Friday, 3 of September of 2010
A Global tax? A Robin Hood tax??? This guy has visited the White House over 30 times.
Hat tip to BigFurHat of iOwnTheWorld.com who adds…
Obama isn’t a socialist. You’re just a dumb, white racist. Now shut up and cling to your Bible… and give me that gun.
Sometimes coincidences have meaning. Now is one of those times.
It’s no secret that the teachers’ union in New Jersey doesn’t like Governor Chris Christie. It’s also no secret that teacher unions backed the Obama 2008 campaign big time.
With that information in mind, doesn’t it seem oddly coincidental that New Jersey has been denied $400 million in federal education funds because of a one page error in a grant proposal over 1,000 pages long???
Follow up: Guess which state got the $400 million bucks instead of New Jersey. Ohio.
Guess which state the Democratic Party is desperately trying to hold onto in the 2010 mid-terms. Ohio.
I’m sure this all just a coincidence though.
Oh and by the way, right on cue Rachel Maddow of MSNBC is delighting in all this.
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence too.
Read more at Memeorandum.
Change!
How bad? This bad…
“Today our members face the most anti-educator, anti-union, anti-student environment I have ever experienced,” – Dennis Van Roekel President, National Education Association
That makes no sense at all. Obama is a Constitutional Law professor and a big supporter of education. Isn’t that what we were told? I mean, until now…
NEW ORLEANS — For two years as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama addressed educators gathered for the summer conventions of the two national teachers’ unions, and last year both groups rolled out the welcome mat for Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
But in a sign of the Obama administration’s strained relations with two of its most powerful political allies, no federal official was scheduled to speak at either convention this month, partly because union officials feared that administration speakers would face heckling.
The largest union’s meeting opened here on Saturday to a drumbeat of heated rhetoric, with several speakers calling for Mr. Duncan’s resignation, hooting delegates voting for a resolution criticizing federal programs for “undermining public education,” and the union’s president summing up 18 months of Obama education policies by saying, “This is not the change I hoped for.”
The Stimulus Bill wasn’t enough, huh?
Bummer.
It’s funny how liberals proclaim that they believe in choice, except when they don’t.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie believes children and families should have a choice on education. Speaking as a Libertarian, I cite this is as a perfect example of why I side with Republicans. Especially Republicans like Chris Christie.
| Christie speaks in Washington DC, calling Newark schools ‘absolutely disgraceful’ |
HT to AP.
It’s stuffed with non-military related PORK. Shocker.
House Democrats are preparing to pass an Afghanistan war-spending bill on a party-line vote as Republicans balk at extra provisions the White House wants in the measure. [SNIP]
Senior Democrats in the upper chamber and the Obama administration are looking to attach to the war bill a $23 billion fund to help state and local governments stave off teacher layoffs. [SNIP]
The Obama administration has called on Congress to approve the war-spending bill by the Memorial Day recess. Of the $59 billion in the measure moving through the Senate, $33.5 billion is for military operations and will go toward funding Obama’s plan to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan by 30,000. The Senate measure also has $13.4 billion for compensation to Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange [Fine!], $6.2 for foreign aid and $5.1 for domestic disaster aid.
If the only two provisions in the bill were for our military in Afghanistan and our Vietnam vets, the bill would likely get unanimous support from the GOP. Democrats can’t have it that way though. They have to include union kickbacks in everything. How else could they get votes?
Nick Gillespie of Reason.com points out that government has a deep interest in the war between UPS and Federal Express.
Federal Express is a private enterprise. UPS has heavy union support. Guess which team the Obama Administration is rooting for…
Welcome to nothing-is-sacred-land America!
Union thugs, angry with a New York City Catholic Church for hiring non-union painters have decided to use intimidation tactics by installing a giant inflatable rat outside the church yesterday.
“Local labor leaders let loose with an unholy tirade against a Catholic church yesterday when they set up an enormous inflatable rat outside the sanctuary doors to protest the parish’s use of non-union painters.”
“You’re going to hell!” several parishioners shouted toward the union organizers, who inflated the 12-foot-tall rat on the sidewalk outside St. Monica’s Catholic Church on East 79th Street at the corner of First Avenue.”
“Even some passers-by who don’t attend St. Monica’s called the tactic distasteful.”
“I don’t think it would be very respectful. I’m agnostic, but that’s not right,” said neighbor Luis Garcia, 32.”
“Jack Kittle, the union’s political director, said the action wasn’t targeting the church, but was focused on the company hired to paint the inside of the sanctuary. But then he launched into a blistering attack on the Archdiocese of New York.”
“The archdiocese is not interested in doing things the right way. We tried discussing it with them. They’re digging in their heels and they want to do this wrong,” Kittle said.”
“They can’t hide behind the robes they wear and exploit workers. That’s why the rat was there,” he fumed.”
Can’t you picture two huge union guys named Rocko and Biff standing ominously close to the church pastor saying something like “How do you wanna do dis, Father? With or without pain?”
This is the second time in several days we’ve all seen how great things turn out when unions feel like they aren’t getting their way.