Union Thugs, Leftwing Activists & Socialist Party Members Shut Down DC Rush HourTraffic to Protest Scott Walker Fundraiser

Socialist Party members, labor thugs and leftwing activists shut down rush hour traffic yesterday in Washington DC to protest a Scott Walker fundraiser.
Shopfloor reported:

Sundry labor and leftwing activists marched through downtown Washington, D.C., this evening, blocking main streets right in the heart of the evening commute. There were a few hand-drawn signs expressing solidarity with union employees in Wisconsin, many professional signs from the Amalgamated Transit Union, and some posters from the Socialist Workers Party…

…How does making it difficult for people to get home build sympathy for organized labor?

The Washington Examiner had more on the protest:

What appear to be more than 1,000 pro-union protesters from around the Washington region have converged on 601 13th St. NW, trapping inside attendees of a Wisconsin Republican Party fundraiser.

Public-sector unions have angrily objected to the bill signed this week by Gov. Scott Walker, who last week signed a bill stripping Wisconsin workers of some benefits and their collective bargaining rights. The fundraising event for Wisconsin Republicans is being hosted by lobbying firm BRG Group, according to the National Journal.

Photos and videos popping up on Facebook and in the Twittersphere show protesters carrying signs emblazoned with anti-Walker slogans: “Stop the War on Workers,” “Respect Worker Rights,” “Solidarity.

Marxist co-founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin took part in the protest. (Dane 101)

Of course, the state-run media did not report that there were Socialist Party members at the protest.

#1 March 17, 2011 at 8:00 am
Chippy commented:

Looks to me like the commie/socialist/democrats are not very happy. They will not win. Never!
#2 March 17, 2011 at 8:04 am
Militant Conservative commented:

Code pink too, LOL. The socialists are getting vocal like a cat tries to fool the predator by fluffing up. Thhier no a big movement just fluffy and vocal. We’re the monster in the room.

The TPM just flexed a small muscle, wait untill the next election cycle.

Gonna beat the dems like a red headed step child.

powder is dry
#3 March 17, 2011 at 8:08 am
Taqiyyotomist commented:

But, wait… …I thought we didn’t need “fundraisers”, since the Amazing Koch Brothers rain money down on us like confetti and are responsible for the funding of everything conservative in America?
#4 March 17, 2011 at 8:14 am
daryl commented:

This “solidarity” they keep talking about. Is that anything like the Wisconsin “cheeze that binds”.
If so I hope they eat more of it, because they are all getting to be the s**ts.
#6 March 17, 2011 at 8:20 am
Ginger commented:

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#7 March 17, 2011 at 8:27 am
Brooks commented:

The Leftist gift to the Conservative cause that just keeps on giving…
#8 March 17, 2011 at 8:31 am
Taqiyyotomist commented:

OT: Two es-Dem leaders charged in Fake Tea-Party scheme in MI. Face many years in jail.

Great news!

http://detnews.com/article/20110317/METRO02/103170380/1409/2-ex-Dem-leaders-charged-in-fake-tea-party-scheme
#9 March 17, 2011 at 8:39 am
Kitty commented:

I hope as many states as possible, one right after the other, pass similar bills. First of all, it’s one way for the states to get a grip on their exploding deficits. But also, maybe it will tire out the protesters and use up precious union fund$ in the process. To sustain that level of intense anger, like they’re displaying, wears a person down.
#10 March 17, 2011 at 8:45 am
jerrylud commented:

agre kitty cause with more laws innplace like the one now in WI the uino mony is goin gto run out also do any of these union thugs care about anyone but themselves? do they ever work?
#11 March 17, 2011 at 8:54 am
Ed Wallis commented:

At least there’s a direct connection from that building to the Metro (subway) system. What morons.
#12 March 17, 2011 at 8:55 am
K commented:

This makes me want to zip off a check to the Scott Walker campaign ASAP. It is like Joe Wilson yelling out the truth, this could be a real money maker for Scott Walker campaign.
#13 March 17, 2011 at 9:00 am
Adirondack Patriot commented:

Guess I’kll just have to mail my contribution. In fact, since I won’t have to pay to travel there, I’ll double it!

Thank you union loafers!
#14 March 17, 2011 at 9:35 am
Andrew X commented:

A smidge of a digression, but I wanted to put this out there. Via Instapundit comes one of those “Why the hell didn’t we think of this before” moments. (And isn’t this entire public-union confrontation kinda like that?)

Namely, there are stories of unionized health care workers committing horrific violations, including