AWOL Indiana Dem Compares Fleeing State to Serving in Afghanistan
- Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:20pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Indiana State Representative Dave Cheetham (D) not only found a way to recently compare his caucus’s running away to Illinois to avoid a vote on an anti-union bill to soldiers serving in Afghanistan, but he also found a way to invoke the children:
National Review has a transcript:
CHEATHAM: The thing that sticks in my mind, I guess, more than anything else — and this is something that has happened. My wife teaches first grade. This past week, one of the kids in her class, a little first grader’s dad is getting sent to Afghanistan. And he was really sad. And she said, ‘Eell, you know, your dad is doing something really good. He’s going to a country where people there are trying to take away the freedoms of other people there, keep them from living a good life. So he’s leaving to do something good.’ And one of the little girls in class just on her own — and this has never been talked about in class, because my wife doesn’t do that — said, ‘It’s kind of like Mr. Cheatham, he left to make our schools better.’ And when I heard that, that gave me a reason —” (drowned out by applause.)
NR‘s Jim Geraghty carries the analogy to it’s (il)logical conclusion:
Oh, I see. Fleeing the state and refusing to show up for work as a state legislator is just like serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan! And I guess that would mean Republican state legislators are the Taliban and al-Qaeda in this metaphor.
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Comments (264)
donttreadonme
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:41pmI live in Indiana.
Report Post »Sorry America.
Meyvn
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:21pmMe too. There is no comparison. DTOM… we gotta vote fools like this out.
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:40pmAnd he said that without blushing. I am embarrassed for him.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:09pmWell, in contrast to the war in Afghanistan, he actually tried to help people with his actions. Shameful, really.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:39pmIf he went to the south side of Chicago and spent the night out on the streets he still would have been in a much nicer and friendlier place than anywhere in Afghanistan.
Report Post »microace
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:38pmuhh…except no one was shooting at us, and there were no suicide bombers…oh and it wasn’t a wasteland…oh and the Holiday Inn had a bar…
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:49pmyeah, but other than that it was just like it…..
Report Post »conservativemom99
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:38pmso let me see if I understand this…
Report Post »volunteering to go to a dangerous place where people try to kill you daily to keep the people of the country you love safe = running away to a hotel, eating in nice restaurants on someone else’s dime to AVOID doing your job.
Got it.
Bullwinkle
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:07pmThat’s why these pukes like to say that they speak in “nuanced” terms. Translates to “I can say anything and you‘re supposed to believe what I want because I’m sooooooo smart.”
Report Post »birddog40
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:37pmI think odumbo was talking about demos when he said they were a turd sandwich
Report Post »SERIOUSLY...NO
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:37pmThe irony of this man’s name being Cheatham is not lost. Sounds about right to me.
Report Post »DallyWama
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:36pmYes, they will flee just like the taliban.
Report Post »havanalead
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:35pmTurn off the lights……the night is over……You know what I mean. We’re not gonna recover from this kind of thinking. The morons have taken over. Here lies America….Once a Great and Mighty Nation. She died from the enemies within. RIP!
Report Post »PalinWest 2012
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:35pmDraft dodgers – perfect
Report Post »the zipper
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:35pmMr. Cheetham left to maintain the status quo. In fact, given his wife is a teacher (assume public), he has a conflict of interest. First I can’t fathom a 1st grader making that statement, secondly Mr. Cheetham needs to clarify and state whether or not he accepts the analogy.
Elections have consequences. On the national level we learned it with Obamacare. Here in Indiana its time for the democrates to act like grownups and except the dictate (vote) of the people.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:35pmHow dare you!!!!! My son is actually serving in Afghanistan where you get shot at on a daily basis. How dare you compare your cowardice to the brevity of our troops. This is one of the slimiest things I’ve heard! Give me the damn phone!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:02pmSorry. Didn’t mean to post this twice but my blood started to boil and I got carried away.
Report Post »Bullwinkle
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:05pmNo problem! Keep posting it all you like!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:23pmAgree!
