Change Is No Stranger

California Files
Now even unions are catching on to the damage.  The Los Angeles Times reports that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) gave final approval to the new scheme two weeks ago after listening to "scathing comments from union workers fearful of losing their jobs." Hard-hat union members from the steel, concrete and oil and gas industries were among the opponents. (WSJ, 11/31/2011)


The Journal editorial references California's adoption of a cap and trade policy....and the potentially devastating effect on union jobs. As RedStateVT has remarked before, Dems are NOT the party of the working man. 


Acting Out
(Actress Ellen) Barkin also takes issue with the cable broadcaster often tied to the Tea Party. "The blatant lying that passes itself off as journalism. I don’t even need to get there to go mental. Can you imagine a legitimate newsperson—Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw—just lying on the news?" she asked, heating up in rhetoric. "Let alone the entertainment factor—you know, news as entertainment. And because of the enormity of the money behind that machine, they have convinced this ever-growing group of really struggling, working-class people, that these f--kers can somehow, in some way, represent them. They do not. I mean, let’s not even start, because that’ll take up a whole month if I go down that road."


Barkin has never been shy to share her political beliefs, and often in very colorful ways. She once tweeted that, "If Ann Coulter didn't have a dick...I'd call her a c*nt." Following a night of live tweeting a Republican presidential debate, she said, "G'mornin my frenz...Im still all f*cked up from debate nitemares & sh*t...dreamt Newt stuck his Mitt up my a** w/o any Santorum."  (Huffington Post, 11/8/2011)


Making fun of celebrity nit-wits is a lot like fishing with dynamite. It's too easy. So Barkin can't imagine Don Rather "just lying." Even middle schoolers know that Rather was exposed for peddling forged documents about George Bush's military service. Does that count as a lie?  Readers will also recall that Barkin was married to Billionaire One-Percenter Ron Perelman and got millions in a divorce settlement. She then turned around and donated most of this windfall to a local homeless shelter. Oh wait, she didn't?