Right to work states declare: “We are Devo!”

Reporting in the Los Angeles Times concurs with the conjecture that obstinate Senate Republicans made class (see this, this, this, this, this, this and this) and sectional warfare (see this and this) when they undermined the Detroit bailout. Their greatly coveted prizes: Defeat the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R.800), defend their 'local' firms and, maximally, break the union movement as a whole.