Posted on 09/19/2010 5:28:36 AM PDT by bilhosty
My subject today is the civil war raging in one of our great political parties, as highlighted in recent primary elections.
No, I'm not talking about the split between the Tea Partiers and the Republican establishment (is there a Republican establishment anymore?). I'm talking about the split between two of the core groups of the Democratic Party, as witnessed in the Sept. 14 primaries in heavily Democratic New York (63 percent for Barack Obama in 2008), Maryland (62 percent Obama) and the District of Columbia (92 percent Obama).
Public Employee Unions and Democrats vs. America
In summary, the riff raff have taken control
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The private sector and the middleclass especially, fuel the government....this they overlook. NO FUEL, NO GOVERNEMNT!
Since the 1960’s when the teachers professional associations morphed into unions, our public schools have gone from the world’s best to a threat to society. A similar transformation has occurred in many state and local governments. So long as anyone paying taxes votes with this parasitic cabal, we will continue to spiral downhill. I think that this year will see the beginning of a shift. The question is will it continue in 2012?
If you want to see what public employee unions can do to a state, just look at California.
from the article:
“The other is the Working Families Party, controlled by public employee unions....”
....the Working Families Party will take over where ACORN left off.
Effete Liberals and union thugs always were strange bedfellows. So are Liberal Homosexuals and Muslims, though they are in bed together.
They have no ideas of their own - they all glom onto glib slogans such as “green”, like flies covering a piece of candy.
Today’s scientists do the same thing - all glom onto “evolution” and “man-made global warming” or “climate change” like the same flies on a different piece of candy.
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Of course the unions are winning. They have more or less unlimited financing, and there are a lot more school teachers and SIEU grunts than their are cocktail party liberals. As Barone points out, the African-American bloc and the public employee union bloc overlap to a great extent. Given that public employees and African Americans are the core constituencies of the Party, I don't think it's incorrect to say that the Democratic Party is owned by SIEU, and everybody else is just along for the ride.
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