Posted on 03/09/2011 9:04:13 PM PST by bigbob
One day short of the three-week anniversary of their departure, Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller said it's time for Dems to come home and take the fight over collective bargaining rights to the ballot box.
Miller, D-Monona, said it was "stunning" that Senate Republicans took less than 30 minutes to vote to end collective bargaining rights for public employees that have existed in Wisconsin for more than 50 years.
He called it a disrespect to the people of Wisconsin that will not be forgotten, promising there will be political consequences.
"It’s time for us to join the fight back in Wisconsin," Miller said. "It’s now a political fight that will be decided at the ballot box."
Sen. Bob Jauch, one of two Dems to be actively involved in negotiations with Republicans, said there may be legal problems with the vote and Senate Republicans had a responsibility to inform the public of any changes.
"This just isn’t the way a thoughtful democratic institution governs," said Jauch, D-Poplar. "They don’t want to govern.
"We’re trying to figure out whether we should change it to Czar Walker. I think that’s the term. The Senate should be called the Evil Empire."
Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said the vote exposed the true Republican intent all along of breaking public employee unions. The guv has been arguing the last few weeks that the collective bargaining changes were fiscal in nature, but leaving them in suggests that wasn't true, he said.
He said Republicans didn't need to justify themselves to the 14 Dems, but would have to answer to the voters through recall elections.
"They lied to every single taxpayer of the state," Erpenbach said.
Bingo.
We just need to DEMAND oversight.
We’ve beat them at these shenanigans before (Al Gore is still saddened)
But this wont be easy with Obamas mob in power.
“Miller, D-Monona, said it was “stunning” that Senate Republicans took less than 30 minutes to vote to end collective bargaining rights for public employees that have existed in Wisconsin for more than 50 years. “
These people are delusional. They are directly responsible for this. They allowed it to pass without a single opposing Dem vote. What did they think would happen when they abandoned their responsibilities to go putz around in another state? The wheels would just fall off the government bus, and Republicans would beg for them to come back?
I understand the 30 minutes is referring to the vote, but there’s also an implication in there that this hasn’t been discussed to death for a month now - and that the contents of the bill haven’t been known for a month now.
For three weeks we have watched this unfold and not even the media can cover up the thugs behavior. Eyes have been opened.
Waiting this long was stupid. This should have been done the day after the ‘Rats left.
The fleebaggers are a joke.
Waiting this long made the 'Rat Flees reveal exactly WHY they were voted out of office. Even showed what their types did to the capitol building and the creeps they called in to do the dirty work.
Governor Walker did the right thing. May God Bless him.
LOL! And to think they actually have constituents that believe this tripe.
Um, no. 3 minutes, 30 minutes, 30 hours. It didn't matter. What was stunning is that the Wisconsin Democrats abdicated their responsibility to participate in the democratic process by throwing a temper tantrum and leaving the state.
It is THEIR OWN FAULT that the legislature resumed legislative duties without them. What? Did the Wisconsin Democrats honestly think that the Republicans were just going to play the Democrat game and wait forever to come back? You gotta pay to play and the Democrats just forked over a political fortune.
On MSNBC, “We are going to return to WI and fight” “.....but not tomorrow”
So I think they mean eventually they will.
20,000 workers could have lost their jobs but they would have stayed south but now the unions will tell them that they can do more damage by heading back to Madison!
I hope they stay in Illinois forever!
Here’s how they also behaved, a typical temper tantrum in 1994, the year of Newt Gingrich, LOL!!!
“Sam Gibbons has had a few verbal showdowns with the newly elected Republican congress in the mid 1990s. During a taped Ways and Means Committee hearing, after being denied the opportunity to speak several times, Gibbons stormed out of the room shouting about how the Democrats were being railroaded and given no time to speak. He compared the new Republicans to dictators and shouted that he had “to fight you guys 50 years ago,” referring to Nazi Germany in World War II.”
The Democrats behave like whiny children... they could have participated and made their voices heard. Instead, they got cut out of the process. No one asked them to leave WI. Undoing this reform is going to be very difficult as the Democrats’ cash cow is being slaughtered.
The unions couldn’t ask for a more cowardly or less deserving party to defend them in the legislature!
The Democrats response to their minority status is not to act like a responsible opposition party but like spoiled brats. Their public stock has plunged. For the unions, they have been a losing investment.
“Now on to other issues like CCW and crackdown on the Mexican invasion.”...........
Don’t forget one of the MOST IMPORTANT issues....Voter I.D.
Getting CCW and Voter ID will be MAJOR improvements here in Wisconsin..........They have been a long time coming.
Wow, Greta actually challenged a liberal democrat’s statement asking a simple, logical question? Freaking amazing.
It’s “30 square miles surrounded by reality” but yes, you know it’s true.
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