Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarketsWASHINGTON--Missing in action, walking off the job. That's the new style for Democratic state legislators, first in Wisconsin, then in Indiana. They have fled to Illinois, rather than provide the quorum necessary for votes on legislation sponsored by Republican majorities to curtail public-employee benefits and union activity.
In Wisconsin, typically Democratic in recent years, Republicans captured the legislature and the governorship last November. Democrats, now the minority, seek to frustrate the budget-balancing proposals of Governor Scott Walker by immobilizing the legislature, a...
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