sure that now that corporations and/or right wing ideologues own our media, we will never be able to attain the level of progressivism that they have. Even more ironic is that Wisconsin is considered to be the birthplace of progressivism.
This is because they see the hand-writing on the wall - we are all at the mercy of the Big Corporations and they want to crush the Middle Class.
Elections matter middle class, stop voting your prejudices, they're playing you like a pawn, the corporate republicans are anti-humanity and working folks
I watched, in the South, when the Dixiecrats deserted the Dem's over Civil Rights, but how in the world we let the Repub's make themselves into the party of Family Values I will never know. Their oppostion to Civil Rights and to abortion got them poor Bible Thumpers in the South and Plains states is the only thing I can see. Shame on them all.
F&F!.
The well may be dry, but that's because Walker's been busy emptying it.
Corporate dems are a little more subtle in their support of corporations, but that's the only difference. Obama has an opportunity to come out strongly in favor of working people, but he has only straddled the fence as of yet.
Now what I believe:
The entire AFL-CIO should have walked out when St. Reagan broke PATCO!
The middle class has gone steadly down hill since 1981!
F&F
Stop doing the work of the republickans.
$ 192,000 a year. and he very seldom leaves his house...he also cashed in on florida's notorious D.R.O.P prgram, wherein, he retires, collects his beneifts, then gets his old job back , at $192, 000 a year..its called double dipping.....and politicans scream about teacher"s salaries???????????
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