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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser, told NBC’s Meet the Press this morning that President Obama will call for tax hikes in a speech later this week.(video included at nationalreview.com)“[The president] has said that he believes taxes on the higher income — people over $250,000 — should eventually go up,” Plouffe said. “I think the president’s goal, and he’s been clear about this, is to protect the middle class as we move forward here. People like him, as he’ll say, who’ve been very fortunate in life, have the ability to pay a little bit more.”
A Kloppenburg victory would likely spur the unions' fund-raising gains and generally raise their level of political optimism just at a time when the Tea Party and other supporters of liberty and capitalism feel that the left is finally on the ropes in America (at least until the next time that the public forgets just how bad Progressivism is for our economic health). A Kloppenburg defeat, especially after the left poured a few million dollars into the race early, propelling Kloppenburg from being at least 30% behind in the polls to being in a dead heat even in internal GOP polls, according to National Review, should take the wind out of its sails. The gut-punch should be that much more intense for the unions after believing they won.(full story at spectator.org)
One has to wonder, after blowing millions in union dues money on this race, and after perhaps $10 million incinerated in a failed attempt to beat Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in a primary challenge after Lincoln came out against "card check," when the average union man or woman will revolt, even a little bit, against their money being wasted like this. Still, at the level of the union bosses this is an existential battle for their power and they won't give up until the last of their members has been sacrificed on the altars of "social justice" and "soaking the rich." Too bad it's really the rank and file being soaked.
Class struggle(in Marxist ideology) the conflict of interests between the workers and the ruling class in a capitalist society, regarded as inevitably violent.
"Oh [Muslim] brothers, the nation that excels in the death industry, and knows how to die a noble [death], Allah grants it a precious life in this world and eternal bliss in the Afterlife. The only weakness that shall humiliate us is the love of this world and hating death. Therefore we have prepared your souls for great action, strive for death - and life will be given to you."-- From Palwatch translation of The Muslim Brotherhood handbook.
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b: Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Donna Rachele Mussolini (1890), Dean Acheson (1893); d: Donald Sangster (1967), Enver Hoxha (1985)