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‘Finish the Job’: Wisconsin GOP Senator Describes Fleeing ‘Angry Mob’ at Capitol

In an interview following the Wisconsin Senate‘s vote to strip away state workers’ collective bargaining privileges, Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman told Fox News’ Greta VanSusteren Wednesday evening that Republican lawmakers had been instructed to leave the state capital because “it was not safe.”

“We left the capitol about 15 minutes after the vote under police protection because there was an angry mob,” Grothman said. “We were told to get out of Madison as quickly as possible.”

In the meantime, members of the State Assembly plan to convene at the capitol Thursday to “finish the job,” Grothman added. According to Grothman, the GOP chose to act Wednesday after being “led on” by Democrats that there would be an eventual compromise. “If no one is going to do it, then we had to go on without them,” he said.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:17am

    I’m watching the reruns on MSNBC. It’s hilarious. The Dem Senators are painting Gov. Walker as a radical, extremist with the tiniest (yes, tiniest) amount of support from the People of Wisconsin. They’re making up outlandish stories about him – like he’s given himself the power to dissolve any political Office, or Town or City in the State.

    One nitwit on another show called for solidarity because “there’s more of us then of them”. These people are delusional.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:11am

    no one carried on like this when obama rammed his nation-killing obamacare down our throats.

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  • flatbroke
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:55am

    when these thugs get violent that whens video phones, and mass email come in handy.

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:45am

    Oh no!

    Now the media will be running nothing but stories warning of incivility and worried about violence.

    /sarc

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:28am

      Fer shur – and Obama will give a “healing” speech. I can’t wait. I will bring beer.

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  • missy8s
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:41am

    The terrorist union rent-a-thugs say:

    “Wahhhhh!!!!!

    You don’t agree with us!

    We’re going to burn your house down!

    WAHHHHH!! “

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:44am

      Well don’t forget, they are Democrats, the people who brought you the KKK. So burning crosses, or burning houses down is in their DNA.

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  • Harry Rourke
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:38am

    Man Oh Man! I could’ve made a fortune selling bricks at this thing~

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:18am

      actually, we were horrified a few days ago when a younger IUOE thug said bricks would be thrown if the bill passed…one of ours gave a lifetime 45 yrs to the IUOE, only to learn recently the union is in bed with the AFL-CIO so bad that 74% of the dues go to the DNC aka D&C party.. the dilation&curette: abortion party.

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  • oldanbo
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:28am

    remember even the police are unionized. this is not just Wisconsin, it is nationwide. consider this, the police in charge of security at the state capital building will not even preform their duty due to their union affiliations. in that case think when dialing 911. the call may reach an officer on a “contract authorized” break.

    may God bless the leaders of Wisconsin for finally righting the ship of freedom.

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    • aLinedog
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:07am

      Careful, Sav.. those last words are, by definition, cursing. Not trying to preach, just a friendly reminder.
      -line

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  • JEDI_GADSDEN
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:28am

    Did Dems have to leave after the Obamacare bill got voted on? I must have missed that.

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    • drumsalot5
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:55am

      They were to busy gloating with Chris Matthews and Rachel Madcow and planning gavel parades.

      Besides, where would they go? You can smell their rotten intentions from miles away. . .

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  • Jimbo96
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:26am

    Once voted on by the House and signed by the governor it becomes law and the Senate dimocrats will have no reason to continue to obstruct any fiscal bill bill by being AWOL. While absent they gave up their right to use the legislative process to put their point of view forward. They have nobody to blame but themselves for being absent from the state for any actions taken while they were. Got to love this irony. Unions are good only for private industry and not for public employees. If those who work as “public servants” wish to collectively bargain, then go work for a private company that you can bankrupt and everyone loses their job when they close, or be reasonable in your requests and everyone makes more, stockholders and workers. But in that case you can‘t bribe the board of directors unless you own stock because they don’t accept campaign donations, but elected politicians do. That’s bribing the people who you bargain with and guess what, you got better pay and benefits than the private sector, even with private sector unions…besides that, now public employees now get to use their FREE CHOICE to either continue to pay union dues or NOT PAY and still keep their job, rather than having to pay without any option not to.

