Score another one: Wisconsin wises up, strips collective bargaining out of the bill and passes it separately.

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With the flee-baggers holding the entire state legislature hostage, I had been wondering for several days: why not bifuricate the bills and pass what you can... the most important part being to end the extortion known as collective bargaining.

Wis. GOP bypasses Dems on collective bargaining

By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.

All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" - a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.

The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday split from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights, which spends no money, and a special conference committee of state lawmakers approved the bill a short time later.

The lone Democrat present on the conference committee, Rep. Tony Barca, shouted that the surprise meeting was a violation of the state's open meetings law but Republicans voted over his objections. The Senate then convened within minutes and passed it without discussion or debate.

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This is truely a body-blow to the leftist whiners... unions for far too long have been holding a gun to the head of taxpayers... and now they find their bluff increasingly called.

Wisconsin joins Idaho and other states in ending union perfidy. Neutering the public union employees at every level is the only way to get spending back under control to reverse the death spiral our economy has swooned into... with the extra-added bonus of limiing the union's ability to extort money like the UAW extorted billions to keep GM and Chrysler afloat.

Well done, Gov. Walker.

And remember: those of you shilling for the public unions... if you don't like what we're paying you... you can always quit.

You won't be missed.
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