Scotty One-Note

At a town hall meeting today in Las Vegas, Gov. Scott Walker will brown-nose for some of Sheldon Adelson's billions by proposing to eliminate labor unions and collective bargaining for all federal employees, right down to the Capitol Building janitor and the dishwasher at the Pentagon cafeteria.  Walker's proposal would do away with the National Labor Relations Board, and would also mandate that all states are henceforth "right-to-work" states.  Any state wishing to restore its current labor law protections would need to pass a new state law to do so.

In the latest Gallup poll from August, a strong majority of Americans (58%) approve of labor unions, and a plurality (37%) want unions to have more influence than they have today.

"All I really know is unions are bad, and pork chops are good."

So why is he pulling this stunt now?  Because he's dropping like a stone in the polls and because, really, Scotty has nothing else -- no buzz, no message, no nuthin'.  So he reverts to his fall-back position, his one idea, his one "success" -- union-busting.  Yeah, that's the ticket!

When Scotty rammed through his labor "reform" in Wisconsin in 2011, he claimed it would create jobs, improve the economy, and increase opportunity for all.  He eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees -- teachers, nurses, trash collectors, snowplow drivers, etc.  But he did not touch police and firefighters.  They alone were allowed to retain their collective bargaining rights.

(John Kasich tried the same shitty thing in Ohio with SB 5, and he was determined to bust 'em all, including the cops and firemen.  But it was bunches of pissed-off cops and firemen who led the fight against Kasich.  SB 5 blew up in his face, and Kay-suck, still anti-union, is unlikely to press his luck again.)

Scotty's economic rationale was, of course, nonsense.  There is no "success."  Wisconsin's economy is stagnant, employment is unchanged, and median per capita income has fallen steadily since 2011.  And no one has ever called him out on his ideological hypocrisy.  If unions are so horrible, Gov. Walker, why didn't you try to crush police and fire, along with the others?

Maybe so they wouldn't bitch as loudly as they might have otherwise?  Wimp.  Weasel.  Tool.

Now a desperate Walker wants to go for the Hail Mary and play for headlines with across-the-board, no-exceptions federal union-busting.  Ooh, what a tough guy!

Forget it.  The proposal is a loser, and so is Scott Walker.