Holperin And Wirch Put The Lie To Talk Radio Cotton Candy

Call it one for the good guys.

It was refreshing to see Bob Wirch and Jim Holperin returned to their Senate seats, as neither veteran Democrat did anything wrong except help block immediate passage of a bogus "budget repair bill."

Talk radio whipped up their temporary departure into a political sin - - "flee bagging" - - but in the end, voters, as they had done earlier with Dave Hansen - - returned the Dems to office.

Voters, however, did boot two Republican Senators, leaving them with a wobbly majority in the Senate.

Blocking the Senate vote on Walker's proposal, and forcing him to recraft the bill, was a public service that never fairly computed or conflated as equal to the sneakiness in Walker's approach to collective bargaining or the legitimacy of the bill in the first place.

So give the Dems credit, and the voters, too, for returning good legislators to the Senate and proving that talk radio is insubstantial and insincere.