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March 2, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Sheila Jackson Lee apparently is the congressional boss from hell.
There's a story today, the Daily Caller website.
This is the website of Chatsworth Osborne Jr.
It's by Jonathan Strong.
A lot of politicians give nicknames to their age.
George W. Bush famously referred to Alberto Gonzalez as Fredo.
Mitch Daniels, head of the Office of Management and Budget, was known as the Blade.
Barack Obama reportedly called Larry Summers, chief economic advisor, Dr. Cavorkin.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas also hands out nicknames to the people who work for her.
The Houston Democrat addressed one of her employees as you stupid.
I don't even know how to.
I don't know how to say this word in code without actually saying the word and offending everybody.
Uh let's see.
You stupid mother.
It's as close as I can get.
The Houston Democrat addressed one of her employees who quoted in the story as you stupid m.
And not just once, but constantly recalls the staffer like all the time.
Another Jackson Lee aide recounts the time her parents came to Washington to visit.
They were really excited to come to the congressional office.
They're small town people, my parents are.
So for them it was a huge deal.
And they're actually sitting in the main lobby area waiting area.
And the Congresswoman, Jackson Lee, came out screaming at me over a scheduling change.
Call me a stupid idiot.
Don't be a moron, you foolish girl.
Actually did this in front of my parents of all things.
Yet another staffer remembers requesting a meeting early on in her tenure as to ask how best to serve the Congresswoman.
Jackson Lee said, What?
What did you say to me?
Who are you?
The Congresswoman?
You haven't been elected.
You don't set up meetings with me.
I tell you.
You know what?
You're the most unprofessional person I ever have ever met in my life.
And Jackson Lee hung up the phone.
I've always thought this woman was, you know, order a fries short of a happy meal, but it's worse than that.
She got some staffer on the phone, okay.
How best can I serve you?
What do you say to me?
Who are you?
You have you have been elected.
What do you mean you don't set up meetings with me?
I tell you.
According to the same staffer, Sheila Jackson Lee would always say, What am I?
Prostitute, am I your prostitute?
You can't prostitute me.
Capitol Hill, it says here, famous for its demanding insensitive bosses, yet even by the harsh standards of Congress.
Sheila Jackson Lee stands out.
She may be the worst boss in town.
It's like being in an Iraq war veteran, said somebody who works for her.
Strangers may say, Oh, I know what you've been through, but no, you really don't, because until you've experienced it, people don't tell the worst of the stories because they're really unbelievable.
For some, a job in Sheila Jackson Lee's office proved not just emotionally, but physically perilous.
One staffer recalls a frank conversation with his doctor, who told him he needed to quit.
Look, man, it's your life or your job.
Warning that the stress and the long hours were wreaking havoc on his body.
Only a few on the staff fought back.
One of her drivers, one of Sheila Jackson Lee's drivers, became so frustrated with her abuse that the guy pulled a car over and demanded that she stop.
She's screaming, she's swearing, MF, everything.
Finally I slammed on the brakes.
I Told her to get the hell out of my car.
I'm like, I can't drive you like this.
Either get out or calm down.
And she's like, you need to go or get fired.
I'm like, that's fine, but I'm either leaving without you or you can calm down.
Jackson Lee then threatened to call the police and claim she's being held hostage in her own car.
But she finally did calm down when the staffer called her bluff, offering to flag down a Capitol police officer to explain his situation.
Former aid Michael McQuery said his experience with other difficult bosses in the hill prepared him for how to handle Sheila Jackson Lee.
I've worked for two other members, they did the same thing.
It was at first, I'm not going to lie to you.
It's a tough patch with her and me.
But I but I took her to the side and I let her know.
You know, Congresswoman, I'm a man.
Before anything else, and after that, we had no problems.
We had no problems at all.
Of the scores of Jackson Lee staffers contacted by the Daily Caller, only McQuery offered an affirmative defense of her techniques.
A lot of people just didn't know how to go and say, hey, that's inappropriate.
In 2007, on a quiet afternoon of fourth floor, the Rayburn House Orifice Building, Carolyn Stevens, then a low-level staffer for Gary Miller, Republican California Gary Miller, walked down the hall to her office taking note of an open door that was normally closed.
Congress was in recess.
The 435 lawmakers who drive the frenetic pace on Capitol Hill were home in their districts, glad-handing constituents.
