{"id":18375,"date":"2011-02-28T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18375"},"modified":"2011-02-28T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:38:37","slug":"life-is-full-of-ironies-if-youre-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18375","title":{"rendered":"Life Is Full Of Ironies, If You’re Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Democrats chide Republicans <\/a>for…showing insufficient respect for Democracy?”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Yeah!\u00a0 Like if you teabagging wingnuts nullified a legal election with a 6% mandate by packing up and leaving the state or something!”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it’s about time the majority of Wisconsin voters said the same thing to these hamster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18446,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions\/18446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}