In a huge gift to Big Union, the Obama administration’s two Big Union appointees – Linda Puchala and Harry Hoglander outvoted, by 2-1, Bush appointee Elizabeth Dougherty to make it much easier for workers in the railroad and airline industries to unionize.

Under the previous rules – 75 years in existence – if a company had 100 employees 51 of them would have to vote “yes” to unionize.  The new rules stipulate that if a vote to unionize is held but only 10 of those 100 employees show up to vote only 6 “yes” votes will be required to unionize.

Big Union, a massive special interest of Democrats, pushed hard for this change because it will make it much easier to expand their membership numbers which have declined greatly for the previous 60 years from its peak in 1950 at 30% to just 12.3%, or 15.3 million, in 2009.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, this rule change was supported by only 44% of elected officials and in the Senate it was supported by just 39% of Senators.

The rule change brings the National Mediation Board into line with the National Labor Relation’s Board rules.  The two groups had different standards because railroads – and later airlines – were considered to be elements of national security because of their abilities to transport people and goods so quickly as well as to prevent a local union from going on strike thus bringing down the entire transportation network of that company.

It should be no surprise that both Puchala and Hoglander are Big Union members.  Elizabeth Dougherty was not a Big Union member.

According to CNS News:

No fewer than four times throughout its history, under both Democratic and Republican Administrations, the NMB has rejected challenges to the “majority rule.” In addition, the Supreme Court twice upheld this concept.

There is no provision in the Railway Labor Act for members who vote to unionize to later decertify a union. Thus, under the new ruling, if say, an airline has 5,000 employees, and only 200 vote on whether to organize a union, that means that 101 employees could vote to unionize permanently.

The consequences of this “change” came about because of the huge donations Big Union makes to Democratic candidates:

Over the last two decades, six of the top 10 contributors to congressional and presidential campaigns were unions, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.

These six unions shelled out $187.6 million, surpassing the $142.2 million donated by the four non-union “heavy hitters,” as the center labels the top 10 contributors.

Among the top 50 contributors, unions gave a total of nearly $343 million to political candidates running for federal office.

All of this money flowing into the pockets of Democratic candidates even as union members declines year after year.  This change by the National Mediation Board is only going to add costs to the bottom line of airlines struggling with high fuel costs, reduced travel, and falling ticket prices.

Expect to see more layoffs, airline mergers, and some bankruptcies as a result of this political change.

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It almost sounds like something that was made up.  Here’s President Obama telling the millions of unemployed Americans he feels their pain:

President Obama says he can relate to the plight of Americans striving in the struggling economy to pay bills while saving for their kids’ education.

He says he and first lady Michelle Obama took a hit like everybody else when the economy nearly collapsed, telling ABC that a college fund for daughters Malia and Sasha has gone “up and down” with the stock market.

Obama says the first couple is “not that far removed from what most Americans are going through.” He tells the network “it was just a few years ago that we had high credit card balances, we had two kids, thinking about college. We had our own retirement accounts, wondering if we were going to be able to get enough assets in there.”

The Obamas just returned from a holiday weekend in Maine where they dined on lobsters and crabs.  And in August Michelle Obama and her children will take a nice vacation to Spain:

US First Lady Michelle Obama and one of her two daughters will take a summer break in Spain, a White House source said Monday.

Michelle Obama has reserved about 30 rooms for herself and her daughter, their friends and bodyguards at a five-star hotel in Benahavis near Marbella, hotel sources said.

Their daughters attend private school in Washington, D.C.

Once the Spain vacation is over, the family will travel to the Gulf Coast then spend 10 days relaxing in the exclusive Martha’s Vineyard retreat.

Times must be tough.

Since Obama became president, millions of Americans have lost their jobs and according to a CNN-Opinion Research poll just 42% of Americans thought Obama was doing a good job with the economy.

But how is this any different from people like Sen. John Kerry preaching about helping the poor but mooring his yacht in Rhode Island to dodge taxes in Massachusetts or Prince Charles telling everybody how to live but flying his private, CO2 spewing jet around the world?

When it comes to Liberal elites, it seems, the key is to do as they say not as they do.

But they know better than us because they’re, you know, intellectuals, and stuff.

And I’m sure Lenin and Stalin lived in the same types of houses and ate the same kinds of food the proletariat did.

Or not.

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Ramsey: Unclear about Islam vs. Sharia Law.

