Union thugs set up ‘walk of shame’ at Michigan Capitol

You know how it is in politics, right? You win some, you lose some. If a vote doesn't go your way, you're disappointed, but you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on. You don't cling to your anger like grim death because that's pointless and only prolongs your bitterness.

Right? Ha ha! Just kidding. Right-to-work may now be a settled issue in Michigan, but just because the unions lost and that's that doesn't mean that will be that. It must be understood: Cross the unions and you will pay a steep price, and you will never stop paying. Hence the chant: "No union, no peace." The only problem is that not a single Republican lawmaker took the bait and walked past the hissy-fitters, save for this one guy who didn't look like anyone. He was only Dick Posthumus, the former Republican Senate Majority Leader, 2002 Republican nominee for governor and current top-level advisor to Gov. Rick Snyder. The union thugs didn't recognize him. They also gathered at the wrong entrance to the Capitol Building, apparently not realizing that most lawmakers enter the back door because it's adjacent to their parking lot. Ah well. Too bad because look at what they missed:

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Before the noon start of today’s ceremonial session, members of We are Michigan, who organized the demonstration, plan to deliver fresh cookies to lawmakers who opposed right-to-work and “broken cookies for broken promises” to those who opposed it. Demonstrators chanted, “No union, no peace,” and carried signs with message such as “RTW, Wrong for Michigan,” and placards with photos of Republican lawmakers with the word “Shame” stamped across their faces.

Broken cookies? What kind? Were they still fresh? Hey, they break in your mouth anyway. I do like the whole "shame" thing. It's almost as if the unions see themselves like that kid on the playground who gets picked on by a bigger kid, and then the playground monitor comes up and whoops the bully saying, "You should be ashamed of yourself! Look how much bigger you are than him!" I really think, deep down, that's how they see themselves. They really don't think they can make it in life but for the benevolent advocacy of their unions, aided by pro-union legislation, and any action that tilts the playing field even slightly in favor of someone other than them is cause for shame because these salt-of-the-earth working people are helpless without these legal guarantees. It's the same thinking that justifies their use of violence and just general hissy fits in response to anyone who opposes their agenda. "What do you expect us to do? Function in the free market? You know we haven't got it in us to succeed at that." They won't admit that's what they think of themselves. They bluster about how union-made products are so superior and everything else is cheap crap, etc. But they know it's not true. Many of them would be fired in a minute if their union didn't protect them, and that's what they really fear when the union is weakened by right-to-work laws.