Welcome, dear friends, to the most intense nightly raid available anywhere on the sphere ; The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble. 
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- BYE BYE, SEIU: When Andy Stern starts making this much noise, it logically raises the question is, as David says earlier today, the SIEU, Obama’s biggest supporter… (And Stern, remember has been the most frequent visitor to the White House. has been lost to Obama. Dan Riehl has this one correct:
Today, the Democrats are reaping what Stern, the Phoenix Group, Kos, and others sowed, as they were always out of step with the majority of the country. These are precisely the fights, the changes, they wanted when taking over the DNC. They’ve been plotting it for years. They’re there. And if they fail, the Democrats, the Netroots and all the associated characters will find themselves in disarray.
I have always said here that the Democrats would runs smack dab into the teeth of reality. Even excluding the fiscal reality of their Neo-socialist policies forcing this nation to drown in red ink, the political realities were always destined to bite first. So we’re seeing it today.
- SCARING AMERICANS: For months on and we’ve put up with rhetoric from the White House claiming that anyone who opposed the chosen one and his government takeover of health care was being a scare monger. “stop scaring Americans” was the unify cry from the Democrats in both Houses, and the White House as well. cell, perhaps, it is telling that the president has decided to break out some scare tactics of his own, claiming that the U.S. will go bankrupt if we don’t pass the government takeover of health care. Even as our list examination of that statement does tend to cause most people to go “”hmmm”…. consider that every time we have taken the advice of Mr. Obama we have gotten remarkably closer to irreparable damage to our economy [2], euphemistically called “bankruptcy”. It does seem logical to question why we should believe the analysis of Mr. Obama, here.
- PARALLELS: There are a number of amazing parallels happening between the SEIU story above, and what we see going on over in Copenhagen. Ron Bailey has an article up over at Reason [3] that tells an alarmingly similar tale of political reality biting the left in the backside.
It’s déjà vu all over again. Another year, another climate summit on the verge of collapse. As usual, this year’s conference is filled with lots of diplomatic drama, outraged activists, and high-minded rhetoric. This is the sixth time I’ve reported on the annual U.N. climate change conference and the script has not changed. Two years ago the chaotic climate change talks in Bali “nearly collapsed.” The conference concluded with an thirteenth hour “roadmap” for future negotiations. That last minute deal was supposed to set the stage for a legally binding global climate treaty from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) in Copenhagen.
But even before the delegates convened at the Bella Center south of Copenhagen, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen stated that no such comprehensive treaty would be completed at COP-15. The aim shifted to negotiating a political agreement that set out specific goals for cuts in the emissions of greenhouse gases and the amount of money that developed countries would pledge to give poor countries to help them adapt to climate change.
It appears that a lot people assumed going into COP-15 that the replacement of the widely loathed George W. Bush with Barack Obama as U.S. president would change everything. Much to the shock and horror of many of the “climate justice” activists gathered here in Hopenhagen, it hasn’t.
Of course, there’s a reason for that; political and economic realities, will trump neo -socialist dogma every time. Oh….and should we mention that environmental reality has also taken a hand. It’s snowing in Copenhagen, as this is written. Actually, the better description is “blizzard” [4], but don’t tell anybody that you heard it here first.
- UNEMPLOYMENT: New Jobless claims have risen unexpectedly. [5] At least, unexpectedly from the standpoint of the Obama White House and the economists thereunder. If you noticed the pattern? Every time unemployment claims rise, it’s “unexpectedly”. There’s a reason for that; these people of been trying to gild the lily since January of this year. We are being lied to, people.
- MONICA’S BACK: And the rest of her, too. She lays it out, you should pardon the pun, in no uncertain terms. Bill Clinton lied. [6] Not only did he lie, but he lied under oath. If there’s anything that’s amazing about any of this, it’s that an expose a showing us what we already instinctively knew, can sell so very well.