Archive for June 15th, 2011

Bad week for the mainsteam media …

June 15, 2011

Can you imagine the collective angst of the mainstream media this past week?

First, after trying to ignore Weinergate, the story became too wild and salacious to ignore, So, the MSM had no choice but to air the lib loudmouth’s dirty linen.

Ouch.

Then, the MSM had to send reps to Juneau, Alaska to pick-up hard copies of 24,000 Palin emails.

Surely there has to be a mega-gotcha in the stack.

Nope.

Double ouch.

Then, a gaggle of GOP presidential hopefuls take the debate stage in New Hampshire for a circular firing squad.

But, wait ,,, instead of attacking each other, they pivot and aim at President Obama’s record on foreign affairs and jobs.

Come on GOP … fight fair.

Then, the NLRB hauls Boeing into court to try to stop the company from  opening a manufacturing plant in South Carolina — a right-to-work state.

Now, how to convince the lemmings that the Administration is all for  free enterprise and job creation?

What an awful week for news …

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Victory in Wisconsin …

June 15, 2011

Punch line: The Wisc Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Walker can implement rules diminishing public employee unions. 

Now, unions will have to collect dues from members themselves if they want to buy politicos with campaign contributions.

And, public employees will have to contribute towards their health care insurance and pensions.

Score one for rationality.

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Reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Acting with unusual speed, the Wisconsin state Supreme Court  reinstated Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to all but end collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers.

In its decision, the state’s high court concluded that “choices about what laws represent wise public policy for the state of Wisconsin are not within the constitutional purview of the courts.”

In its ruling, the Supreme Court said it took up the case because the lower court had “usurped the legislative power which the Wisconsin Constitution grants exclusively to the Legislature.”

So what?

Biggest change ids that union dues won’t be automatically deducted from all public employees paychecks – the unions will have to collect the dues – meaning, that some (many ?) employees will tell the unions to pound sand.

If the unions can’t bank on the dues, then they can’t contribute as much to Democratic campaigns.

Oh well …

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