Noam Scheiber of the NY Times (Presumably part of the New Republic diaspora) is the latest to present progressive doublethink on the minimum-wage hiking Fight For 15:
In Test for Unions and Politicians, a Nationwide Protest on Pay
The protest by tens of thousands of low-wage workers, students and activists in more than 200 American cities on Wednesday is the most striking effort to date in a two-and-a-half-year-old labor-backed movement that is testing the ability of unions to succeed in an economy populated by easily replaceable service sector workers.
Labor has invested tens of millions of dollars in a campaign for a $15-an-hour minimum wage that goes beyond traditional workplace organizing, taking on a cause that has captured broad public support. But the movement is up against a hostile business sector sheltered by a decades-old federal labor law that makes it difficult for workers to directly confront the wealthy corporations that dominate the fast-food and hospitality industries.
Greedy corporations crushing the dreams of the common man. I wonder which side the NY Times editors take. No I don't:
Ms. Clinton has offered herself as a champion of “everyday Americans,” saying that “the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” That view dovetails with the everyday reality of the protesters, who by and large work at big and profitable companies with highly-compensated executives, and yet do not make enough to live on.
...
Many Senate Democrats have signaled support for lifting the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020. But that is both low and slow. A credible raise must not only improve on today’s inadequate minimum, but restore it to a level that accounts for inflation in wages and prices over recent decades, as well as the growth in labor productivity. Simply raising the hourly minimum in line with wage and price inflation would put it at about $11 today; adjusting it for productivity growth would put it at about $18.
Not to wax Churchillian, but never has so obvious a point been made by so many with such little result as the following: waving in more legal and illegal unskilled workers from the rest of the world depresses the wages of the unskilled in this country. Even Paul Krugman admitted this at one time; if memory serves, he was taken to the progressive woodshed and has avoided that topic ever since.
Well. The progressive community and the NY Times (yeah, yeah, I repeat myself) will be engaging in contortions for the next two years as they spend three days a week decrying the haters who won't raise wages for the unskilled and another three days a week deploring the haters who won't wave in more legal and illegal unskilled workers. (The seventh day will be spent denouncing the Religious Right). As an example of these contortions, let's flash back to this Oct 2014 Times puff piece denouncing the Republican Senate agenda and pushing for the bipartisan Senate bill on immigration reform:
Missing from both Republican lists are two pillars of Mr. Obama’s agenda that many economists consider important for expanding the labor force and promoting long-run growth.
One is significantly higher spending for infrastructure. The International Monetary Fund recently called for such spending, saying it would pay off in broader economic growth.
The other is an overhaul of immigration laws. Despite business pressure to provide a path to citizenship for the millions here illegally, and to admit more foreigners with skills, Republicans’ opposition has only hardened in this campaign. A bipartisan Senate-passed bill on immigration would increase economic growth by 3.3 percent in a decade and save $175 billion by then, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.
If you believe the Times that bipartisan bill sounds like an angels choir singing a song. But let's see what else the CBO had to say (and let's not imagine the CBO tried to bury it, even though the Times did):
The Economic Impact of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
June 18, 2013
Report
S. 744 would boost economic output—CBO projects—by 3.3 percent in 2023 and by 5.4 percent in 2033. Employment, investment, and productivity would increase, but average wages would be less than under current law until 2025.
Somehow the Times missed the lead - the Senate bill would REDUCE average wages and raise unemployment. And what mysterious economic force led the CBO to that conclusion?
Employment and Wages. The supply of labor in the economy would increase primarily because the legislation would loosen or eliminate annual limits on various categories of permanent and temporary immigration. Enacting the bill would, in CBO’s view, increase the U.S. population by about 10 million people (about 3 percent) in 2023 and by about 16 million people (about 4 percent) in 2033.
