Monthly Archives: February 2011
*AUDIO* Howie Carr: Show Highlights For Week Ending 02/18/11

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Ed To Protesting Public Sector Union Employees: SHUT UP!
Dear Public Union Employees/Protesters,
Look you freakin’ whiny parasites, WE, the members of the dreaded private sector, PAY YOUR SALARIES! That makes US your BOSSES! You’ll take the compensation packages that WE decide to give you and like it, or you can all go find other jobs!
Since when do the employees dictate to the employers the terms of their employment? Since NEVER, that’s when!
You don’t think you’re making enough money? You don’t want to pay for part of your retirement or medical benefits? TOUGH SHIT!
You people are lucky to even have jobs in this economy, so STOP BITCHING AND DO YOUR FREAKIN’ JOBS, before we decide to fire your pathetic asses once and for all and replace you with people who don’t behave as if the world revolves around them!
Sincerely,
Edward L. Daley
Average Milwaukee Public School Teacher Compensation Tops $100,000 A Year
Average Milwaukee Public School Teacher Compensation Tops $100,000 A Year – AIP
For the first time in history, the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system will exceed $100,000.
That staggering figure was revealed last night at a meeting of the MPS School Board.
The average salary for an MPS teacher is $56,500. When fringe benefits are factored in, the annual compensation will be $100,005 in 2011.
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Is it any wonder that the state of Wisconsin is up to its eyeballs in red ink?
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Wisconsin Faces A $3.6 Billion Budget Shortfall Over The Next 2 Years – Sunshine Review
Fiscal Year 2012-13 State Budget
The state faces a $3.6 billion budget shortfall over the next 2 years.
Governor Scott Walker has said that he will not raise taxes but will tackle the estimated $3.1 billion shortfall with the budget that he will present on Feb. 22, 2011.
The proposed budget will include the possibility of selling power plants at state facilities, including university campuses and prisons. State agencies have requested $1.1 billion in new funding for a “cost to continue” budget for the 2011-13 biennium.
Obama Administration Is Behind Chaos In Wisconsin; Students Used As Props
Obama Administration Is Behind Chaos In Wisconsin; Students Used As Props – Gateway Pundit
Stunner. Barack Obama’s Organizing for America website is helping to organize the “day of rage” protests in Wisconsin.
What a complete shock.
Ben Smith at The Politico reported:
The Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America arm – the remnant of the 2008 Obama campaign — is playing an active role in organizing protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights.
OfA, as the campaign group is known, has been criticized at times for staying out of local issues like same-sex marraige, but it’s riding to the aide of the public sector unions who hoping to persuade some Republican legislators to oppose Walker’s plan. And while Obama may have his difference with teachers unions, OfA’s engagement with the fight — and Obama’s own clear stance against Walker — mean that he’s remaining loyal to key Democratic Party allies at what is, for them, a very dangerous moment.
The OFA Wisconsin twitter feed bragged about how they used students as props at their protests today.
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Boehner Wants Obama’s ‘Organizing For America’ Out Of Wisconsin – Politico
House Speaker John Boehner sharply criticized President Obama on Thursday for “unleashing” Organizing for America in Wisconsin to pressure Gov. Scott Walker to abandon anti-union legislation.
“I’m disappointed that instead of providing similar leadership from the White House, the president has chosen to attack leaders such as Gov. Walker, who are listening to the people and confronting problems that have been neglected for years at the expense of jobs and economic growth,” Boehner said in a statement. “I urge the president to order the DNC to suspend these tactics.”
Citing news reports Boehner said OfA is spreading “disinformation and confusion in Wisconsin,” prompting thousands of public employees to picket.
Boehner said GOP governors like Walker, Ohio’s John Kasich and New Jersey’s Chris Christie, each of whom have defied Obama on his infrastructure agenda, are “daring to speak the truth about the dire fiscal challenges” the country faces.
“Rather than shouting down those in office who speak honestly about the challenges we face, the president and his advisors should lead,” Boehner said. “Until they do, they are not focusing on jobs, and they are not listening to the American people who put them in power.”
In an interview with a Wisconsin radio station on Wednesday, Obama said that by making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain, Walker’s plan “generally seems like more of an assault on unions.”