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:34pmFrigging cowards don‘t believe in the voters’ rights to be heard. If they were the majority, they would be shoving crap down the throats of everyone, but when the shoe is on the other foot they hide like the cowards they are. Afghanistan indeed!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:33pmPerhaps if there were bullets and IEDs in Cowardly Cheathams American Afghanistan, but I digress.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:03pmINTENT: there is no comparison between what he did and Afghanistan. In fact this coward has nothing in common with the uncommon men and women serving or have served or will serve in afghanistan.
Report Post »I abhor violence, and strong discourage anyone from perpretrating it for any reason save self defense.
Al J Zira
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:33pmHow dare you!!!!! My son is actually serving in Afghanistan where you get shot at on a daily basis. How dare you compare your cowardice to the brevity of our troops. This is one of the slimiest things I’ve heard!
Report Post »conservativemom99
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:39pmcouldn’t agree more.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:40pmthis is the post I was waiting for. I couldnt say it, but a poster with a family member serving there should take this comment as the ultimate insult…
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:47pmHad he, and the other cowards, actually stayed in the battle they might just be able to envoke the analogy he used. But they ran away. And people clapped at his story. We’re doomed. Right is wrong and lies are truth.
Report Post »fishandpoi
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:16pmMy Son is also serving in Afghanistan. These dems need to compare what they are doing only to one thing and that is a BIG PALE OF STEAMY GRAB…. While our sons are at war, the dems went AWOL and were staying in a hotel. For this stupid asses to make the comparison is just #@*!…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:20pm@AL J ZIRA
I agree and I would like to thank you, your family and most of all your son for service to this country. Something these cowards know nothing about!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:22pm@ FISHANDPOI
Thank you also .. and your family and son. God Bless all the families and those serving their country.
Report Post »YouMayFireWhenReady
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:25pmThank you for your sons service.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:32pmSo i guess the people in Illinois are shooting at them, and firing mortars, Oh yeah and those roadside bombs they had to navigate through to get there….don’t forget about those.
Report Post »carnifex
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:14pmLeaving your family, going to a foreign country, fighting hostile natives, while being underfunded undermanned, and under ridiculous ROE’s = spending a week at the HoJoMoLo in Urbana to avoid a political unpleasantness. “Yes,…. impressive sir” as the Cheetoh chettah would say.
Report Post »(see I used cheetoh instead of cheatham-lol)
randy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:32pmOMG I just threw up in my mouth. Is this guy nuts?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:41pmYes .. he is … and I think our troops would BEG TO DIFFER with his “assumption”.
Report Post »Cherynn
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:31pmWhat an embarrassment to the fine Hoosier state. Fleeing to Illinois reminds me more of the draft dodgers fleeing to Canada during Viet Nam.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:35pmdraft dodger…That is very good…..
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:02pmCherynn ~ Excellent point. Wouldn’t hurt to send that message along to him directly.
h69@in.gov
Just finished sharing my two cents with the congressman.
Report Post »Stokerscore
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:28pmProbably never served a day in the military !!!!!!
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:01pmAre these twisted/awol dems still drawing a paycheck? Please tell me they’re not..
Report Post »krt64
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:31pmImagine that. Not only is he delusional he is also invoking something a child says that she heard her parents talk about. What a bunch of cowards. Kind of like those in DC right now. Too weak to make any real cuts………
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:30pmDo they strain when they have a bowel movement?
Report Post »Bullwinkle
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:02pmThey don’t have bowel movements. Explains some things doesn’t it?
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:16pmOr, they do have BM‘s and there’s nothing left in thier heads when they are done. Explains some things…doesn’t it.
Report Post »AmIhearingcorrectly
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:23pmDoesn’t Obamacare allocate millions to take care of that problem and, if that is not enough, I am sure the unions promise to supply the tp with your tax dollars.
Report Post »AmIhearingcorrectly
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:46pm…wait a minute…they PASSED Obamacare, didn’t they?
Report Post »hud
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:25pmThanks for the lead in. Cheatthem IS a bowel movement. Of course, with democraps it depends on what is “is” .
Report Post »PalinWest 2012
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:30pmIf we stayed while Pelosi and Reid were passing Obamacare the Dems can certainly stay.
