Friday, March 11, 2011

Honest Politicians?!

The article Walker, Wisconsin Ranger starts off with a catchy title that really grabs the readers attention as you want to know why the author named his article that.  After you get past the novel title you begin to see why the author chose that name.  With the large shift in voting back towards the Republicans, the politicians are beginning to see that Americans are watching somewhat and that they are being held accountable for the first time in decades.  With the large budget crisis' facing almost every state, Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin has taken a very tough stance on budget cuts and is ruffling many feathers.  The author does a good job of explaining how and why he is making so many waves in the proverbial pond but could really use less bias inciting phrases such as the ones used when describing the Democrats walking out.  If some of the conservative biased would've been checked at the door when he entered his office to write this piece it would be a bit more credible.  Aside from the steady bias undertone, the article is well founded and gives some good insight into what is being done to cope with the massive financial problems facing the United States.  When the author goes off on a tangent about morals with the over-drawn spiel about service to your community, it derails the methodical thought process he had going with elaborating on the money saving policies.  This is almost towards the end of the article therefore having that to end with along with the bias undertone really makes it hard to take everything at face value even though the "meat and potatoes" of the article are very well executed.  Overall the article does a good job of conveying the facts about the change in the way government is doing business but the bias of the author and their personal convictions get in the way of sealing the article as a success.