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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on February 22, 2011, 11:13:55 AM
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Voltaire (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:15 AM
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Indiana House Democrats Have Walked Out
According to the Indianapolis Star, most of the Indiana House Democrats did not appear for work today. The chamber is now closed while the GOP majority figures out whether or not to send the State Police after them.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x480482
xchrom (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:17 AM
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d.c dem leadership should stand in strong support of state legislators and union people as the work hard to stop the dismantling of a government that works for the people.
Voltaire (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:20 AM
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4. I think the White House needs to send a strong message here
That they are for the unwashed 98% of Americans who really run this godforsaken country
xchrom (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:22 AM
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9. i think it's tactically dumb to remain neutral here.
Edited on Tue Feb-22-11 11:24 AM by xchrom
but then again -- i think arne duncan is a problem in all of this too.
Voltaire (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:22 AM
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10. Similar bill to the excreable Wisconsin measure
is making its way through the Indiana Legislature. The unions have had people rallying at the Statehouse for the last two days and the Democrats have walked out to prevent the House from gaining a quorum. Very similar issues to Wisconsin, if not the same scale...yet.
drm604 (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:21 AM
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7. I think things are going to start getting very interesting.
It's like a snowball rolling down a hill, gaining size and momentum, and it's worldwide.
robdogbucky (967 posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:23 AM
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13. Is this the wave sweeping across the midwest
that Michael Moore referred to as the Madison Movement?
Sounds like it fits the description.
Go Hoosiers!
gizmo1979 (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-22-11 11:37 AM
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17. We're going to need a refugee camp
For state dems.
Make that prison camp and I'll agree. Obama was for the Wisconsin unions before he read the polls and turned against them. The DUmmies don't get the fact that most tax paying citizens realize that public union salaries , benefits and pensions are killing state budgets. This very well could be the end of powerful public unions in the making.
Oh, and BTW DUmmies, the ridiculous cry baby unions have almost nothing in common with the protesters in the ME, except for a hatred of all that is good and decent.
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I don't get how these people think elected representatives walking off their jobs is a good idea. What if the GOP had done this during Obamacare or any one of Harry Reid's "sleepovers"? The DUmmies would STILL be whining and crybabying about it.
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Damn Flee-baggers.
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do these ****ers still collect their pay and perks when they throw these childish antics? Tell me another job where if you don't like how things are going that you are allowed to just not show up and still keep your job?
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unwashed 98%
WE'RE unwashed? Taken a whiff of yourselves lately, ya patchouli and pot smellin shitstains?
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...government that works for the people.
Since when?
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And frankly, if these idiots learned nothing from last November--and it's pretty apparent they haven't--it's that they better start LISTENING to the people and DOING what they say.
Instead, they're running away like spoiled little bitches. Yeah, that's a good strategy for 2012.
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What is this proving? That there will be less dems in the state houses in 2012?
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Guess legislators don't have a "no call + no show = no job" clause in their job description.
What the heck are they thinking? Not the way to negotiate. Staying home pouting or stomping their little feet in defiance doesn't impress most of the working world.
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I wanna know what nadinbrzezinski thinks about this? I smell a condescending thread on the way.
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Guess legislators don't have a "no call + no show = no job" clause in their job description.
What the heck are they thinking? Not the way to negotiate. Staying home pouting or stomping their little feet in defiance doesn't impress most of the working world.
Can you imagine the media reaction if Republicans dared do the same thing? There would be absolute outrage, calling it a "temper tantrum", etc.
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What is this proving? That there will be less dems in the state houses in 2012?
When all is said and done, you hit the nail on the head.
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The problem this time is they don't have the people behind them. America is in NO mood for a bunch of "adults" throwing a tantrum because they're suddenly being expected to live like everyone else (well, almost). I'd bet a lot of the dems hiding from their jobs are going to lose them in the next election cycle.
Cindie
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It's almost comical. The GOP is trying to be responsible adults and the dems are throwing temper tantrums.
We have real problems that need to be addressed and all the unions do is cry and scream at how unfair that they may have to pay their own way through life.
Do they even realize that those of us who pay the bills do not get all the freebies that they have been given for years?
If we have to pay our own way so should they.
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Another group who took their ball and went home?
Funny how they don't want to play when the majority is on the Republican side, huh? Maybe the Indiana senators are hanging out with the Wisconsin senators in Illinois.
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Democratics play this stupid game all the time. They did it in Texas in 2003. Texas issued warrants for them if I remember correctly.
The Democrats fled Texas to avoid the reach of state troopers, who had been told to round them until that order was rescinded Tuesday night. House rules allow for the arrest of members who intentionally thwart a quorum — which requires at least 100 of the body's 150 members to be present
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2003-05-13-texas-lawmakers_x.htm
KC
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Damn Flee-baggers.
