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Stern Talk
SEIU president and Obama pal Andrew Stern yesterday called Senate opponents of Obamacare “terrorists.”
Senators who won’t pass ObamaCare are “terrorists,” the leader of America’s most powerful labor union said yesterday as Senate Democrats’ supermajority death watch entered its second week.
Democrats’ soon-to-evaporate filibuster-proof supermajority of 60 in the Senate was “a gift from the American people” that has been “squandered” by failing to enact so-called healthcare reform, said Service Employees International Union president Andrew Stern. Stern is President Obama’s closest ally in the labor movement and his union would benefit disproportionately from the enactment of Big Government healthcare. He practically lives in the White House, according to official visitor logs, but refuses to register as a lobbyist.
The Democratic membership in the Senate will be reduced to 59 whenever Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass). is finally sworn in and takes over the seat long held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) — a development many say dooms liberal plans to nationalize the nation’s healthcare sector. Brown’s once unimaginable election in the Bay State last week has sent shockwaves through the political establishment that continue to reverberate.
Employing tortured logic, Stern and other prominent leftists believe Brown’s defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley, who at one point led her GOP opponent by 30 percentage points in the polls, occurred only because Democrats hadn’t tacked far enough to port.
In her purple business suit, SEIU secretary-treasurer Anna Burger weighed in. “Everybody was shaken by Massachusetts but the reality is Massachusetts didn’t vote against healthcare; they already had healthcare.”
Burger, who is also vice chairman of George Soros’s Democracy Alliance, a donors’ collaborative that wants to turn America into socialist Europe, said Congress has to act — or else.
“There’s no way that inaction is going to get us anywhere,” said Burger, one of organized labor’s leading lights. “If we don’t do something about jobs, if we don’t do something about healthcare, if we don’t do something about financial reform that people see and feel, then 2010 is going to be a terrible election because people in fact voted for change and if they haven’t gotten change they will go back and vote for the next change what it happens to be.”
“I think they paid a price up in Massachusetts and they’ll continue to pay a price” if they don’t pass ObamaCare, said Stern without explaining to whom “they” refers.
“We should send the national security people over and explain to them why we don’t negotiate with terrorists,” Stern said. “There are a lot of terrorists in the Senate who think we’re supposed to negotiate with them when they have their particular needs that they want met.”
Ironically, purple-shirted SEIU members physically confronted and in some cases assaulted opponents of ObamaCare at town hall meetings across the nation last year. The union’s strong-arm tactics in organizing drives — often involving physical coercion — bear a resemblance to terrorism. The union’s violent organizing tactics have been condemned by labor leaders, including California Nurses Association executive director Rose Ann DeMoro and then-AFL-CIO president John Sweeney.
At yesterday’s labor forum in the nation’s capital sponsored by the left-wing Center for American Progress Action Fund, Stern, clad in a purple dress shirt and purple necktie, also shared his views on a wide range of topics.
Stern demanded that that the Senate’s venerable rules of parliamentary procedure be changed midstream in order to allow President Obama’s deeply unpopular healthcare plan to be rammed through Congress.
“It seems to me the easiest path, the only path forward,” is to use “reconciliation or other legislative processes to fix the things that I think a lot of people agree need to be fixed both now in the House and the Senate,” he said. Reconciliation refers to a procedural maneuver that would allow the healthcare bill to pass with 51 votes instead of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
Stern said the advantage of using reconciliation is it would allow majority Democrats to do an end-run around sometimes uncooperative senators such as Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). It would allow “the other 58 senators” to make decisions they weren’t able to make “the first time around because of the hostage taking that was going on in the Senate,” he said.
Stern denounced the Senate’s cloture rule that allows a determined minority to block legislation by requiring 60 votes to break a filibuster.
About the Author
Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
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Ret. Marine| 1.27.10 @ 6:31AM
"Senators who won't pass Obamacare are terrorist" Yeah sure Andy, look who's calling the kettle black.