CBO and JCT expect that new immigrants of working age would participate in the labor force at a higher rate, on average, than other people in that age range in the United States. Relative to CBO’s projections under current law, enacting the bill would increase the size of the labor force by about 6 million (about 3½ percent) in 2023 and by about 9 million (about 5 percent) in 2033, CBO and JCT estimate. Employment would increase as the labor force expanded, because the additional population would add to demand for goods and services and, in turn, to the demand for labor. However, temporary imbalances in the skills and occupations demanded and supplied in the labor market, as well as other factors, would cause the unemployment rate to be slightly higher for several years than projected under current law.
The increase in average wages for the entire labor force in 2025 and later years relative to average wages under current law would occur primarily because the bill would boost the productivity of labor and capital (as discussed below). However, not all workers would experience those effects equally. The legislation would particularly increase the number of workers with lower or higher skills but would have less effect on the number of workers with average skills. As a result, the wages of lower- and higher-skilled workers would tend to be pushed downward slightly (by less than ½ percent) relative to the wages of workers with average skills.
Hmm, supply and demand. The link between increased immigration and lower unskilled wages remains mysterious (and utterly unreported) at the Times. FWIW, the word "immigration" does not appear in either the current Scheiber article or the accompanying editorial.
AND SINCE THIS IS A PROGRESSIVE FANTASY: Far be it from me to emphasize the intrusion of reality into the current progressive "Occupy McDonalds" fantasy, but even Mr. Scheiber could not bring himself to utterly ignore this awkward tidbit (so he buried it in unlucky paragraph thirteen):
Partly in response to the political shift as well as competitive pressure from tighter labor markets, several major employers of low-wage workers have moved to raised their base pay in recent months. Walmart, Target and McDonald’s have all announced plans to increase their minimum wage to or near $10, though for McDonald’s it would apply only to the roughly 10 percent of its workers employed directly by the company, not by its franchisees.
TM stands for: The Man.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | April 16, 2015 at 11:31 AM
well there are many snarktastic schreiber moments,
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120457/st-louis-rams-ferguson-protest-controversy-shows-mcculloch-wrong
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2015 at 11:46 AM
there was a whole TM thread, about Kevin Drum's review of this:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120084/what-my-book-got-wrong-about-obama-summers-geithner-recovery
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2015 at 11:49 AM
its an evil ploy by the robot industry to get rid of humans in the fast food industry.
Posted by: henry | April 16, 2015 at 11:51 AM
Dear Henry-- and who will write the software for those Fast Food Robots? Hmmmm.....???
Posted by: NKvirusedandback | April 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM
it would be how Ultron would do it, sorry to segue toward an Avenger's promo, but in the last film,
an autonomous killing program was the threat, so in this one, a whole of army of killer droids are the solution.
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM
NK, the Chinese are on it.
Posted by: henry | April 16, 2015 at 12:05 PM
Costco's for it, but they've automated more of their operations,
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Excellent. The minimum wage raise pot bangers are at work in D.C> Just days ago with no discussion or vote that I'm aware of D.C. moved to intervene in the suit to overturn J. Hanen, So officially, we too, are trying to keep the floodgates open.
Posted by: clarice | April 16, 2015 at 12:09 PM
Implicit in the acknowledgment that the minimum wage has an upper limit [$15, $18, whatever] is the recognition that too high a wage depresses employment.
Why does the left hate the working poor?
Posted by: Ignatz | April 16, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Cosco, yes. Not as much as Bezos or Musk.
Posted by: henry | April 16, 2015 at 12:11 PM
"as well as the growth in labor productivity. Simply raising the hourly minimum in line with wage and price inflation would put it at about $11 today; adjusting it for productivity growth would put it at about $18."
Hmmm. Where is Jimmy? Was not the increase in productivity the result of changes in robotics, machines, computers, systems and management with maybe a little help from labor...if any? If so, how does one argue for being paid for flipping more burgers faster when he is still flipping the same number at the same speed? If the increase in productivity came from the other things on my list, then the owners already paid for that increase. ...And then we get to the supply and demand for labor.
