(Why Obama desperately wants to pass healthcare, and the help he gets from this guy.)
The number 1 visitor to the White House, according to public WH disclosures, is SEIU President Andy Stern.
Stern was recently appointed by President Obama to be a member of the 18 person commission to reduce the national debt.
How has the head of a radical labor union like SEUI been able be the number 1 lobbyist to Obama? He just didn’t register. Â BigGovernment.com reports that:
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and me [Brian Johnson], as Executive Director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) formally requested an investigation by the acting United States Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Esq., into the potentially illegal lobbying activities of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern.
But why should we be worried about Andy Stern? Â Why is he the most dangerous man in America?
Well, first, he has the ear of, and now obviously, power through Obama, so he can influence and push an agenda.  He has advised Obama on his health care tactics (see his involvement in a YouTube video here.)  Obama said repeatedly during his campaign that he calls SEIU and Andy Stern “first” on every issue.
But more importantly is what this man believes.  In earlier decades, he might have been called a communist, certainly a socialist, but radicals these days prefer more benign labels, like “progressive”.
Let’s look at Andy Stern through his own words and actions:
“We’re trying to use the power of persuasion. And if that doesn’t work we’re going to use the persuasion of power.”
“We took names. We watched how they voted. We know where they live.“
Sound like a thug?  Well, yes, SEUI members have beaten up people they don’t like.  But does that make him a socialist?
“Workers of the world unite, it’s not just a slogan anymore. It’s the way we’re going to have to do our work.”
Hmm .. where did that slogan originally come from ?  Gee, it is directly out of the Communist Manifesto (1848)!!!  This man is in FAVOR of the dis-assembling of American capitalism in favor of a government run society (with himself and Obama in charge, of course!)
“I happened to be at Davos and I say they are going to rename this year’s Davos as the revenge of the countries over the companies. Because all of a sudden we realized we let Global Capitalism run amok and reap global regulation and today we began the process in London of actually putting in place those regulations.”
“We have a new metric. The president says he wants to judge the new economy, whether it increases the number of people in the middle class, whether we have shared prosperity, not just whether we have growth, which is that we’ve seen in the country of today. “
So Andy is preaching straight up Socialism to us, and he says the President is on board!!!  No argument from the White House here … and with a selection as 1 of Obama’s 6 picks to the debt commission ….  seems that the White House is OK with the Communist Manifesto.
So why is the health care plan of Obama’s so important?  So important, he is asking Democratic House members to walk the plank, risk their political future for the bill?  OK, let’s go back to Andy Stern:
“Now, how do we distribute wealth in the country? And this is sort of my last big point. And clearly government has a major opportunity to distribute wealth. Through tax policies, through minimum wages, through living wages, the government has a role in distributing wealth or social benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, certain health insurance.”
Andy Stern is an avowed Communist, with more access to Obama than anyone else, receives contemporary support from Obama himself, and is committed to redistribution of wealth, world government and the “revenge of countries over companies”.
Ladies and gentlemen: Â Andy Stern is the most dangerous man in America.
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While his popularity / Support dives, he strongly believes that it is YOU, not him, that is the problem. You just don’t understand. He just needs to do some more talkin’ to the (gun huggin’) folks.
Obama refuses to believe that Americans are against his substance, not his talk. Â He wants all Democrats to sacrifice their careers to back his hated health care plan.
It’s quite possible they will … and if they do, they WILL lose their jobs.
The real risk is if they think they will lose their jobs no matter what. Â Will they take a scorched earth approach?
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Republican Independent Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat in what is clearly a national referendum rejecting Obamacare and Obama’s era of BIG Government.
People in Mass were angry over backroom deals to cram down the socialist agenda.  The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, and the stunning $60B (yes that is a billion) dollar payoff to unions, excepting them from healthcare taxes!  See the WSJ Labor’s $60 B Payoff.
Even Juan Williams, Fox News analyst and a constant defender of Obama, had to admit that these moves don’t look good.
For a politician who ran on “change”, I bet most people thought Obama would mean less corruption in politics, not more.
But don’t call these “bribes” or “corruption”, as Willy Brown, Dem from California, said on Hannity last night.  Bribes are illegal, says Brown, and you go to jail.  These actions are just the normal part of making laws! (Funny how you need to pass out bribes when you have an overwhelming majority!)
So Mass voters rejected this!  After having a Kennedy in the seat for decades, they sent a strong message:  We want our government back.
But will Obama, Reid and Pelosi listen? Â Will they, like Clinton did when sent a similar message in 1994, move to the center?
I doubt it.  Even before the votes were in, Democratics were heaping blame on loser Coakley for running a poor campaign.