The purple shirt purge, make no mistake about it Andy, the good people of this Nation didn't take kindly to your thugish actions over this past summer. If you think the Ma. election was bad for your agenda, wait til this next fall's election results are in. All the money you and your goons spent getting your fellow traveler into the People's House will have been a waste, how are you going to esplain to them why the union is now broke and cannot afford to pay for all the benefits you and your man in our house promised them. This is going to get interesting to say the least.
Appleby| 1.27.10 @ 7:10AM
Terrorist is the new Hitler, I suppose, now that the university age Whiner Generation has no idea at all who Hitler was (and I would guess that lots of them think he is still alive and wonder why we have not yet captured him).
Anybody at university who can read should read 1984. It is probably available in audio format for Sociology and Gender Studies majors.
Stryker| 1.27.10 @ 7:16AM
I agree Appleby - "terrorist" is the new "Hitler." And purple business suits are the new brown shirts. "1984" is a good start, then read the history of Germany from 1925 to 1940. The parallels are astounding; these people are Fascists.
Appleby| 1.27.10 @ 9:18AM
I would suggest they read Brave New World, but too many of them would immediately try to have it made into law...
Jon B| 3.8.10 @ 11:42AM
I agree, but you're 9 years late with that analogy.
I also agree, the parallels are astounding...
When Bush lied 100’s of times to start an unnecessary war of his choice (another $3 trillion down the drain) what did you say then?
When Bush gave corporations several trillion US taxpayer $’s by rescinding legislation that protected consumers (you)? Or when he shifted prosecutions for tax fraud from the top to the middle class, shifted the costs for toxic waste clean up to the tax payers, instead of the corporations who did it, tried to give back the AMT corporate tax back to 1986-Reagan's tax, broke the separation of church and state, where were you?
When Bush sued America to throw out 60,000 votes and was installed by a corrupt court with several Constitutional violations allowed, where were you?
When the Bush Administration claimed the right to arrest anyone in the world, including American citizens, without a warrant or probable cause, where were you?
When the Bush Administration claimed the right to wiretap anyone it wanted without a warrant, where were you?
When the Bush Administration claimed the right to imprison anyone forever, without charges and without the right of habeas corpus, where were you?
When the Bush Administration claimed the ability to begin investigating anyone it chose for any reason or no reason whatsoever, where were you?
Where were you when the Bush Administration began secretly poring through the bank records of Americans?
Where were you when the Bush Administration began encouraging people to spy and inform on their neighbors?
What did you do when the Bush Administration proposed creating a huge database to collect the transactional records and emails of everyone?
When the Bush Administration began torturing several hundred innocent people, what did you say?
When the Bush Administration gave KBR $385 million in January 2006 to build detention centers in America, where were you?
Don't bother to tell me: You were one of the people who decried the opponents of the Bush as being "terrorist sympathizers," "freedom-haters," "traitors,” etc. You supported every attempt by Dick Cheney and George Bush to exercise dictatorial powers. But now, and only now, you voice a fear that our freedoms and liberties, may be in jeopardy from an Obama Administration?
These are the identical actions of fascists. You know, the merging of Business and Government, stripping rights, ignoring the Constitution.
And now that all these things are in place, what will it take to return America to Constitutional law?
Richard Baker| 1.27.10 @ 7:37AM
Hey Andy! Sieg Heil to you and all the other Hitler Jugend (Youth) in SEIU. I guess you'll just use the "persuasion of power" all that much harder, hmmm?
Stephanie| 1.27.10 @ 7:58AM
Simply put, these people scare me.
marttin j smith| 1.27.10 @ 7:59AM
If there is good video of Andy Stern, Boy what a great political add could be made of that.
Rocco| 1.27.10 @ 1:07PM
Mr. Smith, you beat me to the punch. Yes, it would make an excellent political ad, if Republicans were smart enough to make use of it.
Darin| 1.27.10 @ 8:03AM
The comparisons between the SEIU and the Brown Shirts is fairly accurate, but there's one key difference. The Second Amendment. The German population was not armed and thus unable to resist. When the government trys to pass more gun laws or restricts the availability of ammunition, THAT'S the time to get really nervous.
