Whoops! Teaser Headline in Today's WashPost: 'Wis. GOP on the Ropes'
Oh the perils of an early deadline.
On the bottom of page A4 in a teaser that reads "Wis. GOP on the ropes," the Washington Post alerted readers to a story on page A4 about how "Six lawmakers are fighting to survive recall challenges spurred by the governor's efforts to weaken unions."
The page A4 story is entitled "Two Wisconsin Republicans fend off recall efforts."
"State Senate races seen as a test of the GOP's policy agenda," added the subheader.
The story, by staffer Michael Fletcher was apparently written when only two of the six challenged Republicans had bee declared winners in yesterday's recall.
When the dust settled, however, Democrats picked off only two Republican state senators, leaving Republicans still in control of the Badger State's upper legislative chamber.
What's more, next Tuesday there are two Democrats who may be felled in a recall election. If Republican win both those races, then Democratic gains last night will have been completely erased.
In the penultimate paragraph of his story, Fletcher quoted University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin arguing that "If the Republicans hold the Senate, then I think they can see that as a ratification of the policy they adopted."
It remains to be seen if the Washington Post will present it that way.
I'm not holding my breath.
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With the GOP Victory
Submitted by scottyusmc on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:39am.
The media are quick to put this behind them. News broadcasts are "speed-reading" over the results with no analysis or discussion on how this validates the Republican and Gov Walker position.
However, we all know the extensive indepth analysis and panel driven discussion that they would be having had the results gone the otherway.
Media once again show their lack of objectivity by not reporting the underlying message of the victory.
I expected nothing less from them... They are aone-trick pony...
Spot on, Scotty
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:49am.
(and this time, I'll let my tag do the talking).
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Now THERE'S a "Dewey Wins!" moment
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:45am.
Four out of six GOP senates beat back a recall, and four of six Democratic challenges go home with a copy of the home version of the game as a consolation prize. If the GOP is on the ropes in Wisconsin, the Democrats are hanging from them,
Maybe they'll correct it with one of Special Ed Schultz's crazy observations about brilliance and innovation.
"In war, there is no substitute for victory." -- General Douglas MacArthur, USA
You Beat. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:40am.
. . .me to it. DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!
Actually I beat both ya.. but
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:52am.
Actually I beat both ya.. but who's counting?
Gosh, did that make me sound petty or what?
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Revisionist History Only Works When Nobody's Paying Attention
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:43am.
We are supposed to believe that Wisconsin was going to be the "last stand" for the Unions and the "template" for how the fat cats like Trumka would fight back and continue to send America into the toilet...
But, at each step, they've failed.
So the Wisconsin Senate remains in GOP hands, and there are two Democratic senators facing the voters in round two of the recall elections next week.
They can bus in all the phony union types and social terrorists they want, but they still lose.
If this was their Waterloo, they are dead men walking.
If this was their "template", I hope they keep using the same tactics!
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Behind closed doors in their dungeon . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 4:58pm.
. . . the DNC and the unions are reeling from the stunning repulse of their full-court press. They threw everything they had into this recall, and it busted. Their is evidence of genuine resistance to them in Wisconsin. Now their 'strategists' are going to have regroup and sort out their plan and methods before the 2012 election campaigns heat up. Soros may hold back the checks until they do.
The results are truly
Submitted by jdhawk on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:59am.
The results are truly gratifying. Perhaps, now it will give other governors and legislators the spine they need to defeat the power of public sector unions.
By the way, until public sector unions are actually proscribed for the cancer they are, this isn't going away even in Wisconsin.