For those of you that have been watching, listening, or reading pretty much any US news coverage over the last week, other of course than the propaganda being spouted by the talking heads over at Fox News, you are probably at least vaguely aware of what has been going on here in Wisconsin. Long story short, Governor Walker created his own budget crisis as an excuse kick-start the Republicans’ attempt at union busting.

Up until today, the 40,000+ people who have thus far turned out at our fine state’s capitol have been leading entirely peaceful protests in progressively greater numbers (Again, unless you’re a Fox News watcher who believes the reporting of “anti-American” “riots”). That will hopefully remain the status quo through the weekend, but in his own “Mubarak Moment”, the puppeteers behind Scott Walker have decided to stage their own walk on Madison by bringing out their mindless teabagging faithfuls to do their dirty work. As my wife intelligently pointed out this morning “teachers are used to taking verbal abuse”. That, along with the fact that the hard-working state employees now swarming the capitol are looking to keep their rights, not start a fight, will hopefully mean a continuation of peaceful protests we’ve seen over the past week. If it does take a turn for the worse, however, all blame lies with the Republicans and their tea party horde.