For that reason, the door to Jackson Lee's office was open, and the sounds emanating from inside were pleasant laughter and conversation.
You could tell when she wasn't there.
That was because on a day in which Congress was in session, a different set of sounds often came through closed doors to her office, screaming and many times crying.
Later that day, a skinny young black man with his hair pulled back and a ponytail walked into Miller's office and asked Stevens for a favor.
Could he borrow a knife to cut a birthday cake?
Stevens, who'd seen the man working in Jackson Lee's office, was happy to help, but only the request to make sure you bring it back, because that's our only one.
He left, I'd never leave a knife around when she's in there.
That's when it all clicked that they are really afraid of her.
And Jackson Lee once said, I'm a queen and I demand to be treated like a queen.
She wasn't kidding.
Her employees describe waiting for their boss for hours on end, sometimes late into the night, while she attends events or even sits in her office watching TV.
Hmm, I wonder.
I've read two pages.
The full piece is seven pages.
So I basically read a little over a fourth of this piece to you.
And congressional staffers do not get overtime.
They are not unionized.
by the way.
Yeah.
Well, I guess it does.
It takes a strong man to calm her down.
But that wasn't my observation.
My observation, I wonder what the race of most of her employees is.
I wonder the way she's treating these people.
Imagine.
It's just.
Are you surprised by this?
I'm not.
This kind of thing doesn't surprise me at all.
Then they have to listen to her sit there and ask if the Mars rover is on the moon.
And, you know, you can imagine how tough it can be for them.
By the way, speaking of some funny union business, this is kind of cool.
This is this is from the Boston Globe, the management of WGBH.
That's the big PBS station of the world.
I mean, that's where it all happens.
WGBH.
And everything but Mr. Rogers happens there.
Well, some stuff happened in San Francisco.
Mr. Rogers happened in Pittsburgh.
The management of WGBH said yesterday it has presented its last proposal for a new agreement with its largest union.
Halting contract talks that began in August.
Managers of the giant Boston-based public broadcast operation and officials of the association of employees of the Educational Foundation, Communication Workers of America, Local 1300, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, have been seeking a new three-year contract to replace an agreement that expired at the end of October.
WGBH employs 850 people.
Local 1300 represents 280 writers, editors, production workers, and marketing employees.
Management's been seeking concessions that include cutting in half the company's match for employee retirement plans, demanding authority to redefine job descriptions.
That would allow WGBH to assign employees to work across various media platforms, including TV, radio, and the Webb.
Gene Hopkins, Vice President Communications of WGBH said that although the management offer is our last proposal, officials are still willing to talk.
Yeah, we felt this was as far as we could go with our best thinking of what we can offer it.
It's one that's open to them to respond to if they choose to, and we would welcome them back to continue to talk.
Now, union officials said that they're willing to make some concessions to preserve jobs and WGBH's financial health, including cuts in company contributions to retirement plans, but they are not willing to go along with such provisions as allowing WGBH to outsource work without negotiations or to terminate on air talent without cause.
Jordan Weinstein, president of the Union, local 1300, local host of public radios all things considered, said this is not the warm and friendly way to deal with your employee.
Now, this is not Republican Scott Walker.
This is hugely liberal touch and feely PBS.
Not the warm and friendly way to deal with your employees.
WGBH manager said their goals are to reduce costs and to make the public broadcaster more competitive as multimedia becomes increasingly integral to daily operations.
Well, what does it want to be competitive?
What's that?
You're gonna be competitive here on the backs of the middle class workers.
Whoa.
And there's this story from the New York Times.
Folks, this is not good either.
More college graduates take public service jobs.
And they're feeling good about it.
Now I'm serving a purpose, not a company.
I have details in this as we come back.
In the meantime, brief timeout.
Don't go away, ill rush both the EIB network and your phone calls coming right up.
I was asking.
I was asking earlier in the program about Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize on the cum.
You know, given the fact the world is blowing up, the Middle East is on fire.
None of this was supposed to happen.
Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize before he had done anything.
He got the Nobel Peace Prize what, what?
Was in office uh six months.
You know, I forget when that thing's announced.
I think it's a given away in October, November.
He got the Peace Prize a couple months, I think, of being immaculated.
Hadn't done anything.
And they said, no, we we fully expect peace to break out.
It's the arrival of Obama on the scene.
It's great news, so we're going to give this thing to him on the come.
And you look.
It's laughable.
It's an absolute joke.
