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2011-02-17 Home Front: Politix
Wisconsin state capital in lockdown over vote
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Posted by mom 2011-02-17 15:43|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 A good way to put an end to this shit (and I have seen it done elsewhere) is to make it so the vote goes forward. Anyone not there gets No Vote.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-17 15:57||   2011-02-17 15:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Shame on the firefighters who showed up wearing gear. Shame on your dirtying the symbols of response and protection. Wear your unofficials, wave your signs, whatever. Wearing your work gear to political activism is disgusting.

Green Bay Press Gazette has the percentage of volunteer firefighters in Wisconsin at 85%, nationwide 70%. I am embarassed at such flagrant breech of trust by such a minority.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-02-17 16:14||   2011-02-17 16:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Darth they need 20 to have a vote. There are only 19 republicans
Posted by Beavis 2011-02-17 16:29||   2011-02-17 16:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh yeah. Seems all the Dems in the Legislature left the state, so the bill couldn't be passed.

I wonder if they have to let them back in? I can see the Donk refugee camps in Illinois, now.... with CA, MA and HI all saying they'd like to take some in, but don't have the resources..... sounds familiar, don't it?

Posted by Tarzan Glomomp1754 2011-02-17 16:52||   2011-02-17 16:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Suboena ALL the dems to testify on something, and then issue a bench warrant, have them arrested and dragged back in chains to do what they were elected to do - sniveling cowardly bastards
Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2011-02-17 16:56||   2011-02-17 16:56|| Front Page Top

#6 How long do the teachers, for instance, need to be off the job before they can be fired?
Posted by eLarson 2011-02-17 17:31||   2011-02-17 17:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Anyone else remember when Texas Dems did the same thing a few years back?
Posted by Clyde Sleager3535 2011-02-17 18:20||   2011-02-17 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 If they strike, fire them. If they called in sick to participate in the protest - fire them. If they brought students as human shields - fire them. Roll the first wave and they'll cave or all be fired
Posted by Frank G 2011-02-17 18:26||   2011-02-17 18:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Dude, the weasels fled the state during a legislative session, abandoning their offices, in violation of their oaths. Declare their seats vacant and announce special elections.

Better yet, order their homes and all their assets seized and auction them off to pay for the elections. Bet ya they come back damn quick.
Posted by Silentbrick - Lost Drill Bit Division - Halliburton 2011-02-17 18:33||   2011-02-17 18:33|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder if they have to let them back in? I can see the Donk refugee camps in Illinois

maybe then the UN will declare them a 'separate people' much like they did the Palieo's. Perhaps call them Cowardstinians or Assholestinians...
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-02-17 18:39||   2011-02-17 18:39|| Front Page Top

#11 the GOP should issue milk cartons with "have you seen me" pics of the Donks, and ridiculing their cowardice and obstruction if elections results.
Posted by Frank G 2011-02-17 18:41||   2011-02-17 18:41|| Front Page Top

#12 THey finally spotted the missing Wisconsin Democrats in their escape bus

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2011-02-17 19:03||   2011-02-17 19:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Great idea, Frank. :-D

They just need to be able to prove that they didn't use taxpayers' money to get them made. I'll make a donation! (Ya' listing, Governor?)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-02-17 19:03||   2011-02-17 19:03|| Front Page Top

#14 The Illinois TEA party has chased them back to Wisconsin.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-02-17 19:25||   2011-02-17 19:25|| Front Page Top

#15 SInce I'm soooo freaking computer illiterate, every time I try to post this, i get sent to roadsideamerica.com.

thought this would be of interest, via samizdata:

http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/2/12/the-heretic-a-review.html#comments

This is an anti-gw play in ENGLAND????whaaa????

Book your tickets now, this play is a must-see comedy.
It has everything - more accurate climate science than a BBC documentary (ok, that's not exactly hard), brilliantly funny and wonderfully staged.

The drama centres on university climate scientist, Dr Diane Cassell, played superbly by Juliet Stevenson, whose research on sea levels in the Maldives shows no rising trend in sea levels.

This puts her at odds with Professor Kevin Maloney, Head of Dept Earth Sciences, played by James Fleet (sinisterly morphed from Hugo, in the Vicar of Dibley) whose main aim is to attract more funding to the department by toeing the consensus line on Climate Change.

When she publishes her research and expresses her skeptical views, notably on Newsnight to Jeremy Paxman, she becomes the focus of some very direct persecution.

Posted by anonymous2u 2011-02-17 19:44||   2011-02-17 19:44|| Front Page Top

#16 while Roadside America is indeed fascinating in its' own right, it is generally a clue that there is a "flag word" linked to spam or other nefarious activities. Looks like you made it through
Posted by Frank G 2011-02-17 20:26||   2011-02-17 20:26|| Front Page Top

#17 HT to Insty - a new blog on the missing Donk Senators: The Badger "14": Escape From Wisconsin
Posted by Frank G 2011-02-17 21:51||   2011-02-17 21:51|| Front Page Top

#18 By act and deed they've abandoned their seats. Certify that by the Secty of State and have new elections to fill the vacant seats. Let them fight for the seats in court or on ballot.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-17 22:03||   2011-02-17 22:03|| Front Page Top

#19 "The Illinois TEA party has chased them back to Wisconsin."

Do you have a link, NS?

I've read the the TEA party found the weasels (who then left the golf resort where they were hiding), but no word on where they'd gone to. Supposedly the TEA party people were following them.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-02-17 22:41||   2011-02-17 22:41|| Front Page Top

#20 Here's a link, Barbara. Just keep scrolling down. I think it's more a matter of the Tea Partiers herding them. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-17 22:48||   2011-02-17 22:48|| Front Page Top

#21 Thanks, tw.

If anyone can herd cats cowards, it's the TEA party. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-02-17 22:57||   2011-02-17 22:57|| Front Page Top

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