Quoting Obama himself, Boehner said that “this is not the way you begin an ‘adult conversation’ in America about solutions to the fiscal challenges that are destroying jobs in our country.”
*AUDIO* Quinn & Rose: Complete Shows For Week Ending 02/18/11

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House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality Order
House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality Order – National Journal
The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December.
The amendment, approved on a 244-181 vote, was offered by Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., to legislation that would fund government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2011.
Walden and other critics of the FCC’s net-neutrality order argue it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband. The order aims to bar broadband providers from discriminating against Internet content, services, or applications.
“If left unchallenged, this claim of authority would allow the FCC to regulate any matter it discussed in the national broadband plan,” Walden said.
If the defunding effort fails, Republicans are pursuing a second route to try to block the FCC’s open-Internet order. Walden and other Republicans in both the House and the Senate introduced on Wednesday a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which would give lawmakers a limited amount of time to try to block the FCC’s net-neutrality rules.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., a senior Energy and Commerce member, argued that by voting for the amendment, “you give control to the Broadband Barons … and then you will see an inevitable decline in innovation, in investment, in the private sector, in the new products, the new technology, the new applications, these new devices, which are basically invented by hundreds and thousands of smaller companies in our country.”
President Obama, who supports the FCC’s net neutrality order, has threatened to veto the spending measure if it cuts government programs too deeply. He was on the West Coast meeting with leaders from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and other technology companies when the vote came in.
*VIDEO* Mumbling CBS Reporter Explains What Happened – Severe Migraine
*VIDEO* Tea Party Member Finds Two Slimeball Wisconsin Democrats Hiding In Rockford Illinois
The slimeball Senators were identified as Robert Jauch and Jim Holperin.
When Push Comes To Shove
When Push Comes To Shove – Philip V. Brennan
Uncle Sam is broke. So are a lot of the states. Unlike those of us locked in a state of penury thanks to a drunken sailor policy of spending money we don’t have, a lot of politicians and labor unions insist on continuing to spend the public’s money as if there was an endless supply of it.
There isn’t. For the most part, in many places, it’s almost all gone.
When the average American family finds their income reduced for whatever reason, they are forced to adjust their spending accordingly, understanding that you can’t spend money you don’t have.
That’s a simple fact Wisconsin’s new Republican governor, Scott Walker, understands. Part of his response to this crisis is a bill that would eliminate excessive collective bargaining rights for many state employees. His solution: affect significant changes to measures dealing with wages, benefits, work rules and the bargaining power of government workers.
This is not a program designed to find favor with the state’s powerful teachers’ unions who have been holding the state and its citizens hostage, long extorting pay and very favorable work rules their state can’t afford to enforce and they are loathe to surrender.
Faced with a situation where their Democrat state legislators are outnumbered by Republicans who support loosening the grip teachers have on their state’s education system, the Democrats have up and fled the coop, thus preventing the GOP controlled legislature from doing what Wisconsin’s voters sent them to Madison, the state capitol, to do.
They crammed themselves into a school bus, of all things, and reportedly fled or are in the process off fleeing the state, apparently displaying their version of democracy in action.
Needless to say, the very liberal media in this very liberal area thinks that having Democrat legislators abandon their duties and flee is all fine and dandy. Frustrating the will of the voters seems to be job one in their opinion.
The governor dispatched police officers and the national guard to round up the fleeing legislators and bring them home to do their sworn duties. According to the Associated Press (AP) Democrat state senator Sen. Jon Erpenbach told them that he and his fellow Democrats hoped to force negotiations over the Republican-backed bill, but he would not say where the group had gone.
Senate Democrats did not show up when they were ordered to attend a midday vote on the legislation. The AP reported that although Republicans hold a 19-14 majority, they need at least one Democrat on hand and present to vote.
The bill is “tearing the state apart,” Erpenbach told the AP.
According to CNN, reports indicated Democrats state legislators had boarded a bus and left town.
“I think the hope is that Republicans would start listening to the folks who have rallied here, the people who have flooded our offices with calls,” said Mike Browne, communications director for Wisconsin Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller.
Said Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, “This is the ultimate shutdown, what we’re seeing today.”
