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Countdown
One by one, teachers at public elementary schools here have been voting to buck their own union and take Mayor Rahm Emanuel up on an unusual offer: to accept bonus pay in exchange for waiving union contract provisions and keeping children at some schools longer each day...Union leaders suggest a broader motive, saying that the sidelining of labor unions and a mood against public workers seen this year in Republican-led states like Ohio and Wisconsin are now coming through in subtler ways in Democratic-leaning cities like this one, the nation’s third largest. (NYT, 9/18/2011)


Where, we wonder, are the protests, rallies, and sit-ins when Democrats like Emanuel, Patrick and Cuomo stand up to unions just like the Repubs?


Sign-On
The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses for its workers and a promise to reopen an assembly plant in Tennessee as part of its tentative new contract with General Motors, according to people briefed on the negotiations. (NYT, 9/18/2011)


You heard it here at RedStateVT first: bankruptcy looms for GM.


Complications
Complicating the politics of the situation for the Obama administration, part of the new loan came from Argonaut, the investment company backed by George Kaiser, an Oklahoma oil billionaire who is an Obama campaign contributor. Argonaut was already heavily invested in Solyndra, and provided another $69 million in cash in exchange for taking over $75 million that Solyndra was owed by its customers. (NYT, 9/18/2011)


Note the subtle whitewashing by the Times of this MAJOR scandal.  In effect: 'It's really a difficult political challenge for Obama.'  No it's not!  It is outright political fraud.


More Than Ever
Mr. Obama has done more for the country than many voters realize. (NYT editorial, 9/18/2011)


The Left now hits upon its latest way to spin the disaster that is the Obama presidency: "He is just so under-appreciated!"


 It is no wonder that George Will calls the New York Times "liberalism's bulletin board."