With apologies to all poetry purists:
Lizzie May sat behind a green wall,
When a big truck caused it to fall.
Onto her head the wall did fall down,
Which caused Lizzie May a great big frown.
The socialist doctors did their very best,
Albeit after two weeks of helping all the rest.
They fixed her head as best they could tell,
But clearly Lizzie May is not at all well.
Like you, I never heard any report about Lizzie May being in her office when the truck hit it, but then how do you explain this?

Christiane Amanpour: So, George, Wisconsin. Is this the sort of battle that we’re going to see shaping up around the country? Is this really the sort of political and philosophical debate that’s going on right now about what these cuts are going to mean?
George Will: It would have been even if the president hadn’t intervened. But in the span of three days, Christiane, he first submits a budget that would increase the federal deficit and, two days later, he mobilizes his party, his own political machine, and organized labor, which is an appendage to his party, to sabotage Wisconsin’s attempt to do what he will not do, which is deal with the insolvency of their government. In doing so, he has set the stage for 2012 by saying the Democratic Party is the party of government, not just in having an exaggerated view of the scope and competence of government, but because its base is in public employees.
h/t Fred

Dave in Pa originally posted this in the comments of an earlier posting but it very much deserves to be published again here.
The following comes from a fellow in Wisconsin named Tim. He posted it at the Wisconsin Education Association Council (aka Wisconsin Teachers Union) website. Tim is not a teacher, is employed in the private sector, and is one of the taxpayers who has to pay the teachers. What he says is a breath of reality and, I’m sure, not at all welcome by these entitled-to-their-entitlements protesting teachers and their union:
Tim 2/14/2011
It is really troubling to see what many of you are writing.
I am a private sector employee, lucky to have my job and to be able to feed, clothe and house my wife and four kids – all of which attend a public school. I have a modest income of $50,000 per year gross. Out of this income, I pay 100% of my insurance premiums for my $10,500 family deductible health insurance plan. I have no 401k and pensions haven’t existed in my private sector industry for 25+ years. Like many of my coworkers, I have not seen a raise in the past several annual reviews. My company’s revenues are down, and we middle class workers share in the down cycle.
My wife and I love the commitment of our kid’s school teachers. We help and support them any way we can. But it is so difficult to hear the arguments and disdain against our family by all of you teachers.
WHO ARE YOU UNIONIZED AGAINST?
Do you think you are organized against Scott Walker? Really?    

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Andrew Breitbart to Governor Walker: “The Tea Party has your back!”
Video here
Update: Here’s Breitbart speaking to the crowds and here he is getting a doctor’s note. Did you notice the woman in the white coat and red knitted toque in the last video? Here she is again. Assuming she is an actual doctor, surely what she’s doing can’t be ethical, can it?

Listen to the aforementioned meaningless tripe screamed out by a militant teacher in Wisconsin.
This clearly is the beginning of a major battle in the United States and I predict it’ll spread to Canada. Sadly, I predict that up here most all governments will cave in and give the unions whatever they want.