Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats
Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
First lady Michelle Obama said, “Let’s Move!” Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally?
Faced with stifling debt, bloated pensions and intractable government unions, liberal Midwestern legislators have fled those states — paralyzing Republican fiscal reform efforts. Like Monty Python’s Brave Sir Robin and his band of quivering knights, these elected officials have only one plan when confronted with political hardship or economic peril: Run away, run away, run away.
Scores of Fleebagger Democrats are now in hiding in neighboring Illinois, the nation’s sanctuary for political crooks and corruptocrats. Soon, area hotels will be announcing a special discount rate for card-carrying FleePAC winter convention registrants. Question: Will the White House count the economic stimulus from the mass Democratic exodus to Illinois as jobs “saved” or “created”? More important question: How much are taxpayers being charged for these obstructionist vacations?
Voters have spoken: In Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and across the heartland, they put Republican adults in charge of cleaning up profligate Democrat-engineered messes. Instead of defending their same old tax-hiking, union-protecting, spending-addicted ways, Democrats are crossing their state borders into big government sanctuary zones — screaming “la, la, la, we can’t hear you” all the way.
Wisconsin Democrats warned that their delinquent members — evading state troopers and literally phoning it in — could be gone “for weeks” to prevent a quorum on GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s modest plan to increase public union workers’ health insurance and pension contributions, end the compulsory union dues racket and rein in collective bargaining powers run amok.
Big Labor insists its intransigence isn’t about money, but about “rights.” But the dispute is about nothing but money and power — the union’s power to dictate and limit its members’ health insurance choices to a lucrative union-run plan, for example, which adds nearly $70 million in unnecessary taxpayer costs.
On Tuesday, only three of 40 House Democrats in Indiana showed up for legislative debate on a similar bill to end forced unionism and join 22 other “right to work” states. Hoosier media reported that some of the fugitive pols may be headed to Kentucky in addition to President Obama’s old political stomping grounds.
The White House and Beltway Democrats have paved the way for subverting deliberative democracy, of course. If only Republicans in Wisconsin and Indiana had followed the Obama/Pelosi/Reid model and rammed their behind-closed-doors-crafted legislative agenda through in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend, the Fleebaggers wouldn’t be on the lam today. But GOP legislators just don’t roll that way. It’s Democrats who cut and run — abroad in wartime and at home in crisis.
Almost eight years ago, more than 50 Texas Democratic state lawmakers holed up in Oklahoma and New Mexico for weeks to stymie a vote on Republican-sponsored redistricting plans they opposed. Over the past week, it was thousands of public school teachers in Wisconsin who faked illness and boycotted their classrooms. And it’s union henchmen calling out loud for statewide strikes to bring Republican reformers to their knees.
The Party of Truancy has become a laughingstock — and Americans aren’t waiting for left-wing late-night comedians to bring down the hammer of well-earned mockery. The Internet has lit up over the past week with “Wanted” posters and all-points-bulletin alerts for missing Democrats.
Blogger John Hayward of the conservative Human Events newspaper joked that “the next issue of National Geographic will track the migratory patterns of fugitive Democrats across the great plains.” Seton Motley of LessGovernment.org weighed in: “First, Wisconsin. Now, Indiana. When we said ‘runaway government,’ it was a complaint — not a suggestion.” Comedian Stephen Kruiser snickered that OFA — the Democrats’ political organizing arm, Organizing for America — now stands for “Organizing Fleeing Americans.”
Note: Many of the loudest Washington and Hollywood critics of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to resign from office in 2009 are themselves now AWOL on the Wisconsin and Indiana AWOL-ians. Who’s all for mocking “quitters” now? Anyone?
One mortified Wisconsin taxpayer speaks for many. “As the daughter of former Wisconsin Senate Minority Floor Leader William R. Moser (D-Milwaukee, Dist. 6),” Mary Magdalen Moser told me, she’s humiliated by the “flee-bagging” politicians. “I am ashamed of the actions taken by the minority party to subvert our system of government by boycotting its legitimate processes. Anarchy is undemocratic, and I know that my Dad is spinning in his grave right now. … I do not support refusing to participate, because that will not solve any of the issues facing our state.”
