Filibusters. They’ve become a check against totalitarian rule by one party or the other, a sense of balance in a system of power-hungry pols… The Democrats loved them… They are a part of the Senate’s “fabric”… When they were in the minority, Democrats felt strongly about filibusters. So strongly, in fact, that… …well, we’ll let them tell you: And Harry Reid? Yep! He was a | Read More »
An interesting exchange occurred on Fox News between Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the AFL-CIO’s Stewart Acuff over the AFL-CIO’s call to end federal funding for training Arizona law enforcement agencies. Acuff has been and continues to be the mouthpiece for the AFL-CIO (a federation of 56 national unions) on a variety of issues, from the nationalization of health care to the job-destroying | Read More »
If you haven’t caught this yet, you may want to sit down for a moment. After you’re done reading this, you should go to NoLameDuckTax.com. Now here’s why: The Obama Administration may be plotting to foist “Cap & Tax” on hard-working Americans (and their employers) after the mid-term elections, but before the new Congress gets sworn in [via Politico]: The plan is to conference the | Read More »
Union bosses suffered a seeming setback on Tuesday as Arkansas voters rejected the union attempt to make an example out of Blanche Lincoln. But the setback is not all that it seems. The Black Sheep Survives the Slaughterhouse From the beginning, Tuesday’s Arkansas Showdown was really more about the national Democratic Party and who owns it than it was about Blanche Lincoln. Blanche Lincoln was | Read More »
If the allegations about Flowers, Jones, Stone, Streisand and countless others didn’t destroy their dynasty… If fellatio in the Oval Office and an infamous blue dress didn’t ruin it for her… Perhaps, this time…this time, Bill Clinton has finally gone too far with another woman and, as a result, ended it for Hillary. No, he didn’t try out a new brand of cigars with her, but | Read More »
[from the diaries by haystack] Union bosses are nervous about Pennsylvania. They should be. Next Tuesday is a BIG deal in Pennsylvania, as it is one of the six union “firewall” states that union bosses want to keep in union Democrat control. So far, things aren’t looking so good for them. After the desperate party-switching Arlen Specter got the endorsements of Barack Obama, the SEIU, | Read More »
Last week, we posted on what is really behind the union push for financial reform. We stated that the union push for financial reform “isn’t to “reform” Wall Street, it is a push to remake America’s quasi-free market system into that of a European model.” While it is not the intent to repeat that post here, it is interesting to note that Politico picked up | Read More »
Provocateur: a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator. They’re calling it “Showdown in America” and that is exactly what they seem to be striving for. As part of their on-going push to get the federal government into every nook and cranny of Americans’ lives, the SEIU, AFL-CIO and a left-wing group called National People’s Action are planning on storming K Street in | Read More »
With outgoing SEIU president Andy Stern having forever changed America through the nationalization of health care, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is picking up where Andy is leaving off As President Obama goes out on the road to use his bully-pulpit to push financial reform, the AFL-CIO staged a major march on Wall Street yesterday. However, as with nearly every union grassroots astroturf effort, there is | Read More »
Lately, Politico’s Ben Smith seems to be the reporter embedded with labor leaders. Smith’s the guy that broke the SEIU Andy Stern resignation story and has had a lot of the scoop on what’s happening in the bedrooms within the House of Labor. As a result, his tweet on twitter this afternoon is particularly relevant as it relates to the job-destroying and hallucinogenically named Employee | Read More »
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