text: Trouble is, Mike, this bunch of Republicans have themselves safely gerrymandered in office.  The odds of them being fired are slim and none.  And they know it.  Couple this with the fact that they serve at the direction only of the oil lobby.  This is who's purchased their allegiance, regardless of whatever else they may profess. They're careful to dance, only with the ones that brung 'em. Oil.
  
  Their owners don't want them to touch oil taxes.  So they won't.  Meanwhile, the problem can't be solved without it.  Instead, they'll squawk about "reducing spending", even though they themselves are holding the checkbook.  They'll continue to wait around for some grand solution, which isn't coming. 
  
  It's they who've brought us all here. 
  
  Governor Walker needs to keep them in special session all summer and into the fall, if that's what it takes.