Madison is becoming an even bigger disaster for the Democrats. They have now undercut their top talking point agianst the Republicans in the budget battle.  Mark Hemingway raises a great question in the Weekly Standard:

If it's so "reckless" to shutdown the government, why have Wisconsin legislators, the President and the DNC all supported the government shutdown in Wisconsin? Not only that, they have shutdown the government by fleeing the state and breaking the law, not to mention the illegal union strikes shutting down schools and national Democrats helping to organize the angry mob descending on Madison.