Posted on 02/22/2017 4:58:33 PM PST by conservative98
Edited on 02/22/2017 5:09:32 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I hope Levin is just being a malcontent.
I just loved how much the idea of Puzder POed the marxists.
Having dialogue with the unions (while never violating our principles by giving them nasty things in exchange for support) though isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There is an opportunity to divide the labor movement from the rest of the left, particularity the environazis.
Thoughts?
His hideous bric-a-brac set - the Cracker Barrel Hall of Prezeedunts - is as distracting as his writing...
Ok. I put it where you could find it...
Eisenhower put a union man, Martin Durkin, in charge of Labor too, didn’t he?
In 2018, it’s TCruz or a Castro; better get on board now.
>In 2018, it’s TCruz or a Castro; better get on board now.
I’m not enthusiastic about voting for Cruz. He stabbed us in the back at the convention and probably cut a deal with Hillary to do so. However, unlike most of the rest of the GOP he’s swung support to Trump and has been consistently useful in that regard. Cruz’s backers around here should understand why a lot of people have a very poor view of Ted. However, Trump supporters should also acknowledge that Ted is helping our cause and as such should be treated as an ally.
I’ve spent the last few days supporting Milo while the nevertrumpers around here ripped him to shreds not because I like the guy(I don’t) but because he’s been an ally against the left. I feel the same about Cruz right now. As long as he acts as our ally he will have my support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Patrick_Durkin
Durkin was the Democrat in the Eisenhower cabinet. Ike was always pandering to liberals. Nixon wouldn’t ask him to campaign in 1960 because he thought Ike was too ill to do so. Not so at all; Ike was such a stand-offish person despite his national persona. Never once did Ike invitd the Nixons to a White House social for just the four of them.
I’m gonna stick with TCruz in 2018 though I too was irate with him from April to September 2016. TX Democrats are waiting in the wings to return to their 1990 status, and they have huge head starts in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, and the lower Rio Grande Valley.
>I’m gonna stick with TCruz in 2018 though I too was irate with him from April to September 2016. TX Democrats are waiting in the wings to return to their 1990 status, and they have huge head starts in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, and the lower Rio Grande Valley.
Considering how most of the congressional GOP seems to be working against Trump it’s a good idea.
Durkin didn't last long because he had his own agenda that conflicted with the GOP's.
It was a different era, though. Ike was the first Republican president in 20 years and wanted to make a gesture to moderate Democrats that he wasn't a danger to organized labor and other beneficiaries of the New Deal.
When Nixon was in office, he was much the same way (Moynihan, Connally), but it didn't do him much good with liberals, because politics had become more combative.
Except he is right in this case.
Puzder was by Trump’s worst top-level appointment. Trump owes his Presidency to the support of private sector hourly workers who voted for Obama over Romney — workers who rely upon government fair pay protections and the right to unionize (either because they’re unionized, or its a fall-back if things get bad). Puzder was a walking, talking finger in the eye of those voters, to say the least of a huge contrast to the Trump policy on illegal immigration (the number of illegals on Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s registers and fry grills is countless).
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