Monday, March 7th 2011, 4:00 AM  Now one of the grandstanding governors of the recession, a political chump named Scott Walker, expects everybody to believe that the only way to save the State of Wisconsin, and maybe the whole country, is one union worker at a time.  Walker comes riding into office in Madison on this huge wave of anti-Obama, anti-government hysteria. He promises that he will create 250,000 jobs and now expects suckers to believe that he would already be doing that if these Democrat-loving unions would get out of his way.  In a country where it seems that only Bernie Madoff does time after all the white-collar crimes against the economy over the past three years, a country where the high rollers of Wall Street still live high off big bonuses and the old-boy network seems as strong as ever, we are really expected to believe this:  That it is union workers who are the enemies of the state.  Walker and all the other state-house phonies like him talk a good game about going after fat cats and corporate contracts and special interests. They just never really do. They would rather act tough with teachers and cops and firemen, who are the backbone of the country that guys like Scott Walker say they want to take back from Barack Obama.  You would say Walker, pimping himself out to the Tea Party, is picking on the little guy. Except that the people he tries to bully these days are so much bigger than he is, there is nothing to discuss. You know what Walker really is? He is management, showing why workers in this country have always looked for ways to protect themselves.  Protesters rally against brothers Charles and David Koch in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Chatham/AP)  Here is Mike Murphy, a Republican shill and B-list guest in Cable America, allowed to write in Time magazine about Wisconsin teachers and make them sound like potential shoe bombers:  "On average, a teacher in Wisconsin pays more than $1,000 to the union (from an average salary of $51,264). A decent chunk of this money is used to fund political activities."  Murphy - who eventually discloses in Time that his company is doing pro-Walker ads - doesn't explain what he means by "decent chunk." Maybe that's because he seems more interested in making some third-grade teacher in Green Bay sound like the bogeyman. But is it 50 bucks they're spending out of their thousand bucks of dues to fight Murphy's vision of a better America, or a hundred bucks, or the entire thousand?  Somehow, though, teachers and members of other unions are supposed to be more of a threat to our way of life than somebody like David Koch, the Daddy Warbucks of the Tea Party movement, perhaps the most powerful conservative wing-nut anywhere.
The party that says it had to come to the rescue of the country doesn't even know which country it is supposed to be representing.