“Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to [...]
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Obama, Sequester and “Meat Cleaver” Republicans
“If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness, it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research.” – President Obama WIELDING the bully pulpit, President Obama hit Congress hard over the looming sequester cuts that are about to land hard. But Republicans are almost gleeful [...]
Gov. Chris Christie Hits 72% Approval, Rewarded for Leading After Sandy, Education Deal
THIS IS the template for what it takes for voters to cross party lines to applaud a politician for doing his job. Gov. Christie showed leadership in the aftermath of nor’easter Sandy, as well as the ability to put doing his job for the people before party loyalty, for which he’s now being rewarded. New [...]
AFSCME, the National Education Association, and SEIU Target Democrats in “Jobs Not Cuts” Ads
THERE’S A campaign not so quietly growing in volume, with Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh the loudest, that has Republicans having a hissy fit over Obama’s proposed tax increases for the wealthiest. Rush is using the Santa Claus line, a take off on O’Reilly’s people want stuff belch, but both are focused on making people [...]
Hours Before Big Debate, Obama Slams Romney’s “Extreme Makeover” [Video]
OBAMA GOES partisan and it sounds great. From TPM: “He’s trying to go through an extreme makeover. After running for more than a year in which he called himself severely conservative, Mitt Romney’s trying to convince you that he was severely kidding. Look. What he was selling was not working. Because people understood his ideas [...]
Biden Prepares for Debate with Ryan
THE VICE presidential debate is Thursday, with right wingers like Mike Huckabee laughing gleefully about the Biden gaffe factor. Larry Sabato, the Virginia prognosticator, had the same talking point on Fox News Channel today, too. What we should hope to see on Thursday is blue collar issues versus austerity, which is coming to this country [...]
Team Obama is Cheap
TEAM ROMNEY is not cheap, if you compare what he is paying his campaign staff. The line reads: “the president appears to be getting a much bigger bang for his buck.” That’s true. If you think underpaying campaign workers is laudable, which I don’t. From the Los Angeles Times: According to an analysis by the [...]
News Desk: Teachers Stay Out, Rahm Seeks Injunction ['Call Me Maybe' Video Update]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is threatening to go to court today to end the Chicago teachers strike after union delegates decided to extend the walkout at least two more days while they review a tenative deal. Emanuel called the walkout “illegal” and pledged late Sunday to seek an injunction in court to force an end to [...]
News Desk: Mayor Emanuel, Karen Lewis & Teachers Union Reach Tentative Agreement
NO DETAILS, but it’s back to school on Monday, providing everything goes well on Sunday. Looks like Rahm met his match. For parents and teachers fed up with the pressures of high-stakes standardized tests – and the literal heat of unairconditioned classrooms – the Chicago Teachers Union president is a superhero. With the strike in [...]
News Desk: Chicago Sun-Times Reports Registered Voters Backing Teachers
Just under half of Chicago’s registered voters support the Chicago Public Teachers strike in a 500 person poll taken Monday, and nearly three-quarters of those polled say Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing an average, below average or poor job in handing the labor dispute. – Poll: 47% of Chicago registered voters support teachers in strike [...]
Chris Christie’s Keynote Delivered Tough Love and Crashed into Ann Romney’s Message
THE MAN who many courted until the very end to run for president this year stormed in after Ann Romney’s softer love centric speech and laid the hammer down. Christie’s job was delivering the tough love. Whether anyone was watching that is persuadable wants to hear that their families will be asked to sacrifice more [...]
Supreme Court Rules Against SEIU
SCOTUSBLOG: The union dues case may be quite significant — there is not only the dissent but a narrower concurring opinion that says that “[t]he majority thus decides, for the very first time, that the First Amendment does require an opt-in system in some circumstances [for union dues]: the levying of a special assessment or [...]
Progressive Notes: Texas Students Show their Love for Teacher
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. A heartening Thanksgiving story out of Kingwood Texas (outside of Houston). You may have seen this on CNN, but it is a such a story about kids doing what it is right for their fellow man. More details plus video: … Mr. Love is a substitute [...]
Last Night’s Election a Reset for 2012
Organized labor’s early flirtation with Occupy Wall Street is starting to get serious. [...] “The Occupy movement has changed unions,” said Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. “You’re seeing a lot more unions wanting to be aggressive in their messaging and their activity. You’ll see more unions on the [...]
Matt Damon on Teachers
Pres. Obama has already telegraphed that he’s ready to work with Republicans, as the Administration prepares to privatize education, while changing the public school system under the mantel of “reform.” Matt Damon played offense recently and he effusively heaped praise on the teachers who don’t get paid enough and take way too much grief for [...]
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