In what is now being played up as being some huge public blow to the electoral fortunes of both Barry "Almighty" and the Democratic Party, the president of the AFL-CIO said Thursday that organized labor is preparing to ditch Democrats and go it alone in building up its own grassroots structure. Specifically, AFL-CIO President "Dick" Trumka told reporters that the nation’s largest labor federation will scale back their involvement with the Democratic Party in advance of the 2012 elections. In 2008, unions spent over $400 million for Barry "Almighty's" election. Asked if the AFL’s move is a huge blow to Barry "Almighty," Democratic pollster Doug Schoen told Newsmax.TV: “Absolutely. Obama needs to get labor back and I think he’ll be courting them furiously in the weeks and months to come." I'm simply not buying any of this idiotic nonsense. I just think it's all for show, but what I can't quite figure is, what the motive might be that's behind all of the silly theatrics? I think we know that if push comes to shove here, these union goons will pretty quickly fall in line behind the Democrat Party and do whatever it is that they feel they need to do to get Democrats elected. It's just what they do, and have always done. And for Trumka to now imply that things have somehow been altered to the point that this cozy little arrangement between these two very corrupt entities may be in peril, is just silly.
While Trumka continues with what is, apparently, now the standard Democrat tactic of having nothing but scathing words for the Tea Party movement, he actually went so far as to lay out a potential scenario that would very closely mirror the Tea Party’s grassroots structure and its clout in the GOP. The impression he's trying to create here is one that big labor no longer wields the clout that it once had inside the Democratic Party and on the liberal end of the spectrum in American politics. But I think most us realize that's simply not really the case. Trumka, however, made it clear that his plan would supposedly cost the Democrats both in contributions and labor volunteers in many districts almost immediately. That would cripple key Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in many swing districts on Election Day. “We’re going to use a lot of our money to build structures that work for working people” Trumka said, according to Politico.“You’re going to see us give less money to build structures for others, and more of our money will be used to build our own structure.” Look, can we really believe anything that this guys says? I just don't think so! I seriously doubt that there is any significant rift that has developed between these two groups, Big Labor and the Democrats, who both have essentially the same toxic agenda regarding the future of America.
Trumka’s remarks came after the news earlier this week that the AFL-CIO will set up a so-called super PAC to spend unlimited amounts of money on political activity for next year’s elections and beyond. Trumka confirmed Thursday that the union is moving forward with plans to create the PAC. The AFL-CIO’s outside effort will help keep union-backed candidates more accountable for promises made on the campaign trail, Trumka said. “Let’s assume we spent $100 in the last election,” he said, explaining the union’s position. “The day after Election Day, we were no stronger than we were the day before,” said Trumka. “If we had spent that [$100] on creating a structure for working people that would be there year round, then we are stronger.” Trumka also said that many labor leaders are weighing whether to skip the party’s 2012 convention. “There are some of our affiliates that aren’t going to participate,” said Trumka, speaking to reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor, “We’re still talking about it.” Big labor’s problems with the Barry "Almighty" administration include outstanding issues like the failure to pass a union-backed card check bill that would ease organizing, as well as the administration’s support for free-trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea and Panama. I just don't see these issues as rising to a level that would sufficient enough to cause the severing of a partnership that has proven to be quite lucrative for both parties.
Trumka articulated a broader critique of the Barry "Almighty" administration, telling reporters that the president has allowed Republicans to set the terms of debate — focusing on what he called a manufactured debt crisis instead of a jobs agenda. “I think he made a strategic mistake when he confused job crisis with deficit crisis,” Trumka said. “He started playing on the Republican ground.” “He’s going to give a speech in a couple of weeks on job creation,” Trumka told reporters. “If he’s talking about another percent or two break from a tax here and doing something with patent control, and doing three years down the road something with infrastructure bank, that’s not going to get the job done.” He called for more direct action. “As we approach this Labor Day, our working-class people are looking for three things: jobs, jobs, jobs,” Trumka said. Well if Mr. Trumka was as truly serious regarding his concern over jobs, jobs, jobs as he claims to be, then he would better serve those folks that he supposedly represents by getting behind those very same Republicans who he complains that Barry has allowed to set the terms of the debate. Because it is they, and not Barry "Almighty," or the Democrats in Congress, who are advocating the necessary policies that would have a very positive impact on job creation. And his failure to do so very clearly demonstrates that he's nothing more than an obvious fraud who is much more interested in increasing the political power of his union than in jobs, jobs, jobs.
Now come on folks, are we really expected to believe as this pathetic jerk Trumka claims, that some how unions are going to desert the Democrat Party and Barry "Almighty?" I think not. I can't help but wonder if this is all simply nothing more than some ploy that these sleazy characters see as something that can somehow be turned onto some political advantage. Am I being a conspiracy nut? I'm just having a very hard time believing that after decades of having been firmly entrenched in the Democrat camp, that somehow these union punks who have been on the receiving end of any number of goodies from this president, are going to go out on their own. Sorry, but I just ain't buying it. Anytime you have people the caliber of both Trumka and Barry "Almighty" you can never really afford to take anything that they may say at face value. To do so you run the very serious risk of being lured into a situation that would, in all likelihood, not prove to be beneficial for you. My gut is telling me that this cockamamie ploy here is nothing more than an attempt at some sort of political sucker punch and is something that we need to be very wary of. I guess we'll see.
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