By Semperpapa
This is one for the “Bizarre” file.
13 state senators from Wisconsin went AWOL early today in their efforts to avoid having to vote on a measure proposed to counter the massive deficit of that state.
The missing-in-action politicians, all Democrats, decided that they would not show up for the mandatory vote in the state Senate this morning.
The controversial measure, proposed by the newly elected Republican Governor Scott Walker, is aimed at reducing the cost to taxpayers for the maintenance of benefits for union government workers. It is designed to negate unions the right to collective bargaining and it requires members of the government union workers to share in the funding of their own benefits and retirements.
But the Democrats minority in the state Senate decided that they would just boycott the vote. According to Wisconsin law, there has to be at least one political opposition member in order to hold the vote.
The Democrats, who are in the minority as Republicans hold 14 seats, actually left the state all together in order to stall a legislative vote they knew was going to go against their wishes.
In an even more bizarre behavior, one of the Senators, Mark Miller, called into CNN with a list of demands for Governor Walker.
Miller stated:
“We demand that the provisions that completely eliminate the ability of workers… to negotiate on a fair basis with their employers be removed from the budget repair bill and any other future budget,”
Also part of the demands is that there would be legislative oversight over any modification of the medical program for government workers.
So this is the Democrats’ idea for democracy.
Starting from the beginning, one fact that is completely ignored by the liberal senators, and something that they obviously refuse to accept, is that the Republican majority in the state Senate is the result of popular suffrage. The people are the ones who voted them into office, so the same way we Conservatives had to accept the disaster brought upon our Nation by a liberal Congress and a liberal White House, they should perform the duty they were elected to and get paid for.
Moreover, and on the same line, they are making demands upon a duly elected official: the Governor of their state. Once again, Scott Walker was elected by the people of Wisconsin and therefore the senators should be doing the job they were elected to do.
Translating the Wisconsin events on a National scene, we have been deluged with all sorts of accusations for opposing the disastrous policies of the liberals in Washington.
In the beginning, in 2006 when Congress was taken over by progressives, we were stuck with Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker and Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. And in 2008 we got the final nail in the coffin when the American people put a radical leftist into the White House.
In those days, anyone who dissented from the ruinous ideology and policy of the leadership, was labeled racist. And when the people started to take to the streets to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the direction the progressives were taking the country, they were called Nazi, racist, and whatever other epithet they could think of.
Then there was 2010. The people spoke again and refuted the policies of Nancy Pelosi and Obama. And the Left engaged in a subtle denigration of the American people, as the choice to move the country toward Conservatism was seen as the result of ignorance and brainwashing (all the fault was of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh).
Scott Walker is one of those who benefited from what I like to call a partial regaining of consciousness on the part of the people. He was elected and he is faced with the daunting task of having to bring the financial conditions of the state of Wisconsin back in line, for the benefit of all the people of Wisconsin, not just the government union workers.
He had to make some hard decisions, just like Christie had to do in New Jersey and many other Governors have to do in other states. The choice is to get the proposal passed or be forced to eliminate about 6,000 government jobs.
Being the situation the way it is, I would really like to see if Walker would just decide to fire those 6,000 employs starting next Monday and then see what the Union would do.
I still find interesting, and bizarre, how Democrats interpret the concept of democracy.
Just my thoughts!
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Anymore, I avoid directly blaming "Party" ~ because anymore...(she said with a heavy sigh)...the Demotards & Rethuglicans are two sides of the exact same coin. Do I understand why the Dems are doing what they're doing in Wisconsin? Sure...it's not new, actually. It's been done before - by both sides. Do I think the better option is to bang it out through intense *rational* debate? Yeah, that's kind of the whole point of political discourse. I find either side pulling a "walk out" akin to a 3-yr old temper tantrum...which, to be honest, the Reps have been doing at the federal level for the past two years.
ReplyDeleteFar, very far, from trying to defend Republicans, I don't seem to recall any action on their part that comes close to just not showing up, run into hiding, not to allow a vote.
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact, I seem to recall that during the Obamacare disaster, it was Ben Nelson and Stupak to be the hold outs, both democrats, who were trying to get some special benefit out of the whole thing.
The main fault I give the Repubs for the last two years is that they were not vocal and direct enough in combating the triumvirate of destruction Obama-Pelosi-Reid. They thumbed their nose at the will of the American people and took the country to the verge of collapse. Now that the people fired them from the House, and from many public offices at the state level, they resort to terrorist tactics to continue to push their agenda.
Think Texas 2003 ~ Dems did it then, too. *nod*
ReplyDeleteWhat's going on right now in Wisconsin is less about unions & whathaveyou than it is about the party battles...frustrating. I wish we had a realistic and workable 3rd party. *sighs more*
(referring to this event: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/flashback-texas-dems-fled-state-in-2003-to-block-discriminatory-gop-gerrymandering.php)
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I could care less about the party affiliation of any of these politicians. I admire people like Rep. Allen West, because what he says sends shivers up Dems and Repubs alike. Speaking for the benefit of the Nation and for the power of a Constitution that has kept this country as a beacon of freedom for so many, including me and for all our safety.
ReplyDeleteI am so sick of charlatains like Trumka and Jackson. They and their bosses have ruined our country with their Marxist ideology, with their efforts to make millions of American slave of the utopic socialist lies.
I wish I was the governor. every single person in that demonstration that was a government employee, would be immediately terminated. And no unemployment benefits.
*nods at you* I wish more of our politicians would take the opportunity to disagree in intelligent & rational ways...and actually, oh, I dunno, actually represent their respective constituencies. Doing the *right* things isn't the same as doing the *popular* things, and I think our representatives have forgotten that.
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't pay me, though, all the tea in England & China combined to run for public office (though I've had many friends & family members insist that I should)...I don't ever want my life under a fishbowl. *shudders* :)
Cheers, SemperPapa...
I know how you feel. I have had people also telling me to run for office, but I could not handle the venom that would be thrown at me and especially my family.
ReplyDeleteBesides, doesn't the saying goes that politics is the second oldest profession of mankind, but resembles a lot the oldest?
So no, thank you. I still like to look at myself in the mirror and not throw up :)
Thanks for the posting.
SP Out!