Workers Of The World Unite!… Or not.
So much for the national revolution against the rich Michael Moore was talking about…

A protestor demonstrates outside the Wisconsin State Capitol February 22 in Madison, Wisconsin. (AFP)

JS Online reported, via Free Republic:

On Monday morning, a small but dedicated group began to chant in protest of Gov. Walker’s budget-repair bill in the Capitol rotunda.

Outside the Capitol, there is little or no sign of the mass protests that have engulfed the Capitol square in recent weeks.

On the streets surrounding the Capitol, the number of satellite trucks has dwindled to two. And the only sign of an organized-labor presence is the sight of two Teamsters semi-tractor trailers.

Last week, Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Albert ordered that the Capitol be open to the public and easier to access by 8 a.m. Monday.

That was certainly the case on Monday. On the state Department of Administration’s website, there was this simple statement: “The Capitol is open and the traffic in is light.”

So much for the revolution.

 

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  1. #1 March 7, 2011 at 10:30 am

    RickZ commented:

    After all the work the protesters put in the last couple of weeks, they all needed a vacation.

    It’s in the goonion picketing rules.

  2. #2 March 7, 2011 at 10:33 am

    forest commented:

    Even the hippies, professional parasites and sundry degenerates couldn’t stand the stench anymore.

    On to pollute some other place!

  3. #3 March 7, 2011 at 10:35 am

    richard mcenroe commented:

    They’re only still there because they were too baked to catch the buses back to their home states. Just point them to the Greyhound terminal.

  4. #4 March 7, 2011 at 10:35 am

    retire05 commented:

    “the number of satellite trucks has dwindled to two”

    When the cameras stop rolling, the exhibitionist left wing goes home.

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  5. #5 March 7, 2011 at 10:40 am

    Ipso Facto commented:

    Maybe now they can clean up the mess?

  6. #6 March 7, 2011 at 10:46 am

    js2188 commented:

    They probably came back to clean up lol

  7. #7 March 7, 2011 at 10:48 am

    Millitant Conservative commented:

    Hey Jim, how did the TPM cleanup go on Sunday??? Any fireworks or problems??

  8. #8 March 7, 2011 at 10:49 am

    Andreas K. commented:

    Time for tax-payer paid vacation I guess.

  9. #9 March 7, 2011 at 10:51 am

    jd commented:

    now the fleebaggers will return. i am pretty sure they were afraid of physical harm if they showed back up for work.

  10. #10 March 7, 2011 at 10:52 am

    Paul52 commented:

    Goonions must have busted the budget for PAID protesters… No media=no protesters. Or maybe Michael Moore snorfed the local food supply… Other states are gonna do the same song and dance… we in WI just went first.

  11. #11 March 7, 2011 at 10:58 am

    Mark1957 commented:

    The boycotts against small businesses won’t any better, they will last about a week or two then people revert back to their normal behaviors.

  12. #12 March 7, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Ginger commented:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41914778/ns/health-infectious_diseases?GT1=43001

    If you have any of these alcohol wipes throw them away! I did!

  13. #13 March 7, 2011 at 11:14 am

    squeaky commented:

    i suppose the spotlight on doctors willing to sign doctors notes put a bit of a sour taste in their mouths.
    [The Oshkosh Area School District is withholding pay from teachers who called in sick to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill.]
    http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local/fox_cities/oshkosh-area-school-district-wont-pay-protesting-teachers

  14. #14 March 7, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Brian commented:

    That guy looks like the last “Dope”.

  15. #15 March 7, 2011 at 11:20 am

    Valerie commented:

    Any id on these people? Are they locals, or from out-of-state?

    I still say that limiting the topics a union can discuss is the wrong approach: they should pass a right-to-work law, and then let the union members keep their representatives honest.

    Unions do serve a purpose, provided that membership in the union is voluntary. A right-to-work law does not abolish unions or limit their activity: it gives the individual members a little bit of leverage against their representatives, the same leverage that Democratic and Republican voters have against their own parties.

