Posted on 08/27/2010 11:49:37 AM PDT by onyx
It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, and Governor Palin of Alaska.
The leader of Big Labor went to Anchorage to give a speech and attacked Mrs. Palin, accusing her of doing everything from writing notes on her hands to coming out with conspiracy theories about President Obama and his “death panels” to getting close to calling for violence. “Sometimes — about Sarah Palin — you’ve just got to laugh,” Mr. Trumka said. “ . . . But it’s not really funny.”
Mrs. Palin turned around and gave as good as she got, or better, in one of her patented Facebook postings, a demarche headlined “Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause!” She wrote as a one-time card-carrying sister of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Steelworkers, cards she held by virtue of her husband’s membership in the two unions.
She asserted that it was “kind of ironic that a union boss has the gall to accuse anyone of threatening violence,” particularly in light of what she called the “violent attempts” by the Service Employees “to intimidate those who wanted to make their voices heard in last year’s town halls.”
She argued the real jobs problem was being caused by the policies of President Obama. Suddenly the Internet came alive like the silver screen, so much so that a columnist of the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, issued a long complaint.
Seems that Mr. Trumka can’t get anyone to listen to, let alone write about, his usual speeches about what Mr. Dionne characterizes as “social CONTINUE
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I think she’ll be woman of the decade, too!
I second, the nomination! Go Sarah.
I love Sarah Palin...mmmm mmmmm mmmmm
The majority of the union stooges are just not thinking. If you really want growth, with more and better paying jobs for all, the last thing you really need in office is the Marxist dickwads barricaded up there now.
A Haikuu for my lovely.
Sarah Palin Rocks
Communists are in trouble
Watch out Obama
Did anyone notice she’s kind of cute?
Psyops?
outstanding.
Nope. Just my nomination.
“I think she’ll be woman of the decade, too!”
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If she is indeed the one who arrests the United States from its current trajectory of downward spiraling communism, and pathological political correctness, she will be Woman of the Century.
Palin is currently drawing a HUGE crowd near here, in Hershey, PA.
Still possessed. Seek help, just like Jim advised.
Back at you...
Sarah tweets insight
Cockroaches cower in fear
The storm is coming.
Yes! That’s the one I really like!
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