A jobs bill can wait till later. No rush, no emergency, no handouts, no time for declining family incomes...

My other title suggestion was: GOP Legislature takes off months during jobs crisis, but acted fast on business handouts. 

Will conservative voters finally get it. They're last on the list, where they belong, and becoming more desperate. You may have heard that social issues are off the table. That is such a crock of….! You’ll see.

What’s basically happening now is back room corporate dealing in the Republican legislature. Jobs, and helping “job creators,” are just buzz words to energize a desperate base of voters with few options and trying to survive. If they meant it, they would do something on the demand side, putting more money in the pockets of consumers to buy things, and create jobs. 

In the presidential race, who's plan helps people, and who's doesn't?

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But in the upside down world of Republican politics, demand means helping people. Supply side on the other hand, helps business. Guess where their loyalties lie. 

But why the time off? Special session anyone? Emergency jobs bills anyone? Hellooooo…..

Journal Times: Life must be hard in the Legislature. Or perhaps the lingering summer heat is sapping the energy of people who a few months ago were vigorously voting beneath the Capitol dome … the body which was eager to reform government when the current session began in January, the body which declared that it had to act quickly to save the state budget, has scheduled precious little time to actually vote. The Assembly, for example, was scheduled to meet today for a bit of work and then to adjourn until, um, October.

On the Senate side, there is much whining from Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, who said those darn recalls just slowed the Senate down because senators were focusing on campaigns instead of legislation. Pardon us, but only nine senators were the focus of recall drives. That does not prevent everyone else from working.

Unemployment is a more important issue than the state budget. Wisconsin would have a smaller mess, if its economy were in better shape. If jobs were being created and the tax base was healthy and expanding, revenue would be flowing into the state treasury.

REP. Sondy Pope-Roberts added this: 

The GOP message of job creation seems to have fallen by the wayside, focusing instead on keeping their political majority. Unfortunately, while the people of Wisconsin are desperate to get back to work, Governor Walker and his Republican rubberstamp legislators have decided that they only need to show up for one day in September.”