This is what democracy looks like?

'Democratic' protesters keep using this phrase unironically, when they are preventing votes from occurring. This same logic applies when people they disagree with are shouted down or drowned out claim they are performing their First Amendment rights.
To quote Inigo Montoya, "I do not think that means what you think it does."
I also have no sympathy for the legislators who fled the state, abandoning their responsibility to vote. Elections have consequences. The Democrats lost, they need to suck it up and vote no. They will still lose, but the next election could change things for them.
In a democracy or republic you don't always get your way. Running away across state lines is cowardly, pure and simple.

The Left's war on Democracy. [Link]

With the world's attention focused on Libya and the events in the Arab world, it's easy to forget that, back in Wisconsin, a group of 14 rogue state senators is still holding representative democracy hostage. Worse, the stunt has now morphed into an attack on the legitimacy of elections.

The 14 "fleebaggers" left the state in mid-February in order to stop an impending vote on Gov. Scott Walker's plan to defang the public-employee unions -- a vote they were certain to lose.

Now, their supporters are organizing recall petitions for the governor and eight targeted Republican senators, and claim to already have reached 15 percent of the number of signatures they need. Yet the whole effort, at least as far as the governor is concerned, is illegal. Under Wisconsin law, public officials aren't subject to recall until one year into the term for which they were elected; Walker has only been in office a couple of months. But the man leading the drive to recall Walker, ex-Rep. David Obey, doesn't care: He argues that Walker's desire to roll back collective-bargaining rights of public-employee unions is "abusive" and thus justifies ignoring the law.

Let's call this what it is: a campaign to nullify the 2010 election, by a sore-loser party that doesn't like the results.

The Democrats are trying to cast themselves as the heroes -- noble prisoners of conscience engaged in an act of civil disobedience by denying Walker a quorum so the vote can be held. But, like the sheriff played by Cleavon Little in "Blazing Saddles," the gun at their heads is being held in their own hands.