My good friend Iron Fist has been pushing the theory of a “Cold Civil War” .I totally subscribe to this theory as the American public is divided in ways never before. Part of the public is OK with their taxes going to support public sector labor unions. Part of the American public view this as unacceptable. In Wisconsin, Gov. Walker went for the jugular of the Progressive movement which are these unions. With assistance from the 3rd World Liberation regime of Barack Hussein Obama, these teachers, who are in reality leeches, are trying to blackmail Gov. Walker. There is now talk of a general strike by these teachers unions. However, this battle is not just in one sate. It is nationwide.
Picture a hand on the wheel of the great ship of state, pushing it hard in a certain direction, say, to the left. It belongs to the president. Picture 29 smaller ones on the other side of the wheel, trying as hard as they can to wrench it back in the other direction. They belong to Govs. Chris Christie, R-N.J., Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., Scott Walker, R-Wis., and 26 other Republican governors, 12 of them elected in the 2009 and 2010 cycles. Two years and four months ago, President Obama was elected to enact his agenda; and four months ago, the Republicans were put in to dismantle it.
In the interim, the public had a big change of mind, which created the impasse. Each side has a mandate, and is hell-bent upon it, creating a situation unique in our history.
For the first time since the Civil War ended, the federal government and a large number of the states and their governors are at open and few-holds-barred war.
States and their governors defying the White House, is, of course, nothing new. In the 19th century, the United States survived three different secessionist movements, the first two involving Aaron Burr (in 1804 and 1807), and the Southern secession 60 years later, that gave us a long, bloody war.
Read the rest: Obama’s agenda faces governors’ revolt
I don’t know if violence would be the outcome of this, but clearly this is a nation divided. In many states public sector union workers make 2-1 vs. private workers. This has created an economic imbalance because for the last decade private sector pay hasn’t increased. These GOP governors need to hold firm and break the backs of these unions. If they succeed Obama’s power base will be crippled and the Progressive movement will lose part of its power.
This battle will determine the future of the nation and could very well lead to a hot civil war. These parasites will not give up without a fight and our side must stick with this. If we fail America will (God forbid) go the way of other great nations. I don’t want this outcome but 10 years of economic stagnation indicates this is the course. We need to change course now, before it is too late or 100 years from now some one will write a book called: The Decline and Fall of the United States. Our future is in the balance and I pray that Gov. Walker and other Republican governors win this battle!
Update:
Michael Barone has a great article about how the Public Sector unions force taxpayers to fund the Democratic party.
Everyone has priorities. During the past week Barack Obama has found no time to condemn the attacks that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has launched on the Libyan people.
But he did find time to be interviewed by a Wisconsin television station and weigh in on the dispute between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the state’s public employee unions. Walker was staging “an assault on unions,” he said, and added that “public employee unions make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens.”
Enormous contributions, yes — to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.
This battle is really about ending public funding of the Democratic party. That is why the Obama regime has intervened and the unions are going ballistic. This will hurt their scheme of using tax money to fund a political party.
(Hat Tips: Iron Fist and Pajama Media)
Tags: Cold Civil War, Gov. Walker, Public sector unions, Wisconsin
It’s going to get MUCH worse before it gets better, IMHO.
There are union families in the rust belt who don’t even have any working members, yet still subscribe to the simple, moronic theory that the economic reality of the world is “workers vs. management.”
This belief will not be shaken loose easily.
The governors have more gumption then the Senators. The governors have to live with the results of Obamanomics and Obamacare.
@ Bumr50:
The irony is that the public sector unions copuld care less about these workers.
The crushing amount of unfunded mandates coming down on the States in the next few years is frightening.
There is no move to succeed from the Union but we do need to smack down the Fed and remind it of its place in our government of the people and by the people.
(note to hyperventilating pony tailed bloggers – “smack down” is a figure of speech not a threat.)
