Perhaps Some Movement In The Wisconsin 14 Standoff

Eventually, the fun of playing hooky wears off.

Fox Nation has learned exclusively from a highly placed source within Wisconsin state politics that the fourteen AWOL Democrats are experiencing "dissension in the ranks." State Sen. Julie Lassa (D) is pregnant and "extremely unhappy" about being on the run. State Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D) has been hit particularly hard by his paycheck being withheld. Wisconsin State Senate leadership is currently negotiating with eight of the fourteen to come home. Gov. Scott Walker (R) has declared today the deadline for action on his budget repair bill and plans to give a budget address at 5 p.m. ET. A deal may be announced around that time.


Here's hoping. The good thing about the sit-ins, rallies, endless debates, etc. in Madison is that no one, anywhere can claim that dissenting voices were not given the opportunity to be heard. The teargas and truncheons were never used on the protesters,(not to mention mounted camel attacks) and great patience was shown when they actually moved in and camped out in the capitol rotunda. The Dems covered themselves in mud with their cursing, littering, pictures of the Governor as der Fuhrer, etc., and with the outright threatening language used by one Dem Assemblyman on a GOP Assemblywoman.

It looks like the Wisconsin Assembly has its very own Charlie Sheen. State Rep. Gordon Hintz, the Democrat bad boy of Wisconsin, earned his stripes by getting arrested in connection to a prostitution sting and then grandstanding on the Assembly floor.

620 WTMJ: Last Friday.... after the Assembly voted to engross the Budget Repair Bill, Hintz turned to a female colleague, Rep. Michelle Litjens and said: "You are F***king dead!"

Hope-n-Change, ya'll!

Hintz later admitted to it, and issued an apology, expressing his chagrin that he had been overheard issuing the threat. Ya'll, is it just me, or does that sound like the sort of language the Mob uses? Unions, Mafia, Mafia, Unions...they have been known to keep company from time to time. Hmm...impossible to say from here, just listening to a conversation from a distance.

In any case, after everyone got a chance to let off steam, and express their dismay that life has irrevocably changed, the math is the math is the math is the math. Including the math that says that Wisconsin elected a GOP governor, and large GOP majorities in each house. In future elections, that math may change, and perhaps the unions can reassert their mojo. But for now, math is math. Wisconsin is broke, and must slash spending, beginning with its overwhelming payroll costs.

Here's hoping...