As for the school children – it appears that their teachers think they don’t really count. According to the AP “hundreds of schools canceled classes as teachers called in sick to protest.”
Once upon a time, schools were institutions that existed to teach America’s youngsters reading, writing and arithmetic. Nowadays, it seems, they exist to coddle the powerful teachers’ unions. The kids can fend for themselves.
Push has come to shove and Governor Walker has taken a stand that appears to be based on the belief that his state’s school system solely exists to teach the students, not coddle their teachers –a unique idea that if it takes hold will get the state’s priorities straight. Kids come first, taxpayers second, Teachers’ unions last. Dead last!
Hang in there, governor.
Please visit my SCV blog as well
I am now the commander of the O.M.Roberts Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans in Waxahachie Texas. I have set up a blog for the camp, and would like y’all to visit it.
I am not linking that blog with The DaleyGator because the SCV is NOT a political organization, we are a historical group, of descendants of Confederate soldiers, who work to commemorate and honor their brave service and sacrifice!
Thank you
Daily Benefactor News – Wisconsin Public Unions Want To Overturn Election Result
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Wisconsin Public Unions Want To Overturn Election Result – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Say you generally liked Gov. Scott Walker’s move to rein in government labor costs but had a few doubts on his method. The last few days should have cleared that up nicely.
The public-sector union tantrums, meant to make lawmakers wobble, have an inadvertent message for the rest of us: Voters can vote all they want. We can elect a cheapskate governor and a Legislature to match. But come the moment, unions will have the last, loudest word.
They’ll have it if it takes marches. They’ll have it if it takes what amounts to an illegal strike, with so many Madison teachers calling in sick Wednesday that the district closed schools. If it takes showing up for a we-know-where-your-family-is protest on Walker’s Wauwatosa lawn while he was at work, the unions are sure they can outshout any election result.
This is exactly why Walker is right to limit the unions’ power over government spending.
Walker, remember, is not removing unions’ fundamental power to bargain for wages. He is demanding that state workers put 5.8% of their wages toward retirement and that they cover 12.6% of their health care premiums, which would still have them paying more than $100 less a month than the average schmoe. He is also proposing that elected officials determine the shape of employee benefits without having to bargain them, and this as much as the added cost has unions crying “unfair.”
They insist this is the end of unionization in government, something to which they have as much right, they say, as anyone else.
But they miss a bedrock difference. Unions in the private sector are a way of organizing private interests, those of employees, against other private interests, those of a company’s owners, for economic gain and for protection against unfairness. In government, workers are already protected against unfairness by civil service laws, and Walker has supported expanding those. Economically, government unions pit a private interest, that of employees, against the public’s interest, that of taxpayers and voters.
We see the result. Walker’s moves are prompted by the state’s vast deficit. The alternative, he says, is to lay off thousands. Nonsense, charge the marchers: Just raise taxes. Unions and allies have for years been demanding more sales taxes, new business taxes and higher taxes on other people’s incomes, all to keep the state flush and generous. We’re taxed enough already, said a voting majority in November. Not yet, insist the unions that have become the largest players in Wisconsin politics precisely to counter any such voter sentiment.
Anyway, union leaders were conceding the pension and health care premiums by this week. They said they knew they’d have to pay more eventually – so when unions in December said such payments were tantamount to slavery, it must have been just maneuvering. Bygones, say unions, as long as Walker leaves them the power to set health benefits via bargaining. Leave that, they say, and it’s peace.
Yeah? Recall how we got here. How is it that only in desperation will unions accept a deal that still leaves them better off than everyone else? How did we achieve not just next year’s $3.3 billion deficit but the decade of structural deficits before? Easy: It’s because labor costs for years have been outstripping taxpayers’ capacity. That in turn was caused by officials, elected in a union-dominated political environment, buying labor peace via benefits, where it’s harder for voters to see the costs adding up.
If the Legislature takes the 5% and 12% and doesn’t reform collective bargaining, the 5% and 12% soon will be won back by unions. Any further savings are out the window. Walker talks of moving to consumer-driven benefits, as many companies have done, to restrain medical costs. That’s anathema to unions, who will resist it contract by contract. Without bargaining reform, government costs will have taken only a pause in their ascent.