Report Post »Browncoat359
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:29pmThis ass is my state representative,NOT by MY choice. This appearance was last week,the Dems have come back since then. Obviously they’ve run out of quarters for the ice machine.
Report Post »Browncoat359
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:35pmBy the way,Blaze editors,as much as I detest this man could you possibly trouble yoursleves to spell his name correctly? Cheatham NOT Cheetham. Yes,I know the correct spelling is less favorable but that’s just an added bonus.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:44pmSo, are you seeing any tides turning in your state? Are the calmer heads beginning to speak up for greater conservative views and constitutional stances as far as you can tell? Or is Indiana continuing to head down the path of socialist state? Are there wise thinking people that will be voting in 2012 in Indiana? Please say yes.
Report Post »Browncoat359
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:12pmteachermitch32,we got rid of Baron Hill so that’s a good sign. Hill of course wasn‘t at the state level but I don’t think this recent Democrat business of running away is going to be forgotten come next election. I think most Hoosiers are done with the the Dems follies but only time and election results will tell for sure.
Report Post »PalinWest 2012
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:28pmSure hope all the state senators who fled in all states will be replaced next time they are up
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:19pmYou got that right! This AWOL creep from Indiana is in no way to be compared to men in war. The poor child was making an analogy and he took it for a compliment. Hardly a compliment to run away from your government paid job and sit it out expecting your job to still be there. Get some Balz you State reps. and stand for your state to get out of debt first before you keep paying for gimme’s
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:27pmcan anyone please throw these communist out or at least throw them in prison, wake indiana, this is your state and you should be made as hell. take a stand now,or forever hold you peace, it is your call,FREEDOM, OR COMMUNISM !!!!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:43pmGood news, the at least two of the Wisconsin Senate Traitors that voted with the tyrannt Walker and his lackies the Fitzgerald Brothers have had recall petitions filed against them, more are expected in the coming days.
By the why, standing up for the rights of American Workers is not communist, but the assualt on those rights mimics the actions of Hitler and the facists.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:54pm@encinom,are you talking about the unions rights or the other 90% of Americans who are not union,and have to pay for everything including healthcare,?????? and if you are talking about the unions,then why the heck are you and your buddies tearing things up and call names and threatening to kill people,i thought we were all one country -one for all -all for one. what happened?? you where asked to pay a little more for health care,and look how you went crazy, non if that ain;t calling the kettle black i don’t know what is . wow,and you and your buddies like all those benefits,but don’t want to share, okay,that is what you want, then so be it,just don’t ask for help when you find out you have been used like a snot rag and left outside by the union leftwing bosses. let us see in the end who in the end who is left standing. i am sure you have prepared for what is coming,right??? ya’ll keep this up and we all will be in a soup line and i will be damn if i let you are any other union member in front of me.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:00pm@encinom: You do realize that a recall vote against these 2 will more than likely lead to the election of more republicans or God forbid, a Tea party backed candidate? I’ll bet you hadnt thought about that one. The people of Wisconsin have been awakened and WE win….
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:09pmI notice our liberal friend doesn’t mention the 8 Democrat recall petitions in Wisconsin that are being filed.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:14pm@blackhawk1, i guess he had to take his mandatory lunch break,then he can go and ask his union bosses how to answer this questions.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:18pmencinom
Report Post »Do you know how it is coming on the Republicans side and their petitions to recall the Democratic Senators? I know they were doing fairly well until the Unions came in and tore up their lists and intimidated the people wanting to sign. I have lost tract and haven’t heard, have you? I don’t think it is going well with the Unions intimidating the small businessess. I heard some were going to file law suits do you know any thing about that? I some how have gotten out of the loop and haven’t recieved any info. Can you update me please? Thanks
blacksmith
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:22pm@encinomom
Report Post »I guess you missed the signs of the socailist democrats, the democratic socialists and cpusa signs that were being carried in Wisconsin. Just good American union folk out marching and protesting for the good of us all. But you probably also missed those signs at the One Nation rally also. Try not to practice selective seeing and hearing. Just state your true agenda and let people judge it on its merit.
commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:26pm@blacksmith, i don’t think he can see very well,or just maybe he is one of those george soros money hoes,
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:58pm@commonsenseguy
First the unions in Wisconsin agreed to the cuts in compensation, they did not agree to the loss of their rights, nor did farmers and the rest of the citizens of Wisconsin agree with the tyrannt Walker.
