Mouthing off

Last nite the Ed Show, MSNBC, was reporting from Madison, WI and Ed Schultz was so good and emotional that it actually brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful people, orderly demonstration and meanwhile Fox News was reporting that there were riots and whatnot there! There were kids supporting their teachers, firefighters (who are not involved in this, I'll get to it later) were standing up w/these teachers, nurses, snow plow drivers, all union people. The fire fighters & police are not involved as they supported Gov Walker in his election. Now, this Gov. Walker is something else. I was right when I said there is no deficit. Actually, there was a surplus of $l40 mil when he took office 2 mos ago and now there is a deficit of about $120 mil as he gave tax cuts to his friends that supported him. (as I said before Wal-Mart and McDonalds and maybe more, I don't know. ) John Nichols who is a journalist from The Nation is a Wisconsinite and he has known Walker for 20 yrs. He said this isn't Walker, he is like a puppet with his strings pulled by big money. What is is - THEY WANT TO BREAK THE UNIONS!!! That is all it is! They explained it all last nite, the unions are what bring in Democrat votes. Harry Reid would never have won in NV. A year ago I would have bet money that he wouldn't win. They were suffering in NV more than many states - financially - and he was finished. The idiot that was running against him helped him win, also, but it was mainly the Culinary Union that actually got him elected. The Democrats need the unions. Now, there are l4 states involved in things like this. Ohio and FL, I know about. It's beginning in Ohio already. Now, in WI, there are l4 Democratic State Senators and they left town. They are now known as the Wisconsin l4 and they left the state. A few of them were interviewed yesterday "at an undisclosed location". They were great! The governor sent out police to find them and bring them back but they were out of state and they couldn't "drag" them back. Walker is furious about this. I don't know what is happening now but I believe Obama has stepped in but don't quote me on this. Sen. Durbin (D-IL) has sent a message, Nancy Pelosi "tweeted" Ed Schultz last nite w/a message, but as of last nite he hadn't heard from anyone else. All these big Dem politicos should back these people. They aren't asking for raises, they are not asking for anything. They just don't want their salaries cut, pensions, health care, they are all involved in this and it is a bogus deficit that the Gov is talking about. Here, in California, a few yrs back had a Dem. Gov. - Grey Davis and Darrel Issa , Rep Congressman, started something to throw Davis out and quicker than you can say The Terminator we had a new Governator - oops, I mean Governor! They need an Issa in Wisconsin! It was very moving seeing all these people and happy and singing, while Fox was talking about the violence at the demonstration! Paul Ryan (remember him, he gave the rebuttal speech at the State of the Union) said it was like Madison was turning into Cairo. Did that mean that Walker was like Mubarak????? I don't know what is happening now, as I said before, but I sure will try to find out.
BTW, I saw something interesting today. Mark Ekstrum, a veterana fire fighter in Tucson, refused to go out on the call for the shooting as "his polical views" were different than his co-workers. WHAT??????????????????????? He retired 2 days later. His insubordination may have delayed his units response because they had to stop at another station to p/u a replacement for him. His actions caused confusion & delay. His team was specially trained for large medical emergencies. He is a 28 yr veteran. But it is confusing - he said he voted for Giffords. I don't understand it but I will see if I can find out something else about him.