Torn from the headlines at HotAir.com, a question of epic and historical weight. Why won’t Democrats let their campaign workers unionize?
When workers on one self-proclaimed progressive’s congressional campaign decided to unionize, they ran into “classic union busting” tactics, according [to] a former staffer, who asked that he and the campaign remain anonymous for fear of jeopardizing future job prospects.
Ed Morrissey adds,
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09
We TEA Partiers are always being accused of wanting to get rid of Government as Progressives desire it and here in NH, the Free Staters are all accused of being outright anarchists that want no government whatsoever. Well, the former is true – we want a limited government that yields a good value: a limited government that carries a small number of tasks extremely well. In that aspect, the Free Staters (the real anarchists aside) also agree in that a limited government, by necessity, will provide an enlarged degree of Individual Liberty and Freedom.
So, back at the beginning of LBJ’s Great Society (which further pushed the Progressive Society started by Wilson, moved along by LBJ, and almost finalized by Obama), Head Start was created – a program to assist low income, inner city kids, to get a “head start” educationally, to get caught up with “the richer kids who have built in advantages”. Problem is, there was a lot of concern from Conservatives that this has been nothing but a money sink with little results to show for it. Did it really give those kids the boost that Liberals swore was going to happen? Er, no – #FAIL (emphasis mine):
Washington politicians interested in never cutting a dime from Washington’s spending can bring forth the name of Head Start quicker than the name of their own districts. It’s a heart-string puller. It has its roots deep in the Great Society, established in 1965 and expanded over the years to become one of the country’s longest-running programs to combat the effects of poverty. More than 20 million American children have gone through the program, which is designed to impart parenting skills to parents, and cognitive, emotional, and health improvements to children. Over the years, the program has cost $180 billion.
For the second time in two years, a Congressionally mandated study of the Health and Human Services program has shown it does not work. Its published date is October 2012, but it wasn’t released until after Obama’s election, presumably so Democratic campaigns could safely accuse Republicans of not caring about children and ignore the actual results of the programs they favor.
The Hot Air post quotes the Heritage review:
New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte sponsored a measure that would (again) prevent any funding from being used to transfer Gitmo detainees to US Soil. The measure passed the Senate 54 -41. (More at Hot Air) Michelle Malkin has some details here about how the Administration is still attempting to make their dream a reality despite … Read more
We realize that some of you are just too busy to keep up with all the things going on in the political world and to be honest, so are we. And when it comes to having a president named Obama every day is some kind of crisis and more often than not, it’s his mouth that has created it. So it is often necessary, when the opportunity presents itself, too stop and take a quick look back, to see what was happening in the other rings of the circus that we missed.
Enter Ed Morrissey and Hot Air, where they take the time to chronicle all the Obama-nonsense and let readers vote on which of the many choices is by far the dumbest thing that came out of DEar Leaders mouth that given week.
This weeks walk away winner with 93% of the vote so far is “If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Obama, having never built anything himself might not be the best judge, but then that is what makes this so precious.
So it this kind of wisdom that has been captured and while there are now 150 weeks worth of winners–and all the entrants in between–I’ve grabbed the ones from 2012 as a prime, with links, for your Sunday evening enjoyment.
This is curious. Just when the Global Warming Monkeys we’re complaining about how its totally hot, like…as if we were experiencing, like, Global warming, Ok? OMG! So why is it so damn hot if US CO2 emissions from energy are nearing their lowest since 1991…without cap and trade? Could it just be the weather? … Read more
Bwahahahahahaha! I love Liberals. Honestly. They don’t even make it difficult. H/T Hot Air And why not post the RNC’s response… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VbJ9ICG3Z_I
The second shoe has hit the floor in the Planned Parenthood ‘gendercide’ scandal. Video number two has been released, taken at the Margret Sanger Clinic, in Bloombergville (NYC), and that staff also seems to have been absent the day Big Abortion’s Corporate Messaging folks announced that…
“Gender bias is contrary to everything our organization works for … Planned Parenthood condemns sex selection motivated by gender bias.”
…becasue at the New York City office they say things like…
“I can’t tell you that, you know, here at Planned Parenthood we believe that it’s not up to us to decide what is a good or bad reason for somebody to decide to terminate a pregnancy.”
They can’t tell you. But they can keep your secret, whatever that may be.
Ed Morrissey (Hot Air) Interviews GOP Candidate for Governor, Ovide Lamontagne.
The monthly Hot Air Presidential Poll is out and Herman Cain is kicking some serious ass among the conservative racists we keep hearing about. They must be feeling almost as guilty as the white liberal racist that voted for Obama.
I’m so confused. Morgan Freeman thinks I’m a racist. And Now Samuel L. Jackson (L for Leftist?) thinks that as well. All because I disagree with the way Mr. Obama is doing his job. Odd thing though. Ted Leonsis, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, is not particularly happy with Mr. Obama at the moment either.
Mr. Leonsis is..um..Black, wealthy, and a major Democrat donor.
“Attacking me is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy. … I’ve tried poor and I’ve tried rich and I like rich better, doesn’t mean I’m a bad guy. … I didn’t go into business to create a public policy success for either party, Republican or Democrat. I went into business to create jobs, to create opportunity, to create value for myself and my investors.”
So is Ted Leonsis a racist now too?
Are the class warfare Neo-Progs going to media-waterboard Ted until he swears allegiance to the social justice Jihad? Or will they just cash his next donation check and pretend this never happened?
First, where did the money come from that was taxed to build the roads, and pay the teachers, and equip the cops? The answer is the factory owners–risk takers who created the jobs and provided wages to be taxed. Without them, there are no wages, no taxes, and no government.
If you are on the verge of being defined as low income in American, or maybe you are at or blow the “poverty line,”, you have a good deal to be thankful for. For example,you probably live in a larger home than most Europeans. There are appliances, televisions, maybe a car or two out front. In fact, you have things every American had just a few years before you.
Outrage flooding in now even from overseas over former Vice President Dick Cheney likening some opponents of President Bush’s policies and administration to “terrorists.”
Marco Rubio on The US Senate and the Debt Ceiling Debate
Dick Durbin, Richard, Rick, Ricky, Dicky, Dickard, The Dickster Durbin is suggesting an intervention for his state of Illinois. Apparently the tax and spender state implemented an internet sales tax on retailers. They were thinking that it might help them with their budget problem; I guess they left Terie “Billion Dollar Deficit” Norelli in charge of spending over there as well.
Courtesy of Hot Air and the NRCC the Golfer in Chief (Fore!) demonstrates once more how to vote present on deficit spending, even from the oval office, in a montage of his own words on the subject.
Hot Air has an Obamaturism of the day, an example of how or why on the job training is probably a bad idea for POTUS, and I’d suggest also, how the training isn’t working. Ed Morrissey posts these on Hot Air and at the end of every week you can vote on a weekly winner. This weeks is here.
There is also list of past winners of the week, which provides an interesting time line of Obama actions destined to make a few of you shake your heads. I was just scrolling through it, and figured you might find it amusing.
See the list…on the jump.