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"White House: Wis. vote 'vilifies' public workers"

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The White House is denouncing a vote by the Wisconsin Senate to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from government workers, calling it an assault on public employees.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama believes it is wrong for Wisconsin to use its budget troubles “to denigrate or vilify public sector employees.”

— Which Walker did by saving at least 1500 jobs.

And by forcing those sainted public sector employees to deface the state house, launch death threats at Republican legislators and their families, and support the gambit of cowardly, union-bought Democrats to flee the state rather than stay and do their jobs.

That is, Governor Walker is responsible for the denigration and vilification that these erstwhile sainted public sector heroes have done to themselves — even with the cover of the advocacy media there to protect them and spin public opinion in their favor.

Meanwhile, the protesting — or, should I say, “community organizing” — has magically stopped now that there’s no money being doled out from Obama’s organizing arm to bus in grass roots “protesters.” Imagine!

71 Replies to “"White House: Wis. vote 'vilifies' public workers"”

  1. geoffb says:

    Why did Gov. Scott Walker take so long to pull out the “fiscal” elements and pass the legislation without a quorum?
    […]
    [Sen. Ron] Johnson explained that the governor wanted the collective bargaining provision and the rest of the cost-cutting measures “tied” because they were all part of the effort to close the state’s budget deficit. But it became evident the Democrats weren’t budging. He said that one Democratic senator even requested an absentee ballot for the spring election. At that point Walker moved forward on the bill.

  2. geoffb says:

    the protests have magically stopped

    Spring Break is coming soon and Florida is calling all the drum circlers.

  3. TheConfusedOne says:

    So I suppose Obama is going to instantly go out and fix the “vilification” of all of those Federal workers who don’t have these collective bargaining rights that were just removed.

    I’m not sure if I can still be amazed at the sheer idiocy of this man.

  4. Pablo says:

    White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama believes it is wrong for Wisconsin to use its budget troubles “to denigrate or vilify public sector employees.”

    The tyranny of math.

  5. ProfShade says:

    Me thinks Obama needs to break out a damned dictionary: vilify[vil-uh-fahy]

    –verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.
    1. to speak ill of; defame; slander.
    2. Obsolete . to make vile.

    Like “Union=Hitler” and “Unions are Fascist” and that big pile of shit being pulled around in a wagon by Republicans that had an SEIU label on it…oh yeah…nevermind…

  6. LBascom says:

    It’s kinda like when Dorthy denigrated and vilified the Wizard of OZ.

    The Emperor prefers you don’t point out the lint in his belly button.

  7. Sarah Rolph says:

    Cold civil war hardly begins to cover it, really.

    Yeah, Confused, I’m shocked and I’m shocked that I can still be shocked. As the saying goes: No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.

  8. Ernst Schreiber says:

    It’s interesting that Obama didn’t weigh in on this directly at his presser today. You’d think he’d have said something himself instead of letting his Press Secretary say it for him. Unless, that is, they’ve got polling that shows this isn’t a winner for them.

    This Limbaugh parrot brought to you by your friendly neighborhood mind-numbed robot.

  9. Well, if I were so vilified I might quit my job and move to, uh, Illinois.

  10. If only Joe Scarborough was back in Congress!!! There’s be none of this vilifying of people, just stupid snowbilly chicks. Jesus Christ. I quit.

  11. Damascus Mulqueeny says:

    For an illuminating look at the Party Within the Democrat Party–the communists and their methods and goals–see the videos on this page in their entirety. Part 4 discusses the entry of the Communists into the Democrat party. Absolutely worth it.

    Did you know that 160 members of the Democrat House are marxists? That Nancy Pelosi’s political hero is Harry Bridges, a Soviet agent? Neither did I. Watch it and pass it along.

    http://tinyurl.com/49tklz7

  12. Pablo says:

    That halfbreed cocksucker needs to shut his thieving commie pie hole. That’s how vilification is done, jackass. Or like this.

  13. LBascom says:

    Halfbreed?

    You’re better than that Pablo.

  14. Old Texas Turkey says:

    L Bascom. I respectfully submit, on behalf of my half breed kids, that he is less than them. He is a guttersnipe.

  15. LBascom says:

    I don’t know about all that Old Texas Turkey, though my half breed wife might agree.

    I’d like to think he just lost a little perspective in the heat of his emotions.

    Obama is responsible for the rest of those adjectives, which I agree with, but his heredity is beyond his influence.