Becky| 1.27.10 @ 8:39AM
It is fitting that the unions have set up offices in the WH. As private union jobs have been disappearing, public ones are increasing. In the worry about foreign governments, What and where does George Soros fit in?
What we are witnessing out in the open is called despotism. It is evidenced in the break down in the meaning of words (racism, contracts, constitution, law, justice, greed, et. al) for political and financial power.
Eric Cartman | 1.27.10 @ 8:53AM
Where are the lawyers on the right? If CEOs - or even the janitor for Halliburton's Houston office - showed up at the Bush WH, lawsuits would fly, investigations would gavel into secession, news conferences would be held. What the hell? Where are the Right's ballsy lawyers, mouthy Senators, desk pounding Representatives? Sheesh! What a bunch of wimps! Go after this guy! Pound him into dust! Use their tactics on them!
Steve| 1.27.10 @ 9:34AM
You know what else bears a resemblance to terrorism? Showing up where the President is speaking carrying a gun. So yeah ... let's clamp down on all these "terrorist" groups immediately.
Sir| 1.27.10 @ 12:56PM
Steve, are you aware of the existence of this marginally important grouping of verbage known as the "2nd Amendment"? You would do well to remember why the country was founded and the importance - therein - of guns. If you refuse, then your 'first impression' holds true.
Sir.
Margie| 1.27.10 @ 1:35PM
Well said, Sir. And I thank you.
Patriot| 1.27.10 @ 2:11PM
You mean that black guy who showed up at an Obama rally with a weapon slung over his shoulder?
That terrorist?
Smitty| 1.27.10 @ 2:21PM
Hey, Stevie, guess the Secret Service didn't agree with your 'terrorist' assertion. Not ONE arrest, right?
EXCEPT the arrests of your fellow liberal SEIU thugs who beat up an innocent Black Conservative. We know who the real terrorists are and they're all liberal Brownshirts like you!
tailgunner| 1.27.10 @ 3:08PM
It was legal under state laws.
The police knew.
The Secret Service knew.
So shut up.
Warof2010| 1.27.10 @ 9:46AM
Our Demand
We, the American People
American Patriots All
Allegiance To Our Flag, in Accordance With Our Constitution,
For Love Of Our Country, One Nation Under God
are being portrayed as right-wing extremists,
a lunatic fringe element, and astroturf
we are everyday Americans
We, are the American People
In regards to this administration's lobbyist-generated
back-room, closed-door, Healthcare Reform Bill,
to say Americans are ANGRY is the
"understatement of the year"
Enough already
Stop the insanity
Keep your politics out of our Healthcare
Healthcare reform done right utilizes the K.I.S.S. philosophy
and first focuses on four primary cost factors
Fraud, Tort, Billing, and Drug Prices
Healthcare fraud is said to cost taxpayers
hundreds of billions of dollars a year
With an intelligent database
there would not be this cost
Only idiots would add trillions of dollars
to a healthcare system that is leaking money like a sieve
without fixing the system first
Tort Insurance is quoted as between 4-6%
of the overall Healthcare cost
an estimated 120 Billion Dollars per year
Seems quite logical that to reduce costs
to take lawyers out of our healthcare
Billing hassle is quoted as 8%
of the overall Healthcare cost
With an intelligent database
there would not be this cost
Drug Price Reform
Americans demand the right
to obtain our prescription drugs
from the least expensive legitimate
pharmaceutical source on the planet
this is not subject to discussion
E-Verifying recipients for unemployment benefits
will save substantial amounts of money
and E-Verifying Driver's License recipients
will help secure our country
and E-Verifying all workers will generate 8.3 million jobs
currently held by known illegals
all recipients, of any entitlement
federal, or state
must be E-Verified to eliminate most fraud
and preferably Bio-ID'd to eliminate all fraud
Need we remind Congress, and this administration
that Entitlements cost taxpayers 50% of our Federal Budget
Fraud in Entitlements alone
costs Americans more, each year, than both wars
and arguably, fraud costs Americans, more, in a single year
than both wars, in total, over the last ten years
FIX THE FRAUD FIRST before doing anything else
and we'll save 1 Trillion Dollars a year
actually even more
in the meantime we will solicit
the input of all healthcare workers,
caring doctors, nurses, technicians,
and maintenance workers, et al
so they can tell us how to improve healthcare
and reduce the cost
in these very trying times
that are very likely to last for far longer
than any of us want them to.
