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The leftists are trying to emulate both Glenn Beck and the Tea Party movement by having their own march on D.C. and it is coming in but a few days. They are claiming that “hundreds of thousands” of their extreme leftist compatriots will gather at the Lincoln Memorial on October 2 for a left-wing bacchanalia at our nation’s capitol.
They are calling it “One Nation Working Together,” and it is yet one more left-wing, extremist attempt to employ Orwellian language to name an event because, Lord knows, they don’t include the millions of conservative Americans in that “one nation” title!
Here is what they are saying of their poor attempt to emulate Beck:
On Saturday, October 2, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans from across the country will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate our re-commitment to change.
The One Nation March will feature human and civil rights leaders, labor leaders, environmental and peace activists, faith leaders, celebrities and sports figures – all marching together to help Put America Back to Work and to Pull America Back Together. And to help reorder our national priorities so that investments in people come first.
It’s time to stand up and march for the change we voted for. Use the march resources below to plan and promote your trip.
Surely this will be a test of the left’s strength just ahead of this midterm election. Will they be able to get the “hundreds of thousands” that they are claiming they are going to field? Or will it be little else but thousands of union members bused to the site and paid o be there to make give a false impression of a great crowd?
We’ll find out in less than a week.
So who are some of these “hundreds of thousands of Americans” that are sponsoring this left-wing riot? Along with several Big Labor unions, just about every whacked out, far fringe group is pushing this. There are communists and socialists, militant gays, race baiters, anti-war nuts, “social justice” types and Greenies of all sorts.
Here is a partial list of the fringe and extremist organizations sponsoring this event (in no particular order):
- La Raza
- Code Pink
- Communist Party USA
- Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
- Solidarity, a socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Green for All
- Queers for Economic Justice
- American Muslim Association of North America
- War Resistors League
- Rainbow Push Coalition
- Peace Action
- ANSWER (anti-war)
It is also interesting to note the unions involved in this rally. One wonders how many of the dues paying members of these unions understand that their money is going to participate with racist groups like La Raza, militant gay groups, and communists and socialists?
- AFL-CIO
- United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- US LAbor Against the War (AFSCME UAW, SEIU and others)
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT, affiliated with AFL-CIO)
- AFTRA (radio and actors union)
- Utility Workers Union
- UNITE HERE
- National Education Association (NEA)
- United Steel Workers
- Transport Workers
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- … and others
I don’t know about you but I can’t wait for the mayhem that this thing will generate. And it will be very interesting to see the numbers that turn out. Likely you’ll see thousands of professionally printed signs instead of handmade ones (indicative of a lack of grassrootiness) and you’ll be presented with a sea of purple shirts, red shirts and T-Shirts sporting other union colors showing that unions are the only real source of participants here.
More interesting will be to see how the Old Media establishment cover this thing. We’ll see inflated numbers and all sorts of happy-talk coverage, for sure.
But, we’ll see, won’t we?
Matthew Vadum, ever vigilant on the evils perpetrated by ACORN, reminds us that the criminal community organizer has not had its federal funding cut off permanently. The temporary cut off is soon to expire and Vadum reports that there doesn’t seem to be anyone in Congress taking up a reinstatement of the ban.
In his Sept. 28 piece at the American Spectator, Vadum says that many people are confused about the funding ban imagining it was permanent.
This confusion about ACORN can probably be blamed in part on the quirks of parliamentary procedure and the complexity of the appropriations process. The legal language prohibiting the funding is contained in spending legislation that covers only the federal government’s current fiscal year which ends this Sept. 30.
The current funding ban is due to run out soon.
So is Congress making to fix this lack of attention on ACORN?
One bill pending in Congress would extend the funding ban but it’s not going anywhere. Section 417 of the Transportation-HUD appropriations bill for fiscal 2011 (S.3644) would prohibit funding of ACORN in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2010. It’s very unlikely that the bill will become law by Oct. 1; in other words, despite the earlier funding ban, ACORN is alive and kicking.
The left loves stuff like this. A big show is made about bowing to public pressure and cutting off funds for things the voters dislike but as time rolls on the bans expire and Congress quietly reinstates the offending funding when they imagine no one is looking.
ACORN likely just imagines that all the money will come back and more as the few Democrats that made a big show of cutting them off return to their profligate ways once they feel the photo op time has ended.
Like Vadum says, don’t count ACORN out. It is alive and kicking.
Michael Barone, one of media’s sharpest observers of America’s political scene, has noted an interesting trend in Democrat politics: unions are knocking out regular liberal Democrats in America’s big cities. Barone calls it a civil war raging in the Democrat Party.
He points to several big city campaigns in which unions rose up to defeat the “gentry liberals,” as Barone calls them, and have replaced them in primaries with union backed, ultra liberals. For proof Barone points to several races in New York, Maryland, and Washington D.C.
In each there was a split between the public employee unions that do so much to finance Democratic campaigns and the gentry liberals who provide Democratic votes in places like Manhattan, the Montgomery County suburbs of Maryland, and Northwest Washington, D.C. And in each case the public employee unions won.