@ Bureaucat:
Sen. Pat Toomey(R-PA) has been working on this:
Hopefully it takes. It’s encouraging to see legislation like this that may not grab headlines (especially lately) but whittles away at Obama’s massive overreach.
Amen.
It could come to blows over this. Not just this, any more than the first Civil War was just over slavery, but here we have a dividing issue that hits close to everybody’s hearts. This isn’t an abstract illegal taking an abstract job (or services) from an abstract American. This is public employees who are paid with your tax money, who make more money than you who are threatening a general strike over benefits cuts that leave them with better benefits that you get. At least they make more than I do and get better benefits than I get. I can think of a specific example, in fact. He isn’t union (few programmers are), but he works for the Federal Government (Federal Contract) and eclipses me in everything except job satisfaction. He’s actually employed doing something useful, but many, many of these people are just parasites on the body politic.
I submit that it’s a battle that our side has already won by exposing the hypocrisy of these bloated public sector unions.
This is a topic that up until now has been taboo when it comes to reform.
Even if the unthinkable happens and Wisconsin caves, we still have 49 states to go. The more exposure that these whiny todlers get, the better.
@ Bumr50:
The South firmly believed that Slavery was the right and just order of the Universe. That belief was changed. Maybe we march through some city in the Northeast like Sherman did Atlanta, and they’ll change their tune…
Read This from the Puppyblender. Rodan, you might want to do an update and give a link to the article he quotes here. It’ll piss you off, but then again, it should piss you off…
Go Governors!
Let the teachers go on a nationwide strike. Fire them and make them reapply for their jobs. Our public school system is supposed to be one of the best in our state and it’s a mess. Most of our teachers don’t want to be responsible to parents or have any accountability. We finally gave up and put our kids in private school.
Keep an eye on all RINO’s.
Do not allow one of the sob’s to get their weak ass bull shit foot in the door on policy.
There is an element of public unions negotiating
that is plain corrupt.
They negotiate with the same people that recieve
their campaign donations.
Don’t know about other states but here the teachers receive a lions share of our local budget. Bout time it was pointed out nationally that not only are their unions over reaching,but they can be replaced by eager qualified individuals in need of employment.
Over west of here, the Ft. Worth School Dist. said today they are going to lay off 1900 teachers to make next years budget.
The State revenue is way down.
The “gambling lobby” wants lots of pain going down so that the votes will tell the State Rep’s, Senators and the Gov. etal to ok gambling.
So we will end up with the teachers working at horese race tracks and in casinos.
best of all worlds some think
Here is one think some have noticed.
The “illegal wage slaves” the unions support them big time by supporting the commie open borders Democrats.
but
No “illegal wage slaves” allowed in the teaching deal.
They get the fake Union work card from the “Code Welders Union”, they get to weld high pressure natural gas pipe lines runnin 100′ from Schools but ,,,, oh no the NEA makes sure none of the wage busting scab illegals get in the teacher deal and push down wages there.
like that
do as we say not as we NEA union thugs do
@ vagabond trader:
Education (Pre-K through College)is foten the single biggest chunk of State budgets (transportation is another large piece). It has been treated like an entitlement program for years. Yes education is a fixed program in government but assuming increases that outstrip the rate of inflation year after year after year while other state services are cutting back to muscle and bone is a bad deal for everyone including taxpayers.
Wisconsin is the bellweather for putting this sacred cow on a diet!
@ Bureaucat:
Eventually, this fight will boil down to essential (life and limb) services like fire and police vs. teachers, social workers, and administrators.
@ Bureaucat:
I was just wondering how other regions pay for the high end welfare recipients. Ours are via local property taxes.It allows each town to monitor their own needs and fortunately our town,D controlled though it is,has a fiscally conservative tradition.Quite an anomaly in this state and one of the reasons we moved here.