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    • chasbronson
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:50am

      The unions have bankrupted many of this countries manufacturing business’.I can think of three just here in my area.

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    • chasbronson
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:53am

      Thanks for clarifing,Lots of people mostly dems,don’t have a clue.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:26am

    The Dems are hanging their hopes on the 24 hr notice Law. There is an exception to that Law – that they are choosing to ignore. Only 2 hrs are required (which the Repubs gave) when there is an emergency or Cause. I would think that the Dem Senators being AWOL from the State for 3 weeks would rightly be considered Cause. The State Attorney General that the Dems will be taking this up with, is a Republican.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:34am

      LOL .. they should be laughed at right in the face!

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:10am

      They did not even give the 2 hours! Didn’t you watch the meeting – it was on TV!!
      http://wp.me/pYLB7-IY

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    • Diane TX
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:40am

      @ walkwithme1966
      _____________________

      Yes they did. They put it in writing for the Senate Minority Leader, and it was relayed by his staff. “That” is why the Minority Leader said it was impossible for him to get back within 2 hours. Now, if he had been in WI like he was supposed to be, there wouldn’t have been any problem.

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:08am

      Hey Walkwithme…..we won…..so deal with it. Sound familiar?

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    • drumsalot5
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:52am

      I hope the dems push the issue and make a huge deal of it then get their butts handed to them in court. Every yellow coward who fled the state to obstruct the business of the state that they were elected to do deserves to be in the unemployment line.

      As far as the 24/2 hour rule, they clearly have cause to use the 2 hour rule, they were missing 14 of 33 members, and state business had been stopped because of the cowardice of people unwilling to face the fact that they would lose a vote. Personally I think this will lead to some amendments in various state constitutions to make it illegal for a caucus to flee the state to obstruct a vote.

      they were given a carrot on a string with the offer of negotiated concessions, they thought they were making the Gov. cave, so they decided to wait, and it turned out to be just another dumb move by a bunch of idiot dems

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    • stevend421
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:37pm

      All they have to do is post it on the bulletin board, and it was there!

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:25am

    Now would be a good time to stand up to these people in the Unions, it only will take one of them to get violent and the whole country is going to come down on them, these little people deserve to be taken down. They are nothing but entitlement free loaders, parasites feeding on the host ,,us tax payers.

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    • chasbronson
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:56am

      You are correct.There are now works in the senate.Power needs to go back to the people.Given the choice most workers will not give up their pay to the greedy unions.

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  • gcarguy
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:19am

    What a shame. Unions did some good things in the beginning. Then the leadrs figured out they were a great source of personal income. Then they figured out they control political power. Along the way they forget the workers and the employers. Now we have to ask them to go back to their original purspose or get out of the marketplace.

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  • REVENANT
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:16am

    It’s perfectly acceptable for a union member to beat someone near to death, but let that victim even think of exercising a God given right to self defense against said beating, suddenly there would be a terrible outrage.

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  • Quechan
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:16am

    When I think of the idiotic rants by Glenn Beck’s substitute host today, I want to puke. He called Governor Walker everything but a traitor, alledging he sold out to the unions. His basis? Old emails not relevant to the present. But that didn’t keep him from running off at the mouth.
    Gov. Walker stood fast, not cut and run like that stupid host said over and over again. The Republicans fought smart as well as hard. One just hopes law enforcement does its job and keeps the crazies away.

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    • Doc Inman
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:23am

      Cut and Run? Like the former governor of Alaska. Sarah Palin maybe?

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:32am

      No doc, like the fourteen craven, unprincipled, pathetic punks taking up temporary residence in another state.

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:52am

      Yep the liberal cowards cut and ran. Shot themselves in the collective foot at the same time. Made themselves into laughing stock. What Boobs.

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:21am

      I WISH we were harassing the 14 like Sarah Palin had been/is harassed – they’d be weeping in fetal positions (and they sorta were, anyway).

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:40am

      Quechan
      Perhaps the flack the Gov. was getting for negotiating with the Dems. prompted this move last night. The Gov. will be highly regarded again, fear not.

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  • trmkc
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:12am

    Way to go Wisconsin Republicans! How refreshing that some politicians are capable of acting like adults and facing reality in an effort to deal with fiscal problems rather than throwing a hissy fit and running away like the Democrats. There’s more to come across the country.This is just the beginning.Thank you for doing the right thing in the face of adversity.

