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Day By Day February 21, 2011 – Hands On
Ewwww, Chris.But, by the looks of things the protester turnout today in Wisconsin was fairly sparse.
The Wisconsin teachers’ union and the AFSCME encouraged public employees and their supporters to show up to two rallies today at the capitol in Madison, one at noon and the other at 5:00 p.m. The noon rally seemed a little sparse, and the 5:00 p.m. rally was even smaller. As you can see in this video, shot around 5:30 p.m. this evening, there couldn’t have been more than hundreds of protesters outside the capitol:
I guess it was cold outside because it is winter in Wisconsin and they were inside the state Capitol.
There are 5 million people in the state of Wisconsin, including 300,000 public employees. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison alone there are 42,000 students. A lot of public schools had the day off for Presidents’ Day, and the DNC and unions, including the Chicago teachers’ union, called for workers to show up in solidarity today. That’s the best they can do?
To be fair, inside the state capitol building was pretty crowded. One police officer told me that the max capacity for the capitol building is 9,000, and he estimated that there were more than 5,000 protesters inside the building. Still, 7,000 protesters in Madison is hardly Cairo in the Midwest.
Yet, the number of protesters on a holiday was not so much.
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Flap’s Links for February 21st from 15:02 to 19:10
These are my links for February 21st from 15:02 to 19:10:
- Video: Wisconsin Union Protesters Shout Down Fox News Report on Physicians Writing Fraudulent Excuses for Wisconsin Teachers | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Video: Wisconsin Union Protesters Shout Down Fox News Report on Physicians Writing Fraudulent Excu… #tcot #catcot
- donations.wisgop.org – Daily Kos has raised $100K for WI Senate Dems. If you support Scott Walker, GO DONATE: #tcot #teaparty H/T @LizMair
- Poll Watch: 48 Per Cent Back Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Vs. 38% With Unions | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Poll Watch: 48 Per Cent Back Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Vs. 38% With Unions #tcot #catcot
- Poll Watch: Number of Solid Blue Democratic States Cut by Half from 2008 to 2010 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Poll Watch: Number of Solid Blue Democratic States Cut by Half from 2008 to 2010 #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: Mike Huckabee for President? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Mike Huckabee for President? #tcot #catcot
- 48% Back GOP Governor in Wisconsin Spat, 38% Side With Unions – Rasmussen Reports™ – RT @sorendayton: Rasmussen finds that independents are closer to Republicans on public employee union issues.
- Flap’s Links for February 20th through February 21st | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links for February 20th through February 21st #tcot #catcot
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Video: Wisconsin Union Protesters Shout Down Fox News Report on Physicians Writing Fraudulent Excuses for Wisconsin Teachers
I am wondering when the Wisconsin Medical Board plans to investigate and how many teachers are out of school tomorrow?
Stay tuned…..
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Poll Watch: 48 Per Cent Back Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Vs. 38% With Unions
So says the latest Rasmussen Poll.
A sizable number of voters are following new Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s showdown with unionized public employees in his state, and nearly half side with the governor.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided.
This is not really surprising since these are public employee unions and government employees – not private industry employees.
Remember what President Ronald Reagan said when faced with the same type of crisis with the Air Traffic Controllers? Watch the video for Reagan’s statement around 1:40)
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Poll Watch: Number of Solid Blue Democratic States Cut by Half from 2008 to 2010
Good news for the GOP and America as the number of competitive states has increased.Gallup’s analysis of party affiliation in the U.S. states shows a marked decline in the number of solidly Democratic states from 2008 (30) to 2010 (14). The number of politically competitive states increased over the same period, from 10 to 18, with more limited growth in the number of leaning or solidly Republican states.
Here is the chart:
A competitive electoral map means a better marketplace of political ideas.
Now, for California…….
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President 2012: Mike Huckabee for President?
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee speaks during a corner stone dedication ceremony for a new Jewish settlement at Beit Orot between Mount Scopus and Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem
Probably not.Anyone who thinks presidential ambition is an incurable condition hasn’t spent much time lately with Mike Huckabee.
The man who came in second in the 2008 GOP primary isn’t exactly ruling out another run in 2012. But he doesn’t sound all that eager to jump right back into the fray, either.
“I’m not one who thinks the future of the world is depending on whether I run for president,” the former Arkansas governor said in an interview.
The truth is, there were many things about the presidential campaign grind that Huckabee didn’t much like the last time around.
