Friday, February 18, 2011
Memo to public unions and Barack Obama: When you've lost Joe Klein....
Newsweek columnist Joe Klein applies actual intellectual honesty to the confrontation in Wisconsin:
Revolutions everywhere--in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they're protesting against it. I mean, Isn't it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting "Freedom, Democracy, Union" while trying to prevent a vote? Isn't it ironic that the Democratic Senators have fled the democratic process? Isn't it interesting that some of those who--rightly--protest the assorted Republican efforts to stymie majority rule in the U.S. Senate are celebrating the Democratic efforts to stymie the same in the Wisconsin Senate?
As we all learned in 2008, elections can hurt like a bitch.
Read the whole thing.
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