Posted on 03/09/2011 5:38:02 PM PST by Nachum
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is praising Republicans in the state Senate who have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers.
Republicans cast the quick vote Wednesday after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.
All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" - a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.
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THEY AREN'T "RIGHTS"!
Ya Baby!!!
heheh PWND!
Sweet. Keep it up Walker, there’s going to be a vacancy in D.C. that you might be a shoe-in for in ‘12.
AP meant to say they stripped public employee collective bargaining rights for benefits (which were bankrupting the state) but left them intact for salaries.
My, but they love their incendiary rhetoric.
LOL. Walker used a “Pelosi and Reid” move to get it through the back door. Just goes to show that the dems are the first ones to dish “it” out but can’t take it when it happens to them.
Details,..., facts,...
You know the Left hates being bothered with those old-fashioned things.
NOW WHY IN THE HELL DID IT TAKE THE REPUBLICANS THAT LONG TO FIGURE OUT THAT THEY COULD DO THIS?
Its all part of the plan........
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO COMMUNIST UNION BOSSES WHO STEAL MONEY FROM WORKERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNIST POLITICIANS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS
A few days after my arrival, while standing in the vestibule of my hotel, my attention was drawn to a loud altercation going on at the bar, and as it was evident, from the manner of the parties, that some public question was being discussed, I listened, and ascertained that an obnoxious citizen had been seized for perpetrating a petty act of revenge on a neighbour by damaging his horse, and was that day to be publicly tarred, feathered, and escorted out of the city, as they said, bag and baggage. Having ascertained the spot selected for the scene, I determined to witness it.
Accordingly, at noon, the appointed hour, I repaired to an open spot of building-land on the Carondelet side of the city. Here I found assembled a motley assemblage of citizens, negroes, steamboat-hands, and the general riff-raff of the place. Although the crowd was not so great, the meeting strongly reminded me of those scenes of infamy and disgrace in England—public executions; the conduct of the assembled throng on this occasion being the more decorous of the two.
Precisely at twelve, the mob made a rush towards one corner of the open space, from which direction I saw the culprit advancing, in charge of thirty or forty well-dressed people (the committee appointed for the occasion being among the number). He was a stout man, and described to me as a great bully; but now he looked completely crest-fallen. As the party came on, he was hissed by the mob, who, however, kept at a good distance from his guard.
A man, with a large tin can of smoking pitch, a brush of the kind used in applying the same, and a pillow of feathers under his arm, followed immediately behind the prisoner, vociferating loudly.
Arrived at the spot, the poor wretch was placed on a stool, and a citizen, who had taken a very prominent part in front of the procession, and who, I was told, was the chief cause of this outrage, stepped in front of him, and pulling out a sheet of paper, read a lecture on the enormity of his crime, which wound up with the sentence about to be enforced. When this was finished, the man who carried the tar-vessel stepped up, and began, with a scissors, to cut off the culprit’s hair, which he did most effectually, flinging portions amongst the crowd, who scrambled after them. As soon as this was finished, and the man was stripped to the waist, the brush was dipped into the pitch, and the upper part of his person lathered therewith.
Not a word escaped him, but the individual who had taken so prominent a part in the punishment, kept giving directions to the operator to put it on thick. Even his eyes and ears were not spared. As soon as this part of the operation was complete, the bag of feathers was ripped open by a by-stander, and the contents stuck thickly on the parts besmeared with tar, amidst the deafening cheers of the spectators, who were by this time in such frantic excitement that I began to fear a tragedy would ensue, especially as many of them shouted, “Now hang the varmint! hang him!”
This proposal was eagerly seconded by the mob. This was, however, resolutely overruled by his keepers. The appearance presented by the victim, in this peculiarly American dress, was ludicrous in the extreme, and looked very comfortable. As soon as this part of the exhibition was finished, a man, with a small drum, followed by the mob, with yells and execrations drove the culprit before them at a run. The poor wretch ran like a deer from his pursuers, who followed at his heels, shouting frantically, until he reached the brink of the river, where a boat was waiting to take him off. He dashed into it, and was at once rowed into the middle of the stream, out of reach of his tormentors, who, I quite believe, would have administered more severe lynch-law if they could have got hold of him, for their passions were wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement.
One feature in the scene I could not help remarking—the negroes all appeared in high glee, and many of them actually danced with joy. I did not wonder at this, for the negroes always seemed to exult if a white man was in disgrace; which, after all, is no more than might be expected from a class of men tyrannized over as the coloured people are there, and is one of the results of the oppressive system that exacts everything that human labour can furnish, without remuneration, and without (in by far the greater number of instances) any approach to sympathy or grateful feeling.
This alone, without taking into consideration the outrages inflicted on the race by their cruel oppressors, supplies a sufficient cause for such a tendency, if every other were wanting.
“after discovering a way to bypass the chamber’s missing Democrats”
They didn’t just “discover” this maneuver, they’ve known about it from the start. I guess the strategy was to exhaust all other options first to bring the fleebaggers home, thinking that they will be looked at as having been “reasonable.” I agree, they should have done this the first day or two. Allowing it to go on this long was a big PR mistake. Anyway, better late than never.
Hey crAP - "they" didn't discover anything. They've know for weeks about this option. They just didn't call it because they thought that by now the Democrats would do what they were elected to do and come back to do their job.
It's only now that that seems very remote did the Republicans decide to carry on without them.
I'm so stinking sick of the ignorant media liars.
Public employees, providers of essential services unavailable to the public through other channels, should not and in many places do not have the right to strike - without the right to strike, there is little sense to any “right” to negotiate, since there is no effective recourse if negotiations break down - QED public employees do not need a right to negotiate.....
I'm sick of them too - but other than the bimbo reading the teleprompter (no, not Barry) I think the people writing the scripts they read are anything but ignorant.
They know exactly what they're doing.
The Dems actions after the vote...."Here we are"....is a joke on them.
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