The message line will likely run: “We have been to internally focussed on the passage of the bills (who to pay off) and haven’t spent enough time communicating our message.  Once the American people know how good our (socialist) programs are, they will come around to us.”
Juan Williams on last Sunday’s Fox News Sunday said “The American people like entitlements”.  Yep, who doesn’t like a free lunch?  But it is obvious to most Americans now that it isn’t free.  It might be free for Nebraskans, and for Union members, but we and our children will be paying for special interests forever.
In other words, the Dem leadership will not take this as a warning shot for the November mid-terms, but will double-down their bets — press healthcare harder, and push more of their leftist program.  (After all, they are smarter than the rest of us.  We just don’t understand as well as they do!)
I honestly hope they do learn a lesson.  But to the extent they continue to drive left, thinking they only have 10 months left to produce the socialist outcome, the incumbent losses in November will be even greater.  Yep, I think liberal Republicans should either get the people’s religion, or retire in favor of a more small government candidate.
Thanks to every person in Mass who voted for Real Change.
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Every month, Rasmussen does a summary showing the Presidential Approval Index. Obama continues to slip. 
His approval is down a whopping 38 points from January last year!
He is down because of increasing evidence that his entire program is far left socialism AND IS NOT IN LINE WITH AMERICAN VALUES ANDÂ THEÂ CONSTITUTION!
His “health care reform” doesn’t reform health care.
His willingness to offer UNLIMITED funds to government induced failures, Freddie and Fannie, run up big deficits and ignore any sense of fiscal responsibility will ruin the nation.
Graft and corruption, payoffs to unions, avowed communists in the White House, and the reality of Obama’s promise to  “fundamentally change“ the United States — All are being rejected by the people.
He and the other Dems know they have until the mid-term elections to ram through their “agenda” and the losers are viewed as “lost souls in the cause to drive America into a Socialist state”.
Good News
It looks like people are waking up all over the country and realizing this.
- Christopher Dodd will not stand for re-election to his seat in CT.
- Republicans hold a 9% advantage in the generic poll, from a 8% deficit last year.
- Ben Nelson, the last Senator bribed to vote for the health care bill, is down 30% and is likely not to re-run.
The only way to get change folks, is to vote the bums out!
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56% disapprove of Obama. Today’s Rasmussen poll shows Obama has hit another low in voter support.
Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of men Strongly Disapprove along with 39% of women. Most African-American voters (58%) Strongly Approve while most white voters (53%) Strongly Disapprove.
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove as do 52% of unaffiliated voters. Forty-seven percent (47%) of Democrats Strongly Approve.
For the second straight day, the update shows the highest level of Strong Disapproval yet recorded for this President. That negative rating had never topped 42% before yesterday. However, it has risen dramatically since the Senate found 60 votes to move forward with the proposed health care reform legislation. Most voters (55%)Â oppose the health care legislation and senior citizens are even more likely than younger voters to dislike the plan.
Rasmussen goes on to note that 51% still blame Bush … so this cartoon is apt:
The rhetoric has been turned up to boiling, with Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calling Republicans who oppose health care Nazi’s. On the Senate floor, he describes those who oppose him and Obama as Nazi’s.
They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The ‘birthers,’ the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militias and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Obama should exist.
Investors Business Daily describes what just happened this week.
• This was a vote on a Democrat-concocted scheme that Americans have rejected every time it’s been proposed for 100 years and that is opposed again, by 54% to 41% by the public at large, by 2-to-1 by practicing physicians and by every last member on the Republican side of the aisle.
• The vote was taken without any members having read the main 2,074-page bill, let alone the 383 pages of amendments that were tacked on at the last minute to buy off senators, including Nebraska’s Ben Nelson, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu and Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders.
• Despite growing public opposition, Democratic members had the nerve to call those who questioned their monstrosity “obstructionists” and worse. Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse called health care bill foes “birthers,” “fanatics” and “people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups.” Is this what Democrats meant when they said they seek bipartisan solutions to the nation’s problems?
• The bill contains at last count 18 new taxes totaling an estimated $406 billion — including significant new levies on those earning less than $250,000, a major breach of Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes by “one penny” on those in that income group.
Is it a crime to oppose this? As far as I remember, we still have freedom of speech. For how much longer, I wonder. Unless we act, free speech will be curtailed, as Obama and his socialists do not relish being “unloved”.
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The world, and especially the USA, is lurching, sliding and falling into the social morass called socialism. This slide is pushed and lauded by The Left.
I immigrated to the USA over 20 years ago, with Ronald Reagan’s ideals drawing me here.  This is not what I expected would happen, that our freedoms, as promised in the Constitution, would be so rapidly chipped away by creeping and now leaping socialism — the tyranny this time, not of a British King, but of government itself!
For you and other freedom loving people, what does it mean?
