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.”

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.

“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.’

“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.

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?

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.

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.

“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.

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