They'll say that "the Republicans agreed that we did nothing wrong, were within our rights to walk out, and that in fact we should have walked out."
That's the most outrageous line of pap I can think of, but the imagination of leftists when it comes to spewing outrageous whoppers is way out of my league.
Nancy Pelosi claimed, earlier this very day, that "Democrats have long been fighting for fiscal responsibility." This after sending the deficit into the stratosphere, and not even producing a budget for 2010.
This is the sort of outlandish, Goebbels-esque, lying I expect in Wisconsin. We're talking L. Ron Hubbard territory here.
Watch out:
itzgerald declined to say which Democrats he’d talked to, but Sen. Tim Cullen (D-Janesville) said earlier Tuesday he would introduce a constitutional amendment that would allow the Senate to proceed with a simple majority in all cases. That would make it impossible for a minority of lawmakers to block action on future bills, though it would take at least two years to change the state constitution.
“The main point I want to make is that what we did we had every legal right to do. It was an extraordinary step against an extraordinary bill,” Cullen said. But “the institution of the Senate is not well-served going forward by having this particular avenue available.”
A constitutional amendment must be approved in two consecutive legislative sessions and voters in a statewide referendum.
Cullen said his proposal for a constitutional amendment would eliminate the requirement in the state constitution that three-fifths of lawmakers in each body be present to vote on certain fiscal bills, including those that contain spending items.
Fitzgerald embraced the concept.
“I like the idea of making sure this never happens again, no matter who is in charge,” Fitzgerald said.
But Miller rejected it.
“I think the framers of the constitution put that in as a way to protect the citizens,” he said. “I think it’s an overreaction to what happened