I just can’t believe it. No, scratch that. I can believe it. I can believe that a bunch of liberal Democrats would call out sick and then on the taxpayer’s dime – because if they are “sick” teachers, then the taxpayer is providing the sick pay – show up at the Capitol to say, “gimme, gimme, gimme”. The signs should say, “I want mine! Screw you!”. “I became a government employee so I can lord it over the taxpayer”. “How dare you say I should carry my own weight”.
And then there’s the Democrat State senators – demanding democracy while running away from both the voters of November and their own responsibility to vote on measures in the Senate. Never in my life have I seen such lack of civic virtue; such a complete negation of both democracy and basic decency.
We should also not ignore the extreme nastiness of these people – they are putting cross hairs not on a map, but on the face of Wisconsin’s governor. The are comparing the governor – freely elected just this last November by the people of Wisconsin – to Hosni Mubarak. A dictator of 30 years standing who was a greedy brute. What “new tone”? And, seriously, are these the sort of people you want a truce with on any issue?
Contemptible. The Governor should just up and fire every last government employee who cut out in order to demonstrate today. That should go a long way towards balancing the budget and teaching these cretins a lesson.
UPDATE: From NRO’s The Corner:
In an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren tonight, Gov. Scott Walker emphasized that the thousands of protesters had not cowed Republican state legislators.
“If anything, I think it’s made the Republicans in the assembly and the senate stronger,” said Walker. “They’re not going to be bullied. They’re not going to be intimidated.”
“Democracy doesn’t come by hiding out in another state, avoiding any real debate,” he said, adding that if the Democrat senators came back, they could “take as much time as they want to debate [and] offer as many amendments as they want.”…
UPDATE II: The Democrat’s 2012 campaign song is ready:
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