Keeping an Eye on Rhode Island Politics
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Please watch the video below for more detailed information as to what you are required to provide, and what is totally voluntary.
Dems, if you’ve lost Jack, you’ve got issues.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
“THE OPPOSITE OF RIGHT PART IV”
CHAFEE’S NEW WAY FORWARD
Within hours of the Mr. Chafee’s campaign announcement earlier this week, the Rhode Island Republican Party made it clear that Chafee’s ‘New Way Forward’ was really just his old three step plan as Mayor:
1. Give the public sector unions what they want;
2. Get the unions to support you; and
3. Raise taxes to pay for those sweetheart deals.
With each passing day, it is becoming clearer that Chafee is ready to raise taxes on anything, including basic necessities, in order to maintain the current generous benefits enjoyed by public sector union employees and win “the endorsement of organized public sector unions” (Warwick Beacon 1/5/10). Said RIGOP Chairman, Giovanni Cicione: “Our seniors and taxpayers don’t need the “Chafee Three Step.”
Mr. Chafee has unequivocally put the generous pensions of “current public employees” off limits to any reform efforts even if it would reduce the cost to taxpayers (ProJo 1/7/10). This makes it clear that Mr. Chafee is more willing to play ball with the public sector labor bosses than even the R.I. House Democratic leadership. Even though the House Democratic leadership has unfortunately put 401k plans for government employees off the table (ProJo 1/4/10), they at least supported some of the Governor’s pension reform efforts which affected current public employees and saved taxpayers millions. (09-H5983Aaa Article 7 House Journal 6/24/09, and 05-H5270Aaa Article 7 House Journal 6/27/05).
“It appears Mr. Chafee thought that these pension reforms went too far since they affected current public employees,” said Cicione. “As a former mayor, Chafee should really have a better handle on the impact of pension handouts and long term municipal budgeting.” “Without reasonable concessions from all state and municipal employees on pensions, cities and towns across the state will face bankruptcy or higher taxes.”
“It appears that Mr. Chafee is not at all serious about reducing government spending,” concluded Cicione. “Simply put, under Chafee’s “New Way Forward”, a 70 year old on a fixed income would have to pay higher taxes on their home, their medicine, and their food in order to subsidize the lifestyle of a 40 year old retired city worker – that’s just wrong.”
News Release: Rhode Island Republican Party
Unbelievable. Not.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect” in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” said Reid in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.”
President Obama said in a statement that he and Reid had spoken about the matter on Saturday afternoon. “I accepted Harry’s apology without question because I’ve known him for years, I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart,” said Obama. “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”…
Read More: The Washington Post
Here is video called “Obama Promised” produced by a liberal group called “Yes We Still Can,” which hammers President Obama for going back on his word to insist that a “Public Option” be in the Democrats’ Health Care Bill. Those on the Left are not pleased with the Senate bill which omits a so-called “Public Option.” One can only hope that their pressure during the bill reconciliation process between the House and Senate can keep the bill from becoming law.
Green on the outside… Red on the inside.
Here’s what you probably did not see reported about the U.N. climate change conference on the evening news… thousands of flag-waving Communists and Socialists marching in the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, in support of radical action to stop [what they consider to be human-caused] Global Warming. Many held banners attacking “Capitalism,” and chanting slogans like “Long Live Socialism.” Many communist flags are visible featuring the “hammer and sickle.” . Totally mainstream folks, right?
Source: Americans for Prosperity
T’is the Season. Not quite Rhode Island, but certainly close enough to us to hit home…
An 8-year-old special-needs child was suspended from school and forced to undergo psychiatric counseling over a picture he drew of Jesus Christ dead on the cross for a Christmas assignment.
School officials in Taunton, Mass., said the picture “violated the code of violence in the school handbook,” said Toni Saunders, an educational consultant on special-needs children with the Associated Advocacy Center who is working with the boy’s family.
“I couldn’t believe what they were telling me,” the boy’s father, Chester Johnson, who also works for the school system as a substitute custodian, told The Washington Times on Tuesday. “I asked her, ‘Are you fooling around?’”
