"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men
from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
(Thomas Jefferson)


Monday, February 21, 2011

So now after Obama and the DNC supported and encouraged the Union protestors to go after Governor Walker and the Republicans including the runaway Democrat Senators, we have this spin coming out today:

White House now disavowing involvement in Wisconsin protests

The Obama admin must be seeing some polls that look even worse than Rasmussen’s. Doug Ross has both the new WH denial that it’s involved, and the evidence that they forgot about putting out last week, bragging that they are involved. But hey, that was Thursday, this is Monday. That’s practically a lifetime.
We have also have the liberal media who was backing Obama, the DNC, and the union thugs that rampaged through the State Capitol Building, and the union protestors who called in sick and got phoney doctor's slips against Governor Walker. In one fell swoop he has tossed the union protestors, media, and Democrat runaway Wisconsin Senators under the bus. When they going to learn that Obama has no core values and may be worse than Clinton when it comes to throwing someone under the bus. He doesn't care who he leaves in his wake as long as he looks better. In this case, he gets an "F" for trying to use this situation for his political purposes.

This paragraph from the article shows the length Obama will go for his reelection campaign. He has zero ethics to go with zero integrity. In the end this type of action will come back to bite and bite hard. Obama and his campaign's Organizing for America worked in close coordination to make this happen. Guess Obama still hasn't heard of the 10th Amendment and if he has, he will continue to ignore. What a poor excuse for a President.

The Wisconsin political blitzkrieg on Gov. Walker was not a spontaneous eruption. It is now clear that it was a highly organized operation planned in Washington, D.C., to unleash a national counterattack on the gains made by Republicans and Tea Party activists. Getting OFA and the president to act in close coordination was itself no small feat. The plan included busing in thousands of government employees, arranging for Democratic lawmakers to flee to an adjoining state, flying speakers and political organizers into Madison, organizing thousands to leave their jobs in public safety and in classrooms, and staging rallies inside and outside the statehouse. They even enticed sympathetic doctors to draft bogus doctor excuses for government workers.
In the end all of this support by the White House, DNC, and media most likely be putting nails in the union coffins in more states than in Wisconsin as taxpayers across America are fed up with the coddled public service union employees.

Government workers are demonstrating here in Oklahoma today for better pay while they have the day off for President's Day -- they are an association not a union. How about less state employees? Try and get a State Agency to help if you have a problem.

Under the former Democrat Governor the unemployment website to file a weekly claim would just 'happen to go down' every time an unemployment report was due to in DC. You couldn't file for several days so the weekly pay was late. Am I inferring that it was done on purpose -- no, I am saying it outright and one reason why I think the unemployment numbers are suspect.

With pay raises on hold for federal civil service and social security why should any state employee get a raise? They always cite surrounding states here but it is cheaper to live in Oklahoma. If they don't like the pay, get another job.

This is a must read article on how this all came about in hopes it would boost Obama's political campaign in 2012. Same tone deaf Obama who never understood how so many voters went against the Democrats in 2010 as he campaigned for people like Feingold who lost in Wisconsin. Obama is politically tone deaf and looks like the people around him are as well.

Don't think George Allen has to worry if Kaine who heads the DNC decides to run for VA Senate. This was a gross miscalulation on the part of the DNC as well as Obama.

Why Obama and the Dems Blundered in Wisconsin
Another stunning political miscalculation. (Also read: "White House now disavowing involvement in Wisconsin protests.")
February 21, 2011 - by Richard Pollock

It is becoming clear that the Wisconsin battle was a strategic political blunder for President Obama and the Democratic Party. The decision by the Democratic Party and its allies to draw a line in the sand in Wisconsin was the wrong strategy, in the wrong state, at the wrong time, on the wrong issue, and executed in the wrong way.

The White House, which for the last two years seemed so tone deaf over health care, jobs, and the economy, may again be displaying a stunning political miscalculation. Unless the Democrats pull the plug on their ill-conceived Wisconsin campaign, the statewide and national backlash now beginning to emerge may continue to resonate all the way to the 2012 presidential elections.

It will take time to unearth exactly who designed and sold the Wisconsin strategy to the president. But what is emerging is that the White House may have developed two strategies for 2011, not one. The first track, clear to us all, was for the president to tack to the right on the national stage, seek the statesmanlike high road, and negotiate deals with national Republicans.

The second strategy, now emerging, was to pick a target outside the beltway that could serve as a broad political narrative, attack it, nationalize it, and use it to rally Obama’s demoralized political base. It was a bold strategy. They chose Madison, Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-tightening initiative, and his effort to rein in public employee unions. They further decided to let loose angry union members serve as shock troops. Wisconsin would be the first test case, which would be replicated in other states, including Ohio, Indiana, and Idaho.

The plan seems to have been born both within the war room of the Democratic National Committee and within the Oval Office. The overall coordination for the operation was the remnants of the president’s 2008 political campaign organization, Organizing for America (OFA). The strategy would be launched by the DNC and by the president, who, during the height of the Egyptian crisis, incongruously granted an exclusive interview to a Milwaukee TV reporter over union policy. While Cairo burned, he took time to decry a Wisconsin governor’s effort to rein in the budget and limit union benefits. Shaping the narrative for the attack, he said that Gov. Scott Walker’s effort “seems like more of an assault on unions.”

(snip)

It all worked like a charm. Except that it struck all the wrong notes and portrayed all the wrong images. There is nothing more unseemly that to see a president serve as healer in Tucson and a political hack in Madison.

For in the end, the images and messages tell the story. The showdown in Madison pits pampered public employees against hard-pressed taxpayers. It portrays union workers as an angry mob against those seeking orderly legislative deliberation. It paints Democratic lawmakers as outlaws on the run, undermining the democratic process. It launched a national debate about the generous salaries and benefits for government workers during a time of economic shortages. And it showcased school teachers who abandoned their children in favor of narrow, partisan political gain.

This is a bad unraveling of a political campaign.

Excerpt: Read More at Pajamas Media

The more you read about this being a political calculation by Obama and the DNC the madder you get. People like the Tea Party Express better think long and hard before they take on any Republican incumbent and cost us any seat like they did in the last election when we could have had more Senate seats.

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