* Daily Show correspondent John Oliver filed a dispatch last night from a “savage territory” and “corrupt wasteland” which will be familiar to all of us…
The premise of the sketch was that Oliver was in a place called “Ill-in-o-is, a desolate lawless region,” and his “reporting” was in the style of a war correspondent who had found himself in a strange and dangerous land.
After doing such things as treating a fast food takeout window as if it was a military checkpoint, Oliver revealed that he’d “arranged a meeting with a notorious former warlord” because “apparently no one knows the region better than him.”
* Hilarious…
* In related news, Gov. Pat Quinn told reporters yesterday that the Wisconsin governor is “trying to bully Senators as well as workers.” Listen…
* Roundup…
* Gov. Walker Rejects Request for Meeting
* Walker scoffs at Democratic senators’ attempt to meet, negotiate - Legislators deny governor’s claims that they are divided, want to return to Wisconsin
* War of words escalates
* 8 Wis. State Senators Targeted For Recall Elections
* Wis. Dems file ethics complaint against Walker
* Wisconsin protest set for March 12
* Indiana House Democrats expect to stay in Illinois: That means, he said, that they could stay out until April 29, the day set in law for the General Assembly to have finished its work.
* Indiana House Democrats will stay away for ‘as long as it takes’: If the standoff persisted until June 30, the deadline for passing a new budget, portions of state government would have to shut down.
* Fines fail to faze exiled Indiana Democrats: Over in Illinois, the giant television satellite trucks that marked the Democrats’ arrival and sat in the Comfort Suites parking lot for several days in late February were gone Monday. So, too, were most of the media who for days had juggled laptops, cell phones and notebooks in their temporary office of the hotel lobby.
* Hoosier Democrats study Lincoln
* Indiana unions plan big Statehouse rally Thursday
* VIDEO: Indiana Democrats’ House walkout could continue