So last night on CNN, the Situation Room.
Wolf Blitzer is talking in the forehead, Paul Bagala about the unrest in the Middle East and Obama and Wolf Blitzer actually said Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.
A lot of his critics didn't think he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but he's got a shot now at showing the world he does deserve it by what he could be doing in the Middle East and North Africa.
Is he on a track to winning the Nobel Peace Prize again, Paul?
What do you think?
Again?
These guys are taking bets on whether Obama is gearing up to win the Nobel Peace Prize again.
I mean, you could arguably say that the world's imploding because of Obama.
The stabilizing force of the world has always been the United States of America, but nobody fears us.
There's no respect or fear of the United States, and he doesn't project any abject respect and love for this country.
He does.
Guys are speculating on whether he's qualified to win a second one.
Wolf, do you remember he got the first one on the cum?
Like a Nobel Committee was actually making an investment in peace.
It's like they were buying stock in it.
Obama was the company that was going to invent it.
And so far their lab experiments have bombed out.
Well, so now we want to talk about whether he's qualified to win it again.
Does he have a chance?
Oh, yeah.
All this tumult.
All this turmoil.
Paul, what do you think?
Does our beloved president have a chance to win the Nobel Peace Prize a second time?
And this is what the Bigalus said.
Look at what he's doing.
He's pursuing on all fronts.
First off, with a remarkable calm.
He's not freaking out and invading the wrong country like his predecessor did after 9-11.
He's using our military power.
Three warships.
He's got Admiral Mullen going throughout the Middle East, meeting and talking with allies, just in case.
He's got the Secretary of State has gone to meet with our allies in Europe.
He's had his uh UN ambassador push through aggressive sanctions on all fronts.
This president is moving, and he's moving with real steel, but not frankly the sort of panic that we saw from his predecessor.
I'm serious.
I think any fair-minded person would give him high marks.
Oh, wow.
Oh, any fair-minded person, pursuing on all fronts, didn't invade the wrong country.
Well, let me tell you, Wolf, forehead.
Just know this.
Obama's competition for the second Nobel Peace Prize is gonna be tough.
The number one competitor, Julian Assange.
That's gonna be a tough one for the committee to decide on.
Either that or Qaddafi.
Maybe Mubarak.
And Charles in Milwaukee.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're up on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, thanks so much for taking my call, Dr. Lombard.
Thank you, sir.
Doctor in Democracy, that is.
The guy who um was born in Chicago.
I'm a Bears fan.
Uh, just happened to live in Milwaukee.
Oh, yeah, I remember.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We won the Central Uh division.
Okay.
Um, what do you think?
Yeah, how's that working out for you, by the way?
When the Central Division.
Oh.
Didn't mean much.
It didn't.
We'll get him next year.
Yeah.
No, that's I'm saying the same thing myself.
That would be great.
Bears versus uh Steelers.
That's right.
Bears versus Steve.
Now that'd be a dull game.
What?
That'd be a defensive.
Okay.
It'd just be a dull game.
Okay, well, first of all, I need to tell you, I was born in 76, so there's a lot of things that I missed out on, but I the reason I bring that up is I really wish I could was old enough to appreciate Ronaldus Magnus when he was in office.
Yeah, you know, I uh I've said that about a lot of people myself.
I wish I'd been alive when so-and-so was alive.
Yes.
Times would have been yeah, I can understand that you wish you were older and and more aware when Reagan was alive.
Because I remember seeing him on TV, but I was too young to know what he was or care.
But you do now, right?
Yeah, oh, very much.
Absolutely.
I told um By the way, if you you you missed out on Jimmy Carter, too, but you're getting a second chance here, so you know, things have a way of uh making themselves up to you.
Someone told me that history doesn't repeat itself.
Yeah.
Um I told uh your call your um call screener, Mr. Snarley.
Right.
That I was gonna ask you.
What would what do you think Ronaldo's Magnus would do in the situation with um Gaddafi?
What would Reagan do with this current situation with Gaddafi?
Yes, sir.
He'd probably call up and say, you look at the remaining members of your family who are still alive, Colonel.
And Qaddafi would offer some sort of bluster.
I and and so forth.
And Reagan, I'm sure the Reagan administration would pass the word.
If you harm one American.
Now you remember what we did to you because of your involvement in Lockerby, Switzerland uh uh Scotland.
You harm one American and the rest of your family better flee because we're coming.
