Some of you posters are a joke. Are you all getting paid by oil tycoons too? What do you gain from a monarchy where workers lose all their rights? Reminds me of the poem The Hangman. I honestly feel sorry for the fools that cheer when others lose their freedoms at the expense of milliionaires and big business. Anybody that thinks the Democratic senators left the state to avoid doing their job is laughable. They made real sacrifices in leaving their homes. It wasn't a vacation. Whether you agree with what they did, it's stupid to think that it was the easy way out. It's also clear that many of the republicans disagreed with what walker was doing too.