@ Bumr50:
Teachers Could be essential workers, but look at the product that they produce. Fox was going over the numbers for Wisconsin and they were pathetic. Average 8th Graders basically were below average for the nation, and that really sucks because our average in America is really unacceptibly low to begin with. When will we get some accountability? I had some good teachers. I had two exceptionally good instructors. My AP biology instructor was better than most University professors I had. My 10th Grade history teacher won National Teacher of the Year the year I had her. It was her that really turned me on to politics, and she didn’t try to indoctrinate us. We had to read Animal Farm as required reading. I bet teachers don’t do that any more. It’d be too much like self-criticism…
vagabond trader wrote:
You’d have been better represented to have moved towards the South. Jus’ Sayin’
We’ve already attempted to shoot the moon on this one. (By we, I mean conservatives.) This fight must be won, and what better time to do it. The jugular of the left is exposed here. Remember how Ronald Wilson Reagan handled this? The Teacher’s Union in Wisconsin is also prohibited by law from striking.
‘Freedom loving’ Tunisians scream “Death to the Jews”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142490
Iron Fist wrote:
I updated my post. This is so wrong, our money si funding the Democrats.
yenta-fada wrote:
Muslim democracy, aint it great!
@ Flyovercountry:
Did you see this on the last thread? I’ll repost it because it is on topic here:
WooHoo! That is awesome! Now they can fire the bad teachers without 2 years of circumlocutous bureaucratic legalese bullshit. Clean out the bad, keep the good but without the Union parasite sucking the life from the school system. Do this in enough places, and a decade or so from now a public school education could again be something to be proud of.
@ Iron Fist:
Exactly, we need to clean house.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, I told you it’d piss you off. It isn’t right, and it gives the Democrats a huge competitive advantage over the Republicans. Think of how far Right the country would tilt if we were fighting on a level playing field. You fight the ground you have, though, and this is no excuse for the pusillanimous behavior of the Republican Party through the years. Finally, at a State level at least, the Republicans are stepping up.
yenta-fada wrote:
Have you noticed that when the members of the Religion
of Peace don’t like somebody that don’t want to kick
them off of the bowling team, they want to kill them?
And Obama said that he would stand with them.
@ Iron Fist:
Itw as the Rockerfeller Republicans who helped enable this. Look at how Mitch Daniels is backing down in Indiana. That clown wants to be President. Now ay I say to him.
And the hits keep on coming:
This wil pass because we have large enough majorities that if the Democrats run away we can vote without them. They are hosed in Tennessee, and I think we are going to clean our house…
Rodan wrote:
The whole world is rooting for “democracy” in Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Algeria, Morocco, et. al. Wait until the ‘revolution’ hits their home towns. Suddenly the good guys will be the bad guys. They still won’t figure out that Islam is a problem. “The dummies guide to self-preservation” Not available in bookstores anywhere.
@ Iron Fist:
Damn, I hate it when I do that…
I guess I am gonna have to keep a closer eye on PAs new (R) Governor Corbett. See what he comes up with.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, Daniels is done. I wouldn’t vote for the pussy. There are better Republicans in the wings. Scott Walker, for instance…
Sigh.
@ yenta-fada:
To them democracy means voting in your favorite dictator. It is just more of the same, only it is the other village that gets screwed now. They don’t define democracy the same way we do.
Rodan wrote:
Paging Barette Brown…paging Barette Brown…
@ NoThreat2U:
Big nothing so far.
Hopefully he’s busy behind the scenes….
The union fight in PA will be another doozy.
@ yenta-fada:
That is why I’m not excited about what’s going on in Libya. If Qaddafi goes, the Muslim Brotherhood will take over.
NoThreat2U wrote:
To them (including the dictators) MARTYRDOM is the highest goal and reward. I say, let’s give it to them./
@ The Osprey:
He’s over at Daedalus.
@ Bumr50:
Does he jump up on the table and crow like a rooster? If he doesn’t, then for Berekely he is fairly good. That he is a committed Marxist-Leninist goes without saying. Obama wouldn’t have an economic advisor that thought in a market-based paradigm. Because that would be wrong…
Iron Fist wrote:
The fact that Jeb Bush came out in support of Daniels and that he’s supposedly “impressing” the GOP elites make me not like him.