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:12am

    Wrong when tea party attacks dems, wrong when dems attack repubs.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:20am

      Wrong when tea party attacks dems
      ———-
      Got any examples ????

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:29am

      I would like to see them also.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:48am

      House Dems Coordinate On Town Hall Meetings, Protesters
      By Brian Beutler – August 5, 2009, 1:23PM
      Moments ago, House Democrats concluded a caucus conference call to discuss, among other things, strategy for dealing with the new, potentially hostile, environments at town halls in their districts. I’ll fill in the blanks with more info as it becomes available, but the long and short of it is that–astroturf or not–the news early this week served as a wake up call to Democrats, and over the last 24 hours or so they’ve been coalescing around a strategy for managing their events, and advancing their recess message, with or without interruptions.

      Late update: On the call, Democrats agreed to push ahead with August plans and messages. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) recounted his run-in with rowdy protesters to prepare members who haven’t been accosted for what to expect and how to react. Just an overview.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:50am

      @ Exrepublisheep
      We are waiting
      Take off your kneepads and text your masters, there must be someone on duty this late in a basement somewhere to e-mail you a clue

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:03am

      On the call, Democrats agreed to push ahead with August plans and messages. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) recounted his run-in with rowdy protesters to prepare members who haven’t been accosted for what to expect and how to react. Just an overview.
      —————
      Where are the details of this so called ‘run-in’ ?
      Or is this whole ‘run-in’ something like what that jihady from IN keeps repeating in chorus with other idiots like him ? A fleck on a steaming pile of doggy-reject which dems call a brain ?
      Since you are in research mode already, do us a favor and find out what happened to the $100,000
      that Andrew Breitbart was offering

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:13am

      sheep,
      That’s your example?……………..What a dope!

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    • Fool
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 11:08am

      @Exrepublisheep

      This is your example? A Dem strategy session where the Dems are just hoping for a scintilla of aggressiveness from the Tea Party that we see in full display by the union protesters in WI?

      No wonder you idiots are losing. It will be a great day when Leftism finally collaspes from within.

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  • dcwu
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:12am

    Arrest them. Take names. Identify them.

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  • ellietoo
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:12am

    I guess this makes clear what the democratic agenda is. They have no respect for the rule of law, the constitution or even the will of the people. They were defeated in an election so instead of performing their duties they leave the state to prevent the state legislature from going forth. The democrats would not even have the numbers they do if it were not for union money supporting them. Unions can bus people in from across the country to act like thugs for them and try to frighten people because they have union members dues to pay for it with. Unions and Democrats are ruining this country and it needs to be stopped now. This has nothing to do with rights, it has to do with the tax payer being held hostage by corrupt unions. Stop the union support of elected officials!

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:29am

      You’re right! This has NOTHING to do with rights. The public schools failed to teach that collective bargaining is a contract. All the kids learn is that this is a ‘free country’, and they can do what they want; including defacing the Capital building. A contract is a contract and it ENDS. Rights do not end. I was somewhat down this evening, nursing a cold; and this news really buoyed my spirits.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:32am

      @DALE

      Feel better .. I’m glad this helped.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:08am

      Do any of your people realize that what was done tonight was against the open meeting laws for Wisconsin? Gov Walker and the Republican Senators didn’t just push thru the bill – they broke a state law – what they did was illegal!! And they have raised a sleeping giant!!! Tomorrow will be interesting!! Reports from the capital say that everyone is peaceful!! So there is no harm going to be done to any of them. Stop spreading nonsense!!

      http://wp.me/pYLB7-IY

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:05am

      Again Walkwithme You are wrong. The Republicans did nothing wrong. The Dems in Illinois is another story altogether. They ARE committing a crime. I am from Wisconsin. I tend to keep up on these things.

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    • Progessives=Fail
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:51am

      All I can see when I read walkwithme’s posts is “blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah.”

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  • AzDebi
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:11am

    GRETA…DO YOU GET IT YET? The Democrats FLED THE STATE and shirked their duties as Representatives…EVERYTHING from that point on is totally MUTE! I don’t watch Greta anymore…quit watching her over a year ago…her “progressive” lean is just too annoying for me!

