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The Obama Administration

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…is targeting another Republican, this time with criminal intent. President Barack Obama’s Secret Service was sufficiently dismayed about being caught at and exposed for their misbehaviors and incompetences by Senator Jason Chaffetz (R, UT), House Oversight Committee Chairman, that Secret Service Assistant Director Ed Lowry suggested that Chaffetz should be targeted with “leaked” personal information of a suitably embarrassing nature. Lowry wrote an email to Deputy Assistant Director Faron Paramore:

Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out. Just to be fair[.]

Of course, to “find” the information in the first place, folks would have to violate the US Privacy Act, but never mind about that. This is a Republican. And Democrats are doing it. It’s all good. So at least 45 Secret Service employees set about to do the smear.

Jeh Johnson, DHS Secretary, and so the MFWIC and owner of the Secret Service:

those responsible should be held accountable

while also claiming that “an investigation” into this had been in progress since last April. When will they be held accountable, Jeh? You’ve had six months and done nothing. Define “accountable,” Jeh. What is Lowry’s status in the Secret Service? Other than continuing his job as head trainer, I mean? What is Paramore’s status? Other than still being a DAD? Will the rest be publicly identified and fired for cause along with these two? Or will they all be allowed to retire or resign, with full honors and perks? Will these guys be turned over to DoJ for prosecution? By an Obama DoJ when the victim was a Republican? When?

And all we’re getting is Obamatalk from the Secret Service and the DHS, and even less from Obama himself.

A Cynical Distortion

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And, perhaps, a sign of growing Democratic Party desperation.

Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush, on a campaign stop in South Carolina last week, said this to his black audience:

Our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn’t one of division and get in line and we’ll take care of you with free stuff. Our message is one that is uplifting and says, “You can achieve earned success. We’re on your side.”

There are few things that terrify Progressives and Democrats more than those trapped into dependency on Progressive Government escaping the trap and being able to do for themselves, without those Progressives doing for them—and collecting personal political power in the process.

So: when a Republican comes along and says he can help those trapped and want out a way out, Democrats come out of the woodwork with their distortions.

You can achieve earned success. We’re on your side. How does that get distorted in to “black folks all want free stuff?” Only a Democrat can follow that pseudo-logic.

Candidate For…

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…Panderer-in-Chief.

Hillary Clinton, Democratic Presidential candidate has decided she opposes the Keystone XL pipeline—because it’s a distraction. With her view of the pipeline on the table, the distraction of it kept her from talking about her climate warming…stuff.

Of course, she could have settled the distraction by supporting the pipeline, too: the question’s unsettled state was the distraction. Thus, her opposition is just naked pandering to the leftist climatistas; it has no other purpose at all.

Hillary Clinton—Special Interest-in-Chief wannabe.

Walker and Unions

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Governor Scott Walker has some plans for unions, if he’s elected President. Walker says he would

eliminate the National Labor Relations Board, prohibit federal employee unions; institute right-to-work laws nationwide; and repeal the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, which requires the payment of local prevailing wages to workers on federal construction projects, often boosting pay and project costs.

There’s much to like here. All of these boost competition and lower costs to American consumers, which in turn will be highly stimulative of our economy.

The only one I disagree with is the elimination of federal employee unions. Unions greatly simplify contract negotiations, and that can lower costs, even for a government employer. However. The right-to-work position applied to federal unions, and as Walker applied to Wisconsin government unions, is a good move. What Walker did in Wisconsin was to take away the unions’ privilege of collecting union dues from non-union members as a condition of working at all. He also took away the privilege of state government unions to direct a portion of member dues to political purposes unless the member agreed to the diversion. He also took away the privilege of state unions to strike. These all are worthy of application at the Federal level.

On his right-to-work proposal as a Federal law: it’s not a blanket right; Walker fully respects the 10th Amendment. Accordingly his proposal is structured to make right-to-work the baseline, but individual states can vote themselves as union shops if they wish.

Of course, if these proposals look like they’re taking off, we can expect very vociferous misbehavior by unions and their Democratic Party pets as they try to intimidate the proposals into defeat. It’s only necessary to review union and Democrats’ thuggery in Wisconsin as Walker worked his will there a few short years ago. Here, for instance. And here. And here.

Most of these are sound ideas, regardless of union fireworks and threats and actions, and they should be supported by whomever gets the Republican nomination for President, and they should be pressed for in Congress should that candidate be elected. That President, too, should go over Congress’ heads to their—and his—boss, us American citizens if Congress hesitates. That President should identify, clearly and by name, those Representatives and Senators who remain in union pockets.