@ yenta-fada:
May they all find the freedom of the grave.
@ Bumr50:
Another Progressive.
@ Bumr50:
I think he is keeping very busy and keeping things on the downlow for now.
@ Iron Fist:
This is great news. This problem is more than just bad teachers keeping their jobs though. This is about a Union being funded by taxpayers, exacting dues from its rank and file and then using that to financially support union friendly politicians who then negotiate fatty contracts back to the unions as payback. This cycle has been going on for decades, and it needs to be stopped. Christie and Walker have been the first since Reagan to do take these priks on. The Milwaukee school district costs more per student than in any other midwestern state, yet most of their graduates can not read or write at any where approaching an acceptable level. It ain’t hard to figure out that most of those funds aren’t being used to educate the chillins.
@ yenta-fada:
I have no problem with that. Let them kill each other. That is what they do best.
@ Bumr50:
Continued!
Wouldn’t wanna add any actual BUSINESS EXPERIENCE, would he?
Sorry for the OT. I just marvel at the sheer incompetence of this administration.
@ NoThreat2U:
One man, one vote, one time. That’s Muslim Democracy. That has been the problem with our approach to the Mohammedans since9-11. We refuse to understand our enemy. The cards are all on the table, the wrighting on the wall, but we refuse to see what is so plainly visible. Until we do, victory in this war (and it is a war) will be impossible for us.
Rodan wrote:
Muslim Brotherhood, Al Queda, CAIR, ISNA, Muslim Students Association, Al Shabab, PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah; It’s all the same story. All jihad, all the time.
@ Bumr50:
People with business experience have never managed an economy. They don’t have the necessary political acumen to be the masters of a Planned Economy…
(and these fuckers are different from Communists how?)
@ Flyovercountry:
hmmm, that gives me an idea that I need to flesh out graphically. This could play good for all sorts of areas in Canada and in the USA.
@ Flyovercountry:
Yeah, this is a fight that needed to happen after the 1994 Republican Revolution. We didn’t carry near the number of State Houses then, though. The Revolution has begun, thank God. It may be bottome up, and our leaders may have to follow the masses, but at least we are starting.
@ Iron Fist:
Job considerations m’dear. He11,when we moved 16 years ago his fire dept bitched about us moving way out of the city he worked in. We told them to shove it.Believe me,would looove to escape from New England.
vagabond trader wrote:
But you have such lovely winters…
@ vagabond trader:
Hurry, before I implement my plan to dome off the entire I-95 corridor and leave them all to their own devices!!
//
Obama and Holder announce they will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage act DOMA. A legally passed law by congress and signed into law by Clinton. This is another end run around congress
@ Iron Fist:
Don’t mind winter too much,its the heating bills.
@ Bumr50:
I’m with you there,place should be cut loose and allowed to drift out to sea.
@ Nevergiveup:
Subversives. Commies.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Welcome to America’s first 3rd World regime!
PRESIDENT
Obama Administration Drops Defense of Anti-Gay Marriage Law
Published February 23, 2011 | Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of same-sex marriage.
In a statement Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder says President Obama has concluded that the administration can no longer defend the federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.
The Justice Department had defended the Defense of Marriage Act in court until now.
I guess y’all saw this:
Have you noticed that that “heightened sensitivity” only works one way? If Beck had said this it’d have made headlines across the nation, and if Sarah Palin had said it the President would have accused her of fomenting revolution.
@ Nevergiveup:
Wonder how long before some idiot wants to marry his sister or dog.
@ Nevergiveup:
No real surprise there. I wish he’d be that diligent about defending gun control laws.
vagabond trader wrote:
You ever met my sister? NO THANK YOU
@ vagabond trader:
You have that Columbia prof that is fucking his daughter. Why not? Those are the “morals” of the Left.