Mr. Johnson said his son, who is a slow reader and has “a little speech problem,” now wants to transfer schools. Mr. Johnson requested that his son not be named.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Ms. Saunders added, referring to the suspension. “This is a very religious family. They felt violated because of this.”
The fracas began Thanksgiving night, when the boy was taken to see a Christmas display at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, Mass. The next week, on Dec. 2, the boy’s teacher at Lowell M. Maxham Elementary School asked all the students to draw something that reminded them of Christmas, and the pupil drew a crucifix like the one he had seen at the display.
The boy then was taken to the principal’s office and asked why he drew this image.
Read More: The Washington Times
This is a very good commentary by Charles Krauthammer on the “New Socialism” (Hint: It’s the same as the Old Socialism, just with better PR people).
The idea of essentially taxing hardworking citizens of the democracies to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early ’80s). They put a stake through the enterprise.
But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.
One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in thetristes tropiques.
Politically it’s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man’s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen…
Read More: The Washington Post
It speak volumes about our local media environment that the following audio clip of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) comes to us via an out-of-state website with no connection to Rhode Island. Not a single word has been mentioned about Whitehouse’s downright ignorant remarks in any of our local newspapers or three television stations, or to our knowledge, even on talk radio.
Sen. Whitehouse was apparently opining on an out-of-state radio program about the supposedly shabby treatment that President Obama has received during his first year in office — in direct comparision to the wonderful treatment that former President Bush received — especially by an unidentified “some” who have portrayed President Obama with a “Hitler moustache”.*
This is the verbatim quote:
For example, the president portrayed with a Hitler moustache. I don’t recall for eight years President Bush ever being portrayed with a Hitler moustache. Poor President Obama comes in and within his first months, people are running around America, portraying him with a Hitler moustache, because we want to reform health care.
Pray tell, what else has Sen. Whitehouse not seen during the previous 8 years?
* Of course, Lord Wheldon Shitehouse conveniently fails to mention — amongst other things — that the main purveyors of the “Obama as Hitler” photos at various public events, are the supporters of perennial Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
PS A visual prompt has been provided above in order to remind Sen. Whitehouse, who apparently suffers from unidentified case of amnesia, of the results of a simple Google search of the terms “Bush Hitler” or “Bushitler”. There are slightly over a half-million results.
With friends like these…
A new video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing President Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government…
In this video, which captures Rev. Wright’s appearance at the September 17th, 2009, 60th anniversary celebration of the independent socialist magazine, Monthly Review, Reverend Jeremiah Wright said that while the “corporate media” provide a “binary lens” of the world, in such terms as “communist versus Christian,” Monthly Review offers what it calls “no-nonsense Marxism.”
http://www.vimeo.com/6913334He added: “You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word socialism or Marxism.”
He called America “land of the greed and home of the slave.”…
PS And if that wasn’t enough: The contributors to Monthly Review include former Weather Underground terrorist Bernardine Dohrn; Marilyn Buck, another former Weather Underground member; convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal; Bill Fletcher, Jr., a founder of Progressives for Obama; and Chomsky.
Read More: Accuracy in Media
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American Thinker: The Liberal Plot against American Education
With troublemakers enjoying near-diplomatic immunity from punishment, schools have no choice but to hire armies of workers to mitigate their impact…and as in any well-formulated, government-financed, make-work scheme, everyone receives a turn at the trough. There will be more social workers, mental health counselors, anti-violence program supervisors and coordinators, role models, and mentors for at-risk students, right on down to more janitors skilled in graffiti removal, school safety officers, technicians to repair vandalized surveillance equipment, classroom assistants to keep an eye on the mischief-makers, and whatever else it takes to staff these prison-like schools…
These extra bodies necessary for maintain dangerous schools are also a windfall for the Democratic Party and its expand-the-state policies. Bloated school payrolls guarantee more dues-paying members to education unions like the NEA and AFT, both central to Democratic fundraising and voting drives. (These unions also supply many delegates to the party’s presidential nominating convention.) They are also a ready-made voter base for erstwhile “education” mayors and governors “committed to helping the children” who all the while push government farther into fiscal insolvency…
Read More: The American Thinker