Democratic legislators flee to protect state workers
Submitted by scharrison on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 12:38am
Of course this is happening in another state, what were you thinking?
Faced with a near-certain Republican victory that would end a half-century of collective bargaining for public workers, Wisconsin Democrats retaliated with the only weapon they had left: They fled.
Fourteen Democratic lawmakers disappeared from the Capitol on Thursday, just as the Senate was about to begin debating the measure aimed at easing the state's budget crunch.
This act will probably not change the result. But sometimes the act itself has a more profound and longer-lasting impact than the result.
The "problem" was ginned-up
by the Wisconsin governor. Per TPM: Wisconsin's state fiscal bureau said in January they would have ended current year with surplus except for tax cuts initiated by the Wisconsin governor.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/wisconsin-gov-walker-ginned-u...
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
John Stu
Why am I not surprised?
Crisis = opportunity for Republicans who want to erode the power of the people. And if a crisis doesn't exist, they manufacture one.