Don’t look for him in the early presidential debates, which begin just over two months from now, for instance. He doesn’t have fond memories of standing on those crowded stages during the last campaign, fighting for airtime and answering question after question about Iraq.
“We just rehashed the same stuff, over and over. I was bored with it,” Huckabee said. “It was the same tripe, and I found it just incredibly disgusting, and ultimately meaningless.”
Nor was he particularly sorry to have skipped this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, a traditional stop for GOP presidential contenders, which was underway even as he was giving this interview. “It’s a showcase of just people coming out to get more exposure,” he said.
So instead of throwing red meat to the conservative faithful, Huckabee was tucking into a breakfast of eggs and butter-slathered pancakes at a trendy New York hotel overlooking Times Square. His much discussed diet – he famously lost more than 100 pounds after being diagnosed with diabetes in 2003 and wrote a book about eating right – is apparently on hiatus.
It is more than Huckabee gaining weight from a lack of exercise or a strict Presidential diet. It is about fundraising and Mike Huckabee’s lack thereof and his failure to do so.
Mitt Romney and/or Sarah Palin would bury him with $ millions in television ads. Everyone one of his missteps and foibles would be exploited during the GOP primaries. And, for that Huckabee would have to forego an easy paycheck with Fox News and the speaking circuit.
I don’t think so and neither does Huckabee.
Game over.
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Flap’s Links for February 20th through February 21st
These are my links for February 20th through February 21st:
- Video: Wisconsin Union Protest: Myth Vs. Fact | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Video: Wisconsin Union Protest: Myth Vs. Fact #tcot #catcot
- IN-Sen: GOP Grassroots Dumps Sen Richard Lugar as Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock Launches Primary Challenge? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – IN-Sen: GOP Grassroots Dumps Sen Richard Lugar as Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock Launche… #tcot #catcot
- Day By Day February 20, 2011 – Disappear | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day February 20, 2011 – Disappear #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links for February 19th from 17:02 to 20:55 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links for February 19th from 17:02 to 20:55 #tcot #catcot
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Video: Wisconsin Union Protest: Myth Vs. Fact
This is a great video from the Heritage Foundation that lays out the Wisconsin Union Protest issues in plain view. Watch the LEFT make asses out of themselves again talking about Hitler.
Be sure to stand with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and sign the petition.
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IN-Sen: GOP Grassroots Dumps Sen Richard Lugar as Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock Launches Primary Challenge?
Republican Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock Addresses Indianapolis Tea Party
It certainly appears so.Indiana State TreasurerRichard Mourdock will launch his primary challenge to Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) on Tuesday with the support of a majority of both the state’s 92 Republican county chairmen and its state party executive committee, he told the Fix in a recent interview.
“I feel bad that he’s going to be humiliated by this list,” Mourdock said.
Mourdock added that he believes Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) and Rep. Mike Pence (R), the party’s two leading figures in the Hoosier State, are going to stay neutral in the primary — though Daniels, who was Lugar’s campaign manager three different times, has already committed to voting for the senator.
That such a large contingent of the party establishment should come out against or withhold support from an incumbent senator is highly unusual and reflects the difficult path ahead for Lugar in advance of the May 8, 2012, primary fight. It also suggests there is a clear path to victory for Mourdock.
Senator Richard Lugar’s time has passed and he is too moderate for the Indiana electorate.
Time for Lugar to retire – and save face, otherwise he WILL be beaten in a GOP Primary election.
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Day By Day February 20, 2011 – Disappear
The Wisconsin Democrat State Senators who ran away from their constitutional oath last week should be ashamed of themselves and Wisconsin voters WILL punish them at their next election. In the meantime, state business/legislation languished while this game of chicken plays itself out.
Will there be a compromise?With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to negotiate a compromise to the stalemate that has drawn thousands of protesters to the state capital for a sixth straight day.
The proposal, written by Sen. Dale Schultz and first floated in the Republican caucus early last week, calls for most collective bargaining rights of public-employee unions to be eliminated—per Mr. Walker’s bill—but then reinstated in 2013, said Mr. Schultz’s chief of staff Todd Allbaugh.
“Dale is committed to find a way to preserve collective bargaining in the future,” said Mr. Allbaugh in a telephone interview.
On Sunday, Mr. Walker reiterated his confidence that Republicans would pass their proposal intact.
I doubt it because this is “PUBLIC” employment not private and many states do not have collective bargaining for public/government workers. There is no guarantee for the unions here and remember –
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