Posted on 04/02/2011 9:37:13 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
Via HoosierPundit, a glimpse at the enormous self-regard that fleeing Democratic state lawmakers have for themselves: Indiana Democratic state representative Dave Cheatham explains why he fled across the state line rather than stay in the state capitol and provide a quorum for a labor-reform bill:
CHEATHAM: The thing that sticks in my mind, I guess, more than anything else — and this is something that has happened. My wife teaches first grade. This past week, one of the kids in her class, a little first grader’s dad is getting sent to Afghanistan. And he was really sad. And she said, ‘Eell, you know, your dad is doing something really good. He’s going to a country where people there are trying to take away the freedoms of other people there, keep them from living a good life. So he’s leaving to do something good.’ And one of the little girls in class just on her own — and this has never been talked about in class, because my wife doesn’t do that — said, ‘It’s kind of like Mr. Cheatham, he left to make our schools better.’ And when I heard that, that gave me a reason —” (drowned out by applause.)
Oh, I see. Fleeing the state and refusing to show up for work as a state legislator is just like serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan! And I guess that would mean Republican state legislators are the Taliban and al-Qaeda in this metaphor.
Perhaps Mr. Cheatham would like to reconsider his remarks.
As a Hoosier that has to be the single most disgusting thing I’ve seen or heard yet from one of those chickensh*ts.
How embarrassing...
This Democrat almost got it right. He just needs to reverse roles. His behavior falls right in line with what the Commies, Al Qaeda, and Taliban do in their fight to the death against the American Way of Life. So, it was like going to Afghanistan - to fight America.
"Fleebagger Democrat Says Running Away to Illinois (Should Have Been) Like Serving in Afghanistan"
They should have been worried about more than staying in a cheap hotel.
They may be delusional but they are borrowing money from people not yet born and spending on themselves right now.
It is just criminal and there is no way to stop them as more are on the dole now than there are producers.
I think its over
The scariest thing about this is that @%50 of the voting public either agrees with him or just doesn’t care. dhim education policies have borne ugly fruits.
The difference is, some of the Afghanistan heros came back missing an arm or a leg. But the Fleebaggers had no balls before they even left.
CHEATus, I say it’s about time you get your sorry A$$ over to Helmand Province and show the REAL Taliban what you are made of you damn lying sack of horse manure.
‘RAT fleebaggers are such a bunch of drama queens. Chowing down at the “continental breakfast” bar at a fleabag motel in Illinois doesn’t even close to fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. The commie ‘RATS really need to lighten up. Their commie union thug pals have blown this all out of proportion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2698691/posts
Just days after returning from a five-week walkout, House Democrats emptied their seats again. This time it was over concerns about legislative business conducted while they were gone, including $122,000 in fines levied against them
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“The fines will stand,” Bosma said Thursday. One concession he said he will consider is to allow Democrats to pay up on a kind of installment plan. Rather than having all their per-diem payments withheld until their fines are paid off, they could opt to have partial payments withheld.
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Bosma also made it clear that he won’t let what he called “special interests” pay the fines. Bosma said he won’t accept payments from third parties, such as the Indiana Democratic Party, which picked up the estimated $85,000 tab for the hotel costs incurred by House Democrats when they fled the state for a Comfort Suites in Urbana, Ill., on Feb. 22.
Indiana Democratic state representative Dave Cheatham explains why he fled across the state line rather than stay in the state capitol and provide a quorum for a labor-reform bill...
What a self-serving inflated-ego excuse for running away from
responsibility...sort of like a dead-beat dad, but a
dead-beat public official instead! Sheeeeeeesh!
And one of the little girls in class just on her own said, ‘It’s kind of like Mr. Cheatham, he left to make our schools better.’
. . .
Yeah, sure.
And Obama never heard Rev. Write spew his hatred, and Bill Ayres was just some guy down the road. And Hillary dodged bullets in Bosnia and was named after a famous mountain climber. And Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman. And....
His real name is David Cheatem.
Better known as Dave the Cheat.
That’s good news. They deserved more than fines, but I want
to see them cough up the money...themselves!
I remember from my childhood that the South Side of Chicago was pretty rough, but I doubt Cheatham even set foot there. So who was shooting at him in Hyde Park?
I think I know him.
Isn't he from the law firm Dewey, Cheatem & Howe?
Mr. Cheatham you really should seek treatment for your mental disease.
FUDC!!
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