Yesterday the Chicago window workers' sit-in looked like it was gaining momentum - national press, a huge deal, an icon of a nation whose economy is parked in free fall as companies get denied the credit lines needed to keep rolling debts over. Now, that demonstration is off the news.
Today, former Democratic Alabama governor Don Siegelman's appeals case started: he got yanked out of office, convicted in a faulty process by the corrupt local U.S. Attorney's office, and tossed in prison. Siegelman also off the news.
Today, SEIU no longer appears on the side of the burgeoning righteous labor revolution; its president, Andy Stern, is apparently the 'SEIU official' contemplating inserting Ron Blagojevich into a cush job.