Thursday, February 17, 2011

Wisconsin statehouse stuff - Wisconsin blogger Ann Althouse has lots of pictures from the march in Madison. As usual, the protesters made a mess.

Extra - From Hit & Run.

More - Slate "United We Flee": "So can legislators stop a bill by refusing to show up? They might but they're not actually allowed to." Well, yes, but the penalties for the missing Democrats appear to be non-existent.

3 comments:

Bram said...

Public Employee Unions are a terrible idea. Hopefully the fight against them will spread.

Yam said...

Except the police and fireman unions, because they typically vote Republi... er, Libertarian.

JLLewis said...

You know, these guaranteed union contracts wouldn't be costing states so much if the skyrocketing cost of health care was curbed. So, um... attorney generals unite! Repeal socialist Obamacare!