IF YOU STAND AGAINST BIG LABOR – YOU ARE A RACIST!
Two days ago the AP published a very telling story outlining the Big Labor strategy to buck the trend for state governments to stand up and say NO. They are reframing the debate and tying it to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. “The planned rallies on the 43rd anniversary of King’s death are part of a coordinated strategy by labor leaders to ride the momentum of pro-union demonstrations and national polls showing most Americans support collective bargaining rights as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other GOP leaders in states fight to reduce or strip those benefits.”
As part of our continuing coverage of the teacher strike in Wisconsin, today we report that State Senate Democrats, fearing punishment from their union ATM machines supporters , have completely skipped out on their jobs as well.
Today is supposed to be the day the state legislature votes to pass Governor Walker’s new budget. Last year’s election-day tidal wave gave Republicans enough seats in that body to essentially pass whatever they want. Rumors leaked last night that Walker had secured enough Republican votes to assure his budget would pass.
Even so, it is necessary for the entire body to be present for such a major vote. At 11:30 Thursday morning when it became obvious the Democrats weren’t coming, the majority leader called on police to round up the missing lawmakers and escort them to the chamber. Failure to show up for this kind of vote counts as refusing to do their job and allows for police to aggressively recommend they come in.
While these Democrats cannot stop the vote from going against them, they can apparently stall the process by forcing Republicans to wait for police to round them up. Your humble blogger suspects a more serious motive: stalling the vote for another day or two would give the union time to grow a more drastic protest.
The biggest joke to emerge from this so far came from one teacher who bemoaned the lack of a “democratic process” being respected by state of Wisconsin. Yes they know there was an election less than six months ago which gave Walker a clear mandate – but no one actually thinks election results matter.
See, this is what you have to understand about progressives. When their side loses through democratic means, the simply pretend the election never happened and work to sabotage reform. When their side gets a victory, it’s called a democratic mandate.
And to think, liberals mocked certain people for predicting massive waves of civil unrest would land on American soil.
At what point will independents realize this train has a predetermined destination?
-Candance
Update (6:30pm) – According to local media, the Democrats banded together and took a bus into Illinois. They are staying at a resort. Wisconsin police don’t have the jurisdiction to leave the state, Illinois police won’t deport them, and President Obama won’t do a darn thing.
If Republicans did a stunt like this you can guarantee the media would be hyperventilating.
To see what $16 billion worth of education spending can get you in Wisconsin, check out this heartwarming video shot on the streets of Madison yesterday (via Weekly Standard):
Yes, those are public school students gleefully meandering toward a massive teachers’ union protest when they learned that all of their classes had essentially been canceled for the day. Parents who are busy working – or beating the streets in search of honest pay – got the luxury of seeing their unsupervised teenagers wander the streets during school hours.
Are the teachers protesting because of impending layoffs? Nope. A longer work schedule? No. Pay cuts? No.
They’re hysterically walking off their jobs because Governor Walker wants to set more limits on union influence to bargain over pay and other issues.
That’s it. In a state with 7 percent unemployment and a budget deficit in the billions, these teachers are putting their own jobs in jeopardy – and blatantly encouraging students to march with them – because their union will lose a little bit of power.
Do they feel bad about brainwashing clueless teenagers regarding politics? Do they fear parents might get annoyed at their own children pressuring the state to seize more wealth for a union?
As teachers beamed and offered thanks, student organizers in the hallways handed out signs identifying each as a “future worker, future voter,” proclaiming this was a “Walk out for Walker out,” and calling on the Legislature to “kill this bill.”
Students said teachers appeared torn by their support for what their students were doing, but also awareness that they weren’t supposed to encourage student political activity.
Yeah. Torn. That’s the word for it.
Remember this the next time a liberal tells you they really do care about America’s debt problem.
coordinated strategy by labor leaders to ride the momentum of pro-union demonstrations and national polls showing most Americans support collective bargaining rights as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other GOP leaders in states fight to reduce or strip those benefits.”
