Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

ShePAC, a super PAC formed to help elect conservative women, puts the lie to the latest Democrat canard about Republicans waging “war on women.”

President Obama and his fellow Democrats don’t really care about protecting women from nasty rhetoric. If they did, this video couldn’t have been made. After a week of hand wringing over Rush Limbaugh making a tasteless joke about a female pro-abortion activist, the forces of “tolerance” have yet to utter a peep about Bill Maher donating $1 million to an Obama super PAC. Even after all of Maher’s misogynistic comments about conservative women, hypocrites like Debbie Wasserman Schultz have the gall to go on Maher’s show to criticize Rush for being anti-woman.

The Democrat party only plays identity politics for the votes. They don’t even believe their own rhetoric.

(Did I mention I designed the ShePAC Logo?)

Compare and contrast with Ben Cardin:

Senator Ben Cardin throwing red meat to federal employees.

Sounding somewhat angry, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) threw some red meat to a crowd of federal union employees yesterday, telling them that their jobs are more difficult and complicated than those of private sector employees’. My main question is how Ben Cardin even knows what a federal or a private sector job is like. He’s never had one. He’s been a politician for his entire career.

During my career as a federal employee, I was constantly fed this myth that federal employees (or “workers” for you folks with a socialist bent) were compensated less than their private sector counterparts. I’m not sure if it was true then but studies show that it isn’t true now. Factoring in benefits and the luxurious annual and sick leave policies for federal employees, they are compensated much more than private sector employees. Federal employees benefit from virtually immutable job security–they are almost never laid off even if their job is no longer necessary. Barring some sort of gross misconduct, a federal employee need never worry about losing his or her job. There are federal employees who work hard, true, but many of them are doing things that don’t need to be, or shouldn’t be, done by government, if at all. Bureaucracy grows like a cancer as middle managers fight to add underlings to their personal fiefdoms with no regard for saving tax payers’ money.

This is what Senator Cardin views as superior to entrepreneurship and private capitalism. He’s wrong. He’s wrong on the issues and he’s wrong for the state of Maryland, where our economy uses bloated federal spending as a crutch to prop up a state economy that is continually losing private sector jobs and industries to states like Virginia.

Michelle Fields writes on the Daily Caller:

Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland spoke to members of the National Treasury Employees Union on Wednesday, saying that federal government jobs are “much more complicated and difficult … and not being compensated fairly when compared to the private sector.” Despite Cardin’s claims to the contrary, a recent Congressional Budget Office study concluded that rank-and-file government employees are already paid 16 percent more than their private sector counterparts.

 

Transcript of the video:

“Federal workers are making a sacrifice to serve in the federal workforce. You are doing things much more complicated and difficult and you’re not being compensated fairly when compared to the private sector…”

We can fix this, Maryland. Vote this bum out and elect Dan Bongino to the United States Senate.

(h/t Mark Newgent )

Utah Senator Mike Lee’s remarks introducing Dan Bongino at a fundraising event.