The most disastrous election result, at least for school children, is the loss of Mayor Adrian Fenty whose hiring of school chief Michelle Rhee gained accolades from school reformers across the nation and an equal amount of opprobrium from unions. Fenty lost to ultra lib Vincent Gray — a wholly bought union hack — who has promised to dump reformer Rhee and kowtow to all teacher’s union demands.
“Gentry liberals and public employee unions were allies in the Obama campaign in 2008. But now they’re in a civil war in city and state politics,” says Barone.
What is most interesting in all this is the idea of “extremists” in politics. The left is consumed with attacking the Tea Party movement as the right’s extremists taking over the GOP. Yet here we have the exact same thing in reverse happening in the Democrat Party. The Democrat’s most extreme members are gaining power and preparing to push politics in some of our largest cities and our most blue states even further to the extreme left.
The socialists really are killing off the moderate Democrat, not just in Congress as Nancy Pelosi kills the Blue-dogs, but in local politics as unions kill of the conventional liberals and replacing them with their own, bought and paid for candidates.
In a day when nearly every state budget is deeply in the red due to the unearned, overly generous union salaries, benefits, and pensions of their public employees unions, we see these cities doubling down on the failed policies that put them in this position in the first place.
Amusingly, unions seem to think that conventional liberals aren’t attentive enough to union demands. After all these years of Democrats bending over backwards for unions, union demands have grown so extreme that no reform at all will be allowed.
So, while the left may claim that the right is being taken over by its “extremists,” it is the left, rather, that is being taken over by its own worst parts: unions and socialists (one and the same, of course).
Of course, this political direction will drive America’s cities further into despair and poverty as union greed and corruption further empties the treasury into the pockets of thugs and thieves.
The big question is this: how long will Democrats be able to hold onto the cities at this rate? Even as they are gaining power in the big cities, many unions are shying away from criticizing Democrats up for federal elections as reported last week.
This is pretty momentous information. According to two people interviewed by federal agents the FBI and the U.S. Labor Dept. are investigating former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Andy Stern.
The two organized labor officials met with federal agents this summer to answer questions about a six-figure book contract that Stern landed in 2006 and his role in approving money to pay the salary of an SEIU leader in California who allegedly performed no work.
It should be remembered that Andy Stern has been one of the most frequent visitors to the White House and has served as a close adviser to President Barack Obama.
Stern unexpectedly resigned in April as president of one of the most powerful unions in the nation. This news might explain why. He may have known that he was being investigated.
Accusations include questions over a $175,000 advance for a book deal that Stern pocketed.
One person who spoke to federal agents twice, in May and June, said they asked about a 2006 contract in which Stern received a $175,000 advance from Simon & Schuster to write the book “A Country That Works.” The SEIU and its locals bought thousands of copies of the book after it was published. The union also paid thousands to fact-check and promote the book, but Stern pocketed the advance.
In February Stern was appointed to Obama’s White House debt commission. Apparently Obama thinks that a guy that may have scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars really understands finances!
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) is attacking Walmart (and has been for years) and how are they doing it? By picketing, of course. Yes, they send their members down to Walmart to protest the evil, evil Walmart that refuses to hire union folks and…what? Wait.
The union doesn’t send their members to protest?
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Ah, the Daily Show finally realized that this has been going on for a long time. Like every left-wing show they only attack their own friends when it is a last resort.
But, hey, at least Jon Stewart FINALLY got around to noticing that the unions are hypocrites, eh? So, he’s got that going for him… which is nice. Heck we had it here months ago.
The film Waiting for Superman is making parents mad all across the country. The fault lies with greedy, grasping teachers unions and those lap dog politicians that they’ve bought and paid for.
‘Waiting for Superman’ Fuels Parents’ Furor at Broken Schools, Union
-By Ada Calhoun, Kirstin Conley, and Kevin Fasick
It’s class warfare!
Fed-up parents and teachers who saw the explosive education documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman’ ” yesterday were left either seething or in tears — and calling for revolutionary change after the film’s Big Apple debut.
“The passing along of children through the system is just disgusting,” said Barbara Levinson, 63, who was crying by the film’s end. “Every child should be treated as an individual.”
Viewers were also rocked by the work’s portrayal of the teachers unions’ protection of subpar educators.
“The laws as they stand can protect ineffective teachers who are bad — I’m disappointed in what the union’s become,” said Patricia Jordan, who won state teacher of the year in 1993.
“Effective and wonderful teachers are stifled by the ones who are problematic and hard to get rid of,” she fumed.
The movie, from directors of “An Inconvenient Truth,” takes aim at teacher tenure and “rubber rooms” for teachers facing disciplinary action. It profiles five kids who enter charter-school lotteries.
One parent, from Harlem, is struggling to pay for Catholic school for her daughter Bianca, and another, from The Bronx, is fighting to keep her son Francisco on track in public school.
“I’m almost speechless with horror and disgust,” said viewer Rita Callahan, who works for Con Ed. “I’m embarrassed to be an American. I can’t believe what we let happen.”…
Read the rest at The New York Post.
Eric Odom (Media Director)
Warner Todd Huston