Not Without Honor

Immigrant Song
Last Monday, a new father spoke with heartfelt gratitude of the night nurse who had explained that the chair where he was dozing upright opened into a bed.


“They treated us like family,” said the father, Iftekhar Aslam, 23, an American citizen born in Pakistan, beaming under his baseball cap at his wife, Sobia Khanum, and their newborn son.


He had not minded sharing the room, divided by a curtain, with another pair of new parents — “Israel people,” he said, adding joyfully, “That’s New York — it’s freedom here!” (NYT, 6/10/2012)


It is always great to be reminded by immigrants how great America is!


Big Money
In a sense, Citizens United did have an important effect on the Wisconsin election. But the effect was almost exactly the opposite of what many pundits imply.


Labor unions poured money into the state to recall Mr. Walker. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the NEA (National Education Association), the nation's largest teachers union, spent at least $1 million. Its smaller union rival, the AFT (American Federation of Teachers), spent an additional $350,000. Two other unions, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union, which has more than one million government workers) and Afscme (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), spent another $2 million. Little or none of these independent expenditures endorsing a candidate would have been legal under federal law before Citizens United. (Michael W. McConnell, WSJ, 6/10/2012)


Someone get Bernie Sanders on the phone. He needs to stop complaining about Citizens United!


Blockhead
Indeed, our unemployment rate is higher today than it should be because conservatives blocked additional federal spending to prevent layoffs by state and local governments — and because progressives, including Obama, took too long to propose more federal help. (E.J. Dionne Jr. Washington Post, 6/10/2012)


In Dionne's world, unemployment could be driven to 0% if only government could hire ALL the unemployed. This is Liberal logic.


For Want Of A Hammer
I’d like to see him keep hammering away at Romney’s—the one thing, you’ve got to hammer at people’s beliefs. You can’t sort of convince people that, for example as the Republicans have been trying to do, that the problem with the president is that he was born in Kenya—that’s just not going to work. (Howard Dean quoted by Freebeacon.com, 6/11/2012)


Vermont's national looneybird Howard Dean proves ONCE AGAIN that it is Liberals who want to keep talking about Obama's  birthplace. Of course, this was immediately after he said this:


"First of all, we look at Wisconsin as a win." (Howard Dean)


Yes, he actually said it! The elevation of Howard Dean to the national stage several years ago is a gift that Republicans everywhere are just exceedingly grateful for.