Eco 3, back when they taught it I guess.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 16, 2015 at 12:14 PM
I used to work in fast food before my back injury and there's an old trick we used to employ if we ever got a rude,obnoxious customer or even one who seemed to looking down on us because of our economic status.
Simply take said customers order, then run your hand through the crack of your ass when no one's looking at handle all of the customers food really thoroughly.
If Corps. don't want to raise the working wage and they expect ya'll to keep serving the wealthy then i'd employ this practice again and again.
Just kidding.....it's already being employed.
Enjoy your burger Tom.
Posted by: Dublindave | April 16, 2015 at 12:14 PM
hence this becomes crimethink:
http://centralstandardtimes.com/2015/04/06/economics-makes-you-mean/
nothing like a 10 dollar burger,
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM
"Hell no, we won't go (without our McD's)!"
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | April 16, 2015 at 12:22 PM
Has Hillary! boycotted McDonald's on her Little People Tour? McDonald's has all sorts of neat coffee drinks, too, which look really delicious on the billboards. I guess it would have been a strain on Hillary!'s leased smile to show how she was "lovin' it."
BTW with Huma on the road trip, is the Weiner Man looking after Little Oscar?
Posted by: Frau Frankfurter | April 16, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Quick google...
"McDonald's employs 440,000 workers worldwide, most of them food servers making the median hourly wage of $9.10 an hour"
"The typical hourly pay for a Chipotle Crew Member ranges from $8-$12, with an average hourly pay of $9."
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | April 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM
Interesting you ask that, Frau:
In 1998, McDonald's made an initial minority investment in the company. By 2001, the company had grown to be Chipotle's largest investor.[16] The investment from McDonald's allowed the firm to quickly expand, from 16 restaurants in 1998 to over 500 by 2005.[25] On January 26, 2006, Chipotle made its initial public offering (IPO) after increasing the share price twice due to high pre-IPO demand. In its first day as a public company, the stock rose exactly 100%, resulting in the best U.S.-based IPO in six years, and the second-best IPO for a restaurant after Boston Market. The money from the offering was then used to fund new store growth.[19]
they've since divested themselves, of most food products,
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2015 at 12:29 PM
narciso's link @ 12:21
And...RepuKKKlican. It's all in the studies.
Posted by: Frau Frankfurter | April 16, 2015 at 12:31 PM
narciso, it's easy to understand why Dennis Prager encourages parents not to send their children to
collegethe re-education camps.Posted by: Frau Frankfurter | April 16, 2015 at 12:35 PM
From the earlier thread (I think):
http://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/inside-hillarys-very-luxurious-van-bed-tv-and-lots-leather_919184.html
Why did the Secret Service pay for the van?
(And what's missing from that article? Can anyone think of something passengers might want besides a refrigerator?)
Posted by: Extraneus | April 16, 2015 at 12:35 PM
yes it was Ext, the interesting detail is how this type of van, is unallowable by the new CAFE standards, mandated upon everyone else,
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2015 at 12:39 PM
Someone told me that half of fast food workers earn below the median. If true, that's an outrage!
Posted by: Eric in Boise | April 16, 2015 at 12:43 PM
McDonald's in my Left Coast experience has clean toilets and more than the usual Starbucks.
Ext- Was it not available in black?
Posted by: Frau Frankfurter | April 16, 2015 at 12:45 PM
Al Sharpton has a gender gap problem. He owes far more taxes than the $70,000 lien the IRS just slapped on Melissa Harris-Perry. Melissa should owe more, for fairness!
Posted by: henry | April 16, 2015 at 12:49 PM
http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/americas-15-highest-paying-companies/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=Apr2015_US&utm_content=HIGHPAYCOMP15_US
Netflix is #2.
