Here's what's happening in Wisconsin, put in terms of children and games.

[Rabrrrrrr]

The republicans keep blaming the Senate 14 of being like the kid who is losing so he grabs his game and walks away.

Two things wrong with that image: 1) if really true, then the Republicans are admitting that everything really does belong to the dems, and 2) it isn't the dems who packed up the game and walked away (as you can see below).

Here's how it really goes:

Walker: Hey, guys, let's play a game of checkers!

Dems: Awesome!

Walker: Here, I'll set up the board.

dems: Wait - we only have one piece on the board. Give us the rest of our pieces.

Walker: No.

Dems: But the rules state that all players have equal access to the full compliment of playing pieces allowed them.

Walker: I don't care. This is how I'm setting the board, because I was told that it's mine now, and it's your responsibility to play it this way.

Dems: We don't want to play it this way, we want to play it the way the rules state to play it.

Walker: No, this is it. And since you've delayed, I'm "kinging" my front row of pieces.

Dems: Then we aren't playing.

Walker: But you have to.

Dems: We don't want to, so we aren't going to. When you give us all our pieces and take your kings back, we'll happily play, even if might lose.

Walker: No.

Dems: (walk away)

Walker: (stews for two weeks, throws a few tantrums, rolls around on floor, cries that he doesn't understand why the dems walked away from playing his game, calls them names, goes on national TV and a bunch of weird-ass expensive private-jet junkets around the state to do media events in which he won't talk to anyone who isn't media. Finally, gets a bull horn, and shouts) Okay, then, Dems - I still have your pieces, and every day you don't come back, and I'm going to smash one of them, so that if and when you do come back you'll never be able to play with all of them! Mwuhahahahahahaha!





That's the only analogy involving children and games that works in Wisconsin's situation.