Wisconsin Democrats chide Republicans for…showing insufficient respect for Democracy?”
Democrats agreed before dawn [this past Thursday] to limit the remaining number of amendments they offer and the time they devote to each one. That [led to Friday’s vote] on the measure Gov. Scott Walker insists is necessary to ease the state’s budget woes and avoid mass layoffs.
“We will strongly make our points, but understand you are limiting the voice of the public as you do this,” said Democratic state Rep. Mark Pocan of Madison. “You can’t dictate democracy. You are limiting the people’s voice with this agreement this morning.”
“Yeah! Like if you teabagging wingnuts nullified a legal election with a 6% mandate by packing up and leaving the state or something!”
The marathon session in the Assembly was grand political theater, with exhausted lawmakers limping around the chamber, rubbing their eyes and yawning as Wednesday night dragged into Thursday.
Around midnight, Rep. Dean Kaufert, a Republican from Neenah, accused Democrats of putting on a show for the protesters. Democrats leapt up and started shouting.
“I’m sorry if democracy is a little inconvenient, and you had to stay up two nights in a row,” Pocan said. “Is this inconvenient? Hell, yeah, it’s inconvenient! But we’re going to be heard!”
I think it’s about time the majority of Wisconsin voters said the same thing to these hamster.
Latest News:
Madison-One component of Governor Walker’s budget repair bill is debt refinancing, which will save taxpayers $165 million in fiscal year 2011. According to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, if Senate Democrats refuse to return to Wisconsin and cast their votes in the next day the option to refinance a portion of the state’s debt will be off the table.
Along with this notice Governor Walker’s spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following statement:
Senate Democrats claimed they fled the state to slow down the process so the public had enough time to learn about the budget repair bill. If that was their true intention, they have been successful.
Now they have one day to return to work before the state loses out on the chance to refinance debt, saving taxpayers $165 million this fiscal year. Failure to return to work and cast their votes will lead to more painful and aggressive spending cuts in the very near future.
This is the Senate Democrats’ 24 hour notice.
Oh, and when will DemonRATs learn that USA is not a Democracy? Wait, that would mean reading the Constitution. Nevermind…
I thought he should have done this right off the bat. Every day the Wisconsin Dems are in Illinois fire 100 or 500 teachers, whose holding who hostage now?