they will help save healthcare for us
Do not disregard, We, the American People
by continuing to act, deaf, dumb, and blind
to the overwhelming consensus
of the very people you profess to represent
First Fix Fraud, Tort, Billing, and Drug Prices
process the ideas of the healthcare people
and we can have a one page bill
for We, the American People
sometime after we back away from the abyss
and are back on our feet again.
to say now is not the time
is another of those
"understatements of the year"
Terrorists should always be
the responsibility of our military
Keep Gitmo open
it's the perfect out of the way place
to keep terrorists, who would do harm to our citizens,
imprisoned by our military
and last, but not at all least
FREE OUR NAVY SEALS
punishing our Seals for punching a known terrorist
isn't any consolation for the deaths of innocent Americans
and it doesn't at all present the image of who we Americans are
Americans stand riveted behind our Military and our Intelligence Community
they must be encouraged to keep us safe
not deterred for petty offenses in the exercising of their duties
Heaven forbid if we, Americans, ever got our hands on terrorists
there would be no need for a trial
A Contract Of, For, and With, Americans
Patriots, it is our duty to educate all Americans
http://bit.ly/5Y15h8
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Capital Research Center: links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.27.10 @ 9:50AM
Great thoughts, guys.
You know.......... in my dream world.....SIEU members would be simply "barred" from federal elections...due to conflict of interest issues. heh.
As many of you know, I have been a pilot for thirty five years. One of the coolest things President Reagan did was fire the unionized air-traffic controllers. We pilots loved it.
It put all the smart-ass FAA officials on notice, and since then, we have about as good a government organization as there can be.
(I flew a Bellanca Viking in those days, and paid the same landing fees as the jet airliners at the big airports. Until Reagan, the controllers were always pushing us little guys around. Heh, fortunately the Vike could dive comfortably at 200 mph. I loved calling the controllers up and asking them to please "expedite" the jets ahead of me doing 180.) heh.
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Sternburger v. Paul Ryan links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Qwilly| 1.27.10 @ 10:24AM
Reds? what are these Reds???
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath(1940)
MikeF1| 1.27.10 @ 10:53AM
Andrew Stern is basically a power grabbing communist. And we all know where communism ultimately leads; death and destruction. In fact, in the modern era, say post-1960, unions have not produced much of anything other than the destruction of every industry they have infiltrated. Why we would even listen to this man is beyond me.
Tim| 1.27.10 @ 11:28AM
Obama would have been much better served as would have the entire Nation had he turned to advice from "Private Sector" Labor Leaders.
This isn't saying that they are perfect but the fact is that historically there has been a huge divide between Private and Public Sector Labor Leaders.
Mainly that most Private Sector Labor Leaders really want businesses to grow and be finacially sound because they know who butters their bread and who makes it possiblw for them to enjoy the posh Golf Courses.
That said, Stern is not a friend of Capitalism and is a two bit Communist Hood who wants to live the good life off of people's taxes which is a far cry from living off of people's union dues.
K962| 1.27.10 @ 11:38AM
As always is the case when the lefties can't answer the problem the demonization begins. Terrorists ?
You should know Andy ! Going to TEACH US Andy?