Remember the 2008 Democratic Party chant: “Fired up! Ready to go!” Well, there’s a new Democratic Party motto in town: “Ready to go? OK, then, let’s blow this pop stand!” It’s difficult to see how Obama and his absconder allies can “win the future” when they’re stampeding over each other to escape the present.
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This was reported in one of our smal papers in Ohio, in one of my “neighboring” school districts, they’re starting their talks about cuts so that they can put a levy on the ballot in May. This school district has approximately 1000 students from K-12. Small district. The treasurer is “willing” to forego the health insurance for his wife and himself, saving $40,000 over 4 years. They’ll take “medicare” for the both of them and he gets a $2,000 bonus for doing it. Now his salary is intact, $90,480 a year. And he’ll get a 4% bonus if he does the report for the school district (his job) by himself without any “outside” help. So, he gets a 4% bonus for doing his job, switches to medicare as well as his wife and makes $90,480 a year for a district this small
The superintendant makes 6 figures a year. People this is out in BFE in central Ohio. And from what I hear from a few of the teacher friends I have, a lot of these teachers leave so that they can earn even more in the bigger cities. And you want to guess why we voted for Kasich to get rid of this craziness?
I did a parody of Crosby & Nash’s “Chicago” during the ’08 election season.
They even say “Yes, we can” once in the coda!
Fleebaggers and fleabaggers. These blood suckers are never satisfied. It’s time for the host to get out the insecticide and get rid of these pests. No one forced them to get a job as an elected official. If they don’t want to do the job, then quit.
On February 23rd, 2011 at 9:40 am, Virginia Patriot said:
It’s not new. It’s been their M.O. for quite some time.
Remember how Dems obstructed George W. Bush’s judicial nominations?
Democrats in captivity mimic feces flinging monkeys at the local zoo….I would hate to see what those “great plains” hotel rooms will look like after a few weeks.
On February 23rd, 2011 at 1:21 pm, granite said:
“Yes We Can!” has been a motto of Communist Revolutionaries for many decades…
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HI HAPPYSCRAPPER–#66. I’ll see your two daughters at Valparaiso and Purdue–and raise you two sons helped by us through Medical College of Wisconsin–at out of state tuition rates. Thank heavens for the student loan programs that got them through school. And we did a lot of internship and residency help at University of New Mexico. They didn’t have to live on Alpo and rice!
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Ditto for my Business and Market degreed daughter at UTEP.
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My work experience was over 44 years–similar to your 40 years worth. And the thing that keeps coming to mind is how well we were able to do by hard work, savings, smart decisions, and God’s help throughout our lives.
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And we did it without a Department of (no) Energy, Department of (poor) Education, Department of (not much) Homeland Security, Environmental (ripoff) Protection Agency, et. al.
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We are paying a lot more now to support blood sucking corruptocrats of both political parties. And their Union and Corporate leeches.
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These overpaid parasites are making Rocky Mountain Ticks look good–Lyme Disease and all.
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John Bibb
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Hey you Tea Party Members…don’t pick up any hitchhikers in and around the area where those bloodsucking Dem Fleabaggers have run off to. Personally, these runners have abdicated their responsibility to their constituents and should be immediately impeached.
If it wasn’t such a pathetic and contemptuous situation created by these socialist/communist morons, it would be hilarious. Reminds me of a scenario I read in an Ayn Rand novel years ago.
But seriously, there must be a state constitutional remedy for those representatives who have chosen to abdicate their responsibilities by fleeing their states and refusing to participate in the democratic process.
If they refuse to accept the pluralistic consequences of our majority rules democracy, then they should all move to China.
Rush is absolutely on fire with his assertion that public sector unions are nothing more than elaborate money laundering schemes for the Dems and their reelections.
