‘Guardian of Worker Freedom’ gets nitpicked, frozen, personalized, polarized … Dems just can’t get enough of the always controversial, always quotable Rep. Michele Bachmann. Democrats just can’t get enough of Rep. Michele Bachmann, the always controversial, always quotable Minnesota Republican. In fact, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has built a website — www.bachmannwatch.com — devoted entirely to Bachmann’s rhetoric, slamming what they believe are overstatements or exaggerations about everything from ACORN to the stimulus. “The same woman who once said Congress should be investigated for those with anti-American leanings and once argued that she couldn’t support the economic recovery act because America was ‘running out of rich people,’” the site blares. But if the DCCC couldn’t knock off Bachmann in the wildly successful Democratic congressional campaign of 2008, it may have a tough time in 2010. Bachmann’s office seems more amused than upset about the attention. “When you can’t defend your policies and you’re so far out of touch with the American people, I guess there’s nothing more you can do than nitpick your opposition,” said Bachmann spokesman Dave Dziok. (politico.com)
Bonus links:
• Summary of Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’
• More Saul Alinsky stories: here
• ‘Rules for Radicals’ at amazon.com
Obama anti-Democracy Czar exposed … Barack Obama’s nominee for “regulatory czar” has advocated a “Fairness Doctrine” for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period. The revelations about Cass Sunstein, Obama’s friend from the University of Chicago Law School and nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, come in a new book by Brad O’Leary, “Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech.” OIRA will oversee regulation throughout the U.S. government. Sunstein also has argued in his prolific literary works that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing. “A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government,” he wrote. “Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom’s name.” (worldnetdaily.com)
Government Motors update: Would you buy a car from a bankrupt union? … It seems that Chrysler could eventually end up under the majority ownership of the UAW, its main union, with Fiat holding a minority stake. It sounds awfully like the revisiting of a past era. In the 1980s, there was a rash of employee-owned companies emerging out of troubled private ownership. In 1994, United Airlines became majority owned by its employees after all had failed. The employee share ownership movement was popular as an alternative to bankruptcy for unionised companies in financial trouble. It was supposed to cement the commitment of workers. But it did not deliver the goods. United Airlines went bankrupt in 2002, despite hopes that co-operation between management and the unions would solve previously intractable problems. Now, the UAW apparently stands to gain a 55 per cent stake in return for giving up contract entitlements. This is intended to head off the threat of Chrysler’s going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (blogs.ft.com)
Reliably Leftstream media ignores anti-Card Check protest … Free-marketers have momentarily staunched organized labor’s effort against using secret ballots in unionization elections, making it clear their desire to keep it that way, yesterday at the Capitol Rotunda. Commonly known as “card check,” the federal legislation would automatically certify a union for any workplace with more than 50 percent of employees signing organization petitions. Current law gives the employer the option of recognizing a union that gets that level of support. Alternatively, the company can allow the union to proceed with a secret-ballot election after 30 percent of workers have signed the cards. Card-check opponents worry that allowing unions to bypass the secret-ballot process will permit intimidation on the part of labor organizers who accost workers to gain support for unionization. They also argue it will, in turn, put too much pressure on businesses and stunt economic growth. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey last month found 61 percent of Americans support secret ballots in the organizing process while 18 percent do not. President Barack Obama and most Democratic public officials support the legislation, but it appears to have too few votes in the U.S. Senate to pass. In case the resistance to card check ever thaws, some state legislators are voicing a critical take on the legislation. State Rep. Curt Schroder, R-155th, of Chester County, and state Sen. Mike Folmer, R-48th, of Berks, Chester, Dauphin, Lancaster and Lebanon counties, are each sponsoring resolutions asking Congress to reject the measure. (thebulletin.us)
Communist human rights violations no longer of concern to restructured U.S. … A senior U.S. diplomat met Monday with Cuba’s top Washington representative, but a State Department spokesman cautioned that the session did not signal a renewed U.S. push to improve relations. Spokesman Robert A. Wood said Thomas A. Shannon Jr., the assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, met in an undisclosed location with the head of the Cuban interests section, Jorge Bolanos. Wood told reporters ahead of the session that the two men, who also met April 13, would discuss a range of issues related to President Barack Obama’s decision April 14 to lift a ban on Americans visiting relatives in Cuba and easing restrictions on money transfers to relatives there. “I’m sure that there will be a discussion of the president’s steps that he announced recently. But beyond that, I don’t have much of an agenda.” (google.com)
Please e-mail me the date of the next tea party held in Charleston. Thank you.
Now the government is bailout people with second mortgages. Just go to infowars.com and read the article all all about it. They are going to pay lenders and homeowners that have second mortgages to reduce the interest on the rate with billions of dollars. Enough is Enough. DC on July 4th for the mega march of all marches.
It is time to do another Tea Party and soon. I do not believe we can wait until July. This with the take over of the car companies is way out of hand. We need to start making noise.
We need to contact our legislators to oppose the health plan bill that is being rammed through congress with no debate! This bill will ruin our medical programs plus costing billions of dollars.