    In the words of Erny: ?one of these slurs is not like the other?…

  16. Jeff G. says:

    I think Pablo was making a point, not denigrating “half-breeds.”

    How about some Billy Jack / Barack Obama conversations?

    Too soon?

  17. alppuccino says:

    I think Obama is vulnerable to the derogatory “half-breed” moniker because he discounts one of his halves, accentuates the half that includes “victim of slavery”, which in his case, that half of him was probably more in the slave wholesale trade.

  18. LBascom says:

    “I think Pablo was making a point, not denigrating “half-breeds.””

    I think you are right, I just think there’s a better way to make a point than impaling yourself on it.

  19. alppuccino says:

    And Shep’s first words today: “Governor Walker strips unions of their bargaining rights, claiming fiscal reform, when unions had already made concessions.”

    He really needs two giant hammers to swing down and crush his bean.

  20. PCachu says:

    Tragically, al, I doubt even that would make him stop talking.

  21. LBascom says:

    “I think Obama is vulnerable to the derogatory “half-breed” moniker because he discounts one of his halves, accentuates the half that includes “victim of slavery””

    I’m going to go out on a limb here, and argue from an oppositional position even though I’m vanilla white.

    I don’t think it’s a matter of discounting one half, it’s a matter of how you self identify, and the influences on how you do that. A half black person almost always looks black, and that external perception from the world works to make them self identify as black.

    Sadly, half breeds are vilified by a portion of both breeds, whichever they may be, and that defiantly makes them vulnerable. I just don’t think it a legitimate line of attack.

    Also, two wrongs don’t make a right.

  22. alppuccino says:

    OK Lee. You’re somewhat passionate about this so I’ll compromise. Obama’s an idiot. And and asshole. And a dickwad. And donkey-raping shit eater.

  23. ProfShade says:

    …poor donkey

  24. LBascom says:

    Thanks al. Though I would have said shit eating, dickwad, idiot asshole raping father of a jackass.

    But that’s just me.

  25. Squid says:

    The donkeys are volunteers, Prof. They put bumper stickers on their cars to identify themselves to each other.

  26. zino3 says:

    ObaMao? He is NOT stupid, and knows EXACTLY what he is doing.

    His agenda is to bring this country to it’s knees by using illiterate teenagers and unions – in the world I grew up in, they would be called “Immature”.

    Fuck the “O”. He might be “black”, but I really don’t care about his melanin.

    He is an absolute Marxist asshole, and saying that does not make me a racist.

    Except for with the undereducated teenagers and union members who don’t have a leg to stand on if I am NOT a racist.

    Grow up, you little fucking Fascists….

  27. Bob Reed says:

    As a “half-breed” myself, in the common palance of the western genre of films, I have no problem with Pablo’s usage of the term in order to demonstrate what actual vilification is.

    But, you know, I’m most likely an “inauthentic” race-traitor or something, at least according to the measures of the identity politics tribe (SWIDT).

  28. LBascom says:

    “But, you know, I’m most likely an “inauthentic” race-traitor or something”

    Nah, you’re a good man Bob, don’t let no one tell you different…

  29. alppuccino says:

    I’m half grizzly, half stud horse, and half sensitive friend of married women.

  30. LBascom says:

    You must be 9 feet tall!

  31. alppuccino says:

    9’4″

  32. Pellegri says:

    I’d kinda expect legit hybrids to be more vigorous, speaking as a biologist, though “hybrid vigor” is somewhat of a debatable point.

    Regardless. I’ll jump on the safer “shoulda bought a dictionary” bandwagon, unless the bill specifically includes language that calls the public-sector workers dirty sons of a bitches, in which case it does in fact vilify and denigrate them.

  33. Mr B says:

    That’s impressive, alp. Even Washington was only 6′ 20.

    The WI DOJ caught the douchebag death threatn’r. http://maciverinstitute.com/2011/03/wisconsin-dept-of-justice-identifies-sender-of-death-threats/

    I don’t even have to put my community organizer glasses on when watching Obama anymore. He’s 3D all the time now.

  34. Mr B says:

    bh,

    I’m bummed I missed this.

    March, 2011 | March 9 – There is a *free* screening of The Cartel in Waunakee, Wisconsin. The event is at the Rex’s Innkeeper at 7:00pm, and features WI Senator Glenn Grothman. More information can be found here.

    They’re doing another screening on the 15th, but I’ll be back at work then. So, I ordered the DVD. It would have been fun to attend though.

