overreact in a way that will sell poorly in swing states in 2012. in virginia, in north carolina, in indiana, in colorado, in florida, all of them swing states, all of them with relatively low percentage of unionized public workers and unionized workers generally. that s what s going on. that s the big picture here. and now the democrats are the ones who have to be the grownups because the republicans have been the ones to issue the provocation. this is very serious stakes having everything to do with the 2012 election. scott walker is almost immaterial. he will be a hero in the halls of republican conservativism, a hero at the republican convention. i seriously doubt he ll be on the ticket, but he is doing what the real leaders of the republican party want done. robert reich, senator miller said in his statement in 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in
recall these people. democrat chris larson, thank you for joining us on this historic night for wisconsin. thank you. joining me now, howard fineman of the huffington post and msnbc, and robert reich, former labor secretary in the clinton administration, and author of aftershock, the next economy in america s future. robert reich, fix for us this event s position in the history of the american labor movement. lawrence, this is another example, and we ve had actually relatively few examples over the last 50 years, but over the last 100 years a number of examples of governors, of executives, politicians, basically trampling on the rights of people, making a mockery of democracy and of the rule of law. in wisconsin, the governor exposed himself. after all, his whole justification for getting rid of most of the bargaining rights of federal and state workers was to
secretary robert reich. thank you both for joining me. thanks, lawrence. thank you. coming up, newt gingrich explains why he is not a hypocrite for spearheading the impeachment of president clinton while gingrich was having his own marital affair. david from will explain how he thinks he is going to get the inauguration. [ lane ] here s the trouble with most anti-wrinkle creams. the cream disappears but your wrinkles don t. introducing neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available.
something that is encouraging to other republican governors or was it so messy, so chaotic, so politically risky that other republican governors will now be wary of taking steps in this direction? lawrence, i think that in ohio, john kasich is probably encouraged by what walker did or what walker is doing. i wouldn t be surprised if governors in new jersey, christie and indiana and other midwestern states where you have republican governors that feel they are in the asen den see take some courage from all of this and feel that actually governor walker is going to make head way, at least among republicans and conservatives. but i do think that the american public does not like this kind of extremism. republicans both at the state level and also republicans that are threatening shut down of the federal government risk turning the public off, not just democrats but also many independents and many republicans themselves who don t like these kinds of tactics. howard fineman of the huffi
thank you. joining me now, howard fineman of the huffington post and msnbc, and robert reich, former labor secretary in the clinton administration, and author of aftershock, the next economy in america s future. robert reich, fix for us this event s position in the history of the american labor movement. lawrence, this is another example, and we ve had actually relatively few examples over the last 50 years, but over the last 100 years a number of examples of governors, of executives, politicians, basically trampling on the rights of people, making a mockery of democracy and of the rule of law. in wisconsin, the governor exposed himself. after all, his whole justification for getting rid of most of the bargaining rights of federal and state workers was to save money, but in order to ram this particular piece of legislation through the state