Monthly Archives: February 2011

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‘You Are F’ing Dead!’

It’s been a very, very, very bad week for state Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh). First, the paragon of virtue gets busted in a massage parlor during a prostitution raid.

But, no, he couldn’t just stop there and keep a low profile. Hintz just had to go double down on stupid by threatening fellow Rep. Michelle Litjens (R-Vinland) following the contentious vote on Gov. Walker’s budget repair bill.

Hintz told Litjens: “You are f***ing dead!”

The Blogfather himself, Charlie Sykes, broke the story on his radio show this morning. Here’s audio via The Daily Caller:

Gotta love that new tone and civility from the Left.

Says Hot Air’s Allahpundit about Hintz:

The only person in America who’s had a more interesting week than this guy is Charlie Sheen.

Seriously. If this had been a Republican — any Republican — who had said this to a Democrat, his or her career would be over. Finished. Kaput.

The Oshkosh Northwestern — finally — gets around to reporting on the incident, but as Charlie indicated, does anyone seriously think this story would have gotten out if he had not reported on it first on his radio show?

I love self-answering questions.

Another gem buried in the Northwestern story:

Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald was not available to comment Monday. An aide said Fitzgerald called Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, Monday to ask how he wished to proceed on the Hintz comments as well as an incident in which Rep. Chris Danou, D- Trempealeau, is accused of throwing an object that hit a Republican on the other side of the aisle.

Once again, seriously, are there any adults in the Democrat caucus in the Legislature? Any at all? Bueller? Bueller?

We have one verbally abusing a female colleague, which as we all know, because she is conservative, is acceptable since because she is not on the Feminazi plantation, she has betrayed her gender and as a result deserves whatever misogynistic abuse she receives. We have another legislator, apparently also still in the Terrible Twos, throwing things across the room at colleagues.

Never mind the 14 AWOL Fleebaggers still hiding out somewhere in the Land of Lincoln, pretending that they didn’t lose the election in November.

Perhaps whatever passes for Democrat leaders need to order an adequate supply of Pampers, because it’s possible that the babies may not be toilet trained. And we certainly don’t want then flinging that stuff around.

The new Democrat Party logo:

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Still Even More Union Thuggery On Display

The umpteenth example of just how the new tone and civility is working with union thugs desperate to hold on to their power and ability to milk taxpayers comes from Sacramento, Calif., during the MorOn.org rallies on Saturday.

A union thug physically assaults a Tea Party counter-demonstrator. The headline poorly describes the altercation as a “shoving match.” It was clearly more than that. It was am assault.

The opposing rallies were divided by 10th Street, west of the State Capitol. All was peaceful, until members supporting unions crossed the street.

An amateur videographer caught a shoving match on tape. The video showed a face to face argument right before Richard Andazola, 28, of Stockton, shoved a tea party activist.

“He bum rushed across the street, came right at us, swung his bullhorn at me, hit me in the hand and then put his hand around my throat and started choking me,” Rodney Stanhope of Placerville said.

The video doesn’t show the choking incident, but clearly shows the shoving. Because of it, Sacramento Police officers cited Andazola for battery.

Andazola tells a different story though.

“He was spitting on me, he’s bigger than me, and I told him to get off of me,” Andazola said. “I was backing up and he was staying on me ’til the point that he spit in my mouth.”

Here’s the video:

Says Chuck Devore at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government:

I spoke to Stanhope, as he drove to the hospital for x-rays and treatment for the injuries sustained at the rally, and asked him what happened.  Mr. Stanhope said that he was with a group of about 150 Tea Party activists across the street from the MoveOn.org-organized union rally.  A union man with a bullhorn, Richard Andazola, 28, was yelling across the street at the Tea Party activists, calling them “fascists.”

Then one of the Tea Party activists, also bullhorn equipped, replied, “We pay your salary!”

