"The gig is now up"

Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca said. "The fraud on the people of Wisconsin is now clear."

A stand-off can't go on forever and I suppose it was just a matter of time until the right side got their way.

"In 30 minutes, 18 state Senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin. Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten," said Democratic Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller. "Tonight, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people."

All those crafty Wisconsin Republicans had to do was separate out the money oriented parts of this "budget repair bill" and just pass the parts that eliminate collective bargaining and organizational rights of Wisconsin's public employee unions. And so they did, 18 to 1, and they didn't need no stinkin' quorum. Governor Dickface said:

"The Senate Democrats have had three weeks to debate this bill and were offered repeated opportunities to come home, which they refused. In order to move the state forward, I applaud the Legislature's action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform government. The action today will help ensure Wisconsin has a business climate that allows the private sector to create 250,000 new jobs."

That 1 NO vote was actually a moderate Republican who I expect to be replaced by a Tea Partier as soon as they can get to votin' again. Those Democrat senators can finally go home and maybe resign from the senate and take one of those 250,000 shiny, new, private sector jobs! Maybe they can manage a Taco Bell! That'll show Obama for trying to usurp Wisconsin Republicans and have them recalled just for coming to work and doing their jobs.

"It's what we suspected. There's eight recalls that have been launched, and as you know, Wisconsin has been a battleground state in the presidential election. And there's a great deal at stake, and certainly I've been told by, not only some of the Wisconsin members of the Congressional delegation, but those that work in labor, that this is about the presidential election in 2012."

So, I guess if you support Obama then you too work for the White House. I don't know what else the Wisconsin Democrats and the thousands who had protested should do but pursue recalls, just like Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said:

"Using tactics that trample on the traditions of our Legislature, the Republican leadership has betrayed our state. Republicans have rubber-stamped the desire of the Koch Brothers and their godshead Scott Walker to cripple Wisconsin's middle class and lower benefits and wages for every single wage-earner in our state. The vote does nothing to create jobs, does nothing to strengthen our state, and shows finally and utterly that this never was about anything but raw political power. We now put our total focus on recalling the eligible Republican senators who voted for this heinous bill. And we also begin counting the days remaining before Scott Walker is himself eligible for recall."

I have not heard the term godshead before: 1. divine nature or essence. That seems more of a kind of high praise, does it not? But as I said in my last post, this isn't really about saving money, unions or budgets and it is very much about imposing a world view, an agenda, and manipulating "raw political power." To those that support Walker and the agenda these fine, true Americans are doing the work they were voted in to do. It really is ideological warfare on the "middle class" and the fools won another one for their own imagined version of The Gipper!

Welp, here's hoping that the rage this generates will actually stick and this twat and his underling senators move into their posh private sector jobs post haste. what a hose job! This calls for something juvenile and stupid, right now!

That'll learn him! I barely put any effort in that piece of shit pic what-so-ever because it's more than he deserves. And speaking of dickheads...

If you have visited here before you may have noticed that I finally had my web team develop an updated, fresh look for this antiquated blog. The design team really went that extra mile eliminating that annoying and empty and unused links column and also lightened the background so it's no longer so stark. The archives staff have also worked real hard improving the blog search mechanism as well as made it much simpler to look back through the previous 49 posts it has taken me nearly six years to write here. THIS post you are enjoying right now represents our 50th post! Just almost a few weeks away from Ahlblog's SIXTH BIRTHDAY! Wow, it is truly amazing that this collection of internet code has superfluously existed in the internet for six whole years. Now that I have the archives broken down by year you can also see which year I posted a lot and how I mostly ignored it all the other years.

That said, 2011 is trending UP on the ole input graph as with this post I have officially surpassed the number of posts I did in 2009 and close to tying 2010! I don't like setting goals as that will no doubt result in my posting some bullshit posts apologizing for not posting for a while on a blog that I really do not promote to anyone to read anyway. I originally hoped this blog would be a collection of fun posts and short stories but it seems I really just prefer to rant about politics so I can avoid engaging in talking about it in the offline world or having fruitless flame wars in Facebook. That said, here's hoping that I can have a 2008 like year on here (20 posts, whoa)!