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SEIU Chief: ObamaCare Opponents Are “Terrorists” | The American Pundit links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Louis Jenkins| 1.27.10 @ 11:44AM
The chief SEIU thug has the nerve to call anti Obamacare Senators terrorists? Such obloquies identify Stern for what he is- a communistic rogue without a legally identified father. He is using perfect Saul Alinsky tactics. Focus attention on the other guy, get them to deny, deny, deny, and your own faults will not be readily seen. The SEIU's behavior in the past year is like the pot calling the kettle black and it was very close, if not on the mark, to Brown Shirt tactics. Are we supposed to fear these goons ? Are we supposed to look the other way as they harm those who cannot defend themselves? Should each of us grovel and hope not to become the focus of their 'political action' attention? They want us to remain frozen in the headlights, to be inactive, and just get along. Inactivity is always interpreted as approval. This administration, with all of its myriad divisions of political action and influence, wants us to believe that chicken droppings are chicken salad, and the SEIU/ACORN have been serving it up by the ton. If Stern wants to call patriots or constitutional loving people terrorists then I will wear the badge with honor, and so will many others. I can also guarantee that I will not crouch or cower when the Brown Shirts engage me nor will I turn my back on my neighbor. I will do my best to return hurt with pain, or worse, make no mistake about it. Stern and his SEIU ilk have the right to express their political beliefs, but intimidation and criminal-thugish behavior will not be tolerated.
loulou| 1.27.10 @ 11:46AM
SEIU and ACORN are essentially the same entity.
Stern is a racketeer, plain and simple.
pugsley| 1.27.10 @ 12:10PM
The last time I checked folks, there was a unlimited number of lamp posts and a huge stock of new rope in every hardware store in the country. Rats beware, you go too far. Be advised.
notmypresident2010| 1.27.10 @ 12:18PM
Stern is a punk! He should watch the end of the movie "Hoffa", to see where he is going to wind up.
DTCOFAZ| 1.27.10 @ 12:27PM
Wow...This Stern union thug goes way too far this time. He is the terrorist himself in front of the nation.
Let's see how Obama and his administration playing the chess game with the American people. Watch them carefully so we can track their moves and defeat them all on November.
Bob Miller| 1.27.10 @ 12:32PM
The SEIU way is to combine thug tactics with class warfare rhetoric. Somewhere in the communist-fascist continuum sits SEIU.
JH19| 1.27.10 @ 1:06PM
This guy epitomizes everything that is wrong with the unions in this country - he whines and probably wets himself when he doesn't get his way and then starts shaking his rattle. Unfortunately, he carries a big freaking rattle. The fact that the White House has him on speed dial should frighten every honest and hard working American to their very core. Sadly, that perception of fear trumps the irony of this terrorist calling Senators terrorists. It takes one to know one.
Clearly this Purple Pimp doesn't think the Constitution and rules of government should get in the way of union demands. The sky in Stern's world is not blue....everything is purple in his self-serving world. Go shake your rattle somewhere else Andy, American does not need you.
Rocco| 1.27.10 @ 1:12PM
Looks like we have our own Stern gang here, and it has nothing to do with a nation (Israel) winning its independence...
Amen, pugsley!
Franklin| 1.27.10 @ 1:37PM
I'm originally from Michigan. There once was a need for unions. Now we have two groups, the employer AND the union (three counting little o) screwing the employees.
"There are a lot of terrorists in the Senate who think we're supposed to negotiate with them when they have their particular needs that they want met."
Andy, bubba, YOU are the terrorist trying to get what you want.
Bill from WV| 1.27.10 @ 1:59PM
Stern will get the place of honor by swinging from the highest branch on the tree, when the time comes!
MRD
Patriot| 1.27.10 @ 2:16PM
What a big mouth for such a little man.---we're taking notice of you, Andy.
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The American Spectator : Stern Talk American Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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The American Spectator : Stern Talk capital university links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
tailgunner| 1.27.10 @ 3:13PM
"...and more importantly has the potential of letting China and Brazil and Venezuela or whoever participate in our elections."
Uh, how do you think Obama got elected?
Obama's campaign staff intentionally disabled online credit card safeguards to allow online campaign contributions from anyone and anywhere in the world.
Obama's bought and paid for by probably half the nations in the UN.
Patriot| 1.27.10 @ 6:21PM
People don't know the half of Obama's election chicanery. He's as dirty as the day is long.
