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.

1. Boy these democrates have finally convinced me I want to be part of this group. Where do I sign up?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 0823 hrs
   
   
   

2. It’s union. Do you really expect unions to politely ask for what they want?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 0900 hrs
   
   
   

3. Did anyone expect anything different from the unions or the reality TV show generation?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1030 hrs
   
   
   

4. I notice the featured protester in the story is that Jeremy, the Segway boy.  Seems to be the same crazy crowd of about 2,000 or so people that follow him around the State. 

   As terrible as this is for Walker and the GOP legislators, in a way these protestors continue to be a gift that keeps on giving to help Walker IMO.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1113 hrs
   
   
   

5. I think they are Republican plants to make the protesters look bad.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1254 hrs
   
   
   

6. If I had the sheer amount of time to devote to MoveForward’s right wing conspiracy theory, I’d simply use that unbridled power to unseat George Soros and rule unopposed from my tower in Mordor.

   And also, to institute an annual chili cook-off competition to co-incide with the January Right Wing Conspiracy meeting; to be held at location G-46…

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1307 hrs
   
   
   

7. I am sure that every single one is complaining about how Governor Brewer treated President Obama and none of them understand the irony.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1429 hrs
   
   
   

8. John, please explain.

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   As Kleefisch passed the crowd again later, a young woman taunted him. “Your wife’s a f—- whore!” she screamed.
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   You compare this to Jan Brewer NOT standing for the dressing down that Obama was giving her?  I’d love to hear how they are even close to comparable.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1723 hrs
   
   
   

9. Actually… forget it.  I don’t wish to hear your explanation.  Forget that I asked.

   (There is nothing you could possibly say to justify the comparison)

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1725 hrs
   
   
   

10. If John understood either situation he would know these is no irony.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 26, 2012 at 1833 hrs
    
    
    

11. And yet there are people on the right that think we need to treat these idiots with respect.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 27, 2012 at 0701 hrs
    
    
    

12. The new civlity part I lost count.

    Posted by Fred on January 27, 2012 at 1030 hrs
    
    
    

13. My point was that every one of them is probably criticizing Brewer (rightly or wrongly) for the way she treated Obama and yet they are screaming at the Governor, banging drums, etc.  Yes that is called irony.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 27, 2012 at 1257 hrs
    
    
    

14. Apparently I need to make this very very clear:  I was criticizing the protesters, taking what they were saying versus what they were doing.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 27, 2012 at 1316 hrs
    
    
    

15. John… my apologies.  I misread your post.  There is nothing you need to “make clear” as your first post was pretty clear.  Let’s just call my response a low-blood-sugar reply. 

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 28, 2012 at 1555 hrs