{"id":4047,"date":"2010-03-01T18:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:09:56","slug":"obama-names-union-boss-to-deficit-reduction-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4047\/obama-names-union-boss-to-deficit-reduction-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Names Union Boss to Deficit Reduction Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there are any camels\u2019 backs at the breaking point, here\u2019s a public employee union-sponsored straw.\u00a0 \u00a0As if daring the mainstream media to challenge his meritless assertions of bipartisanship, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/seiu_chief_gets.php \" target=\"_blank\">President Obama named SEIU leader and fellow Saul Alinsky disciple, Andy Stern<\/a>, to his &#8220;Bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right; the panel of experts tasked with finding ways to reduce the federal deficit will count among its ranks a man who agitates for expanding both the membership and compensation of government employees.\u00a0 He also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-9100-Boston-Conservative-Independent-Examiner~y2010m2d28-Obama-appoints-far-left-progressive-Andy-Stern-head-of-SEIU-to-Fiscal-Commission \" target=\"_blank\">tight connections with ACORN<\/a> and organized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrealblog.com\/2010\/03\/01\/what-the-seiu-boss-andy-stern-on-a-deficit-reduction-panel\/#pageTitle \" target=\"_blank\">intimidation campaigns against Tea Party activists<\/a>.\u00a0 Asking Stern to find ways to save taxpayer money is like putting a fox in charge of the bed check in a hen house: it makes sense if you don\u2019t think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there are any camels\u2019 backs at the breaking point, here\u2019s a public employee union-sponsored straw.\u00a0 \u00a0As if daring the mainstream media to challenge his meritless assertions of bipartisanship, President Obama named SEIU leader and fellow Saul Alinsky disciple, Andy Stern, to his &#8220;Bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.\u201d That\u2019s right; the panel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,912,143,477,28],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn","tag-andy-stern","tag-barack-obama","tag-seiu","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}