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:20am

      I have stopped watching also .. until tonight .. I saw on The Blaze that this was breaking and know she is from Wisconsin .. wanted to see what she would say … same old same old …

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    • aLinedog
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:23am

      I do wish someone would make an issue of this. Should those ‘lawmakers’ not be fired, on the spot? If you abandoned your post because you refused to even discuss a management decision, would you not be fired?
      I was delirously happy to see them take Charles Krauthammer’s advice on splitting the bill, and thereby neutering the value of their self-impose exile. The one time President Clinton has said something to which I can agree without qualification. Sir Charles is a brilliant man.
      -Line

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:29am

      Fired .. for what they have cost the state (damage to Capital over 6 million and climbing at this moment I am certain with union thugs once again trashing it) THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED.

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    • aLinedog
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:02am

      I’m not optimistic enough anymore. I know politicians don’t go to jail for Crimes of Legislation. My own wish was little more than that.. a wistful whimsy.
      They deserve disgrace; this is a dangerous precedent. Punishment should be swift and severe, but instead it’ll be a wink and nod.
      -Line

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:03am

      These Senators were doing their jobs – they were working on the phones, computers, and fax machines. And their staffs were working back at the Capital – there are not any grounds for firing them!! Learn the laws in the state you live in – you cant fire then and you can’t recall them after a year. Gees, I live in Texas and know more than most of you! There are already recall petitions for signatures circulating for recalling Walker and the Republican Senators. When this is all over in 2012 – the Tea Party will be just a memory. http://wp.me/pYLB7-IY

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 5:44am

      @ Walkwith……….

      I went to that site you list in your post. I viewed enough of it to convince me the “sources” you list (or are listed for some of the stories” is controversial at best and biased and inconclusive at worst… especially the oil peak story that leads. Wikopedia? Rolling stone article about a guy claiming GB is stealing his material?? Get real…

      I suppose it explains your weird (my opinion) take on so many of the articles here you post to. As far as your comments that the democratic senators’ staff is busy working… sorry, that doesn’t cut it by a mile… they weren’t elected to vote. If they (republicans) broke the law, which one was that? Open meeting? 2 hours notice instead of 24? Show me the law and I‘ll believe it otherwise I’ll believe it was a hell of a lot less that the crap Obama/Pelosi/Reid pulled by ramming through his health plan… which the republicans did NOT block by the way… they may have wanted to, but all of 2010 was spent twisting arms of their own party and buying them off to get the votes. They still had to ram it through at the last minute with a legislative “trick” not a vote of any kind. Legislative maneuvers are not the sole property of the democrats. You are very hypocritical in my view, but then, I’m sure you will never see it.

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:30am

      @Walkwithme

      Nah you’d be wrong there. This is just the beginning of the liberal crushing.

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    • expatinontariocanada
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:50am

      (3) Public notice of every meeting of a governmental body shall be given at least 24 hours prior to the commencement of such meeting unless for good cause such notice is impossible or impractical, in which case shorter notice may be given, but in no case may the notice be provided less than 2 hours in advance of the meeting. http://www.wisfoic.org/an-openmeetingslaw.html

      Looks like the WI Republicans can make a case for “good cause such notice is impossible or impractical”. If but for the Progressibe Liberal Democratics bailing out on their duties the people of Wisconsin‘s business just wasn’t getting done. Layoffs were imminent. More notice would have cost jobs. Way to go Wisconsin Republicans. HOLD FIRM!

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    • Progessives=Fail
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:47am

      After reading walkwithme’s highly misguided posts on the blaze I must conclude she is either a troll or about 22 years old at most. Nothing wrong with the latter…

      “If you‘re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you‘re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”

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  • vennoye
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:08am

    What a sad commentary on the state of our country. This is ridiculous. You would think they voted to take their houses away from them.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:26am

      Thing is the Republicans could have done this in the first days .. they gave the Dems every opportunity to come back and act like adults …. now that the Republicans have taken action the Dems are crying (and I do mean crying as in babies) unfair. I knew this was an option from watching the news .. either the Dems are exceedingly stupid (not out of the realm off possibilities) thought the Republicans would not do it .. or wanted them to do it so they could cry about it.