I can tell you one thing.
Ronald Reagan may not run around saying, gee, I'm not going to do anything because the world might think I want his oil.
Because Reagan would not have shut down domestic oil drilling.
I appreciate the call.
Charles, thank you much.
This is Mary in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin.
Hi, great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rodos.
Um, I called because listening, I was then out of the state for a week or so for a trade show.
And I just love it.
When I came back through Milwaukee, I heard a couple, couple, I would say, they're probably um 50, 60, talking about their here to protest in Wisconsin.
And I'd like to say people stay home.
Because I am sick and tired of these people coming in.
Because I live in Southwest Wisconsin rural area.
We have a school district that has five fifth graders in it.
We have school systems that are 278 through 12, with administrators making 100K.
When the average per capita income in our area is around 26 to 32,000 a year.
And they're not getting the education that they really need to compete in the world.
No, they're not, but you are you just mentioned it.
You are paying through the nose for it.
Interesting, these protesters are 50, 60, 70 years old, still reliving the glory days from the 60s.
Doesn't everybody know that there is a direct correlation between spending money and the quality of education?
That's why U.S. students lead the world in economic achievement, right?
There's obviously this correlate.
We keep spending more money.
We keep hearing that we're not investing enough in education, so we keep spending more and more money.
We more and more pensions and more and more health retirement benefits, and we have more and more uh the increasing salaries and all, yeah, and boy, we're we're really getting a big bang for that buck, aren't we?
Except that we aren't.
How come?
How come nobody ever thinks to ask exactly who are the public sector unions organized against?
We always hear about union organizers.
And we always think, and I touched on this last week, that unions are organized against these evil, mean, rotten, fat cat cigar smoking country club member private jet flying CEOs.
And these are cutthroat people.
They not only would love if they see these union guys starve to death, these are the same people who love to kill their customers.
stories.
And that's what the left would have you to believe about corporate America.
They kill their customers.
They feed them poisonous food, they sell them poisonous products.
They serve them dangerous, deadly drugs.
All of this rot gut that we get.
Well, okay, who are the public sector unions organized against?
Isn't it against us?
Taxpayers.
And actually, when it when it comes to their fight against merit pay and firing incompetent teachers, they are organized against the children.
When we, the people who pay them say, hey, you know what?
We want to see some some evidence that you know what you're doing.
We want to see some teachers testing.
We see some evidence that you're qualified.
Yeah, you can't do that.
The union prohibits it.
You have no business.
Okay, so you're organizing against us.
The public sector teachers' unions are organized against us and the children.
Now, the Wisconsin Assembly just passed a bill to fine these 14 AWOL Democrat senators from the AP, Capitol Chaos resolution passed to fine the Wisconsin 14.
Fourteen Wisconsin Senate Democrats who left the state two weeks ago will now face fines of a hundred dollars for each day they miss if they miss two or more days.
Resolution passed today also requires missing Democrats to reimburse the Senate for any costs incurred during attempts to force them to return.
And The union will just pick up the tab for this.
That's what they've been doing up till now.
Mike in Houston.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Nice to have you here with us.
Rush, it's an honor.
And uh I I too watched your program with uh on the Haney Project and uh was very impressed.
I appreciate you very much.
Thank you, sir very much.
Appreciate that.
Thank you.
Uh I agree with almost everything you say, Rush.
Uh I'm I've just had lunch real close to Sheeland Jackson Lee's district, and uh uh I can tell you you could do a complete show on Shield Jackson Lee, and it would benefit the nation.
Yeah, but I don't really want to.
I understand.
It uh I I I have said for a long time, God help the United States of America.
Uh that's Snurley asked me to get right to the point.
Um I'm retired Air Force fighter pilot, and I'm a retired airline pilot.
What did you fly?
What what aircraft did you fly both places?
Um well, I flew F-4s in the uh in the Air Force, and I flew uh 727-737s in the airline.
What'd you fly in the Air Force?
I was a T-38 instructor and then flew the F-4.
T 30?
I was in Jimmy Carter's rapid deployment force.
The F-4.
Wasn't that wasn't that the F-4 wasn't who was it was accused of stealing one of those things in the movie the right stuff?
Well, uh listen, I want you to know, I can tell you now, but uh uh it used to be top secret, but when we mission briefed during the Cold War, we had a nuke mission, and the and the uh uh the threat in the air was eight to one against us.
