It was inevitable that attempts to trim government at the state-level as well as the federal level would offend some sensibilities. What was not inevitable was that the offended parties would do such a poor job making their case. In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, Harold Meyerson resorted to hyperbole, comparing Wisconsin’s new governor, Scott Walker, to Hosni Mubarak and writing:
The real goal of the American right is to reduce public employee