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Wisconsin Democrats Go into Hiding
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 19 Feb 2011 | John Semmens

Posted on 02/19/2011 9:50:23 AM PST by John Semmens

The entire contingent of Democrats in the Wisconsin State Senate has fled the state and gone into hiding somewhere within the People’s Republic of Illinois. The inspiration for the exodus of Democrats was the looming passage of legislation aimed at trimming the State’s fiscal deficit.

Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) vowed that he and his colleagues are prepared to stay away as long as it takes to defeat the “enemies of social justice. Just because they have the votes doesn’t mean they have the right to govern any way they want. The Governor and his GOP henchmen are trying to undo policies that have prevailed in the State of Wisconsin for more than 50 years.”

The fact that Wisconsin voters gave Republicans a majority in both houses as well as the governorship was dismissed as irrelevant by Erpenbach. “You know, German voters elected Hitler,” Erpenbach said. “So, we can’t just use election results as a guide to what is right.” Many of those demonstrating in the streets of the State Capital and carrying placards depicting Governor Scott Walker (R) as Hitler would appear to agree with Erpenbach’s assessment.

Democrats consider Republican efforts to block public employee wage increases that exceed the rate of inflation, require state employees to pay half the cost of their own pensions and nearly 13% of the cost of their own health care insurance in order to try to reduce a $3.6 billion budget deficit to be “unfair.” “Even if this is what voters want, it isn’t what we want,” said Mary Bell, president of the teachers’ union. “Forcing us to take less than we want is oppression of the worst sort.”

Teachers who have illegally called-in sick in order to join the street protests constitute a substantial share of the mob demonstrating against the proposed policy changes. This has forced a widespread cancellation of classes throughout the public school system.

President Barack Obama has weighed-in on the side of the protesting state employees. “We can’t really blame them for resorting to illegal tactics to combat this unprecedented attack on their rights,” he said. The President’s Organizing for America is aiding the protest by providing phone banks to recruit demonstrators and buses to haul them to the rallies.

US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) professed herself “inspired by the brave Democrats in Wisconsin” and hoped that “I’d have the courage to lead a similar rebellion against an out of control GOP at the national level. But we couldn’t just go to another state like they did. We’d have to go to Cuba or Venezuela—somewhere where progressive values are appreciated.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: budget; democrats; satire; unions; wisconsinshowdown
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1 posted on 02/19/2011 9:50:30 AM PST by John Semmens
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2 posted on 02/19/2011 9:52:44 AM PST by John Semmens
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Teachers who have illegally called-in sick in order to join the street protests constitute a substantial share of the mob demonstrating against the proposed policy changes. This has forced a widespread cancellation of classes throughout the public school system.


Almost makes me wish for a Reagenesque moment with air traffic controllers. Fire the whole lot of them or just end public education.

3 posted on 02/19/2011 9:53:25 AM PST by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: John Semmens

Deserters are to be hung in public!


4 posted on 02/19/2011 9:54:02 AM PST by devistate one four ( AARP: Anti America Retired People Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: John Semmens

more truth than satire this time


5 posted on 02/19/2011 9:58:56 AM PST by bigbob (-)
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To: John Semmens
...hiding somewhere within the People’s Republic of Illinois.

How do you like that? They don't even have the decency to spend their easy-earned money in the state of the taxpayers that pay their salaries.

6 posted on 02/19/2011 10:00:56 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Of the 14 DemonRat senators, only 2 of them, (two men), have actually seen, as per the youtube clip by the Freepers. I would bet that not all 14 are hiding, but that some of them have slipped home, or never left to begin with. THEY are HIDING at their homes, in the basements.. That's what I read in somebodies blog. The ones that are AWOL are no doubt using Wisconsin Senate credit cards . This should be investigated right now. Not three years from now!
7 posted on 02/19/2011 10:01:18 AM PST by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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Teachers who have illegally called-in sick in order to join the street protests...has forced a widespread cancellation of classes throughout the public school system.

Yeah, well. Don't go trying to put a positive spin on this. Even though fewer days in the indoctrination camps benefits the children in the long run, this still sets a bad example.

8 posted on 02/19/2011 10:03:03 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: John Semmens

One of your best!


9 posted on 02/19/2011 10:04:04 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton)...."Just because they have the votes doesn’t mean they have the right to govern any way they want."
Wisconsin voters gave Republicans a majority in both houses as well as the governorship -dismissed as irrelevant by Erpenbach. “You know, German voters elected Hitler...”

And there it is: Disagreement with Demoncrats = Hitler.
And it wasn't just a matter of having the "votes" - each of those "votes" represent a voter, AKA "taxpayer" - so it's not necessarily what the legislators want, it's what the PEOPLE WANT!
One cannot divorce a voter from a vote like it's just an entry on a spread sheet...........

10 posted on 02/19/2011 10:06:07 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Nat Turner

“almost”???

I dont have any doubt. Let them riot after firing them, more and more voters will see what selfish idiots they really are.


11 posted on 02/19/2011 10:06:51 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (The Rodney King Riots: Courtesy of ABC, CBS, NBC & CNN)
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To: John Semmens

I tried to find the satire in this article, but there was way too much truth to wade through to find the nugget of satire!


12 posted on 02/19/2011 10:08:00 AM PST by marktwain
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Cancel their state credit cards.

When it starts coming out of their own pockets, they’ll fold.


13 posted on 02/19/2011 10:12:50 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 760 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
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"..defeat the enemies of social justice"

New code word for 'community organizer' which replaced the old-fashioned 'fellow traveler'

14 posted on 02/19/2011 10:16:53 AM PST by Mr. K (Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got Electrolytes.)
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To: John Semmens

In 2003 51 Texas democratic legislators pulled the same stunt.
They “ran away from home” to Ardmore Oklahoma to prevent a quorum.

The result?

Of the 51, 3 were re-elected.

Today the 2/3 quorum does not require a single democrat - the Republicans now have a supermajority.

Today, no democrat holds a statewide office in Texas.

When I was a lad, the governor, the majority of both houses in Austin as well as most county offices (all in my home county) were held by democrats.

Today in my current home county most republicans on local and county ballots run unopposed.

Texas is a “right to work” state and not coincidentally, last year created more than half the real (i.e., non-governmental) jobs created in the nation.

Anyone see a pattern?

Not really Texas bragging....I’m sure Wisconsin’s people are just as smart, on average....they, in the birthplace of the progressive movement, just have a deeper hole to stop digging.


15 posted on 02/19/2011 10:17:12 AM PST by LoneStarC
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To: John Semmens

Rather typical of liberals... running away from their responsibilities.


16 posted on 02/19/2011 10:18:49 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: John Semmens

Childish . . . shameful to be a Democrat . . .


17 posted on 02/19/2011 10:29:04 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (The Rodney King Riots: Courtesy of ABC, CBS, NBC & CNN)
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Preach it bro!


18 posted on 02/19/2011 10:29:58 AM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: John Semmens

GOOD ONE John LOL. Good one. Thanks for the ping.


19 posted on 02/19/2011 10:32:27 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Good one.

Our Texas democrats pulled the same kind of stunt once upon a time to prevent a redistricting vote from going through. It accomplishes nothing except to expose their hypocrisy.

20 posted on 02/19/2011 10:34:42 AM PST by smokingfrog ( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
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