Union activists in Madison Tuesday spoke apocalyptically of “class war,” hinting wildly at general strikes and takeovers of the Capitol. They correctly see their control of the state slipping and must figure that if they bring 13,000 shouting people to Madison, they can overrule the election.
Any worried legislators should keep in mind that Walker drew about five times that many votes in Dane County alone in November.
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Wisconsin Budget Fight Escalates As Cowardly Democrats Flee Madison To Avoid Vote – Daily Caller
A three-day-long stand-off at the Wisconsin state capitol between union supporters and those backing the Republican governor’s budget cuts just went to another level Thursday as Democratic senators apparently fled the state to prevent a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill, which would cut public employee union collective bargaining rights and require them to contribute to pensions and health care.
Law enforcement has been sent to find missing Democratic lawmakers, according to a Madison, Wis. ABC affiliate. State Sen. leader Scott Fitzgerald said only one Democrat is needed for quorum to vote on the controversial bill, which is expected to pass a Republican-majority Senate. The “Sergeant of Arms is going door to door to find Democratic senators.”
The budget-repair bill passed a finance committee 12-4 late last night, its last hurdle before a Senate vote, on party lines convincing Senate Democrats that moderate Republicans would not deliver them an upset victory over the Gov. Scott Walker. (Opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker call him “Mini Mubarak.” Read more.)
Sources tell the Madison NBC affiliate that Democratic lawmakers may have left the state to avoid a vote, possibly fleeing to the Illinois border, about an hour drive from Madison. The move is a repeat of a 2003 stunt by Texas Democrats who fled to a hotel room in neighboring Oklahoma to avoid a redistricting vote.
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Cops Sent Out To Drag Absent Wisconsin Democrats Back To Capitol – Gateway Pundit
The democrats skipped town today before the public employee vote today in the Wisconsin Senate. Cops were sent out to drag them back to vote on the budget repair bill. Republicans need at least one Democrat present for the vote.
The violent leftists are outraged in Wisconsin.
My FOX NY reported:
Police officers are looking for Democratic Wisconsin lawmakers who were ordered to attend a vote on a bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights.
No Democrats showed up for Thursday’s Senate session, meaning a vote cannot be taken. Republicans need one Democratic senator to be present. Calls to Democratic leaders were not immediately returned.
Republicans are pushing the anti-union bill proposed by GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Thousands of people clogged the halls of the Statehouse for a third straight day in opposition.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says law enforcement officers were searching for Democrats after they were ordered to attend the Senate session.
Michelle Malkin has more on the leftist fiasco in Wisconsin.
Althouse has pictures of the aftermath today.
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Wisconsin Teachers Drag Students To Union Rally – MacIver Institute
Many of the hundreds of Madison East High School students didn’t know why their teachers brought them to the union protests at the Wisconsin Capitol Tuesday.
But they knew they were just happy to be out of class.
See this raw video from today’s government union rally in opposition to Governor Scott Walker’s budget repair bill.
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Rep. Paul Ryan Compares Wisconsin Protests To Cairo – Usa Today
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan compared the protests in his home state of Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan to the anti-Mabarak movement in Egypt.
Ryan, a Republican from Janesville, made his comments on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program. In the Wisconsin state capital, teachers and labor union supporters swarmed the Senate chambers today to protest a bill that would strip most public employees of nearly all their collective bargaining rights.
“It’s like Cairo’s moved to Madison these days,” Ryan said on MSNBC. “All of this demonstration… it’s fine. People should be able to express their way.”
Ryan defended Walker, a friend and fellow Republican, for trying to get state workers to pay part of their health insurance and pension benefit costs, as their counterparts in the private sector do.
President Obama weighed in today on the Wisconsin budget fight, saying the proposal by Walker on collective bargaining rights “seems like more of an assault on unions.”
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One cannot be a leftist without being a hypocrite. It really is just that simple. The last several days in Wisconsin has again born that truism out, too, as teachers union thugs in the Badger State have indulged every manner of behavior that they have constantly condemned the right for engaging in – even as no one on the right has actually done the things the left charges them with doing.
