Tens of millions of dollars burned up.  A state’s business disrupted (well, some) for the better part of a year and a half.  Endless rounds of recall elections, with much ballyhoo and smack-talk, passed…

…all to give Wisconsin Democrats a one vote majority in the State Senate that they can never use, because the Senate doesn’t meet until after the next round of elections.

Oh, never mind.  The Wisconsin Senate is…:

…16-16-1 now, thanks to Senator Jim Cullen bailing out of the Democratic party.

Cullen was one of the fleebaggers last year; one of the seventeen sore losers that tried to hijack democracy and nullify the election just passed by hiding out in Illinois to dodge voting on one of Governor Walker’s bills.

Let’s take a moment to remember that:

It may have been the Wisconsin Senate Dems’ swan song for now:

After months of screaming, millions blown on recalls up and down the state, and boasting and yelling by every fist-icon-sporting lefty out there, the Democratic victory that was recalling Walker barely flipping the senate (when it isn’t in session again until after the November elections which are likely to restore at least two seats to the Republicans) hit an iceberg today.

I’d like to say Cullen’s flip was due to pure, unvarnished principle – but like so much in politics, it’d seem there’s a tetch of ego involved:

When the party regained control, Cullen, who had fled with the rest of the Democrats but was willing to work with Walker on reforms after returning to the state, was denied chairman status on any committee. He felt insulted, has walked, and the three-week-long Democratic majority is over.

There are times a house in Hudson looks soooooooo good.