Posted on 03/10/2011 1:42:06 PM PST by milwguy
The Obama administration weighed in Thursday on the chaos in Madison, Wis.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to force a bill on public employee union bargaining rights through the state Senate on Wednesday night was a clear sign that his top priority was not budget-cutting.
“The actions taken last night, which divorced the issue of the state’s budget problems from the issue of the rights of public sector employees, pretty clearly showed that the actions were not following the principle that we need to all come together and work together and not denigrate or vilify public sector employees, but bring them into the process,” Carney said.
He later reinforced that idea in a tweet, writing, “POTUS says we must come together & set aside partisanship to fix our budgets. Actions last night in Wisconsin violate those principles.”
Carney reiterated the president’s stance that everyone, including public-sector employees, needs to make sacrifices to cut spending, but that budget shortfalls should not be used to “denigrate or vilify public employees.”
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Thanks for using my line ‘Walker leads, Obama Reads’...We need a T-shirt with a teleprompter and a red circle with line, and below that, the phrase Walker leads, Obama reads.
I guess it wasn’t the kind of change that TOTUS had hoped for.
Is it just me or does Jay Carney remind you of Opie, too?
Every time that I see the little weasel, I just want to cuff him upside the head.
Must be a typo. I’m sure the carny barker meant to say principals. Obama’s favorite school principals got violated.
Principles? Obama doesn’t know what principles are. All he’s got is what’s written on the teleprompter.
Carney. The name fits the clown.
Yeah, me too!
Too bad the MSM continues to give them cover by not reporting ANY of the illegal, violent, and disgusting behavior...
I’m thinking asshat.
Then I’m in good company! :-)
Doesn't fit their "progressive good/conservatives bad" template.
As if any more proof were needed that those actions are the right thing to do.
What's denigrating and villifying Wisconsin's public employees is their ugly, threatening, and violent behavior towards GOP legislators and towards the property of the capitol itself.
Then get your damn representatives to work. Get you stupid, chicken hearted democrat representative to do the job YOU ELECTED THEM TO DO.
It is called a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY....anything else is treason and sedition.
Violating 0bama principles is an excellent first step towards legitimacy, as far as I’m concerned.
In my opinion, the current occupant of our White House is a Wannabe Dictator and he’s not good at that either.
A big welcome back, Jim, we’re all very pleased and excited that you’re doing better!
Hey John, even you can’t write one better than this!!
The U.S. Constitution “violates Obama’s principles”!
An idiot elected by idiots.
Post of the Day!!!
Right.
They should have DEEMED IT PASSED.
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