Link: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/18/the-war-in-wisconsin

Perhaps thinking they’re taking inspiration from Egypt but doing so in the most perverse way, Wisconsin’s State Senate Democrats fled the state on Thursday rather than going to work where their presence would have caused a quorum allowing a vote they know they’ll lose regarding the state budget.  It’s not the budget vote precisely that they’re avoiding but rather a provision that would essentially strip teachers unions of collective bargaining rights, something no public sector employee should have anyway.

The police were sent, without results, to find even one Democrat to bring back to the Wisconsin State Senate.  The leftist Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent spoke to one of the brave Democrats who said they would all say away until the collective bargaining provision was taken out of the budget.

The War in Wisconsin is, due to its relatively simplicity, perhaps the clearest yet demonstration to the American people of three key facts, most of which everyone knows deep down but only a small subset (often called “conservatives” or those evil “libertarians”) actually believe:

• Democrats care more about protecting union wealth and power than any other political goal,
• Democrats care only for outcome, not for rules, process, or even democracy itself if the people inconveniently elect Republicans, and
• The media is made up of partisan Democrats in a way which makes them a reliable source of propaganda and an unreliable source of information.

Please read the entirety of my article at the web site of the American Spectator:
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/18/the-war-in-wisconsin