  16. #16 March 7, 2011 at 11:50 am

    kansas commented:

    Once Michael Moore showed up and ate all the chow, it’s not so much fun to hang at the capitol.

  17. #17 March 7, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Diane Valencen commented:

    Loons? Really Mr Hoft? Are you not a member of the Roman Catholic Church? Loons? I would have you speak with a few thousand Irish survivors of your Church’s abominable actions before I pass judgment on union members seeking to save their right to bargain collectively protected from the Koch Brothers and the rest of the New Age Corporate Theocrats.

  18. #18 March 7, 2011 at 11:51 am

    TexasFred commented:

    One moonbat in the cold… His Libber Sainthood is assured… :P

  19. #19 March 7, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Rachelle commented:

    One good thing about the huge, anti-Walker demonstrations is that it is costing the unions and their fellow travelers tons of money to bus people around from one place to the next.

    Drain their coffers, drain their coffers…then go right to work to keep them from getting more money from suckers.

  20. #20 March 7, 2011 at 11:57 am

    Mark1957 commented:

    Diane # 17,

    Collective bargining is not a right, it is a privilege that we the taxpayers can no longer afford to offer.

  21. #21 March 7, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Buffalobob commented:

    Surprise surprise the union goons are gone. Maybe some of them saw this report and are finally waking up to the fact that they are being suckered by the union union goons.
    Here is a bit of information not widely published in the MSM that the voters need to know.

    The Center for Public Integrity found compensation for leaders of the 10 largest unions ranged from $173,000 at the United Auto Workers to $618,000 at the Laborers’ International Union of North America and almost $480,000 for the president of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. The latter is the target of GOP governors in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Kansas.

  22. #22 March 7, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    indccc commented:

    #17 What does Jim Hofts religion have to do with anything and how does the issues between Irish Catholics and Protestants relate to WI Unions and collective bargaining?

    Can’t defend your position so change the subject and try to demonize the other person…typical and predictable.

    The small school district (where I live) of less than 750 students and appx. 90 staff went from total (salary and fringe) compensation in 2008 $5,927,798 to $7,269,852 in 2010. The median household income went from $36,964 in 2000 to $36,070 in 2010. The average teachers salary, not including fringe is $46,838. Property taxes went up a total of 19% (state, county, local).

    At what point is enough, enough?

  23. #23 March 7, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Joe's Garage commented:

    @kansas – hysterical! I think Moore may have eaten a few of the protesters too!

  24. #25 March 7, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    succotash commented:

    They are getting geared up to invade Indiana on Thursday.

  25. #26 March 7, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Havok commented:

    High Gas Prices I suppose. The Lunatics can’t afford to keep busing in, all the Paid to Protest Crowds…so budget cuts had to be made.

    See Obama.. even the Wack-job losers in Commie Land have to cut back on Spending.. how about you learning a lesson too and cutting spending as well…

  26. #27 March 7, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    Star Spangled commented:

    It took anti America Michael Moore to wake these people up to who they were really standing with ! Really , union or not who wants to stand with Michael Moore ? He’s made it very clear that he HATES America and all it stands for .

  27. #29 March 7, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    destroyer of moonbats commented:

    losers.

  28. #30 March 7, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    Tex commented:

    #16 March 7, 2011 at 11:50 am
    kansas commented:

    Once Michael Moore showed up and ate all the chow, it’s not so much fun to hang at the capitol.
    ********

    Mike didn’t eat all the chow; he ate all the protestors.

  29. #31 March 7, 2011 at 2:13 pm

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    michael moore took the crowd to havana, they are going to unionize cuba. collective bargaining rights for taxpayers.

  30. #32 March 7, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    MKS commented:

    Private sector unions should have every right to bargain collectively.

    Public sector unions should be prohibited by law from bargaining collectively.

    Why? Because they are supposed to provide PUBLIC SERVICE. Somewhat like military personnel. What would folks think if our military were out protesting for the “right” to bargain collectively.

    It seems as if leftist “progressives” are twisting privileges and manufacturing new “rights” every day (e.g., retirement, healthcare, child care, marriage, collective bargaining…) – unless it is a true right, like the right to life, or right to property, in which case they deny it.

