If you do the Google for "news," this is what you'll get

Funny thing is that's NOT how I got it. Actually, I went directly to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel site to see what they were doing on the story.  The second story in my comment I posted was the main big headline story on their home page. The first story in my comment was not, it was off the main page.but I put it first because I thought it was just as interesting or more interesting, because it implied there might be some administration input on this whole scene tomorrow and that could get real interesting.

And I went there directly because I often do. I was born in Milwaukee and lived there until age 29 excepting for 4 years getting a BA in Madison and I like to check the site once in a while for the Milwaukee news.

What you aren't told is that Journal Communications has a history

I am quite aware of the monopoly Journal Company's history, don't need your agitprop on that, thank you anyways.. Even grew up having to hear bitching about its nefarious power and influence on government affairsin weekly particulars from my father, who spent his career as a city government employee, specifically in the Personnel Dept, where his of his main activity was studying salaries wages and benefits of city government workers, those stats often used in labor contract negotiations.

Which side are YOU on?

I'm on the side of figuring out what's happening in the world.

As far as personal interests in this Wisconsin story are concerned, I'm on the side of figuring out what the heck the state of Wisconsin is going to be doing with all government services and their budiget and the strange things they are thinking about doing with their government in general. As I have a 50-something developmentally-disabled brother living there on SSDI who is also eligible for Medicaid as well as Medicare, and back when the state was in one of its more liberal moods, perhaps other services as he ages.  And any day now I will be taking on the responsibility for directing the rest of his life.  I am therefore not thrilled that Wisconsin is apparently going through another one of its periodic conservative rightie moods (wich have happened regularly throughout its history.)

But I don't believe in telling myself that what I can see with my own eyes, in this case that Wisconsin is going through another one of its conservative spells, isn't occuring in order to promote an ideological cause on the internet. Mho, just pretending everyone is on your side and hiding what a lot of voters are thinking in Wisconsin isn't really going to help you get anywhere you want to go. You've got to change the minds of some of those voters commenting on that Journal-Sentinel thread, not pretending they are not there and that its just an evil governor forcing it on a public that doesn't want it, in order get "amen brother" from fellow members on dag blog.

One thing I'm sure of is that not everyone in Wisconsin is on the side of the State Journal just as they are not all on the side of the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal. And then there's that awful big number of rural white state districts in Wisconsin whose opinion isn't represented by either but do have a lot of input when they go out and vote in state elections.

Another thing I did think while reading those is that if Wisonsin activisits were smart, they might be taking a clue from that Journal headline which implied that the governor might adjust his stance if other members of his party needed himi to, and instead of continuing a sit-in in Madison, they might be burning up the phone lines getting people in Republican districts to call their representatives and say they are against the governor's proposals.