Why They Fight in Wisconsin
In 2011, “the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools system will exceed $100,000.”
No, that’s not a wild statement, it’s a fact from the Milwaukee (WI) Public School system itself: MPS’ budget manager says that in 2011-2012 (the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2011), the average MPS teacher would receive total compensation of $101,091 – $59,500 in salary and $41,591 in benefits.
Oh, and there are additional perks. Milwaukee teachers get their $786,000 annual Viagra habit paid for by the Wisconsin taxpayers.
Priorities, people. Remember, “it’s for the children.”
Was the 2008 Economic Crisis Manufactured?
The Pentagon has issued a report on the series of events that led to the fall 2008 economic crash. Was it manufactured? This seminal event marked the ascendancy of Obama’s candidacy, and arguably resulted in his election as president.
Public Unions Force Taxpayers to Fund Democrats
President Obama told a Wisconsin TV reporter that Governor Scott Walker was staging “an assault on unions,” added that “public employee unions make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens.”
Oops. He really meant to say the public unions make enormous contributions to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. In 2008, public unions gave Democrats some $400 million. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.
Rent-A-Mob Illusion to Go Viral
Just as Obama’s Organizing for America, as well as SEIU, bus in hundreds of hired demonstrators for rallies and demonstrations such as the current one in Madison WI, there is now a call to fool people online into believing there is a majority consensus on liberal sides of issues.
“The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage ‘Fake People’ to create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the development of ‘Persona Management Software’ which would create a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.”
Illusion. Illusion. Illusion. It takes a community organizer to bring the illusion that he is going to ‘paint the nation purple.’
Defund the Obama Czars!
The House GOP has approved an amendment to a government-spending bill that would block funding for the Czars, the three dozen or so Obama personal advisors who duplicate the job of cabinet positions.
“I think this sends a strong signal to the president that we are tired of him running this shadow government, where they have got these czars that are literally circumventing the accountability and scrutiny that goes with Senate confirmation,” said Rep Steve Scalise (R-La), who wrote the amendment.
That’s great news – a small glimmer of hope that a lot of this crap an be reversed. The House will also defund the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules.
Putting Palin’s Self-Defense in Perspective
Sarah Palin is accused of being an accessory to murder? Slammed because she defended herself against false accusations? Joe Scarborough wishes says her “political career is over.”
Hey, you want to know what doesn’t end a political career?
- Being found guilty of 11 ethics violations. (Charlie Rangel, D-NY)
- Stuffing your pants with classified documents, stealing and destroying them. (Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor, went on to become a Hillary Clinton campaign advisor in 2008.)
- A prostitution scandal. (Democrat Elliot Spitzer, then Governor of NY, now cohost of Parker Spitzer and David Vitter, R-LA, still in office, were clients. Barney Frank, D-MA, still in office; his boyfriend ran a prostitution ring from their home.)
- Having the FBI find $90,000 in your freezer. (William Jefferson, D-LA, was re-elected while under federal investigation.)
Oh, there’s more Read the rest of this brilliant list at hotair.com: What Does it Take to End a Political Career?
More Democrat Insanity
Let’s just ban everything and be done with it.
As leftwing media still struggles mightily to connect Jared Lee Loughner with Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh (all of whom, suspiciously, have vowels in their name), the Democrats are preparing to introduce a bill which would turn Loughner’s paranoid, schizophrenic obsession into law.
Give Em Hell, 112th!
The replacements filling the Republican ranks in the newly seated 112th congress have introduced a bill on Wednesday to rein in the various “czars” that have been serving in the Obama administration without congressional approval. From thehill.com:
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and 28 other House Republicans introduced legislation to do away with the informal, paid advisers President Obama has employed over the past two years.
The legislation, which was introduced in the last Congress but was not allowed to advance under Democratic control, would do away with the 39 czars Obama has employed during his administration.
The bill defines a czar as “a head of any task force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President, or similar office established by or at the direction of the President” who is appointed to a position that would otherwise require Senate confirmation.
Good start right out of the gate. Maybe some of these new pubbies will amount to something after all.
Jindal: Make Congress a Part Time Job
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has a terrific idea on how to cut spend: keep Congress out of session so they can’t make work for themselves. Because if they are in their office, they are looking for ways to spend money.
“Make them part-time, give them term limits,” Jindal told Human Events. “Don’t let them become lobbyists. When they have to live under the same rules and laws they pass for the rest of us, maybe you’d see some more common sense coming out of Washington, D.C.”
Love this guy.
more at politico.com …
Jimmy Says The Rent is Too Damn High
Karate master,Vietnam vet, and candidate for governor of New York Jimmy McMillan stole the show at the NY debates last night with … “I’m with the ‘Rent is too damn high’ party.” Love it! They need to elect this guy over the other two main party jerks:
The Tsunami is Real and It’s Coming
Karl Rove on Fox last night: The last time more republicans voted in the primaries more than democrats was 1926.
“If you look at the entire year, Republicans have turned out, before tonight, nearly 4 million more people have voted in the Republican primaries than have voted in the democratic primaries this year. Four years ago, 3 million more people voted in the democratic primary than the Republican. Eight years ago 3 million more people voted in the democratic primary than the Republican. You know when the last time was that Republicans in an off year election that I could find that more people voted in the Republican primary than the democratic primaries? 1926.”
