Paul Ryan Reacts to the 'Fugitive 14' Fleebaggers

Cong Ryan hit on the topic that has been bothering a lot of us from Day One of the Senators fleeing Wisconsin for Illinois. Republicans were out manned by Democrats in 2006 when they control of the House but nothing compared to 2008 when they were few in number after the disastrous 2008 election.

Did they run away when bills were passed without their being able to read them or committee hearings held without them or bills drawn up in backroom deals that they had no input. Pelosi ran the House like a dictator something that is not happening in WI since Republicans took over. Republicans continued to fight and stand for us against all odds. Occasionally some Democrats would join Republicans but even then they didn't have enough votes to stop the Pelosi Progressives. As we kept hearing 'elections have consequences' and from Obama's own mouth -- "I Won!"

Now Wisconsin Democrats are waking up to the fact that 'elections have consquences' in Wisconsin, and they don't like the fact. Yet unlike when Democrats were in charge, the Republicans have allowed the Democrats to have plenty of debate time and offer amendments. Democrats got in a snit because their amendments failed. Excuse me but that is how it works if you are in the minority.

Maybe if Democrats hadn't been in charge all of these years in Wisconsin and made sweetheart deals with public service unions, the budget of Wisconsin would be in better shape.

The funniest part of all of this is the Illinois Senator who wants to tax the runaway Democrats since they are working in IL:

“If you make a movie in Illinois, we’re going to tax you. If you’re the New England Patriots and you play at Soldier Field, we’re going to tax you,” Tryon said. “We’re going to tax these legislators just like we tax the Packers.”

Since Wisconsin and Indiana legislators have chosen to work in Illinois instead of their home states, we agree -- TAX THEM!

The best part of the video comes in the very beginning, when Rep. Paul Ryan tells the WMC Business Day audience on Wednesday that he finds the flight of the Fleebaggers “curious.” The last two years of Democratic control in Washington weren’t a lot of fun for Republicans, Ryan says, but none of them ran away from their jobs. “Elections have consequences — they won, we lost,” Ryan says. “That’s the way it works. So I just don’t understand this lack of respect for the rule of law.”

The Fleebaggers continue to insist that all they want is negotiation and debate, but according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the debate in the Assembly was the longest that anyone can remember:

As debate on the budget-repair bill begins its 48th hour, longtime Capitol figures said it was the longest in their decades of memory.

The Assembly first came in shortly before noon on Tuesday to debate Gov. Scott Walker’s bill to repeal most union rights for public workers. Dick Wheeler, the dean of the Capitol press corps who has covered the Legislature since 1972, said he had not seen such a long-running debate.

“There has never been anything since I’ve been here that’s been a continuous 48-hour debate,” Wheeler said.

Longtime legislators of both parties agreed.

After 61 hours, some Democrats in the Assembly still complained that Republicans illegitimately “cut off” debate … after 84 amendments had been held for votes, most of them defeated. It isn’t about debate, it’s about the inability to accept the fact that elections have consequences, chief among them that the minority doesn’t control the agenda. Steve Eggleston reminds people that the last budget-repair bill in Wisconsin came when Democrats controlled the legislature and a Democrat was governor — and the debate lasted 24 hours combined in both chambers with no public hearings at all.

The Fleebaggers say they’re protecting democracy, but it would appear from those measures that democracy improved when Republicans took charge. That’s one consequence Wisconsin voters should appreciate.

Update: The fortnight-long campout at the capital is now over,

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