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After their latest defeat at the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the public employee unions are pursuing two agendas: (1) recall elections against a handful of senators; and (2) a federal lawsuit. Ann Althouse muses on what the unions are doing and comes to a conclusion:

The unions suffered a crushing defeat, and the only way back — not mentioned in the article — is to regain the legislature and the governorship in future regular elections. That's a long time line, and it will give the people of the state a chance to see if the Republicans' budget fix worked.

At this point in the protracted budget battle of 2011, the people of Wisconsin deserve that information before we plunge into another big change. If the unions look too desperate grasping at strategic moves like #1 and #2, above, then Wisconsinites ought to suspect that they are afraid to let us see how good the new policy really is.