      If I were a taxpayer in Wisconsin I would be exceedingly P.O.’d at the UNION THUGS and DEMOCRATS.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:07am

    interesting days indeed…………………. could the bells be tolling for the left agenda? the hits seem to be coming swift and hard on all the lefty strongholds, npr, public unions, and obummercare, not to even consider obummers dismal response to the activity in the middle east, and his pathetic budget

    we could finish strong, and close up the job in 2012 , or we could get real lucky and find a means to evict him earlier, or the repubs will lose their backbone and compromise

    i hope for one of the first two options

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:06am

    You took the brave step already, now follow through. The angry mob is the whiney MINORITY. Nov 2nd the majority spoke. You represent the people of the state, not the greedy unions. I pray the hand of the Lord protects you from these misguided idiots bent on destroying this nation!!!! From the look of the crowd last night I didnt see that many that looked like tax payers. If your not paying the bills its always easy to spend someone elses money. The tax payers support you.

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  • butler180
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:03am

    And the Dems say the Tea Party is violent.
    I hope all the State Senators are safe.
    Question – can we bill the Unions for the clean up and for all the Police protection??

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:18am

      we get a hint of left lean from Greta, Wis girl or not, hope she stays balanced.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:42am

      @Burnthills
      We only get a hint of Greta’s leftie inclinations because she caters to a conservative audience, but every time Repubs score a big hit, she starts running around like a chicken without a head.

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    • psst
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:33am

      @Burnthill who wrote.we get a hint of left lean from Greta, Wis girl or not, hope she stays balanced.

      Um ! IMO you can add Babbling billO also,.babbling is a closet Soetoro admirer/supporter. He just have to give him a knock now and then to keep his credentials established that he’s for the litttle guy.
      Both wants the gov to leave the collective right bargaining alone.
      But that is the crux of the matter.
      State workers have no right to bargain. The taxpayers are their boses. Since they are not bargaining w/ US, just who/whom do they bargain w/.? Pols?. Yeah baby!!! . The same pols whom they funded into office. In most heavy union states,these pols will be democrats the vast majority of the times. That means the unions are the bosses and the pols are their employees.
      Employees works for the boss. The boss tells the employees what they want them to do.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:56am

      Cops are some of the biggest union wh-res too.
      They use to have my respect and support – NOT anymore.
      In my sate of Taxachusetts they supported Gov. Patrick and BARNEY FRANK.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:14pm

      @Jakartaman
      Ditto.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:03am

    Republican lawmakers had been instructed to leave the state capital because “it was not safe.”
    —
    SHAME ON YOU HUSSAIN
    SHAME ON YOU MADISON LE AGENCIES

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 4:11am

      But they are just protecting “the people,“ that is ”THE violently angry, bussed in, public union, minority of the PEOPLE,“ not ”THE lawmakers elected by the PEOPLE.” Now where is the shame in that?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 11:19am

      So if it is that unsafe, why has the National Guard not been called in? The cops obviously are only going through the motions and not really doing a lot of protecting, and the danger level is obviously high (hence this article).

      Guaran-damn-tee ya’ that if this was a Tea Party event that went haywire with these kinds of actions, half the U.S. military would be called in and shooting would commence against the demonstrators.

      But let little leftists go around and break things and hurt people, and we’re supposed to supinely sit back and let them have their way. Freaking unbelievable.

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    • lannylar
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:13pm

      They should have stayed and the police made to do their jobs an protect them. Let the Unions be proven for what they are thugs.

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  • pugsly84
    Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:03am

    wow they seem angry. Bunch of thugs

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:04am

      Unions create thugs without a doubt. I am so happy to see the Republicans out smart the Dumbocrats and take action.

       
    • AKMIIKEUS
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:11am

      The fight has just begun and we will not sit back and do nothing.
      This will be overturned in the courts.