Here’s the WSJ article that he referenced:
http://tinyurl.com/49kb897
Also, a portion of BHO’s stimulus fund package helped maintain and protect those same public sector jobs in Wisconsin. Add in 49 more states and the whole concept of “shovel-ready jobs” is yet another massive con perpetrated against the American public that I’m sure everyone has suspected from the beginning.
Not that I’m just sucking up, but our lovely hostess asserted that the Porkulus package was just kicking the can down the road years ago.
It needed fixing, I’m sure they gave you raises because you deserved it, it didn’t take a union to get it for you. I’ve had a lady work for me for 15 years this year. She has never taken a sick day, is always on time and always does that little bit more than expected. I give her a raise every year plus bonus, she’s worth it.
P.E.R.F.E.C.T!! Bullseye Michelle!
Minstrel: “When danger reared it’s ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled…”
Robin: I never…
Rush said it was SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of their porkulus fundss. A tad more than a portion!
Schoolhouse Rock!
Wow. That’s a person with integrity. She maintains her party affiliation (apparently) as she no doubt has real and substantive differences with the GOP, but she has the fairness to call “Foul!” on her “side” when their actions are damaging the people.
Country above party! Imagine that…
Everything I’ve thought in one tidy bundle, thanks Boss, the reckoning is coming.
I am all for elected Democrats fleeing into hiding. When the trend reaches the White House, I will be very, very happy.
If they wanted to keep their jobs, they would show up and do them – just like private-sector employees do.
I rarely say this, but maybe we should give the politicians what they want.
Yep, it looks like you people are still completely lost:
“Only 5 states don’t have collective bargaining for educators. Those states rank as follows, re: avg. SAT+ACT scores: South Carolina 50th, North Carolina 49th, Georgia 48th, Texas 47th, Virginia 44th. Wisconsin is 2nd. LGT raw data”
I’ll bet you folks are from all of the lowest scoring states.
Probably not the first bet you’ve lost
It’s way past time for a flee-botomy. Fire them all and deny unemployment benefits since they voluntarily left their jobs. It would happen to any of us in the private sector had we done the same.
Very true – that’s exactly what he said. I’m lousy at trying to type and listen at the same time. My apologies.
Ignore the clown, Jim.
Besides, over the past several decades, SAT and Achievement test scores – like high school and college “educations”/diplomas – were cheapened and rendered far less meaningful by “educationalists”; who constitute a large and powerful subset of the America-destroying opposite-worldview holders.
Typical lost liberal: connecting dots that arent there. Im not going to bother to fact check your snarky comment, because (even if it were true) it has nothing to do with the fact that public unions are bankrupting the States. Care to actually address that issue, since that is the issue if importance that is being debated. Thought not.
Ill bet you are from one of the “smart” states? Ya know, NY, California; those states that are run by dems and are all but bankrupt? And if collective bargaining has a cause and effect connection to student performance (as you infer) why the hell is America’s public education system graduating illiterate math and writing deprived seniors, by the millions? Oh ya mean all those trillions that liberals have demanded we throw at public education for the past 40 years hasnt produced A+ students?? Gee Im shocked.
And by the way Ilovemycountry, which Country; Iran? North Korea? Venezuela?
Sean Penn, is that you??
Maybe Libya?
ILMC: the stat’s from 1999. Try again.
Hey Illinois “Got Badger Milk”
hey michelle. here’s a proposal far less modest than yours.
whadya say we introduce a lil 21st century shari’a on ‘em?
cut off BOTH middle fingers from every person who pulls the stunts that the wisdems and the teachers union strikers have pulled?
i feel like that would be good for the children
Do any of you folks really have jobs? I mean really? Because if you had a job, you would understand the importance of education.
I guess, if your children actually got an education, they would come home and see that their parents are “those folks”… you know, people who are always drunk, hate mexicans, don’t read, receive welfare and on and on…
So, I guess I don’t blame you. If I was you people, I would be hostile towards educators too.
I had a job onse. tEachin enklish.
wAs promoded to prinsiple. Am now redired in Kosta Rika.
