Ack, gag, sputter… puke.    Chicago School Teachers go on strike.   They want more money, well, actually 16% more money via raises over the next 4 years.   The average Chicago school teacher makes just a hair under $75,000/yr.   *Watch the stats in the video…..  You decide.

The AP reported:  Chicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after their union and district officials failed to reach a contract agreement despite intense weekend negotiations that the union said were productive but still failed to adequately address issues such as job security and teacher evaluations.

The two sides were not far apart on compensation, but were on other issues, including health benefits — teachers want to keep what they have now — and a new teacher evaluation system based partly on students’ standardized test scores, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said. (more…)

About the media-hyped DNC bounce……  It doesn’t exist !   President Obama is in no better shape today than he was two weeks ago.  It is fictional, false, a complete figment.

But the insufferable water-carrying media is trying to make everyone  believe President Obama’s re-election hopes are better.  They’re not.

Consider this recent examiner article –  The Rasmussen Reports Daily Tracking Poll of the presidential race released today shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney 46 percent to 44 percent. That margin is within the poll’s margin of error and therefore, the race by that result is statistically tied. It appears that Romney gained four percent after the Republican convention and Obama has gained two or three of that percent back after the Democratic National Convention this past week.

The state polls and race for electoral votes shows to be unchanged from the last GOP2112 analysis of the electoral vote race published here August 25, 2012. Not a single state has moved into a different category since then, and Romney maintains the electoral vote lead of 317 to 179 over Obama with 42 electoral votes from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Mexico and Oregon remaining in toss-up status. The map above shows which ways the states are leaning in this presidential race.

Here is information and analysis on some of the key swing states:  (continue reading)

This type of article (below) is reflective of what drives the “racist” messaging into the mainstream psyche.  Insufferable arrogance and elitism on display.   According to the pontificating writer any/all opposition to President Obama is based on racism.   This is beyond insufferable, well beyond.

The internal pressure on the legacy, ivory-towered and liberal academia, to produce students suffering from the infection of white-guilt, leads to generational breeding of this ideological genetic disconnect.

True racism is placing “skin color” or “ethnicity” ahead of any other form of disagreement, OR agreement, in ideology.

Consequently a determinative belief that opposition to any ideology cannot be based on any other form of disagreement than color or ethnicity is, by itself, racism.   Indeed, it is just as racist to state a person is incapable of their own ideological definitions of disparity.  Not only is it racist to claim any opposition MUST be based on race, but it is also racist to claim that ALL opposition can only be based on race.   Hence, progressives are the most racist people on earth.

(Associated Press)  […] The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are labeled racist simply for opposing Obama’s policies and liberals who see no other explanation for such deep dislike of the president.

It is an accusation almost impossible to prove, yet it remains inseparable from the African-American experience. The idea, which seemed to die in 2008 when Obama became the first black president, is now rearing its head from college campuses to cable TV as the Democratic incumbent faces Mitt Romney, the white Republican challenger. (more…)

This is just reflective of something any substantive political watcher already knows; but it is affirming to find supportive evidence nonetheless.

President Obama continually sells the story of his across the aisle outreach as an excuse for why his policies failed.  He claims he tried too hard to work with the other side.

This is a regular talking point for the institutional leftists.   However, the truth is divergent in the extreme, and Bob Woodward hits on it within his new book “The Price of Politics”.

In an example Woodward shares: (more…)

Rep. John Lewis foolishly, but effectively and falsely, accused the Tea Party of “spitting” on him in 2010.   It did not happen, but the media drummed the controversial talking point to death in their futile effort to ridicule the Tea Party as racist.

Well, Mr. Lewis is at it again this year.   Ridiculously claiming that Republican fiscal policy will bring back segregation.

“I’ve seen this before, I lived this before,” he claimed, after extensively describing his activism in Southern states in the 1950 and 1960s. (more…)

The vast majority of Democrats are furious that Cardinal Dolan was allowed to pray at their convention.   They are furious.    Following on the heels of forced acceptance of God and religion in their party platform, and on the heels of a forced/manipulated floor vote to falsify acceptance of Israel and Jerusalem,  the base of the Democrat party is rabid with anger.

Allowing Cardinal Dolan to pray for the unborn, and pray for a pro-life/pro-family message was just too much.  His prayer became the straw that broke the camel’s back. The base of the Democrat party is in uproar:

If you remember the Moonbatty Howard Dean “scream” campaign speech;  and if you saw the Moonbatty Jennifer Granholm speech last night during the DNC convention and her, well, bizarro behavior…….  you just knew someone was going to mash them together.

Below is the original speech from Granholm last night.  It is funnier than the mash up in my opinion. (more…)

Is this leading from behind?

It’s definitely bass-ackwards.  No wonder Mayor Villaraigosa was dumbstruck with prog-pocrisy.   Stuck between a rock and the “proverbial” hard-place.    So fast forward 15 hours and lookie what the State department has to say following the party platform debacle:

The State Department today again refused to name the capital of Israel, even after being questioned by the press and even after the Democratic party (President Obama’s party) voted yesterday to add language to its platform stating that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

Here’s the remarkable exchange from today’s press briefing, with reporters and press secretary Patrick Ventrell: (more…)

As noted in this somewhat slanted partisan article (below) Al Gore is conspicuously absent from the DNC Convention.   The claim is because of President Obama’s wishy-washy positions on “Green Issues”, but the issue is actually deeper still.

Al Gore’s financial status is dependent on global warming vis-a-vis “Cap n Trade”.  Not only is he a one policy special interest advocate, but he has strategically invested all of his financial efforts into creating the ‘next bubble’ Energy Carbon Trading.

His ire with Obama is not because the President is not a radical environmentalist, which Obama certainly is; the bigger issue is the disappointment on Gores anticipated return on investment being delayed because of weakened economics.

Al Gore and his like-minded Wall Street and Global financiers, have invested heavily on a system of financial gain from a ‘cap n trade’ scheme; similar in construct and origination to the housing loan bond market schemes.   They have been betting for a number of years on some type of trade market being created through the use of energy carbon credits. (more…)