    If the compensation and benefits are insufficient, public employees have the option to get jobs in the private sector.

  31. #33 March 7, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Texmom commented:

    “Workers Of The World Unite!… Or not.”
    This has me rolling….ha! Who will carry on the “struggle” now?
    The unions are far from done, as they strategize for April 4th “struggle” against…whatever.
    http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2011/03/unions-plan-april-4-mass-mobe-socialist.html

  32. #34 March 7, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    J commented:

    Don’t count them out yet.

    Walker is about to go on a tour speaking at locations throughout the state.

    http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=14171583

    Chances are, the dumb wild animals that have been camping out at the capital are now going to pick up like nomadic gypsies and stalk the Governor all over Wisconsin.

  33. #35 March 7, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Wondering Aloud commented:

    They went back to work! WEA and WFT planned no demonstrations this week. They used personal business days to go and most only get 1 of those a year. It isn’t dead, watch on Saturday the 12th they will be back.

    Walker’s speaking tour is only occuring at known friendly locations where so far tthe number of protestors still vastly outnumber the friendly audience everywhere he goes.

    Walker’s biggest accomplishment will be the re-election of Obama. Energize the base much? How did that turn out for Obamacare? Walkers methods are going to make the Obamacare backlash seem very mild.

  34. #36 March 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    Badgerdoc commented:

    Once again, people, there was no mess. There was nothing to clean up. If you don’t believe me, check the blog from Tea Party Patriots. The protesters cleaned up the Capitol grounds every day. The head of the Madison “Trust for Historic Preservation” stated that the protesters showed “astonishing respect” for the Capitol. The vast, vast majority of protesters were simply working folks from Wisconsin. The were middle class, middle America. They looked like you and me. And this coming Saturday, family farmers from all over the state will be bringing their tractors to the Capitol square. Look for a large crowd at the Capitol again. that day.

  35. #38 March 7, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    GP Loves Obama commented:

    Well the unions proteters went home to the million dollar mansions paid by the taxpayers.

  36. #39 March 7, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    ogee commented:

    It’s Monday and the phony protestors paid gig is up. Too bad so sad. :lol:
    Gigs run until the end of a certain term (say 2-3 weeks) and on a Sunday night. Then the gig ends completely. They’ll pick up their last check at the local DNC “Organizing for Obama America” this coming Friday. Sweet. Then they can get drunk off of their paycheck. The last day for the paid gig was yesterday. Some have been let go little by little during the end of last week. In the beginning though, whenever a person gets hired the crowd swells. It’s due to more kids being hired fast and furiously. They’ll hire anyone and everyone who answers their job ad and as fast as they can.
    Gig gone. Too bad, so sad. :sad:
    Now they’ll go sit in front of the TV and smoke a bowl of ganga purchased with their ‘gig’ money. They don’t give a rat’s arse about politics. It’s all about money for Ganga weed.
    True story.

    Fire all the teachers. Send them all a copy of “waiting for superman” movie. That will let them know we are on to their “failure mills” and their money grubbing unions. The hired protestors are failures because of the very teachers they are protesting for. Ironic isn’t it?

    Tenure after 2 years? They can’t get fired. Poor kids are stuck with these rat bas*ard teachers.
    Fired the bad ones and get new blood in there. Poor children are stuck with teachers who don’t teach and the children are not prepared for college by these tenured rat bas*ards. This makes tons more of future citizens on the poverty line and poor communities. It’s all about the Union adults. pockets. They don’t care one bit about the children or their future.

    The radical lefties were always able to get the GOP to stand down. Always. They were always one step ahead of the GOPers. Those days are history. You see, the radical lefties were not prepared for the mass exodus of fiscal Dems when the marxists hijacked the Dem party. Now the former fiscal dems are playing hard ball and disclosing all the ‘politcal ploys and secrets’. And these MILLIONS of former Dems will never return to the party. Never. Payback is a beotch. The socialists were warned in 2008. If the socialists punked the fiscal Dems and stole the party and election, there would be hell to pay forever. Watch. It’s not over until the fat lady sings. It’s just getting started.