Be careful with the “all for one and one for all” the Beckerheads may think your a socialist or a commie with all this talk about collectivism.
It must really, suck being a tea ******, I mean the sitting around in your trailers all day waiting to receive your orders from Beck or the Koch brothers, knowing that you are traitors.
Oh and by the way, the Wisconsin Senate is turning blue, I didn;t mention the recall against the dems, cause like the tea party in general, its another astro turf effort that is going no where.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:07pm“you where asked to pay a little more for health care,and look how you went crazy”
You realize that the Union’s response to being asked to pay more for health care as well as their pensions AND earn reduced wages was not “WISCONSIN MUST BURN” but “Yeah, okay”?
The unions agreed to ALL the budgeting issues, the ONLY thing they did not agree to was to have their right of collective bargaining removed. This is about Union busting and has always been about Union busting. Or why else do you think Walker suddenly dropped all the budgetary issues from the bill and only kept the part about removing their right to bargain?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:14pm2encinom, let me explain something, i am a small business owner { non union } only 7 empolyees, with all their families,around 25 .the empolyees all make 10 dollars an hour, some months,my wife and i don’t even get paid,we can’t pay our bills,but the employees get paid no matter what, we have mortgaged our home business,sold land cattle,just to pay for the outrageous insurance premiums and taxes,unemployment insurance,not including maintenance of equipment ,gas, and vehicle insurance, for just one month,we have even paid for their rent ,bills ,food,and even funerals of family members,because they have been loyal for years, they have even waited to be paid,but they knew we would make up to them so they work without one time gripping about anything,so now that work has come to a halt they must decide by june,{ because that is when all my savings run out } if they want to take a pay cut or leave,i hate for them to leave,but they know everything about our business finances, and if that is what they decide, then i will gladly shake their hands and thank them they will always be welcome back if and only if business picks back up,so please never accuse me of not being american,no where am i asking the government or the state to bail me out, i made my decision to go down my own road ,and will never ask for something i never earned. now,as fort you union people, if you continue to stand with commies and left wing nut jobs who would love nothing more than to destroy this great nation and her freedoms,then so be it,just remember you choice your path and choice to get what you could any way you could,so if you weren’t standing next to and with a bunch of left wing union bosses, then maybe and only maybe would i support you, i don’t a bargaining agreement with no one – nor should you. so let me see,i make nothing ,lose everything,so you can have what???? i made for years on less than a thousand dollars a month,and still raised two kids,own my own home and business plus payed a lot of bills, and you make what???? i will not lose everything so a few can have it all. and one more thing, we are one country, for now,
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:30pmNon-sequitur
O.K. let’s call it union busting. Like the lefts hero FDR said. Public sector unions should have no collective bargaining because that would be unsustainable. ““It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” Government collective bargaining means voters do not have the final say on public policy. Instead their elected representatives must negotiate spending and policy decisions with unions. Unions pay to elect Democrats who will give them anything they want. The voters are now telling the unions GET LOST!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:35pm@commonsenseguy
Boohoohoo,
I am sick an tired of fools like yourself, nothing more than puppets, repeating the party lines given to by Beck, throwing an american flag in the face of labor when the corporate fat cats do not want to fair wages.
Your private business has nothing to do with the Walkers of the world bullying labor, your small business has nothing to do with the fats cats in auto and steel that fight tooth and nail to cut labor salary and benefits so that they can earn larger and larger bonuses.
The workers in Wisconsin agreed to a reduction in benefits, yet the tyrannt is still looking for his pund of flesh.
