The Senate convened Thursday just long enough to take a roll call, which allows for the sergeant-at-arms staff to go to missing lawmakers’ homes with police.
Troopers went to multiple homes but left after finding no one, Sergeant-at-Arms Ted Blazel said.
Wisconsin law does not allow police to arrest the lawmakers, but Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he hoped the show of authority would pressure them to return. He would not say how many Democrats were being targeted but said it was more than one.
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THE IMAGINARY MANDATE - ginandtacos.com
The most casual participant in the political process knows exactly what they will get when they vote for and elect Tea Party types and the more extreme right Republicans in general. No, he never came out and said “Hey, I’m gonna ream you public employees so hard you won’t walk right for years!” on the campaign trail.
He might even have said a lot of sweet sounding things to the contrary. Only a voter lying to himself or completely ignorant of politics, however, would actually believe it. It’s time to stop being angry with Scott Walker, which makes no more sense than being angry at a dog for barking and chasing cars.
Instead, our anger is more fairly directed at the swing voters who decide American elections – the kind of mushy, ill-informed “independent” who would vote for him and then be shocked to learn how extreme his brand of governance is.
People like Walker will continue to get elected so long as there are voters who are willfully ignorant of what candidates really stand for or so easily duped that a few sound bites can overwhelm all available evidence that the Governor-to-be supports an agenda of the kind of corporate cronyism and pathological hatred of government that defines people of his ideological stripes.
When you vote for people like Scott Walker and Ron Johnson, this is what you get. How unfortunate it is that the rest of us have to be chained to so many people who have not yet figured that out. As long as the electorate is composed substantially of people who won’t understand that the glowing stove is hot until they put their hand on it, we will continue to suffer Scott Walkers at unpleasantly regular intervals.
