...., and real pain for my sham friends."
Monty Brogan, drug dealer in "25th hour"
And "real pain" is exactly what the progressive-socialists are feeling, after the recent elections that tossed 'em out of the Congress!
Any way we can document this?
You betcha'!!
The on-line version of the NYC teacher's union newspaper revealed that pain in this article written by a "chapter leader."
As one reads the article, it becomes clear that the leadership of the teacher's union has nothing to say about education....the only concern is political power.
1. "Pro-labor progressives took a walloping on Election Day and we should face it squarely. A loss is a loss and a big loss is a big loss. Losing control of the U.S. Senate is a serious defeat
2. ... Tea Party legislation proposed by the House of Representatives will now get a sympathetic hearing in the upper house.
3. The president’s veto power must now protect us from the dark instincts of those who would dismantle the century-long progressive social contract...
4. ....compare the turnout in counties in which we have had some influence between 2010 — the last midterm (Tea Party) election — and this one. This year’s turnout was actually higher than in 2010. Does this mean the opposition outvoted us or voted in higher numbers in more conservative districts? Or does it mean that we were not successful in getting our message out? Or did the anti-Obama tidal wave simply trump everything?
5. .... in states like North Carolina, Colorado, Wisconsin and others there exists an academic/urban-rural divide. Republicans made significant inroads among rural white voters and some candidates attracted young and Hispanic constituencies.
6. The youth vote doesn’t mean they are going Republican because party identity is meaningless to half of them, and that rate will grow. They pose a new kind of constituency, fluctuating and unpredictable, socially liberal but willing to back conservatives ...
7. The conservative writer George Will has said that the American public is philosophically conservative but operationally liberal. For example, remember when the Republicans tried to privatize Social Security? Even Republican-leaning voters rose up and stopped it. (And just before the market crashed.) ....As Will and others have pointed out: Just try to close a neighborhood library.
Americans like the government services provided by progressive officials, but they often don’t like progressives."
A walloping United Federation of Teachers
Monty Brogan, drug dealer in "25th hour"
And "real pain" is exactly what the progressive-socialists are feeling, after the recent elections that tossed 'em out of the Congress!
Any way we can document this?
You betcha'!!
The on-line version of the NYC teacher's union newspaper revealed that pain in this article written by a "chapter leader."
As one reads the article, it becomes clear that the leadership of the teacher's union has nothing to say about education....the only concern is political power.
1. "Pro-labor progressives took a walloping on Election Day and we should face it squarely. A loss is a loss and a big loss is a big loss. Losing control of the U.S. Senate is a serious defeat
2. ... Tea Party legislation proposed by the House of Representatives will now get a sympathetic hearing in the upper house.
3. The president’s veto power must now protect us from the dark instincts of those who would dismantle the century-long progressive social contract...
4. ....compare the turnout in counties in which we have had some influence between 2010 — the last midterm (Tea Party) election — and this one. This year’s turnout was actually higher than in 2010. Does this mean the opposition outvoted us or voted in higher numbers in more conservative districts? Or does it mean that we were not successful in getting our message out? Or did the anti-Obama tidal wave simply trump everything?
5. .... in states like North Carolina, Colorado, Wisconsin and others there exists an academic/urban-rural divide. Republicans made significant inroads among rural white voters and some candidates attracted young and Hispanic constituencies.
6. The youth vote doesn’t mean they are going Republican because party identity is meaningless to half of them, and that rate will grow. They pose a new kind of constituency, fluctuating and unpredictable, socially liberal but willing to back conservatives ...
7. The conservative writer George Will has said that the American public is philosophically conservative but operationally liberal. For example, remember when the Republicans tried to privatize Social Security? Even Republican-leaning voters rose up and stopped it. (And just before the market crashed.) ....As Will and others have pointed out: Just try to close a neighborhood library.
Americans like the government services provided by progressive officials, but they often don’t like progressives."
A walloping United Federation of Teachers
