The crew of Fox & Friends is very excited for their summer road trip to the Republican and Democratic conventions.

They’ll be heading to Tampa, to Charlotte, AND to North Carolina.

We’ve had an avalanche of responses to TPM Reader HS’s rough email on public sector unions. Here’s one of many, focusing on what I think is a key point. From TPM Reader BB …

I’m sure one of many emails that you received concerning the financial guy commenting on public employee unions. Full disclosure: public school teacher from WI that signed and collected recall petitions, marched in Madison in the winter and cannot wait to vote for anyone else other than Scott Walker. But I also believe that the author of the email is voicing a popular sentiment concerning public employee jobs and unions in general.

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The inside story on how the recovery went bust.

I’m sure you’ll be surprised to discover that Greece’s recently elected Neo-Nazis are reprehensible.

This video from a Greek talk show that turned violent is pretty shocking.

For all the attention to Wisconsin, this is the story out of California that let me know that public impatience verging on hostility to public employees unions is a big story of 2012.

From TPM Reader JL …

Obama delayed the recovery? I think Jay Carney better get used to saying “sounds like someone’s been spending too much time with Donald Trump.”. I know he used Trump once already today but really, I don’t think the Trump card can be played too often.

I always stress that my reprinting a reader email doesn’t mean I necessarily agree with it. This one, as you’ll see, requires restating that upfront. But I’m reprinting TPM Reader HS’s note because I think he’s speaking for what is a real animus or lack of sympathy for public employees unions afield in the electorate in these straightened times. Bracing stuff. That’s what I take from the little discussed victories for public employee pension cuts in two major California cities on Tuesday. But I think it’s foolish to ignore and important to read.

I can think of a few things that the Wisconsin Governor’s recall mean.

Unions, particularly public employee unions, are not that popular.

Yes, Scott Walker is a dick. Yes, I think he wants a right to work state. I tend to side with the Wisconsin Public Employee Unions.

But it is also difficult for me to feel much sympathy or even understand Unions. I received a degree in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate in 1987, and have been in Sales and Marketing for most of the last 25 years in the Tech and CE sector.

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Mitt Romney says President Obama slowed down the recovery on purpose in order to get health care reform passed. Watch.

In today’s Crosstabs, why have Mitt Romney’s favorables rebounded so quickly?

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If you follow politics closely, you probably know by now that Bill Clinton broke dramatically with President Obama on Tuesday and recommended that all of the Bush tax cuts be extended. Permanently? For a few years? Who cares really. All that’s important is that Clinton said some thing that could be construed (if you squinted and cocked your head just so) as breaking from Obama on fiscal policy.

It started with a heavily promoted CNBC interview, Republican operatives pushed the suggestion aggressively, and by the end of the day we had stories like this one from the Chicago Tribune, headlined “Bill Clinton backs extending Bush tax cuts, for now,” distributed with a tweet that read “Bill Clinton breaks from Obama, endorses Bush tax cuts.” Read More