• The real news from Wisconsin is union members putting in all that unpaid overtime.

• So far, most of the presidential jockeying in the Republican party has been at the back of the pack. Sen. John Thune folded his campaign, wisely. Thune is a good man, but one term in the Senate and a base in South Dakota do not make for a powerful résumé. Newt Gingrich, who is expected to form an exploratory committee, lacks proportion rather than power. He is an ever-bubbling font of ideas, and a bold, if erratic, political strategist. He will have to show that …