This enraged Andazola, who, according to Stanhope, rushed the Tea Partiers, chanting “Fascists go home! Fascists go home!”  He violently shoved Stanhope twice, the second time apparently striking Stanhope in the throat.

Big Government has video of Andazola ranting like a lunatic, as well as a picture of him receiving his citation, with his Teamsters jacket clearly visible and identifiable.

These people are frightened. They realize that the end is near for their stranglehold over taxpayers’ wallets. They also realize the momentum is to adopt right-to-work legislation for all workers, including those in gummint, and that means the end of the Democrat money laundering machine as well.

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Anger Directed At Wirch

From the Recall Wirch rally yesterday came indications of significant voter backlash against AWOL Fleebagger Sen. Bob Wirch, who skipped out on the critical budget repair bill vote along with 13 other Fleebaggers simply because they were going to lose.

KENOSHA – “This ticked me off,” said Dan Hunt of Pleasant Prairie, “the fact that Sen. Wirch, and the other 13, left the state to avoid a vote.”

Hunt, chairman of Taxpayers to Recall Robert Wirch, was standing in front of several hundred people at the Brat Stop on Highway 50 just a few hundred feet west of Interstate 94. He said organizers had set up 200 chairs. Those were filled and it was standing room only behind them.

Two lines led into the room from the entry and at the end of each line was a table with petitions for people do sign if they hadn’t already signed on one of the clipboards circulating in the entryway.

Wirch, a state senator from Pleasant Prairie, is among the 14 Democratic senators staying away from their jobs in Madison in protest of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill. By staying away, passage of the bill by the Republican-controlled Senate is stymied. Wirch represents all of Kenosha County except Wheatland; his 22nd Senate District also includes the City and Town of Burlington in Racine County.

The anger came from people on both sides of the issue, both supporters and opponents of the budget repair bill:

Although the departure of senators and recall efforts have their roots in Walker’s budget repair bill, which would strip almost all collective bargaining rights from public employee unions in the state, Hunt would not say what he thinks of the bill.

“It’s not about the bill. We have people in this room right now who are against the bill,” he said.

And the real issue?

“He should be out because he didn’t do his job,” said Kris Husenica of Brighton. She was one of the people signing petitions in the hallway outside the rally.

Elections have consequences, folks. It wasn’t all that long ago that a certain Narcissist sat down with Republican leaders of Congress and arrogantly told them: “I won.” Essentially, the Republicans weren’t welcome to participate in the process because Our Lord and Savior had won the November 2008 election. Democrats in Congress rammed both the porkulus bill and ObamaCare down the throats of their political opponents and the American people because they won the November 2008 election.

Now, the fact that Democrats were thrown out on their collective party symbol in November 2010, elections no longer matter. They act as if they refuse to admit that they lost and are now demanding the control the process. Funny, but I don’t remember Democrats in Madison allowing Republican participation in the last budget repair bill, which they rammed through with little debate in 24 hours.

What the AWOL Fleebagger 14 are doing is throwing a “terrible twos” temper tantrum, while the parents remained in Madison and acted like adults. All 14 of them should be sent to bed without supper.

In other words, recalled and replaced with someone who will respond to their constituents, not the powerful vested special interest known as Big Gummint Labor.

 

 

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The Day Of Reckoning Is Here

The reality of the situation in Wisconsin, as well as other states, is stark: We’re broke.

And governors and legislatures from Wisconsin and Ohio to New York and New Jersey recognize that. Republicans Scott Walker, John Kasich and Chris Christie and Democrat Andrew Coomo are telling Big Gummint Labor that enough is enough.

Watch this video from The Heritage Foundation and Reason.tv via James Wigderson:

The most controversial aspect of the budget battles deals with public-sector unions and collective bargaining. Wisconsin’s Walker and others argue that the current process is inherently stacked against taxpayers because the government isn’t spending its own money like companies in the private sector do. What’s more, taxpayers have no way of opting out of any agreement that’s reached. In the private sector, consumers can always take their business elsewhere. That’s the basic reason why progressives such as Franklin Roosevelt and labor legend George Meany were against unions for government workers.

