Wisconsin Puts Obama Between Competing Desiresmisses the main point: Gov Walker has started an all-out assault in public unions in Wisconsin.
By JACKIE CALMES
Published: February 20, 2011
WASHINGTON — The battle in Wisconsin over public employee unions has left President Obama facing a tricky balance between showing solidarity with longtime political supporters and projecting a message in favor of deep spending cuts to reduce the debt.
UPDATE: Ms. Calmes replied to the e-mail I sent her and agreed that her article needed a little changing:
I tried in one paragraph to make clear that the issue in Wisconsin is not pay cuts but bargaining rights. But I should have added after the phrase 'pay cuts' another phrase, "which they have agreed to." And I've now asked the editors at the NYT Web site to do that so it's at least there for online readers. JC
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