“Purely by chance, I happened to be in Little Rock, AR just when news broke regarding President Clinton’s role in the Obama administration’s illegal effort to offer a job to Rep. Joe Sestak in return for a political favor. It turns out that ex-President Bill Clinton was in town that day to stump for beleaguered Sen. Blanche Lincoln.

Compassionate fellow that he is, President Clinton graciously served as the keynote speaker for the Neighborhoods U.S.A. luncheon on May 28, 2010. This was my first time seeing President Clinton face to face and I was curious to hear what he had to say.

As far as I could tell, President Clinton’s primary message was that those of us working at the neighborhood level were the most important people on Earth and that his experience at the national level had taught him that it was a more cruel world than what we were used to seeing or observing.”

…Based on the comments he was making even as this latest scandal broke, I think it is safe to say that he really is a manipulative liar … concerned only for himself and his political party.”

Any time I hear the former President say: “The TRUTH is”…I get a little bit nauseated.

NRO: Thomas Sowell – The Real Public Service

June 1, 2010Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

“Every year about this time, big-government liberals stand up in front of college-commencement crowds across the country and urge the graduates to do the noblest thing possible — become big-government liberals…”

“..The wonderful places where you are supposed to go to do “public service” are as sheltered from the brutal test of reality as you have been on this campus for the last four — or is it six? — years. In these little cocoons, all that matters is how well you talk the talk. People who go into the marketplace have to walk the walk.

Colleges can teach many valuable skills, but they can also nourish many dangerous illusions. If you really want to be of service to others, then let them decide what is a service by whether they choose to spend their hard-earned money for it.”

— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. © 2010 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

Hill Buzz: Confront Union Workers Loafing…

June 1, 2010Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

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Confront City Union Employees Loafing on the Job With Video Equipment At Every Possible Opportunity — It Makes Them Scurry Like Rats

“He called across the train tracks at the crew and asked, “Why are there five of you needed to sweep one small section of this platform over and over again? Why is the Union assigning one of you to work and four of you to supervise? How can the CTA cry about needing more tax money when it has four guys loafing and one guy pretending to work?”

One of the union guys, who was leaning against the metal railing, quite comfortably, yelled back, “We’re doing safety control”. Then he and the rest laughed a little.

Sebastian then whipped out his phone and pointed it at them, as if he was taking a video. Unbeknownst to them, his phone was dead, the battery drained hours ago, but it still made an effective prop.

Sebastian repeated his questions to the union crew, this time while pretending to take video of them standing there.

The response was instantaneous, and very reminiscent of bugs or rats scurrying away from a light that’s startled them. They saw the camera and collectively these men all left the platform as a group, disappearing down the stairs. There was no more talk about being “safety controllers”. Once they were challenged, and feared they’d end up on YouTube loafing and wasting money like this, they broke up their gang and left.

What if the public did this to every union crew working in the city?

What if citizens took out their camera phones and taped all the “supervising” that’s being done on the City’s dime?

What if people started challenging the need for a five man crew to sweep one small part of a platform over and over again?”

WSJ: Peggy Noonan – He was supposed to be competent

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“I don’t see how the president’s position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president’s political judgment and instincts.

There was the tearing and unnecessary war over his health-care proposal and its cost. There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration. And now the past almost 40 days of dodging and dithering in the face of an environmental calamity. I don’t see how you politically survive this.

The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen. This is a terrible thing to see in a political figure, and a startling thing in one who won so handily and shrewdly in 2008. But he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They’re in one reality, he’s in another.”