      AKMIIKEUS  
    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:18am

      Laughing Nancy Pelosi with a GIANT GAVEL and her “posse” walked through the TEA Party following the biggest entitlement vote (OBAMACARE) in my lifetime. Although they tried to make claims of violence … no proof was ever given … and yet these UNION THUGS will be hailed as heros in the morning by the MSM …. The MSM ignores real violence and threats and makes up stories about the TEA Party …. enough!

      http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=nancy+pelosi+photo+gavel&view=detail&id=77371A141E0B0FEF7C9F606A756C740F8052BD42&first=1&FORM=IDFRIR

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:26am

      The silence from WH is deafening

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:27am

      definetly shows what these guys are truly all about…can’t get your way throw a fit…little more than a fit though..I say enough too!

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:31am

      I saw tonight (it might have been on The Blaze) that they suspect that this Democrat RUN was orchestrated from the White House .. States Rights anyone?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:32am

      This is exactly what the core progressives of the administration want to happen; inciting of violence and they will blame the conservatives and the tea party. Watch for the other hand with the fist of iron hidden away under a white glove…the violence is coming, and someone from the unions or the left will initiate it worse than the provocations so far being carried out…and there will be blood.

      It must never be the conservatives and the people who love the country who start it; no matter what they attempt to do, unless in self defense. Document and video record any and all escalations they attempt and show it to the world while we have time.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:34am

      @CatB

      Right on the money, with the Democrats out of the way, the administration can lay the blame for the first usage of violence and force on the conservatives, and if he needs them to be blamed, upon the unions when he slams them in the back with a fist of iron.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:36am

      @ CatB
      Will someone ask strechy-face if she ever saw this kind of violence in the 60s and 70s in SF ?
      That woman is a disgrace to this country . And womanhood

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:48am

      CheezWhiz -
      It really may be a good thing that the White House isn’t saying anything. Every time the O opens his mouth, things fall apart a bit more.

      The last time I saw him talk or comment on camera, he looked absolutely drained. He’s the perfect example of the Peter Principle — the emporer’s clothes are empty. He‘s moved into a job that he can’t handle. He’s no leader. He’s no president. He should have stayed on the campaign trail (and never got off of it).

      Showtime  
    • aLinedog
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:49am

      Venom
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:33am
      Lets have a war.

      That person is damaging my calm.
      -line

      Note: Being unfamiliar with Venom, he could be saying that facetiously and I wouldn’t know. If that be the case, consider me a jackass. -LD

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:56am

      Well, guess what?! Conservatives are angry, too. That is the reason the grassroots TEA Party movement formed.

      Sounds like a “personal problem” (of the union members) to me.

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:12am

      One thing that has been made abundantly clear from these last few weeks. The police fire men are not your friends.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:14am

      The Gov should call up the national guard and clear the place out…..
      It wouldn’t be the first time the guard put union thugs in their place
      (nothing like a tank to make ya reconsider)

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    • Deuteronomy22
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:14am

      Those protesters look the same age and demographic that you’d see at a Tea Party rally and he calls them thugs.

      Deuteronomy22  
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:16am

      Showtime
      It really may be a good thing that the White House isn’t saying anything. Every time the O opens his mouth, things fall apart a bit more.
      ————-
      Is it too much to expect the POTUS to actually act like POTUS and not like a shameless spoiled brat with thuggish tendencies ?
      For once ?
      I guess we should start looking for patriotic leadership elsewhere, outside the current WH

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    • home_of_the_brave
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:19am

      I don’t feel sorry for these union thugs! An 8% “pay cut” for a bus driver who makes $159,000 a year still leaves them with $146,280 a year. Thats more than a fair amount for a bus driver! Hey dems don’t be angry, we’re redistributing the wealth… to pay down YOUR debt.

       
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:34am

      Deuteronomy22
      Those protesters look the same age and demographic that you’d see at a Tea Party rally and he calls them thugs.
      ———–
      What exactly is Tea Party age and demographic ?
      You do know that the term “ thug” describes actions , not looks , right ????

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:50am

      If I was in charge of the State, I would fire all Union employees, open the jobs up at 50% salary to whoever wants to apply and let the Unions yell until they die of starvation or scream to death.
      You want job guarantees? Show up and work and you get a check. That’s it.