In what is already proving to be a popular Talking Point for Liberals, Republican Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey (who, Liberals point out, is “a Tea Party-backed” candidate) seemed to suggest Islam is not protected under the U.S. Constitution’s 1st Amendment.  Or did he?

Q:  We’ve got a threat that’s invading our country from the Muslims. What’s your stand on that?

A: RAMSEY: Okay, absolutely. Right now, I’ve been up in Rutherford County where this all got started. This is so ironic, because this is one of those questions — I ran for 17 months and nobody ever asked me about this until a month ago — three weeks ago — and what happened is they’re trying to put a mosque into Rutherford County. … Now, I’m all about freedom of religion. I obey the first amendment as much as I obey the second amendment, as much as I obey the tenth amendment, and on and on and on. But you crossed a line when they start trying to bring Sharia Law into the state of Tennessee — into the United States. We live under our Constitution. …

I’ve been trying to learn about Sharia Law, I’ve been trying to learn about what’s going on; it is not good if that’s what’s going on. You could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion or is it a nationality, way of life, or cult, whatever you want to call it. But we do protect our religions, but this is something we’re going to have to face.

In an email to Think Progress Ramsey wrote:

“…far too much of Islam has come to resemble a violent political philosophy  more than peace-loving religion. It’s time for American Muslims who love this country to publicly renounce violent jihadism and to drum those who seek to do America harm out of their faith community.”

Liberals accuse Ramsey of saying Islam does not enjoy 1st Amendment protection because it is not a religion.  Reading Ramsey’s answer above it appears that he is confusing Islam with Sharia Law.  One could say the two are integral to each other however Turkey is an example of a Muslim majority, secular state.

Sharia Law would go against the U.S. Constitution while Islam would not any more than Catholicism, Hinduism, or Judaism does.

England, with its expanding Muslim population, is wrestling with the concepts Mr. Ramsey seems to be having trouble enunciating – Sharia Law vs. Native Law:

A new report by One Law for All has found Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals to be in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.

There is a general assumption that those who attend Sharia courts do so voluntarily and that unfair decisions can be challenged in a British court. Many of the principles of Sharia law are contrary to British law and public policy, and would in theory therefore be unlikely to be upheld in a British court. In reality, however, women are often pressured by their families into going to these courts and adhering to unfair decisions, and may lack knowledge of English and their rights under British law. Moreover, refusal to settle a dispute in a Sharia court can give rise to threats and intimidation, or at best being ostracised.

It is clear that Mr. Ramsey waded into areas where his knowledge is far from deep – Islam, Constitutional Law, and Sharia Law, but that won’t stop Liberals from trying to paint him, the Republican Party, and the 20 Tea Party groups which support him, as a racist.

And the main website which is spreading this rumor is Think Progress which, as Gateway Pundit reminds us, has a history of inventing racism charges against Tea Party candidates:

The horrible far left hacks at Think Progress  once again were caught lying about supposed racism in the tea party movement. On Monday they posted some random editorial – from early July – published in a New Hampshire paper – by some lone racist and tried to link him to the tea party…. But if you read the whole editorial you see that “tea party” is not even mentioned in the racist editorial

Think Progress also admits that they don’t even know if Murdough is a tea partier. But, he did mention “tea party” in the comment’s section of the July article and therefore, according to these radical hacks at Think Progress, that proves that the tea party is racist.

What Mr. Ramsey said might make him sound like an ignorant buffoon but that’s very different from the message Liberals are trying to spread about him that Islam is not a Constitutionally protected religion.

Don’t expect Liberals to care if you know the difference.

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He screams racism where it doesn’t exist.

Howard “The Scream” Dean went on Fox News Sunday to tell the world that Fox News was… get ready for it… racist!  Dean did allow that the host of the show, Chris Wallace, wasn’t racist (whew!) and fellow guest Newt Gingrinch wasn’t racist.  Dean was speaking of the almost immediate firing of USDA employee Shirley Sherrod after an excerpted video was posted on Big Government.

Howard Dean just made up a few things, including the White House being “afraid” of Glenn Beck.  As if the most powerful person in the world – the U.S. president – would be “afraid” of a TV host.  And Glenn Beck said on his show that Sherrod was fired minutes before his show was to begin and that he condemned the firing of Sherrod once his show did air (though Beck stood up for her she refuses to go on his show).

