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BREAKING!! Carney: Wisconsin Gov. Walker's Actions Violate Obama Principles
nj ^ | 3/10/2011 | rebecca kaplan

Posted on 03/10/2011 1:42:06 PM PST by milwguy

The Obama administration weighed in Thursday on the chaos in Madison, Wis.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to force a bill on public employee union bargaining rights through the state Senate on Wednesday night was a clear sign that his top priority was not budget-cutting.

“The actions taken last night, which divorced the issue of the state’s budget problems from the issue of the rights of public sector employees, pretty clearly showed that the actions were not following the principle that we need to all come together and work together and not denigrate or vilify public sector employees, but bring them into the process,” Carney said.

He later reinforced that idea in a tweet, writing, “POTUS says we must come together & set aside partisanship to fix our budgets. Actions last night in Wisconsin violate those principles.”

Carney reiterated the president’s stance that everyone, including public-sector employees, needs to make sacrifices to cut spending, but that budget shortfalls should not be used to “denigrate or vilify public employees.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aboveandbelow; articleivsection4; carney; democrats; guaranteeclause; obama; unions; walker; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: milwguy

Obama has principles?


21 posted on 03/10/2011 1:48:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: milwguy

This could be nothing more than politial grandstanding, or it could be the first step in preparing a case to invoke Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution wherein the US guarantees the states a republican form of government.


22 posted on 03/10/2011 1:49:07 PM PST by Publius
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To: milwguy

“BREAKING!! Carney: Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s Actions Violate Obama Principles”

So the whims of the dictator trump the rule of law? I don’t know how else to interpret this.


23 posted on 03/10/2011 1:50:17 PM PST by Spok
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To: milwguy

Is this an example Obama bullying Walker?

What a small, small man Obama is. He, for lack of better words, disgusts me.

While the brave GOP members in WI last night finally acted on the reason people voted for them, Obama had a Wednesday night “Hoops Party” and watched the Chicago Bulls dribble and shoots balls into a basket.


24 posted on 03/10/2011 1:50:18 PM PST by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“Idiots run amok!” Film at eleven.

This will not turn out JR. G-d love you!


25 posted on 03/10/2011 1:50:53 PM PST by poobear (FACTS - the turd in the punch bowl of liberal thought!)
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To: milwguy

Carney—that’s what we used to call the carnival barker in the olden days.

How fitting a name for obama’s shill.


26 posted on 03/10/2011 1:52:54 PM PST by Palladin (Obama, go back to Hawaii! Better yet, go back to Kenya!!)
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To: From The Deer Stand
Working together is the same as bipartisan and compromise to RATs.
It only works if they get what they want.
27 posted on 03/10/2011 1:53:25 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: Carling
Is this an example Obama bullying Walker?

Once a community organizer, always a community organizer. It's what they do best.

28 posted on 03/10/2011 1:54:37 PM PST by OB1kNOb (Islam is like termites. They get access through your weakest point and then cause great destruction.)
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To: milwguy

“...not denigrate or vilify public sector employees, but bring them into the process.”

They were brought into the process. They had the same rights to vote as everyone else. Representatives were elected. Some of tehm chose to TAKE THEMSELVES out of the process by leaving the state. What the *%!! is BHO talking about?!


29 posted on 03/10/2011 1:54:37 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: milwguy
“The actions taken last night, which divorced the issue of the state’s budget problems from the issue of the rights of public sector employees,

They may have removed the issue of the privileges of the public sector employees from a budget bill, but that is not akin to saying that those privileges do nothave a negative effect on the state budget. What a desperate parsing of events.

Jay Carney, indeed...he has joined the world's biggest, ugliest and most inept circus.
30 posted on 03/10/2011 1:55:37 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: milwguy

Walker 2012 - That is all.


31 posted on 03/10/2011 1:55:44 PM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
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To: milwguy

POTUS says we must come together & set aside partisanship = surrender to union thugs


32 posted on 03/10/2011 1:55:54 PM PST by y6162
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To: milwguy

“POTUS says we must come together & set aside partisanship to fix our budgets. Actions last night in Wisconsin violate those principles.”

We bow down, and we worship you, POTUS.

NOT


33 posted on 03/10/2011 1:56:04 PM PST by Bluebird Singing
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To: swain_forkbeard

Impeach Obama for meddling in State affairs.


34 posted on 03/10/2011 1:56:49 PM PST by BobSimons
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To: milwguy

SHUT THE HELL UP OBAMA


35 posted on 03/10/2011 1:57:01 PM PST by Scythian
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To: milwguy
Scott has already taken obama to the woodshed once on this...
WOODSHED

walker leads

LOW PLACES
36 posted on 03/10/2011 1:57:01 PM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: poobear
Socialism is Good for the Soul
37 posted on 03/10/2011 1:57:20 PM PST by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: milwguy

Obama loves his Commie cohorts.


38 posted on 03/10/2011 1:58:12 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: milwguy

Obama loves his Commie cohorts.


39 posted on 03/10/2011 1:58:38 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: milwguy
The Union employees are doing a great job of showing themselves up as the clueless jackasses they so obviously are.

It looks like the Democratic Socialists are still playing that same old projection card. It's the only one they apparently have left.

40 posted on 03/10/2011 1:59:28 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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