Dirty little secret: Members of WEAC — Wisconsin Extortion Association Council — receive 75 cents in fringe benefits for every dollar of salary earned.

Nice work if you can get it.

There’s this little graphic from the MacIver Institute that graphically displays the $13 billion budget bomb planted by former Gov. Jim Doyle and the former Democrat leaders of the Legislature, many of whom now are hiding out in Illinois avoiding responsibility:

The bienniel budget that ends June 30, 2011 is arguably the worst budget in the history of the state of Wisconsin.

  • Over $2 billion in tax increases, including state-mandated fees like automobile registration, as well as the insipid “iPod tax,” in which the state now taxes Internet downloads.
  • On top of that, the state allowed local governments to jack up property taxes as well as repealing the QEO on school district spending and allowing school districts to increase taxes without having to seek voter approval.
  • Increasing borrowing and spending to unsustainable levels.
  • Illegally borrowed $200 million from the state patients compensation fund, which the state Supreme Court has ordered must be paid back with interest.

In other words, the 2009-11 bienniel budget was just smoke and mirrors and continued the practice of the Ruling Class to kick the can down the road and make it someone else’s problem.

Also, don’t forget that Diamond Jim and the Democrats who ran the Legislature took porkulus money from the Obama Regime and plugged that into the budget to mask the real structural deficit, or, if you are Jim Sasser, daffuzit.

The children have been playing in Madison for eight years. Now the adults are in charge and have to clean up the mess made by the irresponsible. Same situation faces those in power in Ohio, New York and New Jersey.

We support the restriction of collective bargaining for gummint unions to wages only. Why? Because the taxpayer does not have a voice at the negotiating table. There’s only the union thug and the politician in the pocket of the union thug.

The taxpayers? BOHICAN’d every single time.

If we don’t want to become Mexifornia or Illinois, the time to act is now.

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Vile, Disgusting Union Thug Threatens To ‘Teabag’ 17 YO Boy

There ought to be a law against this.

From The P/Oed Patriot via Weasel Zippers, a union thug in Jefferson City, Mo., threatens to “teabag” a 17 year old boy passing out copies of the U.S. Constitution. And yes, we mean “teabag” in the vulgar sense of the word, the one the Left uses to refer to Tea Party protesters.

And this is after several minutes of disgusting verbal harassment.

The P/Oed Patriot tells us to ignore the incorrect date on the video. The footage was shot yesterday.

The money quote:

You know what teabagging is don’t you? It’s when my ball bags are down on your nose.

Since it happened in his backyard, Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has more here.

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Paul Shanklin Triple Play

Three of Paul Shanklin’s funniest parodies to make you laugh:

First, the Reverend Al Sharpton sings “Barack the Magic Negro”:

Then, Bawney Fwank sings “Banking Queen”:

Side note: you know a parody is effective when you hear the original and all you can think of is the parody. Heard the song being parodied here — ABBA’s Dancing Queen — recently and all I could hear in my head was Bawney Fwank singing Banking Queen.

Finally, Paul Shanklin as Elvis and “In A Yugo”:

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State Media Hypocrisy

Both the Sentinel Journal and the Wisconsin State Journal engage in rank hypocrisy over the state budget battle.

First, this morning’s Sentinel Journal editorial suggests that Gov. Walker needs to offer an olive branch to the 14 AWOL Fleebagger Democrats who ran to Illinois rather than debate the budget repair bill and take a vote.

There is no olive branch to offer. The Fleebaggers have put their indebtedness to Big Labor before their duties to their constituents.

And it’s funny, but I don’t remember the Sentinel Journal demanding the Democrats remove controversial provisions from the last budget repair bill under the regime of Jim Doyle.

