Last night on MSNBC's The Ed Show, ten of the 14 Wisconsin Democrat state senators, cowardly runaways thwarting the will of the people as expressed in the November 2010 elections, reacted to the Wednesday evening vote on the budget repair bill.
These AWOL legislators, stars on MSNBC, spewed their venom. It's truly stunning.
As if they hadn't embarrassed themselves enough already, they continued their streak.
Tim Carpenter calls the vote a "sneak attack" and "Pearl Harbor."
Robert Wirch refers to Wednesday being "a day of infamy for Wisconsin workers" and Republicans making Wisconsin workers "second class citizens."
Lena Taylor calls Governor Walker "a liar."
Each one of them uses horrible rhetoric and shamefully distorts the truth. It's as if they are from another planet, operating under some foreign, bizarre reality. They are really weird and scary. They're like members of a cult.
They are an absolute disgrace to Wisconsin.
This is a long, torturous video clip. The Dems appear at 3:15.
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Transcript
FRED RISSER: I have never seen anything like this in my life. You know, the Governor, instead of acting like a leader and trying to negotiate with people, decided that he wanted to get this bill passed so bad that he not only bent the rules, but he broke the rules. I think it's disgusting, and I think the public will get, react accordingly.
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DAVE HANSEN: I just wanted to say that as a former public employee I really appreciated what labor organizations did for me. I drove a truck for the city of Green Bay sanitation before I became a state senator. And without that we wouldn't have had any pay or any benefits, and that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to remove ANY right to bargain, negotiate, and remove collective bargaining that's been in place for 50 years. It is a sad, sad day, and it's ridiculous what those 18 Republican senators did today. And our Governor should be ashamed of himself.
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MARK MILLER: Absolutely, we're gonna go back to Wisconsin. It's just a first of many battles. Uh, this is a battle that needs to be joined and every way we can to use every bit of our effort, every bit of our wisdom, because this outrage cannot stand. It's absolutely essential that we go back and fight this. We join the citizens of Wisconsin who've been demonstrating and protesting and writing letters and doing everything they can to tell the Governor that this cannot be, that this cannot be the future of Wisconsin. And we are gonna be back there right shoulder to shoulder, arm hold to arm, to fight this battle right along with them. But not tomorrow.
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JULIE LASSA: Well, Ed, I think that it's absolutely shameful what the Republicans have done in the State Senate, what they're going to do in the State Assembly tomorrow. You know, it really does take away from our democratic process in Wisconsin. This bill, they were so desperate to strip away 50 years of worker rights that they had to go and break the Open Meetings Law, according to the Republican attorney general. They voted on a bill that wasn't even, they didn't even have before them, and it wasn't even available to the public anywhere. So, in their desperation to strip away workers' rights, they broke the law and they rammed through this bill that will have significant ramifications for, as you said, you know, well over a hundred thousand workers in the state of Wisconsin. But we are going to take this fight, and we are going to fight it out in every part of the state, and we are gonna get the Senate back, and we are gonna make sure that Gov. Walker and his radical agenda that he has set to work against working families and the middle class will not stand.
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KATHLEEN VINEHOUT: People feel tonight angry, and they feel betrayed. And they feel like they wanna do something, and I would appeal to all those people who have worked so hard to try and help their voice be heard that the way to have their voice be heard is to now turn to the ballot box. If we can't have the voices of the people heard, we've gotta change the faces of those who represent the people. And it's very important that everyone get involved in the recall elections in any way that they can because we need to make sure the people's voice is heard. And it will be heard on election day.
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ROBERT WIRCH: This is a day of infamy for Wisconsin workers. Tomorrow, they're second class citizens thanks to the Republicans who took that terrible vote tonight.
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JIM HOLPERIN: Well, Ed, when the Governor initially introduced this budget repair bill, he described these changes to our collective bargaining law as a modest change, a small, uh, amendment to Wisconsin law. One reason we left the state was because we knew very differently, and I think that's been demonstrated abundantly across the state over the last couple of weeks. And I think when the Governor talks now about our state budget bill and starts describing programs as merely slight reductions in spending, something people can easily absorb, we need to be very, very skeptical about what we hear out of this governor. I think his credibility has been severely damaged by the way that he's described this action that the Senate took tonight and I think Wisconsin citizens will be properly very doubtful about the way he characterizes his agenda and the things he intends to do to the state if he gets his way over the coming weeks and months.
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LENA TAYLOR: Ed, I think that Sen. Holperin was kind. I think the truth is that our governor is a liar, and he's been shown to be that, and that the Republicans have been shown to be rubber stamp legislatures [sic]. They are not going to stand up to him. They are not going to do what is right. They are not gonna keep the people's interest over profit. They have shown that they are not going to allow people to have access to government, to petition their government. It's as Julie said, they're gonna break the rules. I mean, they're gonna defy the constitution. It is a shame, and I always keep saying that my favorite candy is Now or Laters. And they didn't hear them now, but they will have to deal with the people later. And Kathleen said it, we couldn't change their minds, then it's time to take your anger, people, Wisconsinites, take your anger and your frustration and it's time to change their faces through recall.
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DAVE HANSEN: I just wanted to say everything that went on in the last several weeks that we've been gone, I'm so proud of the Wisconsin 14 for standing up for what we believe in. What the Governor is doing was not fair. It was not balanced. It was not respectful, and it certainly didn't talk at all about what impact it's gonna have on our communities and it's not positive at all. Stand together. Believe in the dream. We can win this fight, and it is truly at the ballot box.
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TIM CARPENTER: Well, Ed, I guess the best way to describe this is the, uh, this is our Pearl Harbor of workers' rights. The governor has really been out of bounds and did this sneak attack in the middle of the night without any public notice, without any input for many hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites that have expressed their views. It's a sad day for Wisconsin. I'm kind of ashamed that this has happened. And I don't know what the governor will do next.
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CHRIS LARSON: Yeah, Ed, I think this is, there's people who are very disheartened right now and have a lot of anger. Um, but I think that what comes of this, if we, they may have won this battle today, um, but I think that he just awoke a sleeping middle class that wasn't sure if there was a difference between the Democratic party and the Republican party. And now, tonight, it's never been clearer which party sides with the middle class, which party sides with the workers, which party will go and stay away from the state that they love for three weeks in order to stand up for rights, and then which party is going to use anything they can in the books to try and undercut that, no low that they will not go to in order to undercut the people, and which side will go for corporations and, um, against the public interest. So, I think that as we are disheartened tonight, I think that there's gonna be thousands of people who will wake up tomorrow and grab clipboards in order to give the Republican recalls new life as we take back our democracy.
Unbelievable.
These comments show just how extreme and radicalized these people are.
Did something happen to them while they were in Illinois?
Were they always like this?
Did union thugs brainwash them? Were they bribed?
They do not speak for mainstream Wisconsinites.
PEARL HARBOR???
They're creepy. They're irresponsible. They're unfit to serve in office.
This is surreal.
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