In Wisconsin, the Unions have lost

One never knows how events like the uproar in Wisconsin will play out, but today, we have a very good indication that the unions have lost. that indication comes in the form of a column in time magazine by uber liberal Joe Klein. Klein begins by saying "Revolutions everywhere--in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they're protesting against it. I mean, Isn't it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting 'Freedom, Democracy, Union' while trying to prevent a vote? Isn't it ironic that the Democratic Senators have fled the democratic process?"

Klein's key sentences come later in his column. He writes: "Public employees unions are an interesting hybrid. Industrial unions are organized against the might and greed of ownership. Public employees unions are organized against the might and greed...of the public?"

If the public employee unions have lost Joe Klein, they have no real hope for victory in the court of public opinion.