Following a vote that will lead to Wisconsin Public Service Labor Union members having to contribute to their own benefit plans, a riot broke out in the capitol as an angry crowd of Union thugs threw rocks at the Capitol Building, breaking windows. Some attempted to enter the building itself through an open window, after being turned away at the front door.

Yesterday, in a brilliant maneuver, Gov. Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republican State Senators bypassed the AWOL Democrat Fleebaggers, hiding out in Illinois, and voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from most public workers.

After the bill passes the Republican-controlled State Assembly today, Republican Gov. Scott Walker will gladly put his John Hancock on this piece of legislation, much to the chagrin of the Progressives, Wisconsin’s Public Service Labor Unions’ Management and their allies in the nation’s Organized Labor Unions.

Within hours of the State Senate passing the bill, about 7,000 pouting Union members showed up outside the Senate Chamber, chanting:

The whole world is watching!

Yep.  And a lot of us are wildly applauding.

While most of them grew exhausted by their collective temper tantrum, and went home to their three bedroom, 2 car garage homes in the suburb, some of the oppressed (or bussed in ) wound up sleeping on the marble floor of the Capitol Building.

I wonder if chiropractic is covered under the Union Benefit Plan.

The vote ended a three-week stalemate, caused by the cowardly tactic of fleeing the state by the Democratic Senators. These noble public servants ran like scalded dogs in order to avoid the quorum needed to vote on Gov. Walker’s proposed legislation which would solve a $137 million budget shortfall.

The Senate decided late Wednesday afternoon to take all the spending measures out of the legislation and approved it minutes later, 18-1.

Let the whining begin.

First up, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller.

In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin. Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten. Tonight, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people.”

And dereliction of duty doesn’t?

Democratic state Sen. Dave Hansen was surprised:

We didn’t believe that the Republican senators would stay with the governor and rubber-stamp his plan.

Well, I guess you shouldn’t have run away, huh?

Still in the midst of a hissy fit, Senate Democrats met late las night to decide on when they were going to sneak back into town.

According to State Senator Spencer Coggs (D) :

We are going to watch and see how the Assembly unfolds. There will be fireworks. There will be a lot of people at the Capitol and so it will be hard to get in and out of the Capitol.

The Wisconsin Democratic Senators must be working out their schedule with SEIU and the AFL-CIO. Wouldn’t want to interrupt those staged protests, y’know.

Speaking of which, Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin state AFL-CIO, whined about Republicans exercising a “nuclear option”:

Scott Walker and the Republicans’ ideological war on the middle class and working families is now indisputable.

Gov. Scott Walker issued the following statement last night:

I applaud the Legislature’s action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform government.

The measure stops most government workers from collectively bargaining for wage increases beyond the rate of inflation unless approved by referendum.   The bill will also make public workers contribute more toward their pensions and double their health insurance contribution, a combination equivalent to an 8 percent pay cut for the average worker.

Police and firefighters are exempt.

Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader, Scott L. Fitzgerald, released the following statement last night:

Before the election, the Democrats promised “adult leadership” in Madison. Then a month and a half into session, the Senate Democrats fled the state instead of doing their job.

In doing so, they have tarnished the very institution of the Wisconsin state Senate. This is unacceptable.

This afternoon, following a week and a half of line-by-line negotiation, Sen. Miller sent me a letter that offered three options: 1) keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 2) take our counter-offer, which would keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 3) or stop talking altogether.

With that letter, I realized that we’re dealing with someone who is stalling indefinitely, and doesn’t have a plan or an intention to return. His idea of compromise is “give me everything I want,” and the only negotiating he’s doing is through the media.

Enough is enough. The people of Wisconsin elected us to do a job. They elected us to stand up to the broken status quo, stop the constant expansion of government, balance the budget, create jobs and improve the economy. The longer the Democrats keep up this childish stunt, the longer the majority can’t act on our agenda.

And, as the Democratic Senators found out last night:  If you don’t do your job, somebody will be happy to do it for you.