This is playing out very well. The important thing is to pass the bill. Actually, this noncompliance from those permanently immature hippies will only bolster Walker’s support. As a UW grad of the 80’s, believe me that Madison is a la-la land of immature idealists, and understand that that crap doesn’t play outside Madison. If you’re miffed, think of all the WI taxpayers who go to work every day hearing about those filthy pukes refusing to leave their Capitol. Yes, Walker gained.
I agree with you that Walker isn’t “losing” by letting these people stay the night again.
I’m fine with it IF the cops will haul out all the mattresses and cooking crap they brought in. If you look at some of those videos, they’ve set up damn offices and mess halls in the conference rooms. That crap has to go.
Then as they did tonight, lock the door and don’t let anyone else in. If you leave, your gone.
Remember, these are mainly Gen Y people. They don’t have the stamina to do this for weeks on end. Nor do these union protesters.
While the short-term kinda sucks, the long-term effect of this will be more important. Kinda like walking away from a fight against a school bully with all his henchmen nearby to make sure you get the blame. Gov. Walker will be seen as the bigger man and the imported astroturfers won’t get what they came for - more publicity and public sympathy.
Outside the big population centers this is going to drive Wisconsinites to vote Red even more than in the last election.
[ If you’re miffed, think of all the WI taxpayers who go to work every day hearing about those filthy pukes refusing to leave their Capitol. Yes, Walker gained.]
As this drags on day after day, I keep wondering, do these pukes have jobs? They have been there for over a week, night and day. How are they earning a living?
It is playing out well for Walker. That was a good decision not to forcibly clear the capitol building. Now Walker and other Republicans need to start talking about how the democrat legislators who fled the state are not following the state’s constitution and therefore are not following the rules of democracy in Wisconsin. The people elected the legislature and then the legislators vote on bills and the majority vote wins. That means the minority party is always going to lose a lot of votes. If they don’t like it, then they have to persuade the voters to elect more people from their party.
The democrats are acting like bratty kids who just lost a vote within a family about where to go for dinner and threw a temper tantrum and ran out of the house. That’s exactly what they’ve done here. Democracy means you lose some votes when you’re in the minority. The union brats who claim they’re fighting for democracy are lying and trying to twist the whole situation around, because it’s actually the unions that are fighting against the legitimate process of democracy in Wisconsin. There’s no constitutional right to collective bargaining. That is a legal right that can be granted or revoked by the legislature at any time. Now is a good time to partially revoke that legal right in Wisconsin. Walker must not give in to the unions—instead just wear them down and wait them out. Work on recalling the legislators who threw the temper tantrum and left the state. Never cave in to thugs who get angry and use deception, lying, or force against you.