    Well, I’m done glazing the fireplace. Gonna go run some wire; since the wood is all done banged. Break is over.

  35. Dana says:

    Actually, Governor Walker cleverly created more jobs for state workers. By tricking the otherwise peaceful and noble teachers into defacing the state capitol, he created maintenance jobs to remove their trash and graffiti.

  36. Pablo says:

    As a “half-breed” myself, in the common palance of the western genre of films, I have no problem with Pablo’s usage of the term in order to demonstrate what actual vilification is.

    Which is precisely where I was going, as Walker hasn’t had a cross word to say about anyone other than the fleebaggers and outside agitators. If you’re vilifying, you don’t piddle around. I meant to be offensive, but I was rather hoping someone would call me a homophobe.

    Lee, I’m sorry if my calling the jug-eared, red diaper wearing girly man a halfbreed offended you.

  37. serr8d says:

    Personally, I find BHO’s race the only real positive thing about his presidency. If he were not a LeftLibProggTard, then he’d be alright by me, having overcome the racial barrier and taking the highest office in the land.

    A crying shame he had to be a creature of the Left, a plotting, scheming, secret-plans-for-worldwide-equal-outcomes one at that. A Bad Man, but that’s wholly independent of his race.

  38. alppuccino says:

    independent of his race.

    If only Obama could think in this manner.

  39. Pablo says:

    I am thisclose to jumping on the “Cain 2012 – Time For a Real Black Man” bandwagon.

  40. alppuccino says:

    The debates would be Super Bowl slaughters.

  41. newrouter says:

    what pablo said

  42. Stephanie says:

    If gas prices stay high and inflation really starts to inflate, it would be interesting to run a black guy with skillz against the black guy with credentials and see how the black community reacts. Get Allen West to go campaigning with him and JC Watts and Marco Rubio and Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal… it could get really interesting when they roll into the AME church and start on Obama’s DADT, Gay Marriage, Abortion and other issues that really get the AMEers riled up. Then finish it with the fiscal questions to bring the house down.

    Brown and Browner v Dumb and Dumber…

    Corn futures would be a sure fire bet…

  43. serr8d says:

    OT, but anyone interested in the NFL’s woes should read Florio’s take.

    What does it all mean to the fans?

    Most immediately, free agency won’t happen until a court order is entered blocking a lockout, or until a lockout is resolved via a new labor deal. To the extent that fans are rooting for an outcome, they should be rooting for the players’ strategy to succeed, quickly.

    If it does, we’ll have a full offseason and football while the fight shifts to the courtroom.

    All that said, don’t believe for a second that the NFLPA launched this strategy for the fans. It was the best move aimed at getting the best deal; the fact that it entails football continuing is coincidental. Nearly 25 years ago, the NFLPA decided that going on strike was in the players’ best interests. That time around, they surely didn’t pick a course of action that time aimed at helping the fans.

    Frankly, no one really cares about the fans right now. They pretend they do, but they don’t. Each side wants to cut its best deal, and none of this is being done for our benefit.

    If any other sport was even remotely interesting to me, I’d tell both sides to shove it right now and go find something else to cover. But those of us who love the sport have no choice but to wait. Eventually, plenty of us who love the sport could wake up one day and decide they don’t love it any more.

    A freakin’ shame this is going to enrich a bunch of thrice-damned lawyers.

  44. newrouter says:

    ot

    i find it strange that a tsunami that wiped out entire towns is given a back seat to the possible problems of nuke plants. yea techno idiots report you decide.

  45. Pablo says:

    If gas prices stay high and inflation really starts to inflate, it would be interesting to run a black guy with skillz against the black guy with credentials and see how the black community reacts. Get Allen West to go campaigning with him and JC Watts and Marco Rubio and Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal… it could get really interesting when they roll into the AME church and start on Obama’s DADT, Gay Marriage, Abortion and other issues that really get the AMEers riled up. Then finish it with the fiscal questions to bring the house down.

    I’ll be in my bunk.

  46. serr8d says:

    Here’s an idiot who blames today’s tsunami on global warming. I pummeled him on the Twitter.

  47. newrouter says:

    ot

    this gets me to the mbm rolodex. there aren’t people you could contact and get opinions from who know what the ef they are talking about?