  37. #40 March 7, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    BetterDeadthanRed commented:

    #17 March 7, 2011 at 11:50 am
    Diane Valencen commented:

    Save your ” Koch” BS for some other wacko protest. I grew up in Madison, none of those Union members in that town are hurting for money. In fact most , even the ones with only a HS diploma or GED do better than your average citizen. All at our cost of course , I’m done paying for your gold plated s**t.

  38. #41 March 7, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    BetterDeadthanRed commented:

    In fact if you want more don’t ask the taxpayer for it——————- GET A SECOND PART TIME JOB LIKE THE REST OF US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  39. #42 March 7, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Badgerdoc commented:

    Ogee, do you really think the protesters were hired? How much does it cost to hire 100,000 people to stand in the snow for 4 hours? Watch this coming Saturday. Apparently someone is hiring family farmers form all over Wisconsin to have a “tractor parade” at the Capitol square. Strange use of funds.

  41. #44 March 8, 2011 at 2:03 am

    Danny commented:

    And just in case our friend tries to make such claims again: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=500251117410&set=a.499188997410.270777.57082507410

    THAT ladies and gents, is how they treated OUR STATE CONSTITUTION. Not to mention we had OFA there, ThinkProgress, people getting off busses. “Mostly” from WI my left buttcheek sir.

  42. #45 March 8, 2011 at 8:54 am

    Wondering Aloud commented:

    Wisconsin does not have Tenure for public teachers, it is the main reason unions are fairly popular with teachers. Principals are rarely the best judge of teacher quality.

    Saddly for the future of this country Ogee, the echo chamber here has vastly misread the publics reaction to this. If the election were held today Walker would get trounced. Sad in a way because it will very likely result in Obama’s re-election. Now look at the world today and tell me we can afford an Obama victory in 2012 just to stop those vicious cruel evil teachers and nurses.

    Actually according to Capital police and other law enforcement, the crowds were all overwelmingly local except the tiny Tea Party counter demonstration of 2000 people most of whom were bussed in.

    Danny Facebook made up facts do not impress me when I personally know who was there.

    There were representatives from other unions, mostly from Illinois but they never came close to being a majority.

  43. #46 March 8, 2011 at 9:26 am

    Wondering Aloud commented:

    I agree with Valerie.

    I wish we were using this intensity to push the federal government into a rational energy policy.

    Danny I don’t understand why you think a handful of carefully selected pictures out of tens of thousands should convince anyone of anything.

    One Lib comment I saw was right though, It is a pretty neat trick that a handful of billionaires have used this issue to convince people who make $30,000 a year that the people making $40,000 a year are the enemy.

  44. #47 March 8, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    Danny commented:

    “Facebook made up facts”

    Those are hard photos sir. They’re not “generated” by anyone. We also have photos of graffiti tags all over around the Capitol Building. I’ll take photographic evidence over word of mouth any day.

    Thank you however for showing how deranged you are. Seriously.

  45. #48 March 8, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    Wondering Aloud commented:

    I don’t know Danny I looked at your photos and at what others have said and shown. How do you think things look there normally? You want me to believe a dozen or so out of context photos over hundreds of thousands of photos and the statements of the police and the city crews who had to do the actual clean up.

    Thanks for the classy name calling.

  46. #49 March 9, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    Badgerdoc commented:

    Danny, It is NOT a lie. Sure, with 100,000 people, some will leave some mess behind. Then someone takes a picture and sends it Vicki McKenna. Then other protesters clean it up. That is the truth. At the end of each day, the Capitol grounds are clean. Why don’t you come to the Capitol and see for yourself, “sir”. I do not lie. I have been down there 9 times. The people ARE from Wisconsin. Listen to the police, the Department of Administration, the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, and even the Tea Party Patriots who organized a “Take Out the Trash” event, only to find the area clean. Watch this Saturday when the crowds will be enormous and from Wisconsin, including those “greedy” family farmers.

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