21 Feb 11 Wisconsin senators living “abroad”

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Democratic senators from Wisconsin are hanging out in Chicago to avoid creating a quorum in the state senate and forcing a vote on the budget that they say “tramples on the rights of public workers”.

I don’t live in Wisconsin and can’t speak to the specific details of said budget, although in general I think all governments are too large and need deep financial cuts that will of course upset public workers. But this predisposition to think that the democratic arguments about the budget are wrong creates an interesting dynamic for me: I applaud the Republican senators and governor for paring back the size and entitlement dispositions of government, while I simultaneously applaud the Democratic senators for standing for what they believe in by depriving the senate of a quorum of senators.

It is situations like these that make me proud to be an American and a small part of this great (and sometimes insanely bizarre) system. Kudo’s to both parties in Wisconsin! May Freedom (and Liberty) Ring!

-The Broken Blogger