Obozo's actions say it all. This is a GOOD move, sending a very clear and straight message about who this treasonous monstrosity in the white house really is and what he's about. Too bad the American people really don't care.

Mark: The American people DO care. It's just that there is so much to find wrong with and to oppose in our anti-American president Obama's "vision" for this once great nation (i.e., the fatted calf), that it is hard to direct attention to *everything* he does wrong, especially since the MSM is running silent on this (and everything else). Just because you don't hear people grousing doesn't mean we don't care. Obama's strategy of disinformation and overwhelming our sense of outrage necessarily means we will be quiet about the breadth and depth of our hatred of Obama. But rest assured. We hate the man and everything he stands for.

The worst thing about unionizing is that the ones who benefit the most are only the bosses of the biggest unions. The membership (workers) get screwed by government AND the union that is supposedly representing them.

Samuel Gompers is turning over in his grave. This is a part of the "unholy trinity" of socialist government, false religion and crooked labor. I saw this coming after the Patco strike of 1981. The AFL-CIO is no friend to the working man/taxpayer.

Stuart - thanks for your encouragement. I do, however, know that most of the people in my life really don't care. Like my wife says, "unless and until ... whatever it is ... affects my life, I don't care." My point to them that by the time anything that the obamanation has done strikes our individual lives (except our expanding tax bill), it will be far, far too late to do anything at all about it. He knows that fact. The media knows and hides that fact to keep the majority of us clueless until then.

Someone please explain to me what is the difference between "big labor" and mobsters? both use extorion to get money from someone else right? And obviously violence can result in both cases... so is there really a difference?

I have been a member of the UAW since 1972, and finally got fed up. We got screwed badly by our company in our last contract, and the local lost their cojones. The Region 1-D Director didn't have the guts to show up and support us. He sent a 2nd string hack who was promptly booed off the stage. So, as a gesture of my disgust, small as it is, I decided to use Beck to cut my dues. The portion going to the International that would go to the Far-left fringe groups and "social justice" activities which I abhor.

Trumka is a very dangerous person and should be watched closely.

Ruth, big labor and organized crime have been bedfellows from Day One...in fact, they are virtually the same entity.

It's very easy today to figure out what the Left is doing. You don't even have to investigate their activities anymore. All you have to do is listen to what they accuse us of doing. They accuse us of inciting violence because they're inciting violence themselves and they need to distract everyone from that ugly fact. They accuse us of racism because they're the ones obsessed with race and perpetuating dependency. They blame us for economic crises because they can't admit it was their own foolish policies that caused the problems. They accuse us of destroying liberty and Democracy because they're the ones systematically dismantling the Constitution, all our rights, our free-market system, and everything that makes America great. All this forced-union membership, SEIU payoffs, threats and violence are just one small slice of the pie that is Leftist politics in America today. There is no corner of American life not under direct and intense assault by these radicals.

Mark, you may know a lot of people with their heads in the sand, but I've attended rally after rally with people who, after the rallies are over, continue to organize, attend meetings, write letters, petition Congressmen, and read everything they can find on the issues. We started the Obamacare debate with just over half of Americans in favor, and within a few months we flipped that statistic to more than 60% strongly opposed. Ideas matter. We can win this fight because we have the facts, the truth, the history all on our side. All we need to do is refuse to compromise.

Here's a test to see if you are a racist: would you like obozo any better if he were white? No? Then you pass.

To Mark's wife and many others that say their vote does not count or they won't do anything until it affects them personally..."All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." Well, we are reaping now what we don't want because of that attitude!

Christie - It is all well and good to repeat that wonderful quote, but tell me, what are we to do? I have been politically active for many years, I am known for it. But for the last two+ years have been doing everything I can think of, to no avail: editorials, debates, rallies, e-blasts, personal intervention - no response. The local school board, politicians(and not all are completely corrupt), local and state GOP leadership, all seem to think everything is business as usual. So, I am definitely not doing nothing, but it really doesn't seem to matter.

In Germany they first came for the Communists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me —

and by that time no one was left to speak up: Pastor Martin Niemoller

Wildfire...thank you, thank you for all your work. Please don't be weary in doing what is right. I am doing what I can also. There needs to be more of us is what I am saying. People willing to stand up and be counted! And it does matter - to you, to your family, to the others that are doing 'what they can'...it sooooo matters. To the establishment, it doesn't seem to matter, but you and I both know, that when we lay our heads down at night, we can be comfortable with who we are and what we have stood for! Another quote I like is "A nation divided against itself cannot stand"(paraphrased). Keep up the good work!!!!

Wildfire, with all due respect, you couldn't be more wrong. "To no avail"? Nonsense.

We defeated Obamacare in four separate major drives in which Obama invested massive political capital -- and he came away with nothing. It wasn't until he realized his own party would not support his scheme that he decided to just cheat. They had to cheat to get it done, and therefore it cannot pass inspection the first time it goes before the SCOTUS. That defeat might be delayed a couple of years, and it might be nullified by a GOP Congress repealing it entirely next year, but ultimately Obamacare is dead no matter what. Why did Americans start out favoring Obamacare by a slim margin and now oppose it strongly by a very wide one? Because folks like you and I got out there and matched every administration fantasy with cold, hard facts until Americans realized what a con the whole thing was. That's why.

Cap & Trade went down in flames on three separate occasions. Obama even tried to manipulate the BP oil spill to stir up support for his noxious economy-killing tax scheme, and even as the country was riled up against Big Oil, they still opposed the stupid bill. Why? Because folks like the Tea Party and the Cato institute and bloggers like myself worked very hard to educate Americans on what was really in the bill. That's why.

Obama's turned a media-generated public backlash against the Iraq and Afghan wars into a defeat for himself personally by his incredibly stupid handling of both wars. How did that percentage flip in such a short time? It sure as hell wasn't because the Mainstream Media hammered him relentlessly on the issues and reported only negative news on the wars. No, it was because bloggers and talk radio pundits kept the important questions in front of Americans, and wouldn't let go. We forced the country to take a hard look at Obama's empty rhetoric.

Why is that two thirds of Americans fiercely oppose the Ground Zero mosque despite the dogged efforts of the administration and the MSM to give that thing the hard sell, and spin it for Islam? Because columnists, bloggers, talk radio and FOX News have reported the FACTS the media refuses to report and made Americans aware of what's really going on.

I've learned something in all of this. It's that ideas really do matter. Now is not the time to lose heart, get frustrated and walk away. Now is the time to redouble the fight, answer their every outrage with a righteous defense, and hold them to the same standards we hold ourselves. The ONLY way they can win is if we give up.

It is no secret that organized crime is well entrenched into the labor unions. That is not to say all union members are part of organized crime. It is so easy to be in the hierarchy of the unions and know that the mobsters are there. Who do you think orchestrated the murder of JFK & RFK? You guessed it.

Wildfire...thank you, thank you for all your work. Please don't be weary in doing what is right. I am doing what I can also. There needs to be more of us is what I am saying. People willing to stand up and be counted! And it does matter - to you, to your family, to the others that are doing 'what they can'...it sooooo matters. To the establishment, it doesn't seem to matter, but you and I both know, that when we lay our heads down at night, we can be comfortable with who we are and what we have stood for! Another quote I like is "A nation divided against itself cannot stand"(paraphrased). Keep up the good work!!!!