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The Wall Street Journal reports -- "Conservatives in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may defect on the collective-bargaining reform vote."

NBC news in Wisconsin reports -- "four moderate Republicans are wavering and could break with the GOP and vote against Walker's budget repair bill."

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can't all the repukes just change their votes back in favor the bill?
How could the 14 get a true assurance that any repuke would vote against it?
Seems like they'll really have to sit this out until the term is over, right?

from the Republicans that they will not support the bill. Now it should be public press conference with coverage from all major news organizations. If they switched then it would be pure chaos.

Then again, he is on fox news.

Sen. Miller's comments are taken out of context in the Wall Street Journal article just released. Dems will return when collective bargaining is off the table. That could be soon based on the growing public opposition to the bill and the recall efforts against Republicans. Unfortunately, the WSJ fished for the quote they wanted, skipping this key step in logic: we won't come back until worker's rights are preserved.

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It has not escaped my notice that in practice, our President's left wing is a lot shorter than my own. (Mine is so long I fly in a circle, which is why I'm always here.)

President Obama is also one of the most astute politicians I've ever closely watched. His strategies are often deceptively simple.

We may never again see a truly close Presidential election in which the Democratic candidate wins, because if it's close enough to steal, the other side is the side willing to steal it.

President Obama's only choice for reelection, then, is to amass a victory so overwhelming that a theft cannot be concealed by the media and the statisticians.

Fortunately for him, populist issues such as this one, or keeping abortion legal, or raising taxes on the people who have benefited most from the crimes of Bush, are plainly visible and easy to understand for most voters. The President will continue to cultivate his position on the side of good sense.

It won't make most of us very happy, except in the sense that eight years of good and ethical governing is a helluva lot better than the alternative, which we have all already endured. Once he's back in, we may see the President willing to ablate some popularity in order to make some good and necessary decisions.

If any of you ever doubt that President Obama believes the elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen, you need only look at what he's doing now to see that avoiding a repeat of those disasters for our country is a central objective of his Presidency.