Let me make this clear: making any changes to the existing bill legitimizes the “terrible twos” temper tantrum of the Senate Democrats. Much like the sellout of the Republicans in the Indiana House by Gov. Mitch Daniels allowed the House Democrats, who also fled to Illinois, to claim victory and raise the probability of such a tactic being used again when the petulant children cannot get their way, should Gov. Walker remove provisions that Senate Democrats find objectionable, their tactics will have been justified and will be used again.

And the Wisconsin State Urinal goes one better by running this editorial calling for both sides to rise above ugly partisanship then running this cartoon by lefty hack Phil Hands comparing Gov. Walker to Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini or Generalissimo Francisco Franco (who, by the way, is still dead):

Typical hypocrisy of the Left. So much for the calls for civility and a new tone. Demanding that we practice it while comparing the Governor to a fascist dictator like the neanderthals occupying the State Capitol have been doing all week.

 

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Right To Deny Service?

All the lefties are high-fiving and celebrating the hoax known as The Merchant Restaurant in the People’s Republic of Madison denying service to Gov. Walker last weekend.

They are insisting that all businesses have the right to deny service to anyone they choose. To some extent that is true. For example, for reasons of health and sanitation, restaurants can deny service to people without shirt or shoes. No shoes. No shirt. No service. Also, establishments that serve alcohol can — and in many states required to — deny service to patrons who appear to be intoxicated. That’s for reasons of liability.

Here’s a case from almost three years ago where a wedding photographer refused to photograph a same-sex wedding, got sued for discrimination and lost. From Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy:

Elaine Huguenin co-owns Elane Photography with her husband. The bulk of Elane’s work is done by Elaine, though she subcontracts some of the work some of the time. Elaine refused to photograph Vanessa Willock’s same-sex commitment ceremonies, and just today the New Mexico Human Rights Commission held that this violated state anti-discrimination law. Elane has been ordered to pay over $6600 in attorney’s fees and costs.

I haven’t seen any written statement of reasons, but the order must implicitly rest on two interpretations of state law: (1) This sort of photography company constitutes a “public accommodation,” defined by state law “any establishment that provides or offers its services, facilities, accommodations or goods to the public, but does not include a bona fide private club or other place or establishment that is by its nature and use distinctly private.” (2) A refusal to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony constitutes sexual orientation discrimination, which New Mexico law forbids. These may or may not be sensible interpretations of the statutory text. But the result seems to me to likely violate the First Amendment (though there’s no precedent precisely on point).

Photography is an art, and Huguenin is an artist. It may not be high art, but it embodies a wide range of artistic choices (especially since she says she takes a “photojournalist” approach, rather than just doing normal staged photos). And though she sells the art to its subjects, that is of course part of a long and continuing tradition in the arts, including painting and sculpture, as well as photography. Certainly many of the works protected by the First Amendment (books, newspapers, movies, and the like) were created for money and distributed for money.

Yet the New Mexico government is now telling Huguenin that she must create art works that she does not choose to create. There’s no First Amendment case squarely on point, but this does seem pretty close to the cases in which the Court held that the government may not compel people to express views that they do not endorse (the flag salute case, West Va. Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, and the license plate slogan case, Wooley v. Maynard).

I remember reading about this case when the decision was handed down. I am willing to bet that the same hysterical lefties that are defending the restaurant owner in the Madison hoax have no problem with the court’s ridiculous decision against this wedding photographer.

The First Amendment violation to which Volokh refers? The right to freedom of assembly. That means, for those of you who graduated from Racine Unified, the right to associate or not associate with people of your choosing. Government cannot force you to associate with people with whom you do not wish to associate, nor can it prohibit you from associating with people of your choice.

Businesses that are classified as public accommodation, such as a restaurant, are prohibited by law from refusing service to anyone based on race, ethnic origin, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation. And rightfully so.

But a wedding photographer is not a public accommodation and should not have been the recipient of a lawsuit let alone the loser in the case.