The momentum builds!

We certainly can not let last week’s big win for taxpayers in Wisconsin pass unremarked upon. The unions poured millions into the effort to stack the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and it certainly appears that they failed. Even better, they thought they won, and THEN the rug was pulled out from underneath them – a 200 vote preliminary margin of victory for the Democrats/Unions turned into a 7,000 vote margin for the Republicans/Taxpayers when the official tally picked up a suburb that had been left out of the preliminary count. And the Democrat had already given her victory speech! A recount is a possibility, but the margin is so large now that the challenger would have to pay for it.

As one commentator observed - although accidental, Wisconsin may have stumbled on a good strategy: hold back Republican votes so that the Democrat machine doesn’t know how many ‘extra’ votes to come up with, then at the last second drop the hammer down.

The result is a huge win for the forces of fiscal restraint, a huge loss for the unions which wasted a good deal of member dues on the effort (which won’t be available for other races), and hopefully it energizes the forces of fiscal restraint and de-motivates the public unions. Put that together with a pretty good outcome of the congressional budget battle over fiscal 2011 spending, and the average taxpayer had one of the best weeks since the November election. But while two battles appear to have gone to the good guys, they were just skirmished in the bigger war to re-start our country. This war is likely to continue for years, but the forces of socialism are now clearly on the defensive.