With the disaster in Japan sucking all the journalistic oxygen out of the room you can be pretty sure it will be a couple of weeks before the media covers anything else. By that time the American people will be emotionally exhausted. I think it is fair to say when we come out of this story nobody is going to want to hear about the public employee unions.
The lefties and the unions need people at an emotional pitch. The people won't because they will have just opened their hearts to a nation/national ally that is suffering. They will have opened their wallets to people in genuine dire straits and let's face facts, this will have a negative impact on the economy if not across the entire world, certainly in the Pacific Rim.
When the Japan story filters off the front page the unions will demand you go back to paying attention to them.
But it will have been weeks since the bills were passed into law. None of the dire effects that so appeal to histrionics will have come to pass and it will be hard to make the case that a township buying identical insurance coverage from a private company instead of the teacher's union is a crime against humanity especially while humanity yet suffers on such a massive scale elsewhere.
It is then, I predict, DUmbasses will come to show their true colors.
Whatever paeans to charity or concern for their fellow humans (assuming liberals are human) will evaporate and you will see thinly veiled grumblings of resentment for the plight of the Japanese people. You may even see full throated conspiracy theories of the sort that blamed the Indonesian tsunami on all the bombs falling in Iraq.
Anyone care to wager against this prediction?
Feel free to post any such threads you find here.