With the protests that swept down upon the State Capitol in Madison we are seeing the sort of behavior that is the antithesis of democracy. These teacher thugs are flooding into the capitol disrupting the state senate chambers, these teacher thugs are sporting signs with Governor Walker depicted as Hitler, these teacher thugs are attempting to thwart the will of the voters that put a Republican Governor into office to do exactly what he is trying to do, these teacher thugs are even making a pig sty out of the capitol grounds with piles and piles of garbage.
A halfwit “teacher” compares Gov. Walker to Hitler:
So what is all this about? Simply that the State of Wisconsin is out of money and can no longer afford to pay public employees more in wages, benefits, and pensions than anyone in the private sector can make. Newly elected Governor Scott Walker ran on a platform of reigning in the greedy, overpaid unions and he is now making good on that campaign issue.
Worse, these teacher thugs have shut down the schools and taken the kids from the schools to the state capitol to whine for the union agenda. Imagine how up in arms the left would be if conservatives had taken kids out of school to take them to a political rally!
Interviews with some of these kids also proves that they really haven’t a clue why they are there, either. Rush Limbaugh played some TV news reports of these kids being interviewed at the capitol and the kids just didn’t know what was going on at all.
Patrick McIlheran of the Milwaukee Sentinel correctly notes that these union thugs are trying to upend the results of the elections by force.
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First abortion then………..
Political Junkie Mom lays out where that slippery slope ultimately, and inescapably leads!
So argues Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer, who openly advocates for infanticide post delivery to spare society the great cost of caring for the disabled. You know, just in case those docs don’t catch ’em all in utero. Fun guy, huh?
He’s right, by the way. The society that accepts abortion as the moral norm has no qualms with infanticide. Maybe that gives me hope post-Gosnell that since we (well, some of us) are still capable of outrage, maybe we have a chance to roll it all back.
Singer, however, makes the point in hope of continuing the moral decay and pushing it just a tiny bit further so as to allow post-delivery infanticide. If we can kill the fetuses, why not kill the infants? He says children have no “moral center” until the age of 2, therefore it’s ok to kill it. (Virginia Ironsides would agree).
Moral Retardation in its most evil form!
Iran testing the waters
Iran, emboldened by a weak, and spineless American president, and events in Egypt is testing Isreal’s resolve
Get ready to rumble? The anti Israel forces are out on blogs and twitter threatening Israel if they defend themselves as usual. The two Iranian warships are allegedly going to pass through the Suez Canal to reach Syria. Israel is of course watching this closely and will act if provocative. The cowardly Pentagon here wouldn’t comment on the situation. Oh btw, Egypt controls the Suez Canal, and is going to allow this provocation. But remember, these “democracy loving” Egyptians just want to be free, and don’t want to cause any problems.
Iran is playing with fire, and Israel is fully capable of making them pay, but damn wouldn’t it be nice if Presuident Obama stood up in FULL AND ABSOLUTE support of our best ally at times like this?
Feminuts dig up dead horse, start beating it again
Jill at Pundette: Can’t these dogs learn some new tricks?
The ad is laughably awful, and nonsensical to boot: What could possibly be scarier than Gosnell and other butchers who operated legally for decades? Back alleys and hangers got nothing on these guys.
What’s got MoveOn worried is this: House Budget Bill May Push Five Pro-Life Policies on Abortion.
This woman has the cleanest closet ever:
Your Marxist Moron of the Day is……….
John Conyers, who, apparently, has not the slightest notion what the word liberty means. Via Weasel Zippers
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that the individual insurance mandate in the Democrats’ health care law has nothing to do with individual liberty.
“[W]e have been hearing that this is all about individual liberty, the right to be let alone. But is it really?” Conyers asked in his opening statement.
“While we can debate whether Congress has the power to impose this requirement – something I believe we clearly do – we should not scare Americans into believing that how we resolve that question says anything about their individual liberty.”
This buffoon has no idea what liberty, or America’s founding principles are about, none at all. I can not think of a more deserving winner of our Marxist Moron Award! I can also see no earthly reason this clown ought to be serving in the United States Congress either! What is wrong with America? One thing is people like Conyers being in positions of power!



