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Wisconsin Democrats could stay away for weeks
AP via Yahoo ^ | 2/18/11 | By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press

Posted on 02/18/2011 1:09:24 PM PST by Jean S

Wisconsin Democrats could stay away for weeks

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: Jean S

I’m sure there are...erm...pressure points that will cause a runaway Demmocommie to come back.

And if that doesn’t work, licensed bounty hunters.


21 posted on 02/18/2011 1:18:10 PM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: OldDeckHand
They can't. No quorum.

They need 20 for a quorum only for passing fiscal legislation. If it's non-fiscal, they already have enough for a quorum.

Think of all the non-fiscal goodies they can pass while the Dems hide out in IL: make WI a right-to-work state, all kinds of pro-gun legislation, the sky's the limit. If only they had the balls....

22 posted on 02/18/2011 1:18:18 PM PST by kevao (I)
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To: Darksheare

I’m not sure, as far as I know they’re still behaving legally although cowardly.


23 posted on 02/18/2011 1:18:27 PM PST by Jean S
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To: Jean S

I’d dock their pay for every day they’re gone and keep moving Senate business ahead on any bill where I didn’t need a 60% forum.


24 posted on 02/18/2011 1:20:07 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Jean S

Beggars the imagination.
New York, they’d at least have had several bribes and kickbacks worked in there as well.

I know, don’t give them ideas.


25 posted on 02/18/2011 1:21:01 PM PST by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: Jean S
I hope they stay out, and Obama jumps right in there with both feet. He and revrund jackson and whatever other media whores they can regurgitate up. The normal people of Wisconsin will be getting sick and tired of the BS in fairly short order, as they see their schools and state offices going untended, and it will blow up in the face of the Left.
26 posted on 02/18/2011 1:21:01 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Jean S

Recall of the absent representatives?


27 posted on 02/18/2011 1:22:42 PM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Jean S

The parents will just love them if they do. heh


28 posted on 02/18/2011 1:22:47 PM PST by bronxville
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To: taxcontrol

“Actually they can. The 3/5ths qourum requirement ONLY applies to fiscal legislation. So they could go ahead with CCW / gun legislation and other non-fiscal laws.”

Is a law stating that if an elected official misses 10 or more consecutive days of a legislative session then that official has vacated that office a non-fiscal law?

If so, the solution is obvious.


29 posted on 02/18/2011 1:23:33 PM PST by No Truce With Kings (Ten years on FreeRepublic and counting.)
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To: Jean S

Then take the fight to these MFs......Alinsky tactics: isolate, ridicule, hypocrisy, uncaring for “the children”

Expose them for lying, hypocritical selfish bastards they are. They’re givin you the rope, hang em high.

And add to the uncaring for “The taxpayers” Gee, try THAT ONE ON FOR SIZE FOR ONCE GOP” Trust me, it will work.


30 posted on 02/18/2011 1:24:11 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (The Rodney King Riots: Courtesy of ABC, CBS, NBC & CNN)
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To: Jean S

I wonder if it`s possible to hold back their paychecks? I don`t get paid to run away from my job...


31 posted on 02/18/2011 1:24:54 PM PST by Bud Krieger (Another President, another idiot....)
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To: Jean S
Want to bet... their leader was chased into a car and was promising to return to Wisconsin at that time... he cannot hold up under the assault that he will face if he continues his dereliction of duty.

LLS

32 posted on 02/18/2011 1:26:34 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: Jean S

Stop their pay now, and they will come back..


33 posted on 02/18/2011 1:26:53 PM PST by aces
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To: taxcontrol
"The 3/5ths qourum requirement ONLY applies to fiscal legislation"

Interesting. I wonder what the criteria is for member expulsion. In the US House, expulsion only requires a 2/3rds vote, which is marginally smaller than 3/5ths - maybe they can pull that off.

That should start some riots.

34 posted on 02/18/2011 1:27:18 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: Jean S

You little people will do what we say, when we tell you to do it and smile while doing it.

Now pay your taxes, we need raises. :)


35 posted on 02/18/2011 1:28:14 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: taxcontrol
...CCW / gun legislation...

Why stop there? Make the Rats head explode and pass OPEN carry. Ban abortions. Ban teacher tenure. Require ID to vote. All those things that always make Rats go into hissy fits.

36 posted on 02/18/2011 1:29:19 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (I direct my vile hate speach and eliminationist rhetoric at this joke of a government.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Then take the fight to these MFs......

You're on to something here. Suppose one or two of them are hiding out in a hotel in, I don't know, Nebraska. They're spotted and tracked, but their trackers keep a distance. In the meantime, the republican Senators are sent to the location where these democrats are located and have the vote at that location. In essence, hold the vote in the hotel lobby or bar.

If you can't bring the democrats to the Senate, bring the Senate to the democrats!

37 posted on 02/18/2011 1:29:24 PM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: FromLori

Hmmmm, interesting. Pass the parts that can be passed. Let the Dems squeal.


38 posted on 02/18/2011 1:29:39 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Jean S

President Barack Obama has also weighed in, saying in an interview with Milwaukee television station WTMJ that Walker’s bill to “an assault on unions.”


Assault on unions?
what about the unions and Obama, and the democrats assault on the united states and their assault on the people.

The unions are nothing but a bunch of dam extortionists and thieves and any one worth their salt would not belong to one of them unless they do not care for freedom or have their heads in the sand.


39 posted on 02/18/2011 1:30:15 PM PST by ravenwolf (Just a bit of the long list of proofs)
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To: Jean S
Only if they can do it on someone else's nickel.

Who the heck is footing the bills for the 'Rats?

40 posted on 02/18/2011 1:30:22 PM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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