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    • aLinedog
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:06am

      Deuteronomy22
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:14am
      Those protesters look the same age and demographic that you’d see at a Tea Party rally and he calls them thugs.
      ________________________________________________________________
      Perhaps. If they look the same as your alleged Tea Party demographic then they must draw from the same pool. (your logic; I think it’s flawed but hey, let us see where this goes..)
      So you accept that the TEA party is not racist, nor fringe, but represents a rather large segment of the population. Then the only difference between the Wisconsin protestors and the Tea Party protestors are their actions, true? One protests peacefully AND respectfully, while actually policing itself and event participants. The other pre-meditates acts of disruption and civil disobedience, while courting organizations dedicating to bringing down the American Government. [see: Communists. (Socialists should be included, IMO.)]
      Actions speak louder than words.
      -Line

       
    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:10am

      @Cheezwhiz
      Don’t worry. Molten lava and sulphur fumes will spew from O‘bum’s mouth tomorrow. His lawyers are already busy figuring out how to sue WI or nullify today’s vote.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:35am

      Union thugs and young socialists, uncivil people really, nothing like the civil Tea Party people by the way. The Republicans are brave to show up with these thugs around, may God protect them.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 6:47am

      I award O‘Keefe’s to all 18 of those Wisc state Senators.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:04am

      Good for you Wisconsin, finally some politicians with the balls to do their jobs.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:35am

      Deuteronomy22
      It’s their behavior that makes them “thugs” not their demographic.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:40am

      The liberal left at it’s “finest”!!! “By any means necessary”!!! These union people have been whipped up into such a frenzy by the left that they are close to a “mob rules” mentality. And our do nothing president is nowhere to be found when it comes to defusing the situation. We can see it all unfolding now, next the “professional protesters” will go to Ohio)if they haven’t already< then it's on to New York, New Jersey, California, the list goes on and on. Did you ever stop to think where the "professional protesters" get their money from to attend rally after rally? I've got two words for ya, "spooky" is one, and "dood" is the other!!! They will be coming to a city near you soon!

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    • txbigfoot
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:09am

      This limited group does NOT represent the citizens of the state. They have hijacked the sentiment of the people to subvert the will of the people. They need to be treated just like every one else. And when their representatives bug out and run from the light then as Barrack said We won and you must pay the consequences. BooYA baby.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:19am

      I watched waiting for superman this past weekend. Everybody should see this film. It really shows how big of a problem these teachers unions are. Good for Scott Walker!

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:19am

      TO ALINEDOG…
      Though I can’t speak for VENOM, but I’ll take a stab at what I think he is feeling….

      We’ve watched the socialist radicals and militant blacks riot; we‘ve seen women’s ‘rights’ groups institute murder in the form of abortions; militant ‘retributionists’ force quota’s in hiring and promotions (instead of thru merit); we’ve witnessed gays, not content with civil unions, want to call gay unions ‘marriage’. But wait, theres more…….

      We‘ve built housing project after housing project for the ’poor’, only to see them destroyed by people who not only do not appreciate it, but have been taught that it is their ‘right’. Then, to top it off, those housing projects become havens for gangs…gangs that were born out of the lack of family structure in the black families because the programs us taxpayers were forced to support failed.

      We‘ve witnessed forced busing to integrate schools that were going to achieve ’equality of results’, then watched as that experiment has failed to improve test scores of the blacks that ‘only needed to be in better schools’. Now, after billions and billions of taxpayer dollars for all those ‘better schools’, black students continue to fail. To boot, in Philadelphia, blacks attack Asian students out of racial hatred. That hatred isn’t called out in the media. Instead, it is never mentioned that those attacks could possibly be racially motivated. This all brings me to………..

      What we see in Wisconsin. The US has been on a collision course with reality for decades. There’s no question in my mind that collaborative efforts to take down this country from within were well planned out. Wm. Ayars, Piven, Cloward were early conspirators, but there were many others. Now, we see Soros, the media, the now openly Socialist Democratic Party, and labor unions join the fray.

      The entitlement mentality has even infected public employees. Their wages, medical plans, and cushy pensions without contributions cannot be sustained. We can’t afford any of this.

      I can only imagine that is what VENOM is feeling, but for me, I know damn sure that is how I feel. If the radicals who want to ‘fundamentally transform’ America want to continue their quest, we may well have that ‘war’.

