Day By Day by Chris Muir
What does the American public expect from the President and the Obama Administration?
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) bought and paid for the Presidency and the Democrats massive Congressional majority and they want pay back. Obama is one of them – a community organizer – remember?
The SEIU and other unions want to regain their membership numbers in the private economy like they had in the 1930’s – 50’s but this time through government mandate. Union membership has steadily eroded through the last decades as American private business shunned the unions to better control costs and be competitive.
Government employment, including education has been the last refuge of the LEFT-leaning unions. Now, they want to expand and make YOU join. And, of course, pay your membership dues and invest your pension with the union bosses.
No great mystery here. But will American voters tolerate the power grab?
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Nearly a year later, Mr. Obama has yet to set foot in an American mosque. And he still has not met with Muslim and Arab-American leaders. But less publicly, his administration has reached out to this politically isolated constituency in a sustained and widening effort that has left even skeptics surprised.
Muslim and Arab-American advocates have participated in policy discussions and received briefings from top White House aides and other officials on health care legislation, foreign policy, the economy, immigration and national security. They have met privately with a senior White House adviser, Valerie Jarrett, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to discuss civil liberties concerns and counterterrorism strategy.
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Writing on January 15, 2010, Glenn Greenwald at Salon noted Barack Obama’s new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, had championed creating fake websites and using outside 501(c)(3) interest groups to act as alleged independent champions of government policy and to “cognitively infiltrate” opposition websites, etc.
In other words, Cass Sunstein has favored the government using outside parties as government propaganda agents to paint their opposition as fringe and undermine their credibility. Kind of like what has been happening with the tea party movement – lots of SEIU members pretending to be tea party activists causing violence in front of TV cameras.
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The Saul Alinsky organizing tactics are being used by the MSM and the LEFT to attack the Tea Party protests.
Why?
Because President Obama, the community organizer, and the congressional Democrats are poised to lose massively at the polls in November because of their FAILED policies.
And, because they don’t have George W. Bush to kick around any more.
The most laughable moment is the Democrats sending out Bill Clinton to compare the Tea Party folks with domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City terrorist bombings.
Former President Bill Clinton warned Friday that the anger some members of the Tea Party movement express about higher taxes and the size of government could feed the same right-wing extremism that led to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.
“Before the bombing occurred, there was a sort of fever in America,” Clinton said at a symposium commemorating the 15th anniversary of the bombing. “Meanwhile, the fabric of American life had been unraveling. More and more people who had a hard time figuring out where they fit in, it is true that we see some of that today.”
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Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is stepping up her role in supporting Senate colleague Barbara Boxer's re-election bid.
Feinstein, who is up for re-election in 2012, will chair Boxer's campaign.
A release announcing the leadership role plays up the collaboration between the two Democrats.
"Senator Boxer and I make a great team for California," Feinstein said in a statement. "That's why I'm so proud to chair Senator Boxer's campaign. Barbara is a proven and effective leader for California, and our strong partnership is essential in creating jobs and turning our economy around."
"We've built a strong working partnership, and I want to make sure we continue working side by side as an effective team for California," Boxer added.
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Boxer is in trouble. First Obama comes to town to raise Boxer some money and now DiFi.
But, will it help?
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What needs to be said is that Erick has allowed his dislike for McConnell to get in the way of his judgment. And jeopardizing one's credibility as an honest broker because one doesn't like someone else in office and twisting oneself into knots to make arguments for a libertarian over a mainstream conservative to support that isn't the path to redemption. It's the path to looking like a DC hack willing to pander to the base that likes Sarah Palin to achieve a selfish end. Certainly Erick is free to support Rand Paul over Trey Grayson. But if he has to rely on cheap stunts and not sound arguments to do it, I believe it's fair to question both his judgment and his motivation on the issue.
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Dan has a point here especially with Erickson's DC gig with CNN.
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A group calling itself California Citizens for Ethics in Government put out a press release Thursday saying that it had filed an official complaint with California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office over Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s “apparent usage of paid state staff in his U.S. Senate campaign.”
Citing “a recent news story” about two current or former members of DeVore’s Assembly staff who also work for his Senate campaign (which almost certainly was the The Watchdog’s recent story about that very topic), the press release cites the government code that makes it illegal for government officials to devote public funds to their own use and quotes the group’s president, Bob Davis, as saying, “We believe the Attorney General must investigate this incident to ensure taxpayer funds are not being used in a federal campaign.”
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Probably not associated with the Fiorina campaign but Trevino has some questions to answer
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Combining its own race-by-race calculations with the results of national polls, The Cook Political Report officially projects a Republican gain of 30 to 40 seats. I suspect that the GOP will do even better if the trend over the past seven months continues.
On the other hand, the Intrade electronic markets give Democrats a 56 percent chance of holding the House. The views of other experts vary as well. Most political scientists who have weighed in tend to think that Democrats will suffer serious losses but retain control. Analysts who look at individual races and then add "macro" national dynamics to the mix, however, largely expect Democrats to have real trouble hanging on.
Despite all of this disagreement over whether the House will flip, there is pretty much of a consensus in the political community that President Obama's chances of getting re-elected will rise if his party loses the House or Senate. (In my book, the latter is quite unlikely.)
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House control will flip
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