Rather, Fluke is the latest in a long line of my absolute favorite liberal typology: hysterical drama queens. From Murphy Brown to the Jersey Girls, Cindy Sheehan, Joe Wilson and the New School's Jean Rohe, these fantasists inject themselves into a boiling-hot public debate and then claim victim status when anyone criticizes them.
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In full indignation, Fluke said her critics were trying "to silence women's voices." She said this on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and a number of other national media outlets. (Ann Coulter, 3/14/2012)
RedStateVT has been waiting patiently for Coulter to weigh in on Sandra Fluke. She does not disappoint!
Down the Road
Lawmakers on Thursday morning approved a hard-fought measure to cut the retirement benefits for future public employees in New York City and across the state, dealing a defeat to labor unions at the end of a dramatic all-night session.
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“This is real reform, and for the taxpayers of the state gives them a better deal for their money,” Mr. Bloomberg said in a telephone interview. “It does not hurt any of our current employees or any of our current retirees, and down the road, if people don’t want to come to work for the city or the state, they don’t have to. (NYT, 3/14/2012)
Well we are not sure if it is "real" reform, but it is a start. And how about Mayor Pander talking tough!
Innocence Lost
As the city (Burlington) sees it, a Goliath of international banking is bullying a small city, which sadly but innocently miscalculated its ability to compete in the telecommunications business. From the bank’s perspective, the lawsuit is an attempt by an honest provider of capital to compel a deadbeat municipality to pay its bills.
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It argues that “if Burlington is permitted to breach its agreement without any recourse, the ability of Burlington to obtain municipal financing for other city projects ... will be compromised.” (Burlington Free Press, 3/14/2012)
The "deadbeat" argument seems to carry more weight and - win or lose - don't underestimate the difficulty Burlington will have obtaining future financing. Would YOU lend the city money?
Furious, Mad AND Tired
“I am furious,” said Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington. “We’re mad, and we’re tired of it.” (NYT, 3/14/2012)
Islam has been called by some: the religion of perpetual outrage because....well, you know why. RedStateVT now deems Democrats: the party of perpetual outrage.
The Nothingness
Standing before Congress, Mr. Obama brought forth "An Economy Built to Last." Not the real one we have now, but the one he's going to conjure after he's re-elected.
The way this works is the president breaks economic history into two parts. In his right hand are the awful policy mistakes someone else made before January 2009. In his left hand is the economy he'll bring to life after November. In between is nothing. You think you're looking at the Obama years from 2009 to 2012—8% unemployment, low growth, low investment—when whoa, it's gone! Never happened. (Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal, 3/14/2012)
In 2008 Obama had no political record to run on. He had done nothing in the Senate except run for president. He voted "present" to avoid leaving a trail. Hence, the only thing Fox News could do was to investigate his past associations which uncovered a web of radicals. The state-controlled media ignored it all. So now, Obama DOES have a record, but as Henninger points out, he will pretend it does not exist.
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