"I have contempt for the absentee Democrats, who fled to Illinois for three weeks to avoid taking a vote on this bill. By so doing, they robbed their constituents of representation in the Wisconsin legislature. These are the people who threw away freedom -- and for nothing more than partisan political points."

The thing I wonder about this, what would Democans have said if Republicrat Senators had all left Washington to prevent a vote from having ever been taken on Health Care reform?