Republican Governors Desert Wis.’s Scott Walker

Memo to Gov. Scott Walker: Your allies are deserting you. They know something you don’t seem to: the public supports the freedom to bargain for good middle-class jobs.

Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott:

My belief is as long as people know what they’re doing, collective bargaining is fine.

Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbitt:

We’ll begin negotiations with the public-sector unions and anticipate we’ll conduct those in good faith.

Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels:

I’m not sending the state police after anybody. I’m not gonna divert a single trooper from their job of protection the Indiana public. I trust that people’s consciences will bring them back to work. … For reasons I’ve explained more than once I thought there was a better time and place to have this very important and legitimate issue raised. I’ll also say I think it would have the potential — just tactically — to possibly reduce or wreck the chances for education reform and local government reform and criminal justice reform and the things we have a wonderful chance to do.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/02/22/republican-governors-desert-wis-s-scott-walker/

They're sure trying to distance themselves, but I'm sure it's just for show.

And it is starting to become obvious to them that Scottie is going to end up being the kill here. Republicans are real good at knowing when it's time to live to fight another day.

Walker's days are numbered, they'll start a recall on him in a year. No one else wants to commit a political suicide that way.

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so,he's on thin ice to begin with!

He's going to get his Koch-financed sinecure, win or lose. But if he wins, he thinks his next stop will be the Oval Office. And then you're in for eight years of you ain't seen nothin' yet. When he loses, he'll go on all the talk shows, which will give him a respectful and sympathetic hearing for how the middle class needs to be dismantled.

They know that Walker's actions have not only greatly harmed the repug message and their chances in 2012. Thanks to this they have greatly PO'd many folks besides unions and now they'll trying to limit the damage from it (I think this stunt has killed his term as major we folks gets to recall his butt a year later. And I don't think they'll lift a finger to help when that happens).

of collective bargaining but the Senate will stop it.