Wisconsin is TOO BIG TO FAIL! Obama needs to get down there and crush Walker. nt

[grahamhgreen]

[golddigger]

1. He has not been given permission by his bosses yet.

[Jakes Progress]

24. + 100

[old mark]

2. K&R- Obama needs to do a lot of things he has not been doing...nt

[BlueDemKev]

3. What can the president do?

Union's collective-bargaining rights are strictly a state-by-state issue. Does either the Congress or the president have any authority to do anything (except ask the Justice Dept. to dig up some dirt on Gov. Walker?).

[grahamhgreen]

8. Pull federal funding for states that don't allow collective bargaining.

I believe Carter did that with Federal highway funds for the 55mph speed limit.

[sufrommich]

4. How should Obama crush Walker? nt

[NYC Liberal]

5. "Crush" him? By doing what, exactly?

Wait, sorry...I forgot. This is the internet, all things are possible. All Obama has to do is fly over to Wisconsin and simply "crush" the governor! Easy!

[grahamhgreen]

11. Right, I forgot, this President is a powerless mendicant.

:sarcasm:

[Goblinmonger]

6. We are doing just fine on our own, thank you.

We got this.

[whattheidonot]

19. exactly.

organize and surprise. Obama is not going to lead this. Pressure congress, get new congressmen and women. The country is going down , turn it around.

[Moral_Imagination]

7. SEND IN THE TANKS NOW OBAMA!!!!!

[HappyMe]

9. How is he supposed to crush him?

And isn't WI a state issue?


:shrug:

[sufrommich]

10. Of course it's a state issue. State budgets are state issues.

Apparently, Obama is supposed to go into Wisconsin and federalize their budget.

[HappyMe]

13. Swoop in, federalize,

because the guy has nothing else to do.


I think the folks in WI are doing just fine without the president.

[grahamhgreen]

16. I think 1/3 of the WI budget comes from the rest of us, already. But this is a national issue, its a

Workers rights issue.

[sufrommich]

17. Union busting has been a workers rights issue for decades.

There is a reason union jobs went from 32% in 1952 to under 12% now.It's been an ongoing problem for 50 years, what is the president supposed to do about it now?

[grahamhgreen]

21. Pull state funding if they pass the bill.

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. Only congress has the power of the purse. Civics 101. (nt)

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[Andy823]

14. He is doing the right thing!

If he went to Wisconsin it would play into the right wings hands. They would use against him, and rally their moron base. No staying out of this and letting the people of Wisconsin work it out is the best way to handle this issue. Right now even those who voted for Walker are pissed off at him. Polls show independents are turning on him, and even moderate republicans are getting upset with him. The president knows what he is doing and jumping in to the middle of this is a bad idea!

[grahamhgreen]

15. Unless we lose.

[whattheidonot]

20. can't lose this one

no way, this is it. after this it gets ugly. The scam has been exposed.

[Tarheel_Dem]

18. Thank You Andy.....

:thumbsup:

President Obama's going head-to-head with Walker is exactly what the GOP wants. It'll look like the big bad "Feds" bringing the hammer down on the states once again. I'm not at all sure that the people clamoring for the president to enter this fray have the workers' best interests at heart. They're doing just fine, and if the callers to NPR are any gauge, the workers want this to remain "their" fight. Polling is on the side of the workers, and they may lose this momentum if the fed sticks its nose in.

[Rex]

23. Why not just send one of his Daley buddies to do it?

His CoS knows all about bailouts and Too Big To Fail.