With the polls arcing against them, the frustration of the Senate Republicans in Wisconsin is just palpable. And without any power to get themselves out of the spot they’re in they’re now reduced to a series of spiteful and silly and entirely ineffectual steps that just how impotent they are. First was the ‘use of force’ resolution issued earlier. And now they’re reassigning the staffers for the Democratic senators to the remaining Republican senators.
The Republican Majority Leader says they’re not really reassigning them so much as giving each staffer a point of contact in the building if any problems come up.
When we asked Sen. Chris Larson, one of the runaway Dems about that, he told us: “I would be very interested in letting Sen. Fitzgerald know about a new technology called the cellular telephone. I thought he was aware of it. What it does, is it gives a senator the ability to keep in touch with his staff when he is not in that building. I would think he would know, this because most senators are not in the building on Mondays and Fridays, or days when we’re not in session.”
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Wisconsin senate Republicans pass ‘use of force’ resolution against runaway Dems.
And no, I’m actually not kidding.
Meet Fox News reporter Mike Tobin, the guy who’s reporting live from the war zone in Madison, Wisconsin, where Fox News correspondents are constantly being assaulted by marauding union gangs, frenzied mobs bay for libertarian blood and a few long twilight struggle ‘wingers brave the collectivist multitudes.
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Rasmussen is out with a new poll that is frankly just devastating for Gov. Walker. Just devastating. We’ll have a full write up momentarily. (Update: Here’s our write-up.) But the thing that stuck out to me was the age distribution. We’ve all gotten used to polls in recent years that show Democrats with their strongest support among younger voters and Republicans with their best numbers among older voters. But I think most of us sort of implicitly figure this is significantly tied to what we call social issues — gay rights, sexual politics, racial politics, etc. Not exclusively but that’s where the young / old division in our politics is. Read More
Now Colbert is on Fox’s case for that classic footage of union violence in “Palm Tree Wisconsin.”
Wisconsin Democratic legislators set up desks out on the lawn to meet with constituents after Capitol is put on effective lockdown.