Paul from SA| 1.27.10 @ 5:07PM
Racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, intolerant, facist, Nazi, unpatriotic, Neanderthal, anti-animal, anti-environment, anti-children, anti-elderly, ....
Now add terrorist.
Should real terrorists be insulted?
Liberty or Death| 1.27.10 @ 5:19PM
Is this guy for real? Andy Stern cannot seriously be the go-to-guy for advice in the Obama circle? It would pass off as comedy if this whole mess wasn't so serious.
The typical liberal, we can't get our way -solution-let's change the rules. I wonder if anyone has compiled a list of how many elections were stolen by these freaks in '08? I know the "timely," federal, Stevens trial in Alaska caused Mark dumb-ass Begich (D) to be our senator. I sure as hell know that idiot comedian, in Minnesota, should have lost.
I think if someone did some digging, we would see the Senate was never a legitimate, "super majority," for the Dipsh#@-o-crats.
I hope the American people are paying attention?
justplainbill| 1.27.10 @ 5:27PM
Jesus can and will get you a job and he can and will get you a raise. He doesn't fail during a recession or a depression. And He doesn't collect union dues. Only thing is that you have to hear His voice and obey it.
Richard Baker| 1.27.10 @ 5:53PM
I've seen the reference to the guy carrying firearms outside an Obama speech in Arizona. Absolutely legal under Arizona law. And the point is what?
JeffT| 1.27.10 @ 6:31PM
Andy "Workers of the World Unite" Stern, the most frequent "guest" at the White House, is a dyed-in-the wool Communist. A fish rots from the head down. And Obama is the head fish.
John II| 1.27.10 @ 6:41PM
"Ironically, purple-shirted SEIU members physically confronted and in some cases assaulted opponents of ObamaCare at town hall meetings across the nation last year."
Informative piece, but the term "ironically" is inappropriate. An event is said to be "ironic" if it is counter to normal expectation. ("Ironically, the firehouse was the only building on the block that burned down.") Stern has always been a cheap power-hungry thug, as characteristically evident in his over-the-top language about "terrorists." A man who behaves and talks like Stern shouldn't rattle anyone's expectations when he sends goons out to rough up those who disagree with him. No irony there.
He belongs in jail, that's all.
Doktor Riktor Von Zhades| 1.27.10 @ 6:43PM
We don't negoiate with terrorists; someone should tell PREZBO this novel concept, as it seems he has no problem with it.
NavyBrat| 1.27.10 @ 6:46PM
So far, Stern's Brow...uh, I mean PURPLE shirts have done a good job roughing up older folks who couldn't really fight back. Yeah, we're TOUGH! We're HARD! It takes a MOB of big tough guys to assault older folks at political rallies & bite their fingers off. I suppose that's all well and good until you start pushing around some of the younger folks at these rallies.
I'm only 5'5, 147 lbs & 30 years old. Do I look like an easy mark for your thugs, Mr. Stern? Please DO send your thugs around some of the Pat Toomey rallies this upcoming year. I look forward to meeting them. If they put their hands on me, I also look forward to putting my last 4 yrs of aikido training into practice. If one or two of your thugs end up with horribly broken joints (knees, elbows, wrists) or get choked out by me, will that make me a "terrorist" too? Just asking.
Stern's assertion that those who don't agree with OhBummer Care are "terrorists" is typical projection. The schmucks who suit up kids in the latest explosive fashions to blow up markets call the govenments they are fighting against "terrorists." Use of this type of projection is quite common amongst REAL terrorists & Marxist/Leninists.
"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."...Marx
Sounds about right, wouldn't you say, Mr. Stern?
A Stupid Voter| 1.27.10 @ 7:06PM
One must wonder which "union" or "unions" the President will be speaking for when he gives his "State of the Union" address tonight.
But for sure, and speaking as a stupid voter, I certainly agree that the President and his Democrat Congress are doing a very fine job of representing me. Go, Stupid!! Fight! Fight!
victor| 1.27.10 @ 9:02PM
Speaking of Unions, the only Union that Obama would be suitable for speaking before, would have been the old Soviet Union. They were the only Union that was more corrupt than the Teamsters Union.
