If this is true, and I have no reason to doubt its validity, why hasn’t the Governor of Wisconsin, and the GOP majority in the Wisconsin Senate, used it by now, to put an end to this childish dimocrat nonsense?
Then I read this, which pissed me off-
“I would guess (Republican) Senators are trying to figure out what token gesture, maybe a procedural consideration, allows Democrats to save face.”
So here we possibly go, yet again, with Republicans worrying more about playing nice with the libs, so that they can come home without their tails between their legs, than doing what they were elected to do, by the majority of Wisconsin’s residents.
To which I say: Screw the libs!!!
They run off and hide like spoiled children who are upset because they can’t get their way, and the Republicans are supposed to worry about not hurting their “poor wittle feelings”??? W.T.F.?
I am just so damn sick and tired of hearing and reading that insulting crap time after time.
It is especially insulting to the people who gave them a majority to DO WHAT THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO, and not give a damn about how they need to be civil to the libturds, when we’re in charge.
History has proven, time after time, that when the libs are in charge they don’t give a damn about what we want or think. They talk bipartisanship, but to those losers, it means us agreeing with them. See. Obamacare. For. Instance.
This “civility” and “new tone” crap has got to end, until the libs prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it works both ways!
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has an un-played ace up his sleeve in the budget fights that have made Madison the focus of a national struggle between fiscal conservatives and public sector unions.
A little-noticed provision in the Wisconsin State Constitution—Article 8, Section 8—allows non-fiscal bills to be passed by a simple majority of state legislators, rather than the 3/5th threshold that drove Democratic state senators to Illinois in hopes of denying the Republican Governor the ability to go forward with collective bargaining reform as part of his proposed budget cut package.
This means that if the collective bargaining were delinked from the budget measures and put forward as a separate bill, it could be passed with 51 percent of the legislators—and without Democrats’ participation.
“In layman’s terms, what Article 8, Section 8 says is that if you don’t have a fiscal bill, then a quorum is a [simple] majority,” Robert Lang, Director of the State of Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau, explained to me. “If the collective bargaining portion were delinked, I believe that could be accomplished.”
“If he [Governor Walker] separated the collective bargaining issues into a stand-alone bill a simple majority would be sufficient for a quorum, which he would have with the Republicans,” added Terry C. Anderson, director of the non-partisan Wisconsin Legislative Council. Anderson cautioned that if any fees or appropriations were included in the collective bargaining provision, they would need to be excised before moving forward with fewer than 20 senators present.
UPDATE-
Wisconsin Senate Democrats found in contempt, ordered taken into custody
MADISON — The Wisconsin Senate has passed a resolution calling for police to take 14 Democrats into custody for contempt after they fled to Illinois to avoid voting on a union rights bill.
The vote taken Thursday comes two weeks after the Democrats left, effectively delaying the vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal taking away most collective bargaining rights from public workers.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says the action is legally different from an arrest, but “definitely a shift from asking them politely.”
The resolution says the absent Democrats are determined to be guilty of contempt and disorderly content. It gives the sergeant at arms the authority to take any and all steps, with or without force and assistance from police, to bring the senators back.
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