Its time for you to stop being a useful idiot for the rich and wake up.
commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:42pm@encinom, i think you have that all wrong,it is people like me and millions more that buy the steel and the cars,you build,and it is and was our tax money that payed for the unions bail out,along with the banker fat cats . so the next time you go to work, remember that your 10% of the work force, and we make up 90% with us you don’t work. o by the way, i am a proud tea party patriot,i love small government and remember it was not the tea parties who uses strong arm,communist tactics to get what they want we also don’t stand next to or with any communist group,one more thing,we are not the one carrying Nazi signs,or tearing up our state hose,we are not the ones who are protesting any company just because of their political beliefs just to strong arm them into giving in.so call me what you would like,but remember we are all in this one way or another, either big government,more taxes,more freebies that they can’t pay for ,dictator style government { health care } ,or less government ,one tax,only elected officials with term limits, no subsides,no hand out { only for the sick or poor } it is up to us to decide,and i know where i stand ,with freedom not a new world order, how long do you think the union bosses will keep you hired when they can go to Egypt,or any third world country for less pay and more labor????? wow,that is what is already happening, so then what??? you will be in the same boat with the rest of us,
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:26pmthere are parts of Illinois that look a lot like Afghanistan, so that part of it makes sense..
sooner12
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:29pmDems are so pathetic.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:31pmOh no he di-int !!!!
Report Post »ISeeDanger.com
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:35pmTouching…
Too bad his wife left shortly after to go protest and not teach the kids.
http://www.ISeeDanger.com
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:37pmI say we send them over to Afghanistan for a “while” to serve and see if they still say the same way. These people are soooo out of touch!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:41pmThis is why Socialists cannot take the actual oath of office – there’s a conflict of interest between seeking an office which is designed to uphold the Constitution, and intending to somehow use the office to undermine it.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:43pmI think he needs to put his money where his mouth is: go to Afganistan and serve along side our brave men and women and document your month or two there. When you get back, if you get back, and your colleagues in the state senate confirm your trip abroad, then you have the right to compare your hiatus away from your duties, to Afganistan. Until then, do not insult our brave men and women!
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:45pmHow bout this for a comparison…..
Report Post »little Jimmy says: This is kinda like my dead beat dad who has a responsibility to help take care of me but he has fled the state and the police can’t find him….
seeker9
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:48pmMr Cheetham, you are no hero!
Report Post »So
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:52pmThe fleeing Dems should’ve kept fleeing.
Run away from your responsibility. Praise yourself for bad behavior.
Sorry excuse for an elected official. He should be ashamed.
But when you have an emperor who has no clothes that surrounds himself with minions that have no clothes that’s what you get– an alternate reality.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:53pmA Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:41pm
This is why Socialists cannot take the actual oath of office – there’s a conflict of interest between seeking an office which is designed to uphold the Constitution, and intending to somehow use the office to undermine it.
_______________________________________
The same can be said about VP Cheney, the Govenors of Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, the Astro Truf Tea Party congressman, etc.
Nor is it being a socialist when you put the rights of the citizens ahead of the rights of the large GOP corporate sponsors.
Blackhawk1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:58pmI take personal exception as a retired Army veteran to a fat a$$ liberal politician comparing his running away from doing his duty to my son who is currently serving in Afghanistan. There is nothing honorable about fleeing a state as an elected representative to avoid doing your job!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:02pm@and to the republic, now that is really true, but they know where the dead beat dad is,it is weather or not to go and bring his sorry but back knowing he will never keep a job,an the the government check cannot be garnished, what a system.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:04pm@encinom
It’s typical of a liberal like you to confuse a RIGHT and a PRIVILEGE. Collective bargaining is not a right, it was a privilege that has been taken away. The only rights humans have are the ones given to us by our Creator. You know Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Notice how liberals want to control those rights?
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:04pmThat is an insult to the military and especially those serving in places like Afghanistan right now. I’ve been out for 8 years and I am deeply insulted by his ignorance.
Report Post »AmIhearingcorrectly
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:04pmMr. Cheat’em – what an ass…
Report Post »Balrog28
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:05pm@ENCINOM
Report Post »You should turn that around and just state exactly what the Dems did by fleeing – supporting their major contributors for reelection campaigns against the taxpayers of the state that just elected the Repub Reps and Governor to do exactly what happened.
encinom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:15pmBlackhawk1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:04pm
@encinom
It’s typical of a liberal like you to confuse a RIGHT and a PRIVILEGE. Collective bargaining is not a right, it was a privilege that has been taken away. The only rights humans have are the ones given to us by our Creator. You know Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Notice how liberals want to control those rights?