@ Iron Fist:
They need to win this. This will cripple the Democrats.
@ Rodan:
I agree. This is the frontline of the Cold Civil War. This could be as big as Gettysburg, if no t so bloody.
@ Iron Fist:
It has to begin local,just like the original one did with a few boxes of tea dumped overboard.
@ Nevergiveup:
Dare ya to say that to her face.
@ vagabond trader:
But when do we get around to scalping people? I want to get to the scalping part…
(This fucking Democrats wants to get bloody with me. This could be fun…
)
@ Iron Fist:
Heh.
We should do “thumbing.”
(we remove their thumbs so that they can’t use their handheld electronic devices – a modern equivalent of scalping!)
///
(this is a JOKE)
vagabond trader wrote:
I avoid her at all costs
U.S. crude futures briefly crossed the critical $100 mark Wednesday, the first such move since October 2008, as escalating violence in Libya shook crude markets and extended supply worries.
Way to go Obami
@ Bumr50:
Yeah, you have to state it is a joke, because the bug-eyed smiley might not convey it to the hyper-sensitive Leftist that reads our blog. Like swamp-denizens and shit that aren’t used to things like sarcasm and critical thinking…
@ Nevergiveup:
Change!
Fatah calls for boycott of US after UNSC veto
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
02/23/2011 19:35
Palestinian local councils boycott American officials, journalists; Fayyad says he would give up any aid that is dependent on political conditions; Fatah calls for Hamas to join effort.
The Palestinians on Wednesday stepped up their protest against the US following last Friday’s veto against an anti-settleemnt resolution at the UN Security Council by calling for a boycott of the US.
At the request of Fatah, several Palestinian local councils in the Jerusalem area announced that they would boycott the US in protest against the veto
Good! Lets cut off all aid
@ Iron Fist:
EEEEWWW,no contact with demonrat blood,never know where they’ve been. I prefer the old fashioned New England tradition of stocks and pillories.Then we could do rotten food target practice on them.
An occasional scarlet letter C for commie or T for Traitor stamped on their foreheads suits my taste also.
More “Progressive” Racism…
vagabond trader wrote:
I know a good tattoo artist…
Family receives murdered Munich athlete’s ID card
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
02/23/2011 18:58
JERUSALEM — After a four-decade wait, the family of an Israeli athlete murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics has received his ID card.
Eliezer Halfin was among 11 Israeli Olympic athletes killed in the terrorist attack. A German police officer recovered the card and held on to it until his death. Israeli officials said the officer’s son recently found the card and delivered it to the Israeli Embassy in Berlin.
German diplomats presented the card to Halfin’s sister at a ceremony in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Well glad the son did the right thing
@ Nevergiveup:
Listen to the barbarians setting conditions for their betters. Fug ‘em. Dine on each other for all I care.
vagabond trader wrote:
Hey why not Polygamy? You which group will push for that.
@ vagabond trader:
Treat the Palestinians the way they treat the Israelis. Randomly fire a 120mm shell into Gaza and the West Bank. Not on any schedule, nor aimed at anything in particular. Just shell them occasionally. Let them feel like they live in Sderot, but with higher quality munitions…
@ Philip_Daniel:
“You are uneducated and eeeemoral Toby.” Nice. Biggest raaaaacists and bigots I have ever met are leftards.Jew haters too. Been hearing it all my life.
@ Rodan:
Mormons? Where’s Bureaucat?
Yinz iz liveable: It’s official, Pittsburgh is the most liveable city in the US.
Bad news is, there are no US cities in the top 20 in the world ranking, Pittsburgh coming in at #29, although at least US cities are not as bad off as Harare, Zimbabwe, which is the worst rated world city.
With the possible exception of Detroit.
@ Rodan:
Well sure,we can’t cast judgement on those poor minority cultures. What,you think we are superior or something? //
vagabond trader wrote:
Also most intolerant of others’ views unless you agree with them.
