Rachel Maddow asks when the tactics like we've seen from the likes of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker are finally going to be enough for Democrats to realize that the Republicans' efforts to bust unions and make voter registration more difficult are going to undermine the Democratic base so badly that they don't get reelected again.

And it really astounds me after reading the following article, which Rachel covered in her segment as well, that anyone in Wisconsin voted for this guy.

Walker’s Gone, But We Are Still Stuck With His Bills:

But it was Scott Walker who got all the presents, and the tax payers who got stuck with the bills.

In the fall of 2009, as our elected leaders were hashing out the 2010 budget, Scott Walker included a plan to privatize the security guards at the Courthouse and other buildings. The Board rejected that idea and cut it out of their budget. Walker used his Frankenstein veto pen to reinstate the privatization. Again, the Board overrode his veto.

But after 2010 started, Walker declared a fiscal emergency and went ahead and privatized the guards, giving a lucrative contract to Wackenhut, over the protests of the County Board.

To make matters even worse, Walker bungled the whole thing.

First, he didn’t county on the professionalism of the county guards, who stayed on duty to the bitter end. So Walker had county security guards as well as the Wackenhut guards on duty at the same posts. To top it off, he also had Sheriff Deputies on duty, some on overtime, at the same posts.

Secondly, the jobs he took from Milwaukee County citizens ended up going to people from Chicago and Florida. The it turned out that one of the Wackenhut supervisors had a criminal history, including inappropriate sexual conduct, all while he was the police chief for Manawa.

Despite Walker’s claims that it would save tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars, the reality was that it barely made it to $70,000.

And now, even that small savings has been obliterated, because Walker, as he is prone to do, overstepped his authority and the whole thing was done illegally.

The unions took the matter to arbitration, and the ruling of the arbitration came out late today. It was in the favor of the unions.