By Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
Blue-collar workers of America, unite. These folks are on your side.
Sure, it may not look like it in Wisconsin, or Indiana, or Ohio. But the conservatives here at the annual right-wing all-star game knowns as CPAC are trying to get you out from under the thumb of your union bosses. If you are in the private sector, well, they’re going to make sure you know about those “lavish” benefits and pay packages enjoyed by teachers and sewer workers. As Samuel Wurzelbacher put it at a Tea Party panel about running against entrenched incumbents — he’s running in the Ohio district where the legislature has pitted Democrats Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich against each other — “I am blue-collar. I am middle-class. I don’t resent the rich. I want to be rich some day.
There was also a panel this morning about how successful the efforts have been across the country to roll back collective bargaining. At this panel, the efforts of goggle-eyed homunculus Scott Walker in Wisconsin to bring fiscal sanity and economic liberty to that state, now d/b/a a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, were glamorized beyond sane belief. Vince Venucchio, a lawyer for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, painted a glorious picture of the new Badger State, paying rather not-attention to the million or so residents who’ve decided that the changes wrought there are so glorious that they’d like another chance to pitch the goggle-eyed homunculus out on his ear. Further, according to Venucchio, the defeat of the anti-union bill in Ohio, which has rendered Governor John Kasich as popularthere as gum disease, was a matter of “the $55 million put into the election there, $43 million of which was spent by the unions. We didn’t have good talking points. We didn’t have good messaging.” And you had a governor whom people would prefer would return to his previous career as the Marco Rubio of 2000. And the bill, well, sucked.
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