For Foot-Stamping Republicans, What's Next: Bounty Hunters? Rendition?

How about tar-and-feathering...or the stockade...as Senate Republicans escalate their screechy capitol punishment aimed at Democrats who refuse to vote away working people's rights.

Republican Senate leader Scott Fitzgerald - -


wants them brought back "with or without force," The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:

"The resolution says if Democrats do not return to the chamber by 4 p.m. Thursday, they are in contempt of the Senate and Fitzgerald shall order Senate Sergeant at Arms Ted Blazel to "take any and all necessary steps, with or without force, and with or without the assistance of law enforcement officers, by warrant or other legal process, as he may deem necessary in order to bring that senator to the Senate chambers so that the Senate may convene with a quorum of no less than 20 senators."