@ Nevergiveup:
They want to bite the hand that feeds them.
@ The Osprey:
Detroit ranks # 7 in the US?!
@ The Osprey:
They based those rankings on what? Though I guess since they got rid of the steel industry Pittsburgh is probably less polluted. Fewer jobs, too, so it is a Leftist two-fer…
Iron Fist wrote:
It starts with an M, but it aint Mormons. You know who they are!
@ The Osprey:
That list an effing joke. Detroit? Minneapolis?! Freaking DEE CEEE??!!
@ vagabond trader:
Compared to what? Calcutta? God, I wouldn’t change planes in Detroit let alone go there. Eeeewwww…
@ Rodan:
Call them the Enemy, for that is what they are…
@ Nevergiveup:
Hey, did you see this-
@ Bumr50:
Economist must’ve been paid off with some stimulus stash.
Iron Fist wrote:
Actually Pittsburg has reinvented itself.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Yeah, I posted that yesterday. I think it is absurd, but they guy is gonna have to pay back his education at the Naval Academy. Wait till he gets that bill. He’ll choke on it.
Ah!
Here’s the culprit:
“Economist Intelligence Unit” is a phrase consisting of words that SHOULD destroy each other when placed in succession.
@ Rodan:
As a Pittsburgher, I appreciate the confidence vote!
Now if we’d quit demonizing the Marcellus Shale we’d be set!
@ The Osprey:
Those are rankings for livibility for the common Moonbat, also know as the “Barking Moonbat”. Not to be confused with the rare Red Moonbat that is most often found in Berekely and surrounding areas…
@ Rodan:
We visited the place when I was a kid. We drove completely around the city, looking for the “good” side of the city to come in on. There wasn’t one…
@ Rodan:
So I’ve heard. Pretty reasonable property too.
Iron Fist wrote:
Iw as there a few months ago. Totally diferent than when you where there.
@ Rodan:
I’m sure. That’s been 30 years ago…
Iron Fist wrote:
Actually, they have a pretty nice airport.
Just don’t leave it.
Crude oil up to $110 a barrel. What will $5 a gallon gasoline do for the economy, Children®?
@ The Osprey:
I take anything from the Economist with a grain of salt. Actually, I figure they’re lying. The have Detroit as 7th most livable city in US.
@ wolfie:
I’d rather visit Beiruit. Beiruit is just ran by Hezbollah. No Democrats in sight…
Iron Fist wrote:
The media will cover it up and continue to push the Obama Boom ™!
Ok folks, I know this will be a shock to all of you…
Kadhafi ordered Lockerbie bombing: ex-minister tells paper
(AFP) – 2 hours ago
STOCKHOLM — Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, former justice minister Mustapha Abdeljalil told Swedish daily Expressen, the paper reported on its website Wednesday.
Iron Fist wrote:
No problem!
$4 gas was a problem when Bush was POTUS, just as unemployment and the deficit were, but now we have Obama.
@ Rodan:
Am I a bad guy if I hope Obama voters get good and fucked by high gas prices?
vagabond trader wrote:
Yep. It’s very livable. Assuming you don’t get killed. 7th most livable, but 8th in the number of people murdered.
Flawed analysis? Yep.
@ Rodan:
I’m sure they will, but everybody has to put gas in their car, and Obama is the one pusing illegal drilling moritoriums on the country…
@ Nevergiveup:
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Iron Fist wrote:
This will bring any tentative world recovery to a screaming halt.
@ tanker on the horizon:
Problem is, we all will get fucked by it. I can’t afford that. That is going to eat up what little available cash i have.
Jeez, everybody jump all over me why don’t you. I posted that for CW and NoThreat because they are yinzers. Didn’t even look at where the rest of the US cities ranked. It came from the “Economist” found it via Insty.
@ Rodan:
Obama WANTS high gas prices to advance the “green agenda.”