  48. serr8d says:

    The ‘black community’ is, unfortunately, populated with moochers. Follow the money for their votes. Doesn’t matter what or who the candidate is, what matters is who greases the outstretched palm bestest. I hate to call it that way, but Democrats attract and feed moochers with OPM for their votes. It’s that simple, really.

    The only way that changes is to restrict voting to the propertied people who actually pay the bills. Franklin told us this would happen.

  49. Stephanie says:

    serr8d… maybe so, but there is a very fast growing ‘middle class’ in the black community. They are not down with the moochers AT ALL. The black middle class, in the south at least, is becoming very noticeable. Most of the current influx into my area is black. They are in very well to do neighborhoods, driving very nice imports, joining the golf club and hard to miss as you are out at Target, Kroger and Longhorn spending much more conspicuously than the whites who still seem to be hoarding cash.

    Unless it is all smoke and mirrors with Pigford money and unless their politics as stated in discussions at the PTA and at the club are poses, these fine folk have severe issues with the dems. They are proud of what O did, but ain’t impressed with his skillz… that is a mineable area that could be undercut by an enterprising republican of ‘color.’

    The problem for the dems is those folk wandering off the plantation… because they can afford to.

  50. Mr B says:

    Look at this shit.

    http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisconsin-unions-now-threatening.html

    Flashback: http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/10/video-obamas-seiuacorn-pitchfork-brigade-in-chicago/

    Wow, that chant is oddly familiar.

    And look at this.

    https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/pcccrecallfund?refcode=e1-larson-sign-don-sign

    They hit $90K now. It was $13K when I looked this morning.

    Who’s the PCCC? http://boldprogressives.org/ http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7625

    One aspect of that that made me chuckle. “TIPJAR: You can also chip in to support Sen. Chris Larson’s next campaign!”

    They must be worried about his re-election already. Good.

    Fuckers.

  51. geoffb says:

    Take this paragraph from a 2005 post that is linked in the thread above.

    Why this is particularly dangerous to individualism is that it conveniently factors out of the equation any of those who might ostensibly fit the identity profile (black, woman, Jew, Muslim) but who, because they refuse to adhere to the groups’ animating master narrative—generally one of grievance, generally framed as one requiring solidarity [the kernel assumptions upon which these narratives are formed I’ve discussed here, using “race” as an example]—can be excommunicated as “inauthentic” (or, at the very least, can be described as Uncle Toms, self-hating Jews, inauthentic Muslims, or, as is the case with women outside of the “feminist” mainstream, in denial).

    Union is also a constructed identity group. One in which original grievances have been fixed but that must never be allowed to become the reality else the power, which has become the animating force for those in charge, disappear.

    In fact the “Union” identity group has already grappled with the growth of the realization in the original identity group that they have fixed the problems by generating a new group, public sector workers, who freely adopt the narrative of fighting against a grievance that never was, that never happened to them.

    If the left ever realizes what they have in this the possibilities become endless. Identity groups of pure narrative no messy and limiting genetics needed. Grievances that can never be fixed because they exist only in the imaginary identity that all within have self-selected as their own.

  52. geoffb says:

    I’d like to show something that I noticed about the group “Act Blue” during the 2010 campaign. Look here at contributions made to the Democratic Party of Tennessee. Notice anything odd about the contributions that were funneled through Act Blue?

    Act Blue is the PAC equivalent of the Tides Foundation. You give them money and tell them where to send it as a contribution. Now amounts that don’t come to an even dollar amount usually are an indication that the original contribution was not done in dollars but in some other currency. Odd that, huh.

  53. Mr B says:

    Interesting share geoffb.

    It makes my $90K finding look like chump change. http://www.actblue.com/pages Look at all the money they are raising.

  54. Mr B says:

    Everyone should step in a puddle of dog vomit, first thing in the morning. For the equality!

  55. Mikey NTH says:

    I bet the local bars and diners around the capitol in Madison are doing very well right now – and all of the art and office stores selling posterboard and tape and markers.

    What a nice civic boost.

  56. Danger says:

    “to denigrate or vilify public sector employees.”

    Seems to me that he (Gov. Walker) was just trying to raise Wis. unions up to federal standards.
    Unfortunately, he fell a little short.

    “Meanwhile, the protesting — or, should I say, “community organizing” — has magically stopped”

    KEEP FIRING THE’RE ON THE RUN.

  57. LBascom says:

    “As a “half-breed” myself, in the common palance of the western genre of films, I have no problem with Pablo’s usage of the term in order to demonstrate what actual vilification is.

