Goons at the State of the State

I seem to remember a lot of outrage and talk about decorum from liberals when a single Congressman shouted “you lie” during Obama’s State of the Union, yet they are silent in Wisconsin about this kind of behavior.

A couple hundred people gathered at the Capitol Wednesday night for Gov. Scott Walker’s State of the State speech. But the last thing they wanted to do was to actually hear it.

They were there to drown it out, with shouting, with singing, with profanity, and even with a poorly played sousaphone. And, they said, with a recall that will get Walker off the podium for good.

“We want to be really loud so they can hear us on TV,” said Harriet Rowan, who was using her cellphone to tweet updates to followers. The organizers got around new Department of Administration rules restricting protests in the Capitol—unveiled in December but not yet completely enforced—by organizing via Twitter.

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As Kleefisch passed the crowd again later, a young woman taunted him. “Your wife’s a f—- whore!” she screamed.

And it should be noted that Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs is still useless.

It took a half dozen requests to clear them out, but even the most profane and passionate protesters left the building by 8:30 p.m., when Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs strode into the press room to inform reporters that the building was “all clean.”

“Everybody cooperated and did what they were supposed to do,” he said.

Several of the musicians, however, were still banging away outside.