It is a “desired” crisis.
wolfie wrote:
When Bush left office, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas was $1.87! And remember Obungler saying he had no problem with gas being $5-6 a gallon?
@ Bumr50:
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@ refugee000:
Yep. The thing I am scared of is Stagflation. We have the stagnation in our economy, the Fed is printing money, and now we have an impending price shock. 1979 redux…
@ The Osprey:
Nope, no excuses! Dogpile mode: on!
refugee000 wrote:
Say it ain’t so, Mo!
20:42UN may impose no-fly zone in Libya to deter air strikes against civilians (AP)
Oh? And prey tell who is gonna enforce that?
@ Bumr50:
refugee000 wrote:
Which is what Obungler wants.
@ Nevergiveup:
Scandinavia? The EU? I dunno. We can’t do it. That would be Imperialism…
@ Iron Fist:
Trust me, I know how bad it is. I take comfort knowing that the dumb bastards who voted for him are going to suffer along with the rest of us. For them I have no sympathy. They can eat fucking government cheese.
Cameron: Mideast leaders use Israel as a distraction
By ROBERT HUTTON / BLOOMBERG
02/23/2011 20:40
UK Prime Minister says rulers use the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to deflect criticism, expresses optimism in political protests.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron told students in Qatar that some Middle Eastern rulers were using the Israel-Palestine conflict as a distraction from their own oppressive regimes.
Wow, what did he take an honesty pill?
The new kind of journalism……
Walker in prank call: ‘This is our moment’
Hell, they should just hire crank yankers.
@ m:
Well, these journalists basically do sit around all day pulling their crank until it is time to make shit up for the evening news…
Iron Fist wrote:
Normal political laws don’t apply to him. It’s sad but true.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Oh yeah, but when prices were over $3 they blamed Bush and Big Oil.
Then, as you point out, they are completely sleazy in that they actually want high prices.
Forked-tongue politics.
@ Iron Fist:
Seriously. Journalism is dead.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, he may still win re-election. He has been an awful mistake, though. I hope the electorate sees that.
@ m:
Chuck is celebrating this. I will do a DOD post on this shortly.
Nevergiveup wrote:
As far as I’m concerned, that’s an impeachable act.
The House should be drawing up articles of impeachment.
Gas prices are climbing. Monday 2.99/gal at a QuickTrip in Grapevine TX, today 3.09/gal at the same station.
@ lobo91:
You know teh ghey ‘community will say….
@ lobo91:
That’ll never happen. Obama can perform a gay marriage in the Lincoln Bedroom, and consummate the marriage himself on national television, and they wouldn’t remove him from office. Hell, Rodan and I are worried the fucker will win re-election despite all of this. The one good thing about this is it destroys any credibility he might have had on his so-called move to the Center…
Rodan wrote:
The House needs to pass bills ASAP allowing drilling just about anywhere off our coastlines. That will force the dimocrats to show if they really care about the American people, or just their enviro-nazi base.
@ Rodan:
Celebrating what? That Walker took the man at his word? Good grief, he didn’t really get a scoop or anything, lol.
Ceej is desperate.
The Osprey wrote:
Thank you for pposting that. I saw it this morning. This is a very nice livable area. I believe we were first last year also? Come see us sometime. You will enjoy the local flavor. Rodan did
@ Iron Fist:
I realize that the Dems in the Senate will never vote to remove Obama from office, but that doesn’t change the fact that the House has a duty to impeach him.
Between this and his refusal to abide by the court decision declaring Obamacare unconstitutional, he’s basically declared that the other branches of government are irrelevant. This completely destroys our system of checks and balances.
@ lobo91:
I’m in 100% agreement with you , but the House won’t move. It would be politically disasterous. Hell, Obama may want them to impeach him. He’d make hay about them impeaching the “First Black President”. It’d be a fund-raising godsend. People in the ghetto would cut back on their heroin intake to save money to send him to help with his re-election…
@ Iron Fist:
I agree. You need real crimes and misdemeanors to get rid of him.