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Union Political Power must be confronted by conservative grass root activism – beginning now.

Union mobs have found our neighborhoods and are engaged on new tactics that make them a battle field site for thuggish action.  The new union tactic has other implications given their connections with Democrat politics. 

Until recently, union demonstrations against what they claim to be corporate misconduct – real and imagined – were limited to streets and the immediate location of corporate headquarters.  This is no longer the case.  Led by the huge Service Employees International Union (SEIU), intimidation tactics have now led to massive threats surrounding the homes of business leaders.

For the record, in the town hall meetings of 2009 – many of which were the sites of  tea party activism – violence came uniquely from purple shirt-clad SEIU members.

Then, last May, a frightened (and innocent) teenager was trapped inside his home as a 500-man mob that was bussed in by SEIU demonstrated and chanted on his front lawn in an effort to intimidate his father who is a deputy general counsel with Bank of America.

Fortune magazine's Nina Easton – often a Fox News panelist – is a neighbor of the banker and saw what happened.

Easton says 14 busses, loaded with demonstrators from the SEIU and another political outfit poured into her neighborhood armed with bullhorns.  It was an obvious effort to intimidate a banking executive – at his home, not at the bank. After that, the buses took the raucous mob to a residence of a J.P. Morgan Chase executive.

Police accompanied the mob, but did nothing to inhibit their brutish actions.

Now, the SEIU is at it again, as union supporters target a Wal-Mart developer in Washington, distributing fliers showing a bull's-eye and revealing his home address.  The implications are obvious. The flier gives his name and home address and invites protesters to assemble on his front lawn.  

Wal-Mar has long been targeted because it is non-union. The Wal-Mart development would employ up to 1,200 people.

While the group claims no union affiliation, its website links are funded by the SEIU.  (Tracking the many connections of SEIU can be tricky – but they include ACORN – a group prosecuted in over a dozen states for vote fraud.)

SEIU also has direct connections to the Obama White House. Ito cite just one case, Anna Burger – a member of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board – is also Secretary Treasurer of SEIU.

Now, three local chapters of SEIU,.have received temporary waivers from provisions of Obamacare.  Proving again that it’s nice to have friends in high places – especially in politics.  SEIU does have political friends – Democrat ones. Its political action committee contributed  $27 million  to the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.

The mainstream media, long ago signed on with liberal Democrats, has been hard at work undercuting conservatives in tea party groups.  They intend to interdict the political impact the spontaneous grass root movement generated.  Ordinary Americans became activists because of irresponsible spending and the far left policies of Obama and the Democrat majorities that followed him into office.

However, there is little honest reporting of SEIU and affiliated groups such as ACORN.  Especially in instances in which political misconduct is suspected, honest reporting should be mandatory for legitimate journalists.  However “legitimate journalist” is often an oxymoron in today’s America.

Lack of honest coverage of the SEIU et al, is a symptom.  The Internet has proven its ability to not only provide sources of factual information, but also its power in energizing ordinary Americans and marshal them to provide powerful political movements.

That power is crucially needed now as we head into the 2012 election. Polls are hinting conservative enthusiasm is waning – mistakenly thinking the 2010 GOP sweep has solved the crisis represented by the far left efforts from Democrats and the Obama administration.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.  Liberal politicians will be even more frantic to win and to protect Obama, than ever.  They are fighting to remain politically viable after suffering a “shellacking”. 

The outrageous actions of SEIU must be honestly reported.  Real American voters know huge mobs of union thugs invading neighborhoods is not only wrong, but downright outrageous.  That fact needs no explanation. These same voters must also be made fully aware of the political threat from SEIU and its associates.  Conservatives need to understand the reality of its threat,  Not only do unions such as SEIU have huge memberships, they also have an equally great potential for wielding political power…and a proven willingness to use it.

This is a call to action: Conservative Americans must effectively counter such far left groups.  It’s time to begin organizing and energizing for the fight that will consume the next 20 plus months. The issue is clear, and the enemy is powerful.  Conservatives cannot afford to be found wanting is clashes of a political Armageddon.

Buddy

The Day’s Top Political News:

Obama's State of the Union proposals will test whether parties can work together

WASHINGTON TIMES: Despite all the talk about civility and increased bipartisanship over the past two months, Democrats and Republicans have truly agreed on only one major legislative initiative since the November election: the relatively easy move to keep tax cuts in place for most Americans.

Now, the president is expected to offer a series of proposals that don't fall on sharp ideological lines as last year's health care bill did, but will still test the two parties' ability to work together. He is expected to tout deficit reduction, but the two sides don't agree on how to get there. Republicans largely favor spending cuts, Democrats a combination of cuts and tax increases.

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) is already saying any education reform bill, another issue the president will speak about, should include private school vouchers, anathema to many liberal Democrats.  Obama wants to increase spending on education and innovation, even as Republicans call for across-the-board cuts in government spending.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/25/AR2011012501244.html?hpid=topnews

The Political Left laments Barack Obama's move to center

POLITICO: President Barack Obama plans to play up a bright future with congressional Republicans by channeling his 2008 campaign message of post-partisanship in his State of the Union address — but the liberal wing of his party isn’t quite seeing the light. As the president touts spending austerity, deficit reduction and extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, some Democrats worry Obama will pivot too hard away from the party’s core principles and concede too much to the new House GOP majority that campaigned on destroying his agenda.

A shift to the middle marks a key point in Obama’s presidency, just one year after a State of the Union in which he praised House Democrats above all else, hailing then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi for moving health care reform, financial regulatory reform, a jobs bill and climate change legislation. And it reveals how much Obama’s political reality has changed now that the 2012 campaign is imminent. At last year’s address, Obama also faced uncertainty — albeit on a smaller scale — with Republican Scott Brown’s upset victory to take the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat imperiling health care reform. Then, rather than backing away, Obama doubled down on his progressive agenda.

Some Democrats now wonder what the president will say and whether he will be willing to marginalize the left of the party to shore up his position among independents as his reelection operation gears up in Chicago.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48095.html#ixzz1C3dvIE3W

Mortgage Giants Leave Legal Bills for Taxpayers to pay

NY TIMES: Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress.

Randy Neugebauer of Texas wants to cut taxpayer exposure to Fannie and Freddie.

The bulk of those expenditures — $132 million — went to defend Fannie Mae and its officials in various securities suits and government investigations into accounting irregularities that occurred years before the subprime lending crisis erupted. The legal payments show no sign of abating.

Documents indicate that taxpayers have paid $24.2 million to law firms defending three of Fannie’s former top executives: Franklin D. Raines, its former chief executive; Timothy Howard, its former chief financial officer; and Leanne Spencer, the former controller.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/business/24fees.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=fannie&st=cse

 

 

 

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