No, I'm still not on Facebook, but the opportunity to see Sarah Palin mangle her mother tongue in real time might just make a believer out of me.
I'm not gonna link to this drivel, because I don't want to encourage web traffic, but I will mock it without mercy.
In the latest to come out of D.C.’s backroom health care deals, President Obama yesterday cut a doozy of a deal with labor union bosses. The fed’s health care plan must be so bad that even union bosses had to go to D.C. to say they wanted out.
Er. Uh. If it's a "backroom deal," how did union bosses know they didn't like it?
So... to keep their support for a flawed plan they got an exemption to provisions in the deal that others did not. Small business owners, our families running America’s mom & pops, did not get this deal.
Good pops and families in America not getting the deal gotten by those who got the deal and their moms without this deal are not right. America, also.
Ask yourself: why did union bosses get special treatment? And when did our country’s unions get on the wrong track with moves like this that hurt their good members and put them in such a bad light?
Good hard-working, pro-free-market, pro-America union members should join in opposition to their union bosses’ sweetheart deal.
And the rest of you shiftless, pro-labor, anti-America union members can jump off a bridge.
Coming from a union background and living in a world with many union memberships among my family and friends, I know that average members will be embarrassed by their bosses’ deal, which basically only delays the heavy tax on their health care plans until 2018 and in the meantime unfairly leaves many fellow Americans in a much less "enviable" position.
Can't argue here. If there's one thing Sarah knows, it's how average people feel.
Union members don’t want to stick it to non-union colleagues in the private and public sector. Their union leadership is not helping them in the long run, they’re certainly not helping the rest of America, and unfortunately some union bosses are making all union members look bad, selfish, and anti-business with this Big Government backroom deal.
Bottom line: Sarah thinks unions should stop acting so union-y.
During her 2008 campaign, she and McCain tapdanced around every single labor question that was thrown their way, and refused to take a position on the Employee Free Choice Act.
70% of Americans and the overwhelming majority of "averaged" union workers support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Her party's corporate benefactors hate it.
You see the needle she's trying to thread. She wants populist cred, but she hasn't taken a single populist position on anything, let alone a piece of legislation with broad populist support. She wants to cultivate the "rogue" image, but can't cleave from her party's slavish devotion to Home Depot and Monsanto.
So instead of stating an actual position, she uses union workers -- her own husband among them -- as props.
I am so unfriending her.