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SEIU Wastes $1 Million on Coakley, Blames GOP

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

Michelle Malkin has a post that reports about the hilarious episode of union whining that is being laid out by the President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Andy Stern. He wasted $1 million of his member’s dues money trying to shore up Massachusetts loser “Marcia” Coakley but is he blaming the Democrats for this debacle? Nope, he’s mad at Republicans!

Why did Coakley croak? Why it’s because of those dastardly Republicans that have held up Obamacare, dontcha know?

From the SEIU website we get these hilarious words:

“The reason Ted Kennedy’s seat is no longer controlled by a Democrat is clear: Washington’s inability to deliver the change voters demanded in November 2008. Make no mistake, political paralysis resulted in electoral failure,” Stern said.

“During the past year, Republicans refused to do anything but stand in the way of change and Democratic Senators took too long to do too little. And tonight, the Senate bears the consequences for its failure to act decisively but the American people are the ones left paying the price. If our elected officials don’t recognize that every day more working families fall victim to Washington’s failure to act, the elections next November will result in the same.

And does Ol’ Andy think that the Democrats should reassess their socialist agenda as rejected by even the left-wing votes of Massachusetts? Nope… it’s full speed ahead for socialism as far as Stern is concerned.

“Today’s vote must be a wake-up call that now is the time for bold action. Time to stand up to politics as usual. Time to stand up to Republican scare and stall tactics. And time to speak up for working families.

This is what I love about leftists. They are so predictable, so arrogant… so wrong.

One has to wonder if the members of Andy’s union might get upset that their chief threw away $1 million in dues money on such a monumental loser?

(Cross posted at TheUnionLabelBlog.com)

StanInTexas

“During the past year, Republicans refused to do anything but stand in the way of change…”

Democrats ~~have~~HAD a filibuster-proof majority for over a year. And they were too impotent to pass something that was the lynchpin of their campaign. The Republicans could stop NOTHING.

From this point forward, I am going to look at comments like the one from Stern as an intelligence test. “The people in Congress with no power have stopped me from doing what I told you I was going to do.”

Stern failed!
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

I’m happy that the libs are still in denial.
gfchicago

Did you happen to see that clip with Howard Dean? Even Chrissy Matthew wasn’t buying it. I never in a gazillion years thought that I would agree with Chrissy.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Nah, its never a waste. They poured money into the economy that was otherwise going to be used by leftists for their schemes. That’s always a win from where I sit.
http://www.publiusforum.com Warner Todd Huston

Who “poured money into the economy”? The government? Uh, no. They poured money into GOVERNMENT, not the economy.
kingofsiam

Lol. The voters are pissed because democrats can’t overcome the eeeevil republican opposition. So they vote in… more republicans. In what world does this make sense? Its not even self consistent.
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

Why did Coakley croak? Why it’s because of those dastardly Republicans that have held up Obamacare, dontcha know?

The RWN trolls frequently claim the the Republicans are weak, stupid, etc. However, the Republicans always seem to somehow ruin the Democrats when the Dems are trying to save the country. I guess that would mean that the Dems are dumber than the Republicans.
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

Warner has a link to Malkin’s site. Check it out, especially the picture on the bottom of the SEIU rank-and-file members for Brown.

Nice!
Mike_M

Is he talking about the health care bill that wouldn’t begin providing benefits until 2014 (with taxes skyrocketing immediately)?
impulse910

I believe there is a term for this. What is it? Oh yeah.

Epic Fail!
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

Listen folks, with what SEIU is bringing in every month in dues, and what they charge employers for their health plan and their pension, Andy can well afford to toss a mil or two at losing causes. And don’t you worry about him keeping his position at the top of SEIU – a top union official controls all of the means of communication within the union. The newsletters, the mailings, the robo-calls, you name it, they own it. That means that a challenger in a union election is essentially frozen out of any official way of communicating his/her positions or grievances to the rest of the membership, except what limited access the top union dog wants to grant him. Also, people who count the votes are ultimately accountable to the top union official. Unsurprisingly, there have been hundreds of cases in front of the NLRB regarding cheating in union elections. Hundreds.

Given all that, it’s not surprising that it’s virtually impossible to unseat a powerful standing union official like Andy Stern. Hell, Jimmy H. was still Teamsters president from his cell in federal prison. And speaking of wasting member’s money, he’d swindled millions from the pension fund that the rank and file depended on for their pensions.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

“The reason Ted Kennedy’s seat is no longer controlled by a Democrat is clear: Washington’s inability to deliver the change voters demanded in November 2008.”

I actually disagree. This sentence right here is exactly correct.

The reason voters are so pissed at the Democrats is because they are UNABLE to bring about the “change” they campaigned on. Not “they could have done if but they dicked around all year long and didn’t bother”, they were UNABLE to deliver the “change” they campaigned on.

They promised everything to everybody and, just as conservatives predicted, they found it utterly impossible to deliver on all those promises. Or any of them, really.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Money spent on campaigns goes to workers, advertising companies, television stations, printers, and so on. Its money from the pockets of the idiotic left and into the economy, I call that all good.
tblrk2006

Its money from the pockets of the idiotic left and into the economy, I call that all good.
Posted by Christopher_Taylor
2010-01-21 20:08:17

Yes. I like nothing more than to make money off liberals in my line of work. Its less money for them to spread hate and more for me to promote conservatism.