Report Post »______________________________________________
So is the freedom of speech and association, not a right but a privilege? Where in the bible does this creator fellow list out what are human rights? Cleary the Bill of Rights first amendment is counter to the first commandment, one outlines the right of freedom of religion and the other prohibits such freedom (the whole no other gods thing).
Showtime
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:21pmI knew Grandma of 5 would cut him down!
Lady, I love your style!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:25pmWhat an analogy, trying to pump himself up isn’t he? Some one shoulld tell the little girl what a bully and a coward he really is. She is probably at today since the selfmade “Hero’s” wife is here teacher an she didn’t go to work but went to protest. Don’t you just love the conscienious people. always looking out for the best of others. I wish the would fire both of their sorry ARSES.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:25pmAh confused again I see. If you want to go by the Bill of rights where is collective union bargaining in there? Don‘t try to use the freedom to assemble argument either because that doesn’t hold water. Any right given by man can be taken by man.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:31pmEncinom
Report Post »Republicans have no monopoly on corporate sponsorship. I’ve never seen a corporation more embedded in an administration than GE is now. Better sell that glass house before you start slinging stones.
Rational Man
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:32pmThese people are totally out of touch with reality. This is a mental disease in my opinion.
Report Post »tom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:36pmMy son is in Afganistan and we are from Indiana, I do not appriciate this piece of dung comparing his public tit sucking to my son or his service!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:01pm“You know Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
“Liberty,”
You mean like the LIBERTY to associate in a Union? This law tries to limit their liberties.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:03pm“public tit sucking”
Hahaha, soldiers don’t suck on the public teat now?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:07pmWas he a draft dodger during Vietnam too?
Report Post »MrBigBillyB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:20pmIt’s interesting that those who want the “Liberty” of associating in a Union also want to limit the liberty of those who want to work the same job WITHOUT being in the union. ‘You are free to work wherever you want as a teacher, autoworker, steel worker, etc. as long as you pay us money and join our union and do what we tell you to do. And if you or your business don’t agree to support us, we are going to bully you and take away your business.’
Sounds more like extortion to me. Some freedom.
Report Post »kaijue
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:39pm“You mean like the LIBERTY to associate in a Union? This law tries to limit their liberties.”
You have the liberty to associate with a union….what you don’t have a liberty to do is use extortion tactics to take from one group of people to provide for another. You can call it collective bargaining but the rest of us now it for what it is. Extortion.
I keep reading all this crap from the left on these blogs and other places and its getting absolutely disgusting. You know, I can almost have sympathy why they come here and talk about corporate greed and other corporate abuses. That‘s not what’s happening in Wisconsin. Union employees are paid higher wages, receive excellent benefits and pensions and it’s never enough. They gotta have more and more and more. They don’t care if the economy is in the tank, how large the state debt is, just gimme more. Well, it’s not the government paying these public sector union employees its the tax payer, The people doing the same jobs in the private sector for less money….
And don‘t even go into that I’m just jealous because I don’t work in a Union. That’s just more crap. The smoke screen of the left to turn our eyes away from addressing real issues. People are losing their homes, some people are doing without meds, others are doing without food (something after watching these videos of the demonstrators is obviously not an issue with union employees). The unions don’t care, its just gimme more, gimme more. We don‘t have it to give so why don’t you go ask Trumpka or the contributors who gave millions to the unions to support idiots like this “representative” they seem to have wealth to spread around. How about a Union strike against your own Union leaders and their fat cat supporters who raise 10 of millions of dollars around the country to buy elections? Maybe everybody who once worked in a Union shop and lost their job because of unfair demands by Unions that resulted in their company moving elsewhere or shutting down entirely should get together and form their own Union and start demanding a piece of the public sector Union employees pie? Maybe then you’ll see and understand how the rest of us feel.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:07pmThis guy should be ashamed of himself, he’s a looser like ENCINOM.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:48pm“…so you see my lovely first-grade innocents, one of these men is going head on to deal with some very violent problems, while the other is running away from his job because the elections didn’t go his way. But, remember, what makes them exactly alike is that they are bothe GOING AWAY FROM INDIANA!….”