    Which is precisely where I was going, as Walker hasn’t had a cross word to say about anyone other than the fleebaggers and outside agitators. If you’re vilifying, you don’t piddle around. I meant to be offensive, but I was rather hoping someone would call me a homophobe.”

    Sooo, you are using “half breed” as a pejorative. Why piddle around, just call him a nigger and be done with it.

  58. Pablo says:

    Yes, Lee. Generally, when you’re vilifying someone, pejoratives are on offer. Given that I was conducting a demonstration of vilification, pejoratives were used. I count four of them, to be more precise.

  59. Pablo says:

    “Nigger” is just trite, anymore.

  60. LBascom says:

    Well, I maintain that calling someone a half-breed as a pejorative says more about you than it does about them.

    And yeah, I guess when a racist slur becomes stale, a fresher one is in order.

    But I won’t belabor the point. Carry on.

  61. Pablo says:

    Hey, I’m half Irish. *hic*

    You’ve been around pw an awfully long time to misconstrue my intent, I think.

  62. Pablo says:

    I mean, really.

  63. LBascom says:

    Pablo, call a man a cocksucking thieving commie jackass, everyone can agree that is vilifying the dude.

    Is it vilifying the dude to call him a half breed, when that is what he is?

    Well, if you think being a half breed is something to be ashamed of, I guess so. I just think if you call someone of mixed descent a half breed thinking you are vilifying him, you really only succeed in vilifying yourself.

    I’m really surprised you aren’t getting this.

  64. Pablo says:

    Suppose I called him a Kenyan usurper, not because I think intend to convey that, but simply for effect. What does that say about me?

    I’m really surprised that you’re not getting this.

  65. Pablo says:

    Is it vilifying the dude to call him a half breed, when that is what he is?

    If you’re going to vilify someone, where else do you start but with things that are true that you can spin into an issue of some sort? You’ve noted that this particular pejorative and its basis are a problem in this very thread. Tell me, if Obama were a Republican, would they not be condemning him as inauthentic? Hell, THEY DID IT TO HIM ANYWAY and he’s a Democrat. It’s a race baiting world, Lee. I just throw ironic grenades in it. Though I’m no Paul Shanklin/RUSH “HITLER” LIMBAUGH!!!

  66. LBascom says:

    Call’em what you want. Intent makes you bullet proof.

  67. Pablo says:

    Intent makes you bullet proof.

    No, it makes you what you are.

  68. LBascom says:

    Well, when using a persons race to vilify them, be careful. They may mistake what you are.

  69. alppuccino says:

    Here’s an example of indirect vilification: “I’s because I’m black, isn’t it?”

  70. alppuccino says:

    ….or back-pocket go-to vilification: “Their opposition shows a subterranean racist agenda.”

  71. guinsPen says:

    The tyranny of math professors traumatizes children:

    Goldy Gopher apparently never saw it coming — a sucker punch smack in the nose above his heartwarming bucktoothed grin.

    An annoyed fan — a University of St. Thomas math professor and a devoted University of Minnesota booster — socked the fuzzy-suited mascot after tiring of his antics during a men’s gymnastics meet Saturday night.

    The mascot-mauling left the professor red-faced, regretful and banned from the University of Minnesota’s Sports Pavilion and Williams Arena for a year. Goldy is left shaken, his gopher face damaged. And spectators didn’t know what to think.

    “Honestly, we thought it was funny at the time,” said Barry Colthorpe…

    […]

    But apparently Douglas Dokken, 60, wasn’t amused. In a news release issued by St. Thomas, Dokken said he was trying to watch the gymnastics competition when Goldy sat behind him and teased him for several minutes.

    Goldy apparently tapped him on the shoulder. “You know, it’s the old trick where you tap people on the wrong shoulder and they turn and don’t see you because you’re on the other side,” explained Goldy’s coach, Mike Elder. (Elder spoke on Goldy’s behalf because the mascot, as always, was mum.)

    Goldy had already played the same trick on a few others, eliciting smiles from his victims and laughter from the kids trailing him. But when Goldy tapped Dokken, he got no reaction, Elder said. So he tapped again. Nothing.

    Then suddenly, without warning, Dokken turned and punched Goldy, knocking him back into the bleachers, Elder said.

    “The kids went from laughing to screaming because they were right there,” Elder said. Goldy put up his hands, err, paws. “He was shocked,” Elder said. “Then the guy stands over him and punches him again.”

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