Yall cum see us. ya hear?
Hello, everyone. I just registered yesterday, and, am very happy to be here. Has anyone seen this, yet? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/02/obama-campaign-community-organizer-.html
Funded by SEIU, AFL-CIO, George Soros, etc.?
I see our fearless leader spoke about Libya but not one word was uttered about the four Americans being executed by the pirates.
No apology necessary! I was stunned when I heard it.
You can tell by how I messed up the blockquote. D’oh!
I really like it when Bugs Bunny dresses like a girl bunny, I feel all funny inside.
ShoreDor: They DO make my skin crawl. And, it’s scary. Rush said that there are more of us than there are of them. I pray that’s so. I’m more than willing to fight for our Republic – whatever it takes.
You mean this Rogue?
That Yosemite Sam is some moron. I could tell it was Bugs from the git go. Sheesh, what an ultra maroon!
I thinking more along the lines of:
Hey, let’s “Runaway” to “St. Charles” or build a “Stairway to Cleveland.” We’ll be “Layin it On the Line” with “No Way Out” but I have a “Crazy Feeling” if you “Find Your Way Back” you’ll be a “Stranger” so don’t “Count on Me“. I’m gonna go out Clinton style lookin for the “Girl with the Hungry Eyes” who will “Be My Lady” because I “Can’t Find Love” where “We Built This City“!
How wonderfully open minded and tolerant………
No self-respecting Tea Partyer would ever pick up a hitchhiker. Most appear dirty, smelly, more than likely dangerous and let’s face it — they probably can’t pony up for the $3-plus per gallon these days. Let the Mini drivers with those peeling Obama stickers help them ease on down the road.
I’m willing to make a bet that the average poster here is less like this description than the average Democrat voter. How much?
If you was us people you would have better grammar, a point to make and more than two functioning brain cells.
Note: When criticising other’s lack of education, attempt to use correct grammar and case, lest your inferior intelect be made manifest.
Schlepp.
Oh, yeah. Liberals have plenty of ‘education.’ It’s just comprehension and common sense they’re lacking.
These “Fleebaggers” are more Morally Bankrupt than their states are about to be. Not to mention they have the spine of a jellyfish.
Not really shocked at that. Some of them show that their reading comprehension is quite lacking in that they feel proud of knocking down their own strawman arguments.
Countdown to labeling you as being elitist in 3…2…1….
Good, so maybe you can explain why the U.S. spends more money on education per student than nearly all other industrialized nations yet lags far behind in education quality.
Interesting tidbit of history, Donald Rumsfeld’s birth certificate is signed by Richard Daley when he was county clerk. Who signed Barack Obama’s?
http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/145711-rumsfeld-birth-certificate-signed-by-legendary-democrat
In which nation?
If you’re looking for moochers, this ain’t the place. They’re over at dkos.
WSJ poll on Collective Bargaining. Instapundint posted this one, Teamsters are emailing members to vote:
Spread this around:
http://online.wsj.com/community/groups/question-day-229/topics/should-state-employees-have-collective-bargaining
The real question now becomes, at what point can seats become “vacated” and filled by appointment or special election?
Projection is all they have.
Descarte – Cogito, ergo sum.
Dems – You must be me.
Who is “you people”?
I thought those tests were discriminatory towards minorities thus the need for affirmative action.
And actually, if I read into the data further, I find that minorities have significantly lower test scores, and if my geographic memory is correct, there are more of them in Texas, NC, SC and VA than in Scandinavian and Germanic WI.
Now, you’re using the scores to further your argument??
So which is it?
Note to readers—-I’m betting $1000 the source for that argument came from NPR
(laughs)
“I love my country” got those numbers from NPR. I didn’t realize being a public radio bot required analytic skills of any sort.
Liberal Concillatory Stratagem #4532
Attack conservatives’ reading comphrehension skills
Don’t feed the trolls…
ilovemycount said:
I bent my woookiee
Swede #145 - Your response to the dkos knucklehead, ILMC, was soooo good. I wish I posted that!