OK. I’m really trying to work my way through yet another political heartbreak.

It has been more than two weeks since Gov. Scott Walker signed his legislation limiting collective bargaining rights for the public work sector. Various lawsuits kept the so-called anti-union bill from becoming a law immediately. But the legislation snuck its way through on March 25 when the Legislative Reference Bureau published the law.

Now there are just a few threads keeping the bill from being enacted in law.

Before he signed it, when all this blame was being thrown at the 14 Democrats, Walker stressed the need for it to be law right now. But when the bill is being held up in court, he couldn’t be happier. Time is no longer too important to him.

Walker’s threat to cut thousands of jobs if the bill wasn’t immediately passed seems to have been forgotten.

And what does Walker do? Walker continues to not listen to the people of Wisconsin, and instead does whatever it takes to see his own goals realized, regardless of citizen support.

Walker’s run as governor has felt like nothing more than a dictatorship. More than half of Wisconsin’s citizens disliked the idea of unions losing bargaining rights, yet he didn’t listen. The people of Wisconsin were more willing to take small tax increases in order to avoid losing the rights of state workers, yet Walker still did not listen to the people.

This is not OK.

A democracy is supposed to be run by the people. The people choose who they want to govern them, and in turn, those who govern are supposed to listen to the will of the people.

News coverage of Madison is dying down, protesting the Capitol is becoming less and less important as we see Libya and Japan crashing through our TV screens.

The community that we saw during the protests at the Capitol seems to be fading away, and now is not the time to give in.

Sure, it was fun marching on the Capitol … for a few weeks anyway. But then, people started getting bored.

It’s almost as if the immediacy has worn off for both sides of the Madison battle.

The fight has been left up to the courts now.

On Tuesday, Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi stopped the bill from being implemented after the Walker administration had sidestepped the restraining order she had on the bill. How did the administration do this? They snuck the bill through the Legislative Reference Bureau, an agency that wasn’t mentioned in the original restraining order.

Leave it to Walker to manage to squeeze through loopholes.

Judge Sumi made clear that the language of her restraining order was “either misunderstood or ignored,” and the bill has been halted again.
At least legally it has. But when you’re a dictator, what need do you have for rules that weren’t made by you?

Get this: the Walker administration truly believes that the bill has been a real law since Saturday. They have stopped collecting union dues and have raised the cost of state workers’ pensions and health care.

How does this happen? Walker is acting upon a law that doesn’t actually exist, and nobody stops him.

News coverage has died down, but the situation is worse.