Yeah.
When Jimmy was disassembling the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines.
Wow.
And I'm convinced one of these days the Liberals will have us think that uh Jimmy Carter uh uh uh won the Cold War.
Eight to one against us.
Yeah, right, right, exactly.
Well, listen, I was gonna tell you we've we've we had a uh we had Air Force Squadron Officer School is a uh is a school for mid-level officers uh for management and that kind of thing.
And uh we had a PhD speak to us one time on the Russian man, and it was very interesting.
He came out and he said, uh, you guys all think you're uh common sense, uh reasonable, rational people, but he said the Russian man doesn't see you that way.
And he said that actually helps us from a standpoint of uh national defense.
We do not want our enemies to think that we are predictable and that we're pacifists.
You know, it was Jimmy Carter's predictability and passivity, uh that's probably not a word, but anyway, is his passive is his peacemick style that resulted in the hostage crisis.
Well, we got the same stuff going on with Obama now.
It's exact same stuff, whether it's passivity or peacekeeping or whatever, he's utterly predictable.
And and and they know full well he's not willing to project American power, defend the country that much.
They know full of I would predict Rush that that we are very vulnerable right now for them to take aggressive action somewhere in the world because they know how this guy will will uh react.
You mean anybody or the Russians?
I mean anybody.
I mean anybody.
Uh we you know we don't have the Russians now as as a threat per se.
Yeah, we do.
We do, and we got the tricons.
Well, that I I understand.
Uh, but the but uh I'm just saying our enemies can take advantage of our of our predictable and weak response to everything.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Yeah, as it's important what you're saying, uh, Mike, because a lot of people today think that that world is done with.
Um that the days of the enemy looking at us in a certain way and uh taking aggressive action or no action whatsoever.
Ah, those days are gone.
Here in the age of the internet, it's all diplomatically done now.
Those kinds of things.
We're not going to have conventional warfare.
That stuff isn't going to happen anymore.
And people are just dead wrong.
Most of the people we're talking about, that's all they have at their disposal.
It's conventional type warfare trying to get their hands on nukes, so forth.
Which, of course, we're getting rid of ourselves the peace prize winner, Mr. Obama.
So it's a dangerous world.
I've always said this is a we're a great nation at risk in a dangerous world.
And we're being led by a bunch of happy-go luxsters who think that their presence on the scene changes everybody else's attitude about us.
Love, devotion, respect.
And folks, I'm telling you, in their eyes, we are the bad guys.
The United States has been the problem in the world.
And were it not for our belligerence and our imperialism and all of the other aggressive egregiousness this country's undertaking, the rest of the world wouldn't hate us at all.
The rest of the world would be very, very stable.
We're the ones that keep stirring the pot.
We've stirred the pot since our founding.
That's what people who populate this regime believe.
And so they think that the presence will simply send a signal hey, those days of America raping you and stealing from you and invading your days are over.
And the people around the world that Mike here's talking about are just rubbing their hands together in glee and calculating the proper time to make their next move.
All right, brief time out here, folks.
Time is zipping by here.
But we make the most of it.
We make the most of every precious broadcast moment on this program.
And we shall continue after this.
Quick little question here, folks.
If you uh if you pay teachers more, which is what we're told we have to do every year.
And we can go back.
I I'll bet you I could go back as far as LBJ.
I'll bet you I could go back to Eisenhower.
As long as there was video to be found.
I bet you we can go back to all these presidents, every damn one of them talking about education.
And how we need more money.
We need to invest more in education.
The education of our children.
Wait, that's the most important thing our country.
Way we cannot waste a single moment.
Why we must not leave a single child behind.
Takes a village to raise a bunch of idiots.
We need more education dollars.
I'm choking on that I've heard it so damn much, right?
Now, if we pay teachers more, and that means you'll get better education.
Why don't we double the play of plumbers, the pay of plumbers and electricians?
Get better running water, get better traveling electricity.
Let's you know, we pay the plumbers more, we pay the electricians more.
Um, make sure we get more electricity, cheaper price, we get more plumbing, better flushes.
Don't need to call roto rooter as much.
The more we spend the better pipes we've got.
We get we get better oil when the price of oil goes up.
The quality of the oil any better?
We get better bread when the price of uh wheat goes up.
Are we gonna attract better plumbers and better electricians and better oil rig workers and farmers and so forth?
But yet, when it comes to education, all of that's stood upside down on its head.
