The siege of Madison

As part of the union protests in Wisconsin, demonstrators have, in effect, occupied the state capitol building by sleeping overnight in its main chamber. Presumably in an effort to break the siege, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, the GOP's leader in the upper house, said today that access to parts of the Capitol will be closed off to the public starting tonight, per Slate.com. Fitzgerald's namesake, famed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, once said, "Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood." The quote is poetically appropriate, don't you think?