Progressive charters and unions talk collaboration. Joe can’t sleep.

Joe can’t sleep thinking about charter and unions collaborating?

With Andy Rotherham on vacation, I’ve been kind of bored. No anti-union Democratic Party centrist to mock. And now Joe Williams says he’s going on vacation. But he left a little somethin’ behind.

Williams, the union-hating blogger at Democrats for Education Reform, sounds like he woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

Is there anything to be gained, politically, by some sort of grand bargain with organized labor?

Why would Williams suddenly be so worried? Is it because there is movement in exactly the direction these Democratic, triangulating, teacher union-bashing think-tankers most fear? You bet.

Great debates to be had on this topic, methinks, especially if we get more people into the mix.

“Methinks?” Who talks like this?

But, Joe. The conversation has started. Where have you been?

I’m concerned because he blogs that he’s in a canoe with his wife and kids, and all this worry might ruin his vacation.