Why magic is going to happen if we just spend more on education?
And look where we are in uh in Wisconsin in that regard.
Jeff Jacoby, great columnist, has a piece in the Boston Globe today.
It's entitled Union Rights That Aren't.
You know, liberals try so hard to make everything a right, uh, implying it's in the Constitution, which of course they hate.
They hate the Constitution, except if there's a right that they can find in it, serves their purposes, they love it.
Here's a pull quote from Jacobi's Jacobi's piece.
And then there are federal employees, and you've heard this, I'm sure.
Obama scolds Governor Walker for trying to restrict collective bargaining by government employees to wages.
Yet the two million federal civilian workers that Obama presides over can't even bargain over that much.
Wages.
The wages, hours, and benefits of federal employment have never been subject to union contracts.
And the president appears to be perfectly okay with that.
Last November, he unilaterally announced a two-year pay freeze for all federal civilian employees, informing them, no negotiating, that they were going to make some sacrifices, adding up to two billion dollars this fiscal year.
That same president is demanding that the governor of Wisconsin forego his own fiscal responsibility when, in fact, that governor has to balance his budget.
He can't declare bankruptcy, and he can't print money.
If Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker were getting a dollar for every protester, politician, and pundit, accusing him of union busting, attacking public sector employees or waging a war on working people to say nothing of those likening him to Hosni Mubarak or Hitler.
It wouldn't be long before he could personally close the 137 million dollar budget shortfall.
To angry protesters occupying the Capitol building in Madison, it may seem clear that Walker's bill restricting the scope of collecting bargaining for government employees is an assault on unions, as Obama called it.
And no doubt many of them would agree with the AFL CIO that nothing less than democracy, fundamental rights, and freedom are at stake in the fight over public sector bargaining, but they aren't at stake.
There is no fundamental right to collective bargaining in government jobs.
Indeed, labor leaders themselves used to say so.
And here come the quotes from the George Meaney's and the Arnold Xanders and the FDRs.
In fact, in December 1955, New York Times magazine essay on the labor's future.
No less a union icon than AFL CIO president George Meany wrote the main function of American trade unions is collective bargaining.
It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.
These guys all knew.
It really isn't complicated.
They all knew that collectively bargaining with the government meant collectively bargaining with the taxpayers.
And these guys, don't forget now, their party was the Democrat Party, and that's always been the party of big government.
And they need people loving government.
They don't want go down the line where people start hating it.
It doesn't serve their purpose.
Today's liberals don't care about that.
But these guys did.
With public employee dues swelling union coffers by hundreds of millions of dollars annually, it's no surprise that organized labor and its allies now embrace collective bargaining in the public sector as a fundamental right that only a union busting tyrant would threaten.
Yet even today public employee collective bargaining is far from universal.
And he goes on and talks about we've we've had all this the past couple of weeks.
The few states that have it, the federal government doesn't have it.
State of Virginia does not have it.
Their budget deficit is nowhere near what it is in the states that do have it.
As labor leaders once organized or acknowledged, I should say it is civil service rules, not collective bargaining rights that safeguard public employees' interests when it comes to hiring promotions and discipline.
Wisconsin Republicans are targeting only the public union's political cloud.
They pose no danger to the welfare of public employees, let alone to democracy, fundamental rights, and freedom and all that.
everything you're hearing about this, all the threats to democracy, all the threats to freedom, all this stuff that's supposedly on the line, isn't.
This is just uh pure unadulterated thuggery.
Try this.
State Senator Julie Lassa, Democrat, Wisconsin, is pregnant and extremely happy about being on the run.
Unhappy about being on the run.
This pregnant Democrat woman being pressured to abandon democracy.
She's also being pressured to abandon her responsibilities as a wife and mother.
Now imagine if a private sector company kept a pregnant woman away from home in order to secure a contract or a profit.
Memo to Democrats.
You are on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of this issue.
And this story, I'll have details for you when we get back.
This is not going to play well.
They got a pregnant woman, Democrat Senator, who doesn't like being on the run and they won't let her go home.
So what if she loses the baby?
Isn't that the whole point?
Steve Jobs himself showed up to introduce the new iPad 2, which will ship in nine days on March the 11th, and will come in a white version, a white bezel on the front, black bezel.
It supposedly is thinner than an iPhone 4.
And has uh cameras on the front and back for FaceTime usage and a faster processor.
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