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Buchanan: “He is winning this thing! He is winning this. He’s got all the votes.”
BRZEZSINSKI: “The polls are bad, Pat.”
Do you mean the polls…bought and paid for by the unions??? You have to be incredibly stupid to think we wouldn’t find that out, BRZEZSINSKI!

The Wisconsin public sector unions, in agreeing to compromise on their pensions and benefits in exchange for collective bargaining, have apparently done all they could to negotiate with the state’s governor – according to Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski Tuesday. The self-confessed Democrat for whom appeal to sentiment is second-nature, Brzezinski painted the governor as “cold” and “mean” in the eyes of Wisconsin voters, to whom the union has “given blood.”

“The union has given blood to this guy. They’ve given everything he’s wanted,” Brzezinski lamented. “I don’t know what more they can do for him.”

Brzezinski highlighted polls of Wisconsin voters, which show a majority now have an unfavorable view of the governor. “You know what the voters are saying?” she rhetorically asked. “He’s cold. And he’s mean. And he doesn’t care about the little guy.” Wow, it sounds like someone’s getting coal in his stocking next Christmas.

Ironically, the liberal “Morning Joe” co-host sparred with Adrian Fenty, the former Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C. Fenty agreed in “substance” with Walker about collective bargaining reform and even added that Walker could do more politically.

“I just don’t understand why the legislature has been given this pass to go to another state and not do what they were sworn to do, and that’s to take a vote,” Fenty said of the state Democratic legislators. “[Walker] needs to point the finger a little bit more at them and say ‘Listen, they should take a vote’.”

Brzezinski pointed out that Walker has not attempted to compromise with the unions. Fenty dismissed that point as well. “[Walker] has the votes in that legislature,” he said. “All you should have to do as an executive is to get a majority of the votes.”

A strange addition to the discussion was the presence of President Obama’s disgraced former “Car Czar” Steven Rattner. In addition to overhauling the auto industry, Rattner was a financier and co-founder of a private investment firm, and settled in December with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over a lawsuit for his involvement in a pay-to-play scheme with the state’s pension fund.

Rattner opined that Gov. Walker had indeed overplayed his hand in the standoff with the unions, and that collective bargaining is part of the “fabric of American business and government.”

Matt Hadro is an intern for the Media Research Center.