Fugitive Senators Risser and Jauch
(Photo by Mike DeVries, Capital Times)
Yesterday’s Capital Times featured a fascinating human interest piece on the “Badger 14” senators by Jessica Vanegeren and Shawn Doherty entitled, “South of the border: Dem senators share snippets of life on the lam.” It’s well worth reading in its entirety. A few tidbits:
- Before fleeing the state on February 17, Sen. Jon Erpenbach wondered: “What’s going to be the reaction around the state? Would people think it was some high school sort of juvenile prank?”
- When the Capital Times interviews him in a hotel in downtown Chicago, Senator’s Erpenbach’s “hair is tousled and his clothes are rumpled. This is the fourth hotel he has been to in nine nights in his effort to stay ahead of the folks trying to track him down. He is registered under a fake name. ‘I hate all this James Bond stuff,’ he says.”
- Senator Erpenbach’s “parents . . . are paying the bills. . . . He’s been living off of . . . freebies. He says a hotel maid handed him a stick of deodorant from the house-cleaning cart a few days ago. He’s also grabbed a few little tubes of toothpaste.”
- Apparently the fugitive senators don’t like being called the “Badger 14”; they like “[t]he ‘Fab 14,’ as they have been referred to by admirers for their decision to bolt south.”
- Sen. Bob Jauch, who in a radio interview last week said life on the run was “not fun” (here, 9:19 p.m. update), is finding his self-imposed legislative exile increasingly “stressful,” because of “the tea party people, who have been out throughout Illinois looking for us.” “He says he peers through the blinds every morning, ‘just to see who may be out there.’ ‘Every time somebody knocks on the door, I’m not quite sure who it’s going to be because they’ve found us so many times,’ Jauch says.” “He’s becoming more paranoid . . . .”
Senator Jauch is not alone among progressives in his paranoia. As Professor Jacobson summarized in a fascinating blog post today (h/t Instapundit), there is increasing evidence that not just the progressives demonstrating at the Capitol Building on behalf of the “Badger 14” senators, but also their supporters (including those in the media), are becoming paranoid and “losing their grip on reality.”
Given the upward trend in paranoid thinking in the progressive camp as the “Battle of Wisconsin” wears on, as a public service this blog reprints the following advice on the subject by Ray Davies, from his Kinks song released in 1981, “Destroyer“:
Paranoia, the destroyer
Self-destroyer, wreck your health
Destroy your friends, destroy yourself
The time device of self-destruction
Light the fuse and start eruptin’
Paranoia, the destroyer
Paranoia, the destroyer
Paranoia, the destroyer
As a further public service, the following music video emphasizing these points has been put together for broadcast by Wisconsin television stations as a one-minute public service announcement. If enough television stations participate it may be possible to halt and possibly even reverse the disturbing tendency noted by Professor Jacobson. Many thanks to Senator Jauch for his appearance in the video (at 0:21 to 0:27).
The full video can be viewed here. Video of the Kinks performing the song is available here.
Badger Pundit 
Fire them all. They were “hired” (by election) to do a job. DO IT OR GET OUT!
I hope the Tea Party breaks down their door since the dumocrats have ran our country to the ground to the point we don’t almost don’t even know WHAT our country stood for or the price paid for freedom before the black slave abuse happened.