But to speakers of the Left the facts don’t matter, do they?   Their lies do tremendous damage over the long haul such as this statement by Dean:

“The tea party called out their racist fringe and I think the Republican Party’s got to stop appealing to its racist fringe. And Fox News is what did that. You put that on.  Continuing to cater to this theme of minority racism and stressing comments like this – some of which are taken out of context – does not help the country knit itself together.”

It’s funny how Glenn Beck is a racist (even though he condemned Sherrod’s firing) but Obama, who actually did the firing, isn’t a racist.  And its funny how Howard Dean would go to speak on a “racist” network.

That’s the problem with Liberals… they can never be consistent or keep their story (or facts) straight.

The firing of a government employee for supposedly racist remarks caught on tape is a legitimate topic of discussion for any new channel.  Fox New’s Bill O’Reilly later apologized:

“I owe Ms. Sherrod an apology for not doing my homework, for not putting her remarks into the proper context.”

Obama apologized to Sherrod as did her immediate superior at the USDA and the head of the USDA.

One has to wonder if, as President Obama has said in the past, that this could be a “learning opportunity” why he didn’t learn the truth before he acted.  After all, should our first “post racial” leader have a little fireside chat about uncomfortable topics?

And yet Howard Dean calls it “racist.”

Liberals play this racism game because it is the only way they know how to try and control a discussion.   If we analyize the situation, seems as though the NAACP and the Obama administration (which immediately condemned Sherrod before the truth was known) seemed to want to sweep it under the rug as soon as possible… perhaps they, too, realize they are on the losing end of the racism card.

The problem Liberals are having is that after being Chicken Little for so many years only idiots believe them.  But judging by how many on the Left still buy into their tired old stories, there must be a lot of idiots out there.

A better name for them are “Obama supporters.”

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I think the single thing we can away from the Journolist is that these 400 “elite” members of the media’s “finest” are really just a bunch of scheming, disaffected, unhappy people.  But isn’t this the way all true Liberals are?

Back in 2006 when John Stossel was still with ABC, he conducted a study as to who gives more… rich San Francisco Liberals or middle class Sioux Falls Conservatives.  What he found was the people of Sioux Falls gave more money… in fact 24 of the top 25 states where people gave an above average percent of their income were Republican states.  Conservatives are more likely to donate their blood than Liberals, too (maybe Liberals are more likely to throw their blood on people).

In another study, this time in 2008, Arthur Brooks wrote a book titled “Gross National Happiness.”  What he found was that Conservatives are more than two times more likely than Liberals to say they are happy.  There have been other studies over the years showing the same thing.  If you are a Liberal reading this it’s more than likely you will be thinking something snarky like: “Conservatives are in a religious opiate bath” or “Conservatives only care about themselves so they are happy” or something along those lines.  But it’s really not that simple, even though Liberals like to make everything simple so it can be about race, income, or how you didn’t get picked to be on the soccer team when you were 11 so now there should be quotas.

The Journolist was a kind of coffee shop which served only bitter tea leaves and coffee grounds… where Liberals could mock and laugh at people… saying how funny it would be if Rush Limbaugh had a heart attack and nobody helped him.  These people fed into their own defective lives by looking for the best ways of bringing others who had worked hard down to their level.

Spencer Ackerman (currently with Wired magazine) wrote:

If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us.  Instead, take one of them – Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares – and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.

Like the unpopular misfit in high school who can’t actually complete the science project, they decide to “succeed” by sabotaging everyone else’s projects then sit in the back of the class making snarky remarks as everybody discovers their assignments have been ruined.  It’s a big joke to those “in the group” and they all joke and reinforce their behavior so it keeps on happening over and over again.

And so it is with the Journolist.

What is so ironic about this, and so revealing about Liberals, is that they claim to be for the downtrodden, the disadvantaged, the shunned… and yet they decide to take people who have done nothing and tear them down to “help” the others.  But what they are really doing is trying to “right” all the “wrongs” they feel are in their lives instead of just working hard and honestly and doing well on their own and giving people the tools to do so themselves.

Thus Tea Party members who bring their kids to rallies, take off time from work, paint American flags on signs and do what they can to show their love of this country instead ends up being cast as a bunch “Fucking NASCAR retards” in the words of Eric Alterman, author of the book What Liberal Media?

These people are the ones destroying America.  They are the worst kind of hypocrites… they say they want to stamp out racism yet they blindly pick anybody they dislike and call them racists.

If you disagree with this article you must be a racist.

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