> But Bosma still hopes that a way can be found to pass the legislation.

Well, furious, scary Mr. Boxma, I suggest you put on your too, too cute too-too and dream on.

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Recall Mr. Bosma, your continuants elected you to be civil, get along, reach across the aisle and kiss, kiss, kiss democrat fanny. If any lame hoosier whines about being unable to get a job, just tell the loser to join a union. Why didn't you think of that?

And remember: no retaliation. That would be bad manners.

Mitch Daniels's comments lately are really making me scratch my head. His comments about sending the cops to look for state legislatures sounds like a slap at Gov. Scott Walker. It is odd, I guess he wants the recruitment efforts and the speculation for 2012 to stop.

Your state has some severe issues if it's government depends on the Democrats behaving in a civil fashion.

Mitch Daniels is no longer a viable presidential contender. That's the simple reality after his unforgivably weak remarks on the fleeing Democrat clowns in his state assembly that undercut the fight in Wisconsin. NR is damaging its credibility by plastering the Corner with attempts to explain this away. Just cut Daniels lose like most of your readers have.

Many people negative about Governor Daniels because he has not taken a strident tone on an issue that many of his critics here do not understand.

The Governor warned Republican legislators against bringing this up at this time. He's right: they didn't campaign on it and they should do so before moving it forward.

It sounds to me like a perfect issue for the 2012 campaign (in Indiana) -- with Mike Pence at the top of the ticket.

Daniels wants his education reforms: vouchers, charter schools, college scholarships for early graduation, and teacher merit pay. He campaigned on this and so did the Republicans in 2010.

Let's not get carried away, folks. Walk-outs may not have so much of a history of precedent as filibusters, but procedurally they're no more offensive. In fact, under the present rules, it takes a larger fraction of most legislative bodies to pull off a walk-out than it does to filibuster (1/3 vs. 2/5).

There's no reason to feel especially threatened by the walk-out strategy, because it's a very blunt instrument. Yes, they can stop action, but only by stopping all action. And, of course, they remain politically accountable for doing it. If they're mistaken that the public is on their side, then, in the long run, they're just burning goodwill for no gain. If they're right that this is an issue on which the public will strongly back them, then it's a smart political move.

I believe the reason we're seeing this stunt is because, historically, any attempts to cut pay to teachers was political suicide. For decades the range of tolerable positions has been from modest increases to dramatic increases in education spending. Democrats who've spent their entire adult lives in that political environment simply cannot believe the landscape has changed so dramatically--and it's yet to be proved their mistaken.

So let's not get sidetracked on arguments about proceedure. The important fight is on the substantive issue: How much money should we spend, and are we giving it to the right people?

Brian Bosma will find out that Unions are unpopular, but the public needs there existence! He believes we all can live on 15.00 per hour except his family! The tax base must come from higher wages! We all need good schools! Good public schools!