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" They&amp;#039;re trying to kill me. Swear to god they are. Tiger Beat On The Potomac\u00A0is once again doubling down on its worst instincts, which is bad news for my liver and worse news for the nation. For starters, let&amp;#039;s examine the argument proposed today that his presence at the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights March in Selma means that President Blacula is finally rising from the grave.  On Saturday, Obama will not only attend the march, he will lead it, along with his wife, Michelle, and both his daughters. In contrast to his first term when many black leaders were frustrated by how hard he worked to avoid inflaming racial tensions, in his second\u00A0term he has more publicly embraced his historic position as American&amp;#039;s first black president. Marching in Selma isn&amp;#039;t the only step he&amp;#039;s\u00A0taking. He&amp;#039;s made sentencing reform a fourth quarter priority, an issue\u00A0that is a top priority for African Americans and that he thinks he might be a rare chance for Republican support, and in the months since\u00A0Ferguson, he&amp;#039;s added police misconduct to his agenda as well. On the side, he&amp;#039;s started an initiative called My Brother&amp;#039;s Keeper to help mentor young black men, which aides say will also be a major focus of his post-presidency.  Lyndon Johnson said it best in his great speech to Congress. The triumph of the civil rights movement freed us all. The victory does not belong to all Americans, but all Americans benefitted from the sacrifices made by the Selma marchers and all the other people who threw themselves into the movement. It deserves to be celebrated by the entire nation as much as, say, D-Day does. That a president of the United States would participate in this event should surprise nobody. As president, Jimmy Carter would have been there. I suspect that, in his second term anyway, Ronald Reagan would have shown up, if someone had made a good case that he should. Far more interesting is that no Republican politician of note is going to be present. This is something to remember the next time somebody makes the &amp;quot;But, Robert Byrd...&amp;quot; argument to you. Elsewhere, we find a TBOTP reporter buying a big old bag of magic beans from Scott Walker about how right-to-work laws are sweeping the nation.  By late last year the anti-labor movement Walker created had spun beyond his control. Walker was surprisingly reluctant, after his November reelection, to take up right to work, calling it a &amp;quot;distraction.&amp;quot;\u00A0It was only when political pressure to introduce the bill, stoked by Fitzgerald, became overwhelming that Walker promised to sign it. A\u00A0probable reason for Walker&amp;#039;s hesitation was that, despite his fervent anti-union rhetoric and actions, Walker still had some support within\u00A0union households. Writing in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reporter Craig Gilbert observed that while public-sector union households gave Walker a 73 percent disapproval rating in January, private-sector union households gave him a\u00A0much more forgiving 53 percent, and an approval rating of 43 percent (compared to public-sector union households&amp;#039; low approval rating of 26\u00A0percent). Right-to-work&amp;#039;s passage will surely diminish that support.  Lord above, were the editors all drunk when this hooey was passed to the desk. Walker&amp;#039;s caught on tape explaining to a local plutocrat that crushing the public-employee unions was only the first phase of the effort to break labor&amp;#039;s power entirely. What&amp;#039;s left of the private-sector unions would come later. The idea that Walker is merely a feather-in-the-wind at the mercy of his pet legislature takes credulity to the top of Bullshit Mountain and shoves it off. Of course, he lied about this in the last campaign. He did the same damn thing with his position on abortion. The man never has run an honest campaign in his life. As long as the political press treats this kind of cheap mendacity as a shrewd campaign tactic, and not an attempt to gain office under false pretenses, we&amp;#039;re going to end up with charlatans like Scott Walker and my new friend, Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa. Bartender, a double Prestone, Xerex back, and see what the pundits in the back room will have. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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