Crossroads GPS released an ad concerning Obama, unions, and health care reform waivers.

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It seems awfully convenient that the same groups who spent millions to get Obama into office, then spent millions more to push government-run health care were quick to apply for waivers exempting them from the very health care plan they supported ( Read more... )

The liberal media isn't doing their job and talking much about this story yet, but it's making its rounds in places like HuffPo and the like. I won't bother to link until I find more objective sources (aside from this), but let me share what I've heard thus far and hope I haven't been punked by an elaborate April Fool's joke ( Read more... )

As I was saying:

Republican Wisconsin State Senator Scott Fitzgerald on what Walker’s union busting is REALLY all about:

If we win this battle, and the money is not there under the auspices of the union, Obama is going to have a much more difficult time winning this election and winning the state of Wisconsin.

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Dick Morris on Sean Hannity, 2/28/11: We may at long last have a way to liberate our nation from the domination of those who should be our public servants but instead are frequently our union masters and free our politics from their financial power…What is at stake here really is freeing our schools so that we could keep good teachers and fire bad ( Read more... )

So here’s my idea. Public-sector workers should definitely abandon the whole union thing. Instead, they should establish public-sector HR outsourcing companies that handle payroll, benefits administration, etc. for the states. They can charge the states a little bit more than they’re paying now, but structure the contracts so that so that ( Read more... )

Will the protests further stoke the resentment many harbor for public worker's unions? Or will the backlash in reaction to Republican attempts to throttle organized labor be the bigger impact of these events? What about people like me, people who have criticisms of some aspects of public unions but generally support the idea that public workers ( Read more... )

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So WI Governor Scott Walker isn't willing to talk to the union-- which agreed like a week ago to concede ground on the actual $$$ stuff if their right to collective bargaining isn't threatened-- but he is willing to talk billionaire GOP and Tea Party-backer David Koch... or, at least, someone he believes to be Mr. Koch.

A prank caller pretending ( Read more... )

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Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robin Vos lets us all know what he thinks of those taxpaying Wisconsin citizens who work in the public sector:

The reality is they haven’t had to pay for these things, they’re upset about doing it now, and the taxpayers are the ones who definitely understand this because they get it, they’ve been doing this in the ( Read more... )

I can't stop thinking about this article, which was posted on the website "American Thinker" over a month ago.

"Historically, societies tend to stratify themselves along economic or preordained class lines ( Read more... )