http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022103190.html
Monday, February 21, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin
The Great Will (TGW) is in panic mode, The Public Sector Unions are on the move and it cannot bode well for the political fortunes of Scott Walker, pretender to the mantle of Ronald Reagan, and a personal favorite of our scribe.The revered Governor has a portrait of The Great Communicator in his library. One simply cannot tolerate political anarchy, public order must be maintained, at all costs.TGW screeches all this is a voice suffused with the panic of an investor witnessing the precipitous economic downturn of 2008. But as the story unfolds Governor Walker is serene, at the center of the storm, as Edward VIII on Coronation Day. Neath the portrait of The Gipper the Governor outlines the perfidy, the political chicanery of the unions who oppose his 'reform', as TGW avidly takes notes, like a conspirator, in on the job: it is all too cosy and self-satisfied to rank as reportorial. But it could be marked as a campaign press release, such is the ability of our writer to change pitch when politically necessary.
The strikers are being misled by an unscrupulous union leadership, greedy for their dues as a necessary prop for their self-aggrandizing growth: a corollary to the growth of big government, an unconscionable evil. The attention is then shifted to the notion of Big Government as the habitual practice of Democrats, in league with Public Sector Unions, acting in concert to subvert 'reform' as envisioned by Governor Walker. The indispensable note of political nostalgia is sounded by reference to President Reagan's destruction of the Air Traffic Controllers union and Margaret Thatcher's challenge to the miner's union: what would Conservatism be without its tales of Authoritarian Romance. Then, President Obama makes his final walk-on, as exemplary of fiscal irresponsibility,even as a Keynesian, suffering that political madness – austerity is now the newest political mantra of the unapologetic Freemarketeers, flush from record profits in 2010 and eager to point the finger at the Public Sector Unions, as the authors of our economic decline.
The strikers are being misled by an unscrupulous union leadership, greedy for their dues as a necessary prop for their self-aggrandizing growth: a corollary to the growth of big government, an unconscionable evil. The attention is then shifted to the notion of Big Government as the habitual practice of Democrats, in league with Public Sector Unions, acting in concert to subvert 'reform' as envisioned by Governor Walker. The indispensable note of political nostalgia is sounded by reference to President Reagan's destruction of the Air Traffic Controllers union and Margaret Thatcher's challenge to the miner's union: what would Conservatism be without its tales of Authoritarian Romance. Then, President Obama makes his final walk-on, as exemplary of fiscal irresponsibility,even as a Keynesian, suffering that political madness – austerity is now the newest political mantra of the unapologetic Freemarketeers, flush from record profits in 2010 and eager to point the finger at the Public Sector Unions, as the authors of our economic decline.
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