SoCon| 1.28.10 @ 12:19AM
Hahaha! That was funny.
Marc Jeric| 1.27.10 @ 7:20PM
They informed us:
"We shall use the power of persuasion; if that does not work, we will use the persuasion of power."
Also: "The power flows from the barrell of the gun".
I heard it all some 60 years ago in that communist hell from which I was lucky to escape.
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Andy Stern Calls Obamacare Opponents ‘Terrorists’ | NewsReal Blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
KEYBOARD555| 1.27.10 @ 11:56PM
Along with the senators there are a lot of American Terrorist, because we the people do not agree with OBAMA.
If you don't believe this ask, (ANDY STERNS-PRESIDENT OF SEIU UNION)
BE careful citizens, if you disagree with OBAMA, Sterns will send his SEIU thugs after you, with the power of persuasion.
I am one of STERNS "OBAMACARE TERRORIST" and proud of it.
SoCon| 1.28.10 @ 12:20AM
Snort!! What an idiot.
John Locke| 1.28.10 @ 12:46AM
Stern is just a jibberjabbering old fraud so it makes sense that he walks around with his nose jammed up OhBummers' skirts And Our Lord and Savior? He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales --- the falsification of reality is his oxygen. OhBummer is a cancer that just keeps on giving, and he vows not to quit. I wonder if chemotherapy or nuking him would get him the @^$%#&!! out of my life. This was not a State of the Union speech, it was a loony lecture and litany of lies, half-truths and misrepresentations. If OhBummer were wearin' a skirt, he'd be a bloody harpy.
Yosemeti Sam| 1.28.10 @ 2:44AM
" Stern talk ...."
Threshold sedition talk - IMO!
BHO and Stern are blood brothers in the Chavismo ideological model of transmogrifying the American way of life - a way of life evolved via the 200+ years of freedom-induced democratic pangs of 'change' presciently prototypically ambered by the Founding Fathers
freedom construct in that ever memorialized document odious to BHO: The Constitution of The United States.
Spit on it mr. president et al - and I spit on you!
RICO on the horizon for Stern at al. When GOP controls HR.
Fossilization for the Democrat party come
2010 - and beyond.
The jig is up!
Thank your Dear Leader BHO - from Democrats; those who went along for the joy ride.
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ImpeachIbama| 1.28.10 @ 1:09PM
Andrew Stern, STFU!! The only reason you wants, Ibama to pass a HC plan, is you could go into the hospitals and form unions with the staffs, by saying you can get the cadillac plans and not have to pay for it... SEIU and the UAW DON'T pay for our HC under the Ibamacare plan!
chris pedersen| 1.31.10 @ 4:01PM
the remedy for this IDIOT and his union is called RICO! Just ask the Teamsters Union how that worded out for them getting rid of the real MOB wiseguys a/k/a La Cosa Nostra! This is wht it will take for the SEIU members to WAKE UP IT worked for me as a former Teamster Member. Stike the RICO enema tube in the front door and all of the fecal matter rolled out the back door! Many purged from any union membership or any positions for employment for life
Mark L. | 2.1.10 @ 10:35AM
Stern has said before," we will use the power of persuasion, and if that doesn't work, we will use the persuasion of power!". He thinks very much in the way that fascists of the last century did when it comes to controlling the "masses". He has spent much of his career working out of the Saul Alinsky manual ' Rules for radicals' which calls for marginalizing your enemy. Call them "terrorists" for instance. Or " Tea baggers", " Truthers", "racists", " homophobes", " rednecks", etc. This is how it's always done. Make your foe look weak , they will become weak. Well, it isn't going to work this time. We are wise to the ways of the Progressives and Socialists. The Constitution is our best weapon against these "terrorists".
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This is all so obvious for those who take the time to think about things, the problem is so many people have stopped thinking for themselves and allow the media to do it for them. Trouble then starts when people suddenly realise that they have been fed a pack of lies for so long.
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