Walker Calls Out The One in the WaPo

Doesn’t this hugely amuse you too?

Our reform plan calls for a 5.8 percent pension contribution from government workers, including myself, and a 12.6 percent health insurance premium payment. Both are well below what middle-class, private-sector workers pay. Federal workers, however, pay an average of 28 percent of health insurance costs.

It’s enough to make you wonder why there are no protesters circling the White House.

Meanwhile, back in Obama’s home stomping grounds of Cook County, IL, there are actual calls for the public unions to back off.

Other states are exercising long latent citizen muscle to confront the public union excess driving us to the poorhouse.

Come on America, let’s move! Our way:)

--crossposted at Potluck

Thank You Rick Santelli. Madison a Fitting TEA Party Tribute

It's been two years now:)

The CBOT rant heard round the country.

Andrew Breitbart today: We the people. We the people will prevail.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere

--James Madison

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

Palin Wins NRO Straw Poll

Her latest Facebook post, on the Obama budget, here.

...Establishment AP damns with faint praise, while some interesting polling surfaces in New Mexico and at Kos:)

A Jeffersonian moment? Taking on the dysfunctional elites.

Previous posts: Palin Nation out West, Rosie Essentially Defends El Rushbo. China Version, She knows America by heart

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

Blue Dogs Turn Red

The midterms were no fluke. Meet Ashley Bell.

And even a plurality of Democrats oppose raising the debt ceiling. The Hill.

More shaky blues: Blue Dogs have 'no communication' with Pelosi, Dem leadership, says Shuler:

Rep. Heath Shuler also said the centrists have more in common ideologically with former President Ronald Reagan than Nancy Pelosi.…

We the people are the ones we've been waiting for:)

P.S. Dan Riehl: DLC folds

P.P.S.

mikememoli Mike Memoli

Palin on FBN tonight: "It’s not good ... to hear our President obstinately denying the need to move to the center."

...Is our president Barack Obama out of touch?

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

Does Obama push your button? WTF

Maybe the geniuses at the White House should have glommed on to the old Gerald Ford button, Whip Inflation Now. (It worked so well then too.)

The president votes present, in hopes of diverting most Americans from his "progressive" reactionary hooey.

Increasingly, Americans aren't buying it. That's what the midterms were all about.

The Pew survey of 2,257 adults also found that people using social media for political purposes were slightly more likely to have voted for a Republican in the 2010 midterm elections.

Because we know we're stuck with this crushing Big Government tab. WTF. Drivingordinarily mild-mannered Americans to join the World Taekwondo Federation.

P.S. WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT’D): Initial jobless claims jump 51,000. Instapundit

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

100 Programs the RSC Wants to Abolish or Cut

The new Republican House voted to repeal ObamaCare with more votes than its original passage, making good on their winning midterm election platform. WSJ:

Democrats are deriding last night's House vote to repeal ObamaCare as "symbolic," and it was, but that is not the same as meaningless. The stunning political reality is that a new entitlement that was supposed to be a landmark of liberal governance has been repudiated by a majority of one chamber of Congress only 10 months after it passed. This sort of thing never happens.

Today, the Republican Study Committee lays down a marker, with a bid to cut $2.5 trillion over 10 years:

If year to year spending is not restrained and no plan to solve the problem with long term unfunded obligations is laid out and implemented, interest on the debt will begin to swallow up much of the annual federal budget. The nation’s ability to finance defense would be constrained to the point of rendering it a second tier world power, or worse, and domestic spending would be so squeezed that the negative consequences are hard to foresee.

Program after program is on the chopping block--we can't keep these going in good conscience. We can't saddle our children and theirs with a bleak and worse future than we were bequeathed ourselves by our parents, the greatest generation.

This is the mission of the TEA party--to get America back on a path to growth and leave a legacy of freedom to live the American Dream anew.

More. NRO. Meaningful Cuts
It’s a TARP! Geithner Won’t Show for First Issa Hearing

And George Will: The vicious cycle of government that should worry Democrats.

More. Repeal, Replace, Defund ObamaCare:

The House passed the ObamaCare replacement bill on Thursday by a vote of 253-175, with 14 Democrats voting with all of the Republicans. The resolution directs four House committees to immediately begin drafting solutions to replace the existing job-killing healthcare law.

While the GOP House passed the repeal of ObamaCare on Wednesday, the Democratic Senate is blocking a vote on it. So while the repeal is on hold, the House will begin the the process to defund and replace ObamaCare. [snip]

Upton said that he expects bipartisan support for several of the replacement provisions. “There are a number of areas where I think there is common ground. Pre-existing conditions, shopping across state lines, tort reform -- even the President supported tort reform,” he said. .

... A Principled Fight for Our Prosperity, and Posterity:)

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

Will the League of Women Voters come out of the political closet?

Coralville Courier. League of Women Voters Lobbies for ObamaCare

Who buys your lies any more.

The last time I had a run-in with them was at a public debate, in a public setting. I was distributing flyers--and they had a problem with that. They thought since they were sponsors, apparently, they had veto-power over information distributed to the public.

We saw the last election their objections to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Well, we know their allegiance is not to non-partisanship but to the leftist line.

...And the last lecture of theirs I attended, my table mates defended President Clinton's reception of the general who ordered the massacre at Tiananmen Square. Perhaps they were just uninformed. That would not be a surprise either.