On Thursday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
publicly claimed that his so-called budget repair bill wasn't designed to be a union-busting measure:
"I really didn't factor that in one way or another."
But remember, that's not what Walker said when he thought he was having a private phone conversation with his billionaire benefactor from Kansas, David Koch, as he described his plan to drop "the bomb":
And i stood up and pulled out a picture of Ronald Reagan and said this may seem a little melodramatic, but 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan ... had one of the most defining moments of his political career, not just his presidency, when he fired the air traffic controllers. And I said, to me that moment was more important than for just labor relations or even the federal budget, that was the first crack in the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism ... in Wisconsin's history, this is our moment, this is our time to change the course of history ... for those who thought I was being melodramatic you now know it was purely putting it in the right context.
Which is it, Scotty? Your public claim that it wasn't a factor or your private slobbering about changing the course of history?
Update: There are rumors swirling that three or four Republican state senators are wavering and may vote against Walker's union-busting bill, presumably in the face of the numerous polls showing strong public opposition to stripping collective bargaining rights. Stay tuned.