Brutal. [rquoter]An Open Letter to Mr. Daily Kos February 18, 2011 - 9:22 am - by Stephen Green | Dear Mr. Moulitsas, May I call you Kos? I know everybody else does. Thanks. Anyway, last night you wrote an open letter of your own, on Twitter. It was brief, of course. Surveying the goings-on in Wisconsin, you said, “Dear Tea Baggers, It’s our turn now.” Well, I suppose it is. And now that both sides have had their turns, let’s compare and contrast. I can’t keep this quite as short as your tweet, but I’ll do my best. Your people left their protest area looking like this. We Tea Party folks tend to police our areas with a touch more respect — like this. Tea Partyers take a day off work, or protest on the weekends. Your union friends call in “sick” and stage what amounts to an illegal walk-out, leaving thousands of kids with no schools to attend for days on end. It just now occurred to me to wonder what those kids’ working parents are doing with the kids out of school. Will they get their pay docked for having to stay home? Your union friends will probably get full pay — for abandoning their students. Tea Partyers worry that too much deficit spending is leading the country to ruin. Your folks worry that too little deficit spending could impact their nine-months-a-year jobs, cushy pay, subsidized health insurance, and generous retirement plans — which the rest of us pay for. The Tea Party elected more than 80 freshmen Republicans to Congress. The Democrat Party fled across the state line to Scottish Hooters. The Tea Party is doing what it can to hold our elected officials accountable to their election promises. Your people are doing their best to intimidate our elected officials into pretending last November never happened. Tea Partyers say “don’t tread on me.” Your friends say “don’t tread on D.C.” Charming, that. Anyway, yes, I suppose now is your time in the sun. It’s been quite the education for the country at large, I think. So here’s to hoping you’re enjoying your turn — you’ve certainly earned it. -Your friendly neighborhood VodkaPundit.[/rquoter]
Your union friends call in “sick” and stage what amounts to an illegal walk-out, leaving thousands of kids with no schools to attend for days on end. It just now occurred to me to wonder what those kids’ working parents are doing with the kids out of school. Will they get their pay docked for having to stay home? Your union friends will probably get full pay — for abandoning their students. Now this is interesting, hopefully all those teachers that walked out will get dock of their pay or even fired for abandonment of their job. Their responsibility is to teach the kids, let their union handle the rest, without interfering with the kids curriculum.
You know what's wrong with this country these days? Not enough new Magic Eye drawings like we had in the 90's.
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Excellent. Good Job Obama. I'm happy to see him wield political power for sanity and the side of the working people.
Joe Klein: "Revolutions everywhere--in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they're protesting against it. I mean, Isn't it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting "Freedom, Democracy, Union" while trying to prevent a vote? ... An election was held in Wisconsin last November. The Republicans won. In a democracy, there are consequences to elections and no one, not even the public employees unions, are exempt from that."
