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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
“pretty clearly showed that the actions were not following the principle that we need to all come together and work together”

Yes, the 14 Wisconsin Democrat Senators and their union thug enforcers showed that THEY were not willing to “work together” with others. They made it clear, it was their way or nothing. So, they got nothing.

If Obama was going to live by his own words, he would have encouraged the Wisconsin Dims to quit hiding, tell their union and academic thugs to go home, sit with their colleagues and vote on the legislation, as is their legal duty.

Instead, being the liar that he is, he made none of those encouragements to the Wisconsin Dims, kept publicly silent while they shirked their legislative duties, which earned them the results that Obama now blames on anyone but his Democrat and union friends, who brought it on themselves.

81 posted on 03/10/2011 3:33:43 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Howie66
When he was first appointed, some here were calling him Woodstock, after the twee* little bird in the Charles Schultz cartoon, Peanuts.

Look at his face and his haircut. It fits!

*twee:affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twee
82 posted on 03/10/2011 3:48:48 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: mware

If JR would’ve implied that 0 was a donkey, I would’ve said that he gave donkeys a bad name. What’s wrong with that?

The beast of burden has many useful functions, most of which 0 does not possess.


83 posted on 03/10/2011 4:01:24 PM PST by 353FMG (Liberalism = Communism under the guise of compassion.)
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To: milwguy

The illegal alien has NO principles...oh duh...


84 posted on 03/10/2011 4:39:54 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: milwguy

What he really means is we all come together and do what the Democrats want.


85 posted on 03/10/2011 5:12:47 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Publius; milwguy

What would a credible, Constitutional federal exercise of
the Guarantee Clause (Article IV Section 4) look like?
I very much fear the opposite from the current Occupant.


86 posted on 03/10/2011 11:41:01 PM PST by cycjec
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


87 posted on 03/11/2011 12:18:13 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

The Fuhrer in our White House has no principles, in my opinion and the opinion of millions more. His strings are being pulled by a Kapo, IMO.


88 posted on 03/11/2011 5:57:20 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: milwguy

Obama’s “principles”, and I use the term loosely, are the commie Alinski perverted excuse for principles.

As Obama’s “principles” are antithetical to the Constitution, it is only right that “Obama’s principles” be violated.


89 posted on 03/11/2011 7:15:07 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: milwguy
Obama principles include putting in 90-min work days. Today he meets with senior advisers for an hour, reads words off a teleprompter on a topic he knows nothing about at a press conference where he answers no questions. Then it's party time with the Chicago Blackhawks.

(Oops, is it racist to say 'Blackhawks'?)

90 posted on 03/11/2011 7:18:59 AM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: milwguy
"...public employee union bargaining rights..."

No such thing. Bullying someone into paying for your largess at the expense of the public good is not a right. It is a tactic and an immoral, unethical one, at that.

91 posted on 03/11/2011 2:33:10 PM PST by ronnyquest (Barack H. Obama is the Manchurian Candidate. What are you going to do about it?)
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To: milwguy
"Wisconsin Gov. Walker's Actions Violate Obama Principles"

Good. I don't give two shits what Obama thinks about it; it's a state issue and the unions have taken advantage of and abused the taxpayers for far too long. The feds can bugger off, starting with the usurper at the top.

92 posted on 03/11/2011 2:36:42 PM PST by ronnyquest (Barack H. Obama is the Manchurian Candidate. What are you going to do about it?)
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To: milwguy
If BO is against it, then I'm FOR it.

The WI House and Senate should additionally cut all spending 30% "across the board", if the Thugs think they are getting 'picked on'.

93 posted on 03/12/2011 6:22:58 AM PST by bitt ( ..Congress - either investigate Obama ...or yourselves, for complicity)
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