Is Blago blowback the reason why SEIU's Andy Stern resigned?

Geez!  The never-ending story of fallen-from-grace governor Rod Blagojevich seems to be...well...never-ending.

You may recall, Blago was the Illinois governor who allegedly was trying to sell the Senate seat of president-elect Obama in 2008.

Well, lo and behold, Blago's defense attorneys subpoenaed the President today and, according to this, there could some blowback on retiring SEIU boss Andy Stern.

Today in United States v. Rod Blagojevich: following up on his 2008 claims that then-Senator Barack Obama was one of a few people who could testify to his innocence, his defense team issued a motion today to subpoena the President to testify in court. Most of the juiciest bits involving Obama’s role in choosing a new Senator are blacked out, or so we thought. It turns a lucky PDF glitch gave us VIP access. Who wouldn’t want to see the blacked out part? Let’s investigate!

Most of the non-blacked out portions of the motion are predictably tame general knowledge: the seat in dispute belonged to the President; the FBI did speak with the President about this case at some point in time. A “labor union official” close to the President (who may be SEIU President Andy Stern) is said to contradict public statements on the case by Obama directly.

At this point, it's all speculative.  However, since Andy Stern has been the lubricant to Barack Obama's piston and, as long as there those who still question the 'real reason' Andy Stern's exiting the union he built so abruptly, this is as good a theory as any.

For now, though, we'll throw this one into the 'grassy knoll' category.
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Is Obama as Bad as Bush for Union Bosses?

By reading some of the comments made by union bosses in BusinessWeek, one might wonder if the labor leaders wasted a whole bunch of their members' money back in 2008 or whether they set their expectations far too high.

“We’re demoralized,” said Robert Haynes, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. “We’re not happy about anything.”

“The labor movement is at a crossroads, and it has to rethink its political strategy,” said Amy Dean, a former labor official who is co-author of “A New New Deal,” a book about reshaping the labor movement. “The conversations that we are having at our kitchen tables and our living rooms that express our disappointment with this administration are very similar to the conversations that we had under the Bush administration.”

Ouch!

On labor issues, to compare President Obama to President Bush, is stunning!

Read the rest here.

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SOCIALISM UPDATE: AS OBAMA VIDEO SURFACES, JOKER POSTERS APPEAR & AMERICANS SHOUT AT CONGRESS, WHY AREN'T MORE AMERICANS EMBRACING CHANGE?

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK...

Let there be no mistake, the current President of the United States favors socialized medicine.

If Americans were listening carefully to the rhetoric during last year's campaign, they would have heard that the plan that was being pushed by then-candidate Obama is, in fact, socialized medicine. Regardless of whether it is called "single-payer," "universal coverage," or, now, [the buzzword of the day] the "public option," it is socialized medicine.

As more Americans have started to realize over these past few weeks, the current majority (and a few in the minority) party in Washington wants to the government to control health care. The only debate left open is not the principle, but the cost. In other words, comrades, do you want the Red pill or the Pinko pill?

Lest there be any remaining doubt, Breitbart has posted a video wherein the President specifically advocates for a government takeover of health care.



JOKER POTUS POSTERS APPEARING ACROSS THE COUNTRY?

...And while the White House may wonder why posters like this are mysteriously popping up, we suspect there will be many more appearing over the weeks and months ahead. [So far, these posters have appeared in Los Angeles and Atlanta, according to NewsBusters.]

SHOUTING DOWN GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS

In the meantime, as the videos below illustrate, Americans opposed to the government takeover are becomimg more vocal and, in some cases, shouting down their elected representatives.






Meanwhile, as unions and their fellow pushers of the government healthcare takeover spend up to $20 million on advertising and canvassing in August [see our Saturday post on the 10.2 billion reasons the AFL-CIO, SEIU, et al, are spending other people's money are sending ACORN squads out to neighborhoods].

WHY UNHAPPY?

We close this post with just one question:

As America moves closer to the socialist ideal that many on the left have preached, pushed, and mandated, why are not more Americans happy?