Report Post »Now really, could Indiana schools GET any better?
BuckOfama
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:17pmAnd I compare the AWOL dems to floaters in the toilet, they should be gone but you can still see them…..
Report Post »avenger
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:58pmthis stupid lib is clueless…lets shoot these (terrorists) mfkrs on sight to make it like Afghanistan…
Report Post »Buck Bagaw
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:28pmThe first sylable of this jackwagon’s last name is eerily appropriate.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:54pmActually there is a similarity in what he says. Only the difference is that it is really like someone on duty in Afghanistan becoming a deserter.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:55pm@encinom – I am sick an tired of fools like yourself, nothing more than puppets, repeating the party lines given to by Beck, throwing an american flag in the face of labor when the corporate fat cats do not want to fair wages.
You moron. These are public workers. We are your corporate fat cats. You are a walking example of why siblings should not marry.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:40pmIf you leave your post, your job, your duty, keep on walking stinky pants!
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:12pmHe just demeaned and insulted all our brave soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. Who does he think he is, comparing himself favorably to real heroes? He really has a high opinion of himself…….very delusional and narcissist. Is this the best Indiana can do when they vote? Shame on you, Hoosiers.
Report Post »Your guy stayed in a comfie hotel room, eating hot meals, watching tv; and he has the nerve to compare himself to our military who are under fire, sleeping and eating under terrible circumstances.
Your Dem is a disgrace.
jackrorabbit
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:09pmTell you what, you go serve there, on the pay the troops get, for six months and then come back and tell me how a hotel and restaurant food is as hard as being shot at.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:22amI thought you had to have at least a High School diploma to run for office??? At this point I would like to see if this jerk made it through 7th grade!
Our proof CNN Tea Party Poll is Bogus!
Report Post »http://www.americasteapartynews.com/cnnpoll.php
nptden
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:09amThese pinheads must all be coached by Hollywood liberals…they should tell the little girl the truth. Her daddy is putting his LIFE on the line to protect our Constitution, which Mr. Cheatham was AWOL on. He didn’t perform his duty, like her daddy is….And Mr. Cheatham is not fighting for the rights of the elected govt, and representing greedy people whose rights are not being violated…People who are interested in Self…Not like her daddy serving his fellow country-men.
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:58amI attended a sponsored talk at Mesa College back in the heady days after we passed Amendment #2 -but before the swing vote supreme Court just us –Kennedy said it was premised on extreme amicus–Guess he never read Steve Warren of Act UP “Warning to the Homophobes” gay manifesto published nationally by the Advocate Sept.1987) A College prof-turned gay activist attempted to suggest passing Amendment #2 had the same affect on this States Gay community as serving in Vietnam had on the soldiers who came back and were diagnosed as having manifest PTSD. As an Army Medic and as one of that era I’ve know many good men who were diagnosed as having manifested PTSD after having served multiple tours of hard combat. Passing Amendment #2 in Coloraod in no way compared to the Republic Of-nor to combat.This Democratic Pol sounds as gay as the lesbian professor from the Peoples Republic of Boulder Colorado the self diagnosis in both cases seems similar.
Report Post »freeus
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 10:31amAmericans are not dumb. It was a cowardly act.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:48pmHELLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…the CHILD said it! She is a 1st grader. Kudos to Jon (”NR‘s Jim Geraghty carries the analogy to it’s (il)logical conclusion”) for recognizing that Geraghty’s conclusion was “(il)logical.”
Report Post »CruzerDog
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:23pmGood job,
All their doing is dividing us further. Thank God, no middle anymore, we will have to choose.
What moderate or independent is going to go for this kind of dribble.
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:13pmSouth Side of OBAMA LAND-Chicago-
Report Post »These POS would not last on the South side let alone in Theater.
Sir you are a Joke.
You make a mockery of oer men and women in harms way.