:lmao: To go along with the damn Teacher-baggers I so stole from another forum.
I don't know why the DUmmies think this is such an ingenious, clever political strategy. I don't think the current crop of Americans has much taste for those who walk off jobs, precious as they are. Especially cushy jobs, like state legislator. That's a cognac-and-cigar job if there ever was one.
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I don't know why the DUmmies think this is such an ingenious, clever political strategy.
If the DUmmies think that retreat and hide is a winning strategy, then good for them.
Better for us at the next election cycle.
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If the DUmmies think that retreat and hide is a winning strategy, then good for them.
Better for us at the next election cycle.
Why won't Obama pick up his ball and go home, too?
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Why won't Obama pick up his ball and go home, too?
He can't, Michelle has both of them in her purse. :-)
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Democratics play this stupid game all the time. They did it in Texas in 2003. Texas issued warrants for them if I remember correctly.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2003-05-13-texas-lawmakers_x.htm
KC
Guess how that worked out for the donks? I think right about a net 100 seat difference for the republicans. I think this will work out in WI, OH, IN about the same way.
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He can't, Michelle has both of them in her purse. :-)
:rotf: :lol: :yahoo: :cheerleader2: :II: :rimshot:
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Watching the Libtards implode in real time on a national level is awesome.
Yes indeed, showing the American public their immeasurable capacity to lead and govern...
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Guess how that worked out for the donks? I think right about a net 100 seat difference for the republicans. I think this will work out in WI, OH, IN about the same way.
And that's how it should be. If they are going to subvert the will of those who hired them then they need to hit the road. They shouldn't even wait for elections.
KC
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He can't, Michelle has both of them in her purse. :-)
H5
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I don't get what the Dem's are thinking. What is their endgame? It sure seems like a lose/ lose situation for them. On one hand they will have to come back and vote sometime and they will lose. On the other hand the longer they stay away they look like petulant babies throwing a fit. What are they gaining from this action?
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I don't get what the Dem's are thinking. What is their endgame? It sure seems like a lose/ lose situation for them. On one hand they will have to come back and vote sometime and they will lose. On the other hand the longer they stay away they look like petulant babies throwing a fit. What are they gaining from this action?
Being media darlings. Most of the old-school reporters get all misty-eyed thinking about Vietnam era protests, so this is as close as they're going to see.
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Another group who took their ball and went home?
Funny how they don't want to play when the majority is on the Republican side, huh? Maybe the Indiana senators are hanging out with the Wisconsin senators in Illinois.
If Indiana wants them back, they should do what Wisconsin is considering -- passing a few laws that don't need a quorum but just a simple majority of voting members - Voter ID would be a way to get those Dems back in house in a nanosecond..
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I wanna know what nadinbrzezinski thinks about this?
Oh no you don't.
You're too young to die.....laughing.
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do these ****ers still collect their pay and perks when they throw these childish antics? Tell me another job where if you don't like how things are going that you are allowed to just not show up and still keep your job?
I know, right?
We're probably better off these losers walked off anyways. They can't take away more of our rights and spend any more money.
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I know, right?
We're probably better off these losers walked off anyways. They can't take away more of our rights and spend any more money.
That is the one good thing that comes out of this. It's a big thing.
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Dear Lurking DUmmies,
A point for your little brains to ponder...in 2006 and again in 2008, did Republicans run away to other states or not show up in Congress when the Democrats were in charge? No? Really? Pray tell, why was that, you might ask?
Might it have something to do with the fact they still had a JOB to do in representing their constituents? Or perhaps it was the knowledge that acting like little ****ing children wasn't going to serve anyone very well?
Chew on that one for a while.
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:rotf: :lol: :yahoo: :cheerleader2: :II: :rimshot:
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Hell, now she has them in Vale CO on her ski trip! Now he's gonna have "blue balls"!
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Dear Lurking DUmmies,
A point for your little brains to ponder...in 2006 and again in 2008, did Republicans run away to other states or not show up in Congress when the Democrats were in charge? No? Really? Pray tell, why was that, you might ask?
Might it have something to do with the fact they still had a JOB to do in representing their constituents? Or perhaps it was the knowledge that acting like little ****ing children wasn't going to serve anyone very well?
Chew on that one for a while.
Dems are relying on the union slush fund to get them elected again. Dems always believe the way to office is thru more money than the other guy. I don't know how they don't realize that union membership is a mere 13% of the work force. Unless of course they can get the SEIU to control all the voing machines in key areas like they did with Dirty "Hairless" Reed. Between that and ACORN, they believe they're in office for life!