And President Obama won't do a damned thing about it. White House spokesboob Jay Carney made it clear the president is only interested in policing conservative speech.
James Hoffa is not a hard-bitten manual laborer, he's been a political aid and lawyer all his life. He's never been suspended three days for getting in a fight on the shop floor or operating a forklift drunk, and he couldn't drive a semi if his life depended on it.
People like Sarah Palin are expressing outrage at his "thuggish behavior," but he's not a thug. Go shake his hand, I bet it's soft as a powder puff. Palin could kick his ass, and I don't mean Todd. Instead of getting outraged, we should simply be laughing at this buffoon's clownish behavior. We should also be laughing at those gullible lefties who naively lap up this effete millionaire's faux working-class shtick. Talk about an Elmer Gantry! P.T. Barnum would be proud of Hoffa's ability to fleece the rubes.
"Union muscle," like the bearded lady and the carnival barker, went out with the 1930's
It's time we drop the "Union Muscle" meme, as if we should be afraid of the rank and file. These office workers are going to "take us out?" They'd be out of breath before they got the job done. I and millions of other American workers have calluses tougher than these professional whiners. Try to take me out, I'll crack your skull.
It's all bluster and BS
This isn't a Sylvester Stallone movie about the 1930's, when rough-hewn union men really were capable of breaking heads to keep their jobs. I'm sure the trades are still full of burly men who could stomp my butt, but I don't see them at these rallies. They must be working... Today's union "muscle" consists mostly of hotel workers and apple-shaped government bureaucrats. The scariest thing they can do to you is skip over your number when you're in line at the DMV or pull a tax audit on you.
Have you seen the "union thugs" that trashed the Wisconsin capitol? They weren't beefy stevedores and rugged construction workers; they were a stringy gaggle of soft kids, 60's hippie wanna-be's and has-beens. They know how to deface marble with spray paint, but they'd twist an ankle or slip and fall if they tried to do any head stomping while wearing their penny loafers and Birkenstocks.
One GOP governor and 13 Republicans kicked their asses, and the cops hauled off the vandals. No bombs, no busting heads with ax handles, not even any fistfights in the streets; just stale chants and misspelled signs.
I look at a union crowd and I see women who couldn't fit into a phonebooth and men with spaghetti arms and pot bellies. Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting anybody down. I'm no Randy Coture, but I don't make myself out to be a tough guy, either.
The only ones who should be scared of unions are the American workers. Unions have destroyed more jobs than Barack Obama and his Jobs Czar GE CEO Jeffrey HeMelts put together.
AOW has a related post about how Hoffa's trip to that rally was paid for by us "sons-of-bitches." Go read it here.
