Gov. Walker and the Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader are insisting that they were this close to getting the Dems to come back. But that’s prompted even sharper denials from the runaway Dems, insisting that Walker is using good faith discussions of points of compromise to create the impression that the Dems were ready to cave.
Whatever the reality of that though Walker’s stance seems now to have made any compromise even less likely — since he basically put it out there that the two senators most willing to talk were in fact ready to cut a separate deal with him.