- Fewer choices can be made by you: What doctor you see, what medicines you take, what football championship you watch. Â See House Bill Aims To Sack College Football BCS System. Â Government is operating as if they are kings, with no limit on their power, no constitution.
- Government will be a higher social class: Instead of government service being something where you trade security and protection from competition for lower wages, government now pays more! Â See Six-Figure Federal Salary Gravy Train. Â “The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker’s pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.”
- You will have less money to do what you and your family want: As incomes drop, all prices associated with and affected by government go up. Â And taxes will and must go up to pay for reckless spending in Washington.
- Government will spend like drunks: See Business as Usual in Washington: Another Bloated, Pork-Filled Omnibus Spending Bill. Spending is up 8% (3rd year in a row), $561 billion more than baseline. Â The spending, according the The Heritage Foundation, is runaway. Â 2009 Earmarks now total 8,939, and will exceed 10,000 by the end of the year.
What did President Obama say about fiscal responsibility in his inauguration speech?
“And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account – to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day – because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”
If he believed that, he would veto the Omnibus bill.
What did he say about earmarks? Â During his transition into office in January 2009, he promised a
“new higher standard of accountability, transparency and oversight. We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert projects without review.”
But in March 2009, he signed a bill with 8,500 earmarks. Â He said:
“this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability that the American people have every right to expect and demand.”
And just days ago in December 2009, Obama himself put in a $700 mln earmark.
No, Obama is leader of the socialist revolution now going on in America.  He is following Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, Rule 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive”.  Say that reckless spending is Good, and it is true.  Say that the private sector is the problem, that government is the solution, and it is true.
This is just one year of the socialist revolution.  Fight it, as there is more to come unless people tell their elected officials: ENOUGH!
We need another Reagan!!
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Mike “Mish” Shedlock does a daily blog commentary on the global economic situation, which is quite balanced and strongly recommended.  He is a skeptic and digs for motivations and the truth.
Today’s post has an excellent analysis on how, with the loss of 11,000 jobs in November, total unemployment actually went (???$!#$!@) down?  How is that possible?
In regards to the economy, the jobs picture presented on Friday was a mirage. One even has to wonder if the BLS is purposely playing games knowing full well a massive revision in the January numbers (coming out in February), will subtract 80,000 jobs a month for a full year.
I doubt the unemployment rate is under 10% a year from now, or even two years from now, unless the BLS numbers show large declines in the labor force (as they did in the November Employment Report on Friday).
The actual figures …
Here is his analysis:
Unemployment dropped by .2% even though 11,000 jobs were lost and it should take at least 100,000 jobs just to keep up with demographics. Instead note the drop in the civilian labor force by 98,000.
Moreover, those “not in the labor force” rose by 291,000 constituting nearly all of the decline in unemployment.
That drop in the labor force is not normal to say the least. It should have risen by 100,000 minimum.
Naturally, our hot-air president used this numerical manipulation as a talking point for the success of his stimulus program.
More bloggers are beginning to question the accuracy and transparency of this manipulation. Â TPM headlines their post: “We Just Counted Less Unemployed People“, and offers an untampered statistic putting unemployment at 12%!!
Why should we trust the government figures when all aspects of data and communications are politicized? We shouldn’t. Dig deep and believe your gut. This is rot of the core!
In any case, the number of people out of work is so high that it will be impossible to stem foreclosures and have a strong recovery, if any recovery at all.  Of course, will Obama and the Democratic congress get out of the way, lower taxes and regulations, and let the economy recover … or will they …
Dig us deeper into debt with Government job creation efforts?  As I mention before, the eggheads in this administration think they alone can solve all the nation’s problems.  So the Washington Post reported yesterday.
“The president thinks we should and must do everything in our power to create an environment for job growth and job creation,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday morning. When asked whether Obama will back the use of bailout funds during a speech about the economy next Tuesday, Gibbs said, “It’s certainly being looked at. Yes.”
Plato said:
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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It’s December. Â Time again to look at President Barack Obama’s popularity, according to the folks at Rasmussen.
Wow! a 35% swing in just 10+ months! And most of that big move has come from the Independents who voted for BHO last November. Seems the change we thought we would get was not what BHO wanted to do. Like take over every aspect of our lives!
Not surprising, if you look at another interesting graphic:
The Obama White House has very few people(the smallest in history) who have practical private sector experience.  What we have is a bunch of egg-heads that think government is the solution to EVERY problem we face:  global warming (if it exists), jobs, health care, banking, cars .. the list is … literally .. endless.
They consider the massive debt to be an academic abstraction .. not realizing the dire and long term consequences of their actions.
Our only hope is a sensible senate, and a big sea change in the 2010 elections.
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