Posted by: DebinNC | April 16, 2015 at 12:49 PM
If true, that's an outrage!
heh
Posted by: Extraneus | April 16, 2015 at 12:49 PM
Woman blames coffee-drinking parrot for car crash
Posted by: Extraneus | April 16, 2015 at 12:50 PM
Shocking that Kruggers and Flathead aren't weighing in on the economics of fast food. Surely Paulie Peanuts saw some of the lower priced help at Enron partaking of it, assuming he spent some time on site for those big bucks.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 12:51 PM
That mobile outhouse won't work. Door isn't wide enough.
Posted by: Buckeye | April 16, 2015 at 12:52 PM
They make a double wide version for ADA access Buckeye. Paint it black and the SS will pay for it.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 16, 2015 at 12:55 PM
Al Sharpton announces a new type of protest: the fake hunger strike, where, not only isn't the abstinence from eating prolonged, it isn't even daily.
Posted by: DebinNC | April 16, 2015 at 12:57 PM
Is there a law that says the taxpayers need to pay for a van that might only be used once, by a primary candidate? And then what, stored in a garage? Auctioned off?
Posted by: Extraneus | April 16, 2015 at 12:58 PM
According to the IRS, although she likely makes a substantial living anchoring a weekend MSNBC show and as a professor at Wake Forest University, the left-wing Melissa Harris-Perry does not pay her taxes.
So glad to be gone from that trash ACC...
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 12:59 PM
Buckeye - Hillary! has a world-class sphincter. it's for Huma and the rest of The Help.
Posted by: Frau Plumpsklosett | April 16, 2015 at 01:03 PM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/16/you-deserve-hillary-s-bloodless-condescending-campaign.html
Interesting, sorta effete, fin-de-siècle viewpoint. Thoughts?
Posted by: lyle | April 16, 2015 at 01:03 PM
Just cannot imagine Hill using a public toilet. She's too far above that mundane bit of business.
Posted by: glasater | April 16, 2015 at 01:03 PM
Hillary!
hasis a world-class sphincter.Posted by: lyle | April 16, 2015 at 01:04 PM
Slick was unavailable to say what she sounds like when throwing lamps:
http://weaselzippers.us/220935-hillarys-magical-accents/
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 01:06 PM
Thanks, lyle. It's good to have a professional do the FIFYs.
(I set one up for you @ 12:23. What happened?)
Posted by: Frau Plumpsklosett | April 16, 2015 at 01:12 PM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-parks-handicap-spot_921187.html
Posted by: lyle | April 16, 2015 at 01:13 PM
I'll go take a look, Frau. BRB.
Posted by: lyle | April 16, 2015 at 01:14 PM
lyle - you may have forgotten that Hillary! fell and damaged her head and is entitled to that handicap spot. She is *not* entitled to the WH.
Posted by: Frau Plumpsklosett | April 16, 2015 at 01:16 PM
Hasn't alcoholism been classified as a disability?
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 01:17 PM
An obvious handicap space too. HC leaves the business, walks toward the parked Scooby, then chats and poses for pics right next to the bright blue handicap space sign. Sheesh.
Posted by: DebinNC | April 16, 2015 at 01:18 PM
DebinNC - isn't that how Ms. Rodham has strolled through life?
Posted by: Frau Plumpsklosett | April 16, 2015 at 01:24 PM
Tammy is slattering the NYT crotch sniffers.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 01:25 PM
Your 12:23 can't be improved upon, Frau.
She is *not* entitled to the WH.
Know your place, peasant!
Posted by: lyle | April 16, 2015 at 01:25 PM
Bless you, CH, for keeping us up to date with Tammy. I heart both of you.
Posted by: Frau Plumpsklosett | April 16, 2015 at 01:26 PM
Yes, FP, but it surprises me she makes no effort to mask her elitism. Funny how the throne-sniffing hoardes following HC aren't shown in any of the msm pics, making HC appear to be just having cozy little chats with random folks she serendipitously meets along her unscripted way.
Posted by: DebinNC | April 16, 2015 at 01:30 PM
Frau, since she's relocated to NYC (perhaps permanently) there's more of an edge to her broadcasts. She is blasting the contrived and manipulated aspect of Rodham's "I'm Just Like You" tour and contrasting it to the natural reaction to events that the Tea Party was that the MFM can't understand.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 01:30 PM
Looks like an unusually large crowd of normal humans-- the old guy on the bench. Then a bunch of secret service and a couple press types.
Posted by: henry | April 16, 2015 at 01:31 PM
Extraneus | April 16, 2015 at 12:50 PM,
That parrot needs a better owner.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | April 16, 2015 at 01:38 PM
Whatever the purpose of this I'm just like everyone else tour it is failing on a multitude of levels
Posted by: maryrose | April 16, 2015 at 01:39 PM
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/16/will-loretta-lynch-investigate-hillary-clintons-emails/
So a simple "no' would have sufficed, Lo.
Posted by: lyle | April 16, 2015 at 01:40 PM
New super PAC for Walker. Run by his former gov campaign managers.
Bonus, the third lefty justice on the WI SC won't run for reelection if Abrahamson might still be Chief.
Posted by: henry | April 16, 2015 at 01:40 PM
If the world of online, broadcast, cable and satellite media is going to be a year and a half of nonstop Hillarylingus then I may have to bow out until, assuming she is nominated, her crushing defeat in Nov '16.
Posted by: Ignatz | April 16, 2015 at 01:41 PM
Following on Tom M's basically money article here's what I'm studying today:
The Collapse Of The Petrodollar: Oil Exporters Are Dumping US Assets At A Record Pace
Cannot imagine how a financial collapse will take place but the above article may give a clue or two.
Posted by: glasater | April 16, 2015 at 01:45 PM
re-posting here rse's link from the last thread to this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/final_tf_newamericans_report_4-14-15_clean.pdf
... which is founded on this extraordinary statement: "For more than 200 years, the United States has welcomed new Americans to our shores. It is what makes America exceptional."
It is? So the one thing that makes America different is that it is not so much a nation as a destination resort, where the arrivers get to make up the rules? wow. just wow.
The connection between that and the subject of this post is pretty obvious. It also connects very well to this extraordinary post at insty this morning: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/205210/.
There we learn (among other things) that fully 2 in 3 Democrats believe that the President has the right to ignore federal court rulings "if they are standing in the way of actions he feels are important for the country?”
The rot is very very deep.
Posted by: exdemocrat | April 16, 2015 at 01:51 PM
glasater- ZH alert. That is a continuous ZH meme, and of dubious validity.
Posted by: NKvirusedandback | April 16, 2015 at 01:53 PM
since she's relocated to NYC (perhaps permanently) there's more of an edge to her
Pretty much the effect of NYC on just about everyone. Whatsamatter!? Fuggedaboudit!
Posted by: jimmyk | April 16, 2015 at 01:56 PM
Have you guys already discussed her lying about her grandparents being immigrants?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/hillary-clinton-wrong-on-familys-immigration-history-records#.xq8REXY0y
Posted by: Extraneus | April 16, 2015 at 01:57 PM
Sounds a lot like Cherokee Warren.
Posted by: Extraneus | April 16, 2015 at 01:58 PM
LOL @ anybody that believes anything out of a Clintoon piehole.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 01:59 PM
Everyone knows who their ancestors are and when they came here
Ancestry .com gives you all that info
She lies about stuff just so she can identify with real people
She herself is surreal
Posted by: maryrose | April 16, 2015 at 02:03 PM
@1:58-- HildaBeast is so full of shyte. Is there anything authentic about her?.... other than being a lesbian of course.
Posted by: NKvirusedandback | April 16, 2015 at 02:07 PM
This immigrant POTUS talk is borderline birther talk.
Posted by: Threadkiller | April 16, 2015 at 02:13 PM
We talked about why burger flippers are required at all...see the LUN which was here before. Puts DD's nasty trick out of business as a bonus.
LUN. Others are at Youtube under Burger Robot.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 16, 2015 at 02:20 PM
dumbassdave has never spent a day doing honest work in his entire sham of a life.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 02:26 PM
Re the grandparents, I guess one out of four is close enough for government work.
Posted by: jimmyk | April 16, 2015 at 02:28 PM
the one grew up in the USA after arriving as a child. She's just full of shyte... or drunk... or both.
Posted by: NKvirusedandback | April 16, 2015 at 02:30 PM
WeeDavey's argument that rubbing a bun on his bum is cause for a raise says about all one needs to know about the trash heap we face.
Posted by: Ignatz | April 16, 2015 at 02:34 PM
Anybody doubt that McD's could today field an entire store without a human employee except a supervisor and a material loader? Order at a kiosk, pay with a debit card, collect your bag by number at the end of the conveyor belt.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 16, 2015 at 02:38 PM
She lied about being named after Edmund Hilary despite the fact that when she was born it was still called Plateau Everest.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | April 16, 2015 at 02:43 PM
Perhaps her grandfather arrived in the US under sniper fire.
Posted by: jimmyk | April 16, 2015 at 02:46 PM
Dave-- and Edmund Hilary was an obscure New Zealand gov't employee and mountaineer enthusiast.
Posted by: NKvirusedandback | April 16, 2015 at 02:48 PM
Anybody doubt that McD's could today field an entire store without a human employee except a supervisor and a material loader
What's the Twain quote, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes"?
Posted by: jimmyk | April 16, 2015 at 02:53 PM
Listening to new Defense Sec Ash Carter doing his first Press Conference.
My first impression is that he says "Uhhh," more than almost anyone I can recall. Just as an example, I will count the "Uhhh's" in his upcoming response starting now:
35 "Uhhh's."
Then he deferred to General Dempsey, who in his response used zero "Uhhh's."
Posted by: daddy | April 16, 2015 at 02:57 PM
Here's the "Uhhh" count in Secretary Ash "Uhhh" Carter's latest response:
32 "Ughh's."
Posted by: daddy | April 16, 2015 at 03:03 PM
What difference, etc.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | April 16, 2015 at 03:06 PM
The rich don't eat at Micky D's. They eat $15 kobe beef burgers at their uptown restaurants, with made-on-the-premises organic buns and organic ketchup. If you want to know the demographics of a MacDonald's target audience, just look at their commercials.
Why does duda hate the poor and minorities?
Posted by: derwill | April 16, 2015 at 03:08 PM
daddy, you should alert Howie Carr, whose "Wizard of Uhs" show segment fizzled out once Mary Jo's killer kicked the bucket.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | April 16, 2015 at 03:08 PM
Funny thing is, Derwill, that that machine I linked can deal with multiple grinds of meat on demand on an order by order basis, and Subway knows how to make a bun fresh at the store so I'm sure McD's could automate that too.
I sent my wife a link to a story yesterday about the development of a kitchen robot that will be able to prepare 2,000 recipes on demand, with instructions being placed by the owner's iPhone Ap. A few months ago, some JOMer - let's guess Daddy - linked to a story about the evolution of sex robots in Japan.
Just sayin...
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 16, 2015 at 03:14 PM
I was going to, you know, make a betting pool, you know, for how many "Uhhh's" there would be in this guys next response, but I just got , you know, some new orders from momma and have to, you know, be on my way.
Someone else will have to pick up the "Uhhh" count", but statical data,you know, tends to indicate, you know that 33 "Uhhh's" is his standard. "Uhhh's" per, you know, response.
He starts off with, you know, 2 or 3 "Uhhh's, concludes his first sentence, then does, you know, fairly well in sentence 2 or 3, but about sentence 4 there is a, you know, an "Uhhh" burble, where 4 or 5 "Uhhh's" pour out of him like, you know, machine gun fire, then 2 or 3 words, then another, you know, "Uhhh" burble, after which he is able, you know, to conclude his finishing sentences with, you know, less "Uhhh's," than he, you know, started out with.
Bye.
Posted by: daddy | April 16, 2015 at 03:16 PM
Thanks, NK.
When I was a member of Toastmasters years ago we had to pay a nickle for every "uh" uttered. Plus, there was a guy in the back with an obnoxous clicker which sounded with an ah/uh utterance.
It's an effective way to coerce clearer speaking skills.
Posted by: glasater | April 16, 2015 at 03:22 PM
Uhhh, I think I Uhhh followed what you were Uhhh saying daddy.
Posted by: Buckeye | April 16, 2015 at 03:24 PM
Has anyone explained what that Hillary logo is supposed to mean:
She's moving to the right politically?
The red states are a shaft through the heart of the blue?
She's a demented old crone who's driving with her right blinker on?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | April 16, 2015 at 03:33 PM
exdem - The accepted pattern according to the "Living Constitution":
Posted by: Frau Rechtlosigkeit | April 16, 2015 at 03:40 PM
I think it means that one of her staffers learned rudimentary ms-paint. Text Tool, Arial Black, 72, Bold; Color Fill Tool, Blue, click; Arrow Shape, Color Fill Tool, Red, click; save. Who needs designers? We can spend the extra cash on pantsuits.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | April 16, 2015 at 03:41 PM
unions are reactionary. they come about out of need. when they are too successful they put themselves out of business. When business treat their workers as capitalist wage slaves and pay them as little as possible unions arise. When they stop unions slowly recede. unions started gaining power during the time of the robber barons when they were attacked by private security police and even the military. unions are at heir best when the workers have no rights. malthus iron law of wages.
Posted by: captain*arizona | April 16, 2015 at 03:44 PM
Dave (in MA),
"Or save the extra cash for ourselves! Win-win!"
This entire thing makes me think she is really a stalking horse for someone else, and is just holding all that money until the Someone Else appears and she drops out for "health" reasons.
Posted by: Miss Marple | April 16, 2015 at 03:45 PM
Counting the "you know"s in Rodham's verbiage is another measure of how to sound like an inarticulate lush.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | April 16, 2015 at 03:47 PM
Any politician who needs and uses a personal logo should--dating myself--"be shot with his own." It should immediately disqualify the person. Didn't Onkel Adolf start and finish that once and for all?
Posted by: Frau Rechtlosigkeit | April 16, 2015 at 03:47 PM
Frau-that fits with progressive federalism and the Soros-financed Constitution in 2020 push.
I got an invite to the ACS convention in June at the Capitol Hilton. Said Holder would be speaking first day and Ruth Bader the closing session.
Posted by: rse | April 16, 2015 at 03:47 PM
Miss Marple, I don't think Hillary! would knowingly allow that to happen. Of course, she can always say she ran for president even if she has to bow out. Money and a desire for authoritarian power seem to be her main motivators.
Can you see her even settling for VP?
Posted by: Frau Rechtlosigkeit | April 16, 2015 at 03:54 PM
rse
Did you and your daughter use the train from Boston to Providence?
No problems?
Posted by: Buckeye | April 16, 2015 at 03:59 PM
If you like to read about Democratic politicians getting indicted -- and who doesn't -- head over to my site for my latest post on our state auditor, Troy Kelley. (There's even a link to the indictment for those who like to reac such things.)
Posted by: Jim Miller | April 16, 2015 at 03:59 PM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-is-the-sarah-palin-of-the-left/article/2563126
I think this is a bit of a stretch.
Posted by: lyle | April 16, 2015 at 04:01 PM
Ignatz - Two days ago, I gave two interpretations of that Hillary campaign logo, one clean and one dirty. I was indirect in explaining the second, but I think you'll be able to figure it out.
(For the record: I think that whoever constructed it meant ti to say forward with Hillary, or something like that.)
Posted by: Jim Miller | April 16, 2015 at 04:05 PM
I think this is a bit of a stretch.
That's one of the worst articles they've published.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 16, 2015 at 04:15 PM