How un-American can you get. Having the GOP legislators pass a law requiring the protesters to be removed. In the old days we’d call that a bill of attainder – it’s something Henry VIII liked to use, a lot, when he wanted to behead a wife or a top aide.

And some folks raised the issue of “how did this happen if they didn’t have a quorom?” (because the Dems were AWOL). They did have a quorom. Here’s how. I just spoke with Terry C. Anderson, the Director of Legislative Counsel over at the Wisconsin legislature. He’s non-partisan staff. He explained that the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, that took this vote, is made up of ten members: 6 Republicans, and 4 Democrats. Basically, the committee is made up of the President of the Senate (R) and the Speaker of the House (R), the majority leaders of the Senate (R) and House (R), the minority leaders of each body (D and D), the Asst Majority Leaders (R and R) and Asst Minority Leaders (D and D). Thus you have 6 R and 4 D because the Rs control each body. The committee circulates “ballots” through public notice posted in the Capitol Building, and the ballots are also delivered by mail to each office. When six ballots are received back, that’s enough. In this case, all the members voted – all the Rs on one side, all the Ds on the other. And that’s how the Rs won this vote.

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