Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is desperate to silence the outcry against his attempt to take away public workers' collective bargaining rights, undermine BadgerCare and SeniorCare, and concentrate decision-making in his office so that he can sell state properties to his cronies in no-bid deals.

He has gotten his allies to engineer changes in the Legislature's rules in order to limit hearings and debate with regard to his so-called "budget repair bill."

He has, as a taped phone call with someone he thought was billionaire campaign donor David Koch revealed, been actively engaged in what appears to be a coordinated effort to get national conservative groups to flood Wisconsin airwaves with a disinformation campaign. He hopes to fool Wisconsinites into thinking that the state is in a fiscal crisis that requires the busting of unions and the gutting of health care programs for children.

He has, as well, admitted in interviews that he engaged in discussions about using troublemakers to disrupt the mass rallies opposing his bill. And he has said that the only reason he did not authorize thugs to cause those disruptions is because he feared it might not help him politically.

Walker has tried everything.

But nothing has worked.