Are Unions An 'Us' Or A 'Them'?
Divide and conquer works. When you face a strong enemy it's good strategy to break them apart into smaller units that can be fought separately.
Fox’s Varney Ecstatic That Pensioners May ‘Take A Haircut’
Stuart Varney hopes the bankruptcy of Stockton, CA will lead to pensioners there and elsewhere losing out on their promised benefits.
Mike Huckabee Doesn't Think We Need Any More Teachers, Firefighters Or Cops
Mike Huckabee was part of a particularly awful "This Week" panel Sunday morning, and when asked about Mitt Romney's remark that our economic problems in this country are all because we have too many "government workers," he doubled
Romney Champions Dishonest GOP Attack On Federal Employees
Rolling out his plan to cut the national debt last week, Mitt Romney promised to "align federal employee compensation with the public sector." If so, the roughly 2.8 million federal workers whose pay has been frozen by President Obama can
The GOP Has Seen America's Future - In Mississippi
Republicans have seen the future and it's in Mississippi.
On the same day Wisconsin Republicans turned to unprecedented and possibly illegal maneuvers to strip public workers of collective bargaining rights, the Michigan legislature blessed
Republicans Push National Race To The Bottom
Just days after his sneering "so be it" at the prospect of massive job losses which could result from GOP budget policies, House Speaker John Boehner declared public employees have a "machine gun" pointed "at the heads of local officials." That
590,000 Republican Lies About Public Employees
As the New Year - and the new GOP House majority - approaches, Republicans are ramping up their war on government workers. Grover Norquist and his Weekly Standard allies urged Congress to let cash-strapped states go bankrupt in order to slash
Republicans Launch Phony War On Public Employees
Move over, welfare queens, IRS agents and trial lawyers. The Republican Party has a new bogeyman: the public employee. With a sluggish U.S. economy, cash-strapped states and under-funded pension programs, Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin and other
New Studies Expose GOP Lies About Public Employees
In August, the New Republic, the New York Times and others warned that the 2010 campaign would feature a new Republican bogeyman. The Times announced, "There's a class war coming to the world of government pensions," while TNR's Jonathan Cohn
