In the past two weeks, we have gotten used to hearing the phrase “Day of Rage” applied to cities across the Arab Middle East. Today, it was hard not to draw an analogy between those cities and Madison, WI. Not that anyone resisted the metaphor particularly: Congressman Ryan said, “it?s like Cairo has moved to Madison” while protesters carried sign reading “Walker like an Egyptian.” 30,000 protesters, that is, who filled all the floors of the Capitol building and the entire city square that surrounds it. Glenn Beck says the Madison protests are part of the same “spread of evil” that has gripped the Middle East. Uh huh.
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