…and they are standing up to Gov Brown: In their letter, the five Republicans outlined the policy changes they are seeking. They include pension rollbacks for public employees, further constitutional restrictions on state spending, easing regulations on business, an overhaul of the tax code and an expansion of contracting out government work to private companies. The senators also suggested that Brown abandon his plans to eliminate redevelopment agencies and tax

The unions. They care: This abdication of responsibility by the Senate Democrats exposes the true motives behind the powerful public-sector unions in the Wisconsin budget battle. Big Labor and their Senate Democrat pawns have shown that this is about political power and the bank accounts of the unions and not about the state employees they represent. The unions, after all, are claiming to promote state employees best interests. Even though

— Which is all very shocking, given how neutral and taxpayer funded NPR is. When it’s not being too damn conservative, I mean. No, really. In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men,

Green energy. That’s the way to go, according to Secretary Salazar. And really, why aren’t you all clamoring for it? Hasn’t the Administration’s policies — all designed to drive up oil prices, to make gassing up your cars and heating your homes cost prohibitive, and to “nudge” you into accepting green energy as the affordable and eco-friendly wave of the future — taught you yet how you’re supposed to “voluntarily”

Posh. I just cleaned and pressed a 30lb York blob by the face. Let’s concentrate on the important things, people.

$223 billion in February alone. Compare this number to, say, the entire yearly deficit in 2007. Which was about $160 billion. Then despair.

Wow. After we get the country back, it’s time for some de-nazification in our universities and in our mainstream press. Or we can just scrap both and start from scratch. Either way. (thanks to Carin)

Haves and have nots. Two Americas. Remember that the next time some leftist starts bitching about the unequal distribution of wealth. (h/t Right Bias)

— personified in the person of Peter Beinart, who uses Rep Peter King as his object of high-minded, indignant loathing: Republicans like to claim that Democrats are the “European” party: the party that wants a big welfare state, believes in international law, and doesn’t think America is an exceptional nation. But I’ve noticed a certain Europeanification of the GOP of late, as regard to Muslims. For years, Republicans have explained

Compare and contrast. Question: how can you tell when the “pragmatic” wing of your party is actively working against you? Well, I can’t say definitively, but when they’re appearing at a re-election fundraiser in a swing state for a socialist many of their like profess won’t be beaten in 2012 — and by juxtaposition, actively working against the real reform being pushed in Wisconsin and elsewhere (Obama, after all, himself