Can't you people up there toss Pat Bauer into the St. Joe next time around?
"The people's Statehouse is no more," House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer said in a statement Friday.
Gawd. The king of fuckin' hyperbole. So you can "only" get about 1200 people into the halls on a given legislative session day? Fuck off.
The idiot ISTA spokesman who wondered "If the Statehouse reaches capacity before he or other ISTA staffers arrive, does that mean no one will be able to represent teachers that day?" You fuck off, too. Fuck teachers. Teachers are the most goddamned privileged class in the state anymore, except for legislators and state workers. If they're not represented for a day, I'm sure they'll continue to get overpaid and overbenefitted. (Full disclosure: My mother was a teacher and she collects a pension that pays her more in retirement than my wife makes at her full-time job. In addition to her Social Security.)
The guy who asked, "How are the rest of us able to get in the building to see our representative?" So you never heard of a telephone? Email? Writing him/her a letter, for God's sake? Why not badger your legiscreature at town meetings? If your legiscreature doesn't hold town meetings, why the fuck not? And this guy is a fucking Tea Partier. Whinger.
I disagree with this woman's position but I admire her response:
If Georgia Cravey is any indication, right-to-work protesters won't feel deterred, anyway.Cravey, a 61-year-old retired librarian, was at many of last session's demonstrations, and she finds Friday's move "despicable."
But she's willing to protest outside. Maybe she'll wait in the parking lot, she said, by legislators' cars. Or maybe she'll just stand on the nearby sidewalks, so motorists can see her.
It's hardly despicable to want to make the place safe for people to walk. Did you look at the picture accompanying that article? What would happen in a case like that if there was a fire? I'm thinking stampede and lots of people hurt. So yes, by all means, take your protest outside, where it belongs (if indeed it belongs anywhere).
But the fact is that the Statehouse has never been "the people's house", regardless of Pat Bauer's hydrocephalic bleating. At least not in the way he thinks (insofar as he thinks) of it as "the people's house". Unwashed masses of chanting, sign-waving, brain-dead union workers trying to force the representatives of districts other than their own -- who were elected by their constituents to go to the legislature to fix the problems we currently face, most of which were caused by past and present legislators who drank the union Kool-Aid -- is not what anybody sane thinks of when they define a legislative building as "the people's house".
"Occupying" the Statehouse halls and being a massive nuisance to people who are trying to fix the mistakes of the past lumps roughly into the same category as legislators running away from their sworn duty because they disagree with something the majority believes is necessary. You disgust the law-abiding, long-suffering, generally conservative 99% of us who wish that the legislature would act sanely and that all those scruffy mongrels trying to keep them from doing so would all go jump in White River.
Hopefully taking Pat Bauer, the most ridiculous excuse for a legislator ever, with them.