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    • moojuiceexpress
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:20am

      nah, they are just showing how they get their way

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:40am

      @AKMIIKEUS

      How? It‘s a state issue and the procedure used has been the law since the mid 1800’s? No funny business at all. They removed the funding portions of the bill and it passed by a simple majority?

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:43am

      @SNOWLEOPARD:
      “This is exactly what the core progressives of the administration want to happen; inciting of violence and they will blame the conservatives and the tea party.”
      _______________________
      You’ve got to go to this site and watch the 3 or 4 videos…
      Stanley Kurtz – “Radical-In-Chief”
      http://www.davidhorowitztv.com/wednesday-morning-club/340-kurtz
      His book “Radical In Chief, Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism”

      Also, take the time to watch the video above this one-Titled “Intro By David Horowitz”
      And the video below, entitled “Closing By David Horowitz”…

      Your JAW WILL DROP at the insider info that David is going to tell you! Amazing! Maybe you guys are already aware of this info but not many are…

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    • TheBees
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:51am

      Seems to me that once all the good conservatives are out it become a target rich environment!!!!

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:47am

      @ AKMIIKEUS……Oh he eh that was rich. Thanks for my first laugh of the day. I would like to see that court ruling. The precedence and the laws they would cite to overturn it. Wooooo that was a good one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:05am

      WHO…told them to get out of Madison as quickly as possible. WHO is running the show there?

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    • idrathermisstotheright
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:05am

      @encino

      You could speak clearer if you removed your mouth from Ttumpka’s crotch.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:18am

      This is all part of the bigger plan. Unrest everywhere and then massive power grabs. Where were they when the health care plan was crammed down our throat under the same maneuvers.

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    • encinom
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:20am

      @idrathermisstotheright
      Continuning to suck Koch.

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    • JEANNIEMAC
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:41am

      It should be noted that when Tea Partiers demonstrate, they do not shout, scream curses or leave messes behind them. The thugs are hired goons. Most union members are hard working people, being misled by the radical bosses who want to continue taking huge salaries out of the dues of the members.

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    • Progessives=Fail
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:41am

      These protestors are predominatly white…..

      lol I wonder if the MSM will repeat that stament countless times as they did describing the tea party rallys, which as we all know contained 0 violence and we actually leave the area cleaner than we found it, what a contrast to the “progressives”.

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    • Progessives=Fail
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:42am

      don’t feed the troll.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:50am

      Why aren’t the police arresting the terrorists instead of running away. If the “protestors” are threatening the legislatures like that, the only thing that they could be called is a terrorist threat.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:59am

      @Deuteronomy22

      “Those protesters look the same age and demographic that you’d see at a Tea Party rally and he calls them thugs.”

      Thug is a term that is not determined by one’s age or demographic. It‘s determined by one’s actions towards others.

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    • lannylar
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:11pm

      The Senators or at leas some should have did what the Dems did gong in to sign the health care bill. Been brave enough to stay and walk thru the mob.The police need to do their job an arrest anyone that would harm them. But no the police seem to be with the mob and no Senator will stand up and stay.
      Yes it would be very scary to do this and only the very brave could but it would show the Unions as they are thugs. It is time that the Union mobs be proven that they are the animals and haters and the Tea Party is not .

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:12pm

      @ChiefGeorge
      the police

      VENOM was censored for saying “lets have a war.” Pathetic, Blaze. Who censors the PRESIDENT when he incites the rioters to “keep on fighting,“ and calls us ”the enemy”? If they want war, what are we to do?

      VENOM, here’s what you SHOULD have said: “Let’s be sitting ducks.” Nobody would have objected to that. Geez.

      @Decendent
      WELL SAID.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:56pm

      Again WHERE is the NATIONAL GUARD.. they aren’t UNION.. they get a lot less pay and do twice as much work and put themselves on the line MORE than these UNION THUGS time to show the unions what WORKERS do..

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:45pm

      it is because they are an angry mob of thugs. in this worl we have to types, those who make and produce items, and those who consume. the ones who consume feel they have a right to those who produce production. this is the line between capitalism and socialism. The anger on the socialist side is their las hoorah, the one who should be angry is the capitalists, for it is their property being brabbed by the one who consume.

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