{"id":55209,"date":"2015-09-15T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55209"},"modified":"2015-09-14T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:38:36","slug":"brass-tacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55209","title":{"rendered":"Brass Tacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Walker gets serious about domestic policy<\/a> as Hurricane Donald enters its eighth week, launching a salvo at the public employee unions:<\/p>\n

At a town hall meeting in Las Vegas, Walker will propose eliminating unions for employees of the federal government, making all workplaces right-to-work unless individual states vote otherwise, scrapping the federal agency that oversees unfair labor practices and making it more difficult for unions to organize.<\/p>\n

Many of Walker’s proposals are focused on unions for workers at all levels of government, while others would also affect private-sector unions. Labor law experts said such an effort, if successful, would substantially reduce the power of organized labor in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Dilettante on why it’s important<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The key for Walker, and all the other Republican candidates, is to get specific and force The Donald to start getting specific as well. Trump wins if he gets to use the force of his personality to drive the debate. As long as the debate is about personalities and borscht belt insults, Trump the Insult Comic Dog will continue to dominate. He’s turned the campaign into a Friar’s Club roast (vid is NSFW, of course):<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve broken my usual cover early in this campaign, and been an “out” Walker guy since roughly sixty seconds after he won his re-election bid. \u00a0It’s always important for the GOP to put forward the right person; I think Walker, with the right VP (I like Susanna Martinez or maybe Nicky Haley) is that person.<\/p>\n

If he can just get the GOP, and then America, to get the starry-eyed obsession with novelty and celebrity that led us first to Obama and then Trump, we could start going places again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Walker gets serious about domestic policy as Hurricane Donald enters its eighth week, launching a salvo at the public employee unions: At a town hall meeting in Las Vegas, Walker will propose eliminating unions for employees of the federal government, making all workplaces right-to-work unless individual states vote otherwise, scrapping the federal agency that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55210,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55209\/revisions\/55210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}