3 GOP Defectors Needed

Ryan J. Foley, the Associated Press, shows his bias in his article, "For compromise in Wis., 3 GOP senators are needed."

Pushing his Leftist agenda, Foley writes:

To end a high-stakes stalemate over union rights that has captured the nation's attention, a handful of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin might have to stand up to their new governor.

True. Republican senators going wobbly and ignoring their constituents would end the stalemate.

Another way to end the "high-stakes stalemate" would be for the 14 Democrat cowards bent on blocking the outcome of the November 2010 election to do the right thing and return to their jobs and fulfill their responsibilities as elected officials.

The Democrats enabling the circus in Madison and thwarting the will of the people need to quit their obstruction.

DEMOCRATS NEED TO SHOW RESPECT FOR THE POLITICAL PROCESS.

Read: "The View from Wisconsin: 'Our Political Process has been Stopped by a Mob'"

Gov. Scott Walker made clear Sunday he won't back off his proposal to effectively eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Senate Democrats who fled the state last week to delay the plan vowed not to come back to allow it to pass — even if they have to miss votes on other bills Tuesday. And union leaders said they would not let up on protests that have consumed Wisconsin's capital city for a week and made the state the center of a national debate over the role of public employees' unions.

That dynamic means it might take Republicans in the Legislature who believe Walker is going too far to try to break the impasse. One idea that has been floated by GOP Sen. Dale Schultz would temporarily take away bargaining rights to get through the state's next two-year budget, then immediately restore them.

No.

I think that dynamic means it will take merely ONE Democrat in the Legislature who believes running out of state is a disgraceful move. ONE Dem is needed to break the impasse. ONE Dem needs to have the courage to come back to Madison and vote. Just come back and vote.

That's what's needed to end the stalemate.

Elections have consequences.

GOP defectors aren't needed to end the unions' stranglehold on Wisconsin taxpayers and address the budget shortfall.

We had an election that set the agenda for Wisconsin.

Deal with it, Dems.

While it's unclear whether that would be acceptable to his colleagues, Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach said in a phone interview from the hotel room in Chicago where he's hiding out that Schultz was brave for making the proposal. He said Schultz, of Richland Center, and five or six other Republican senators who have ties to organized labor are in the best position to get both sides to negotiate a deal.

Erpenbach, coward, should come back to Wisconsin and do his job.

Dems running away and hiding out of state to avoid facing the reality of the will of the people as expressed in the 2010 elections is completely unacceptable.

GOP defectors aren't the answer to end the stalemate.

ONE Democrat who understands how democracy works could have prevented the stalemate.

This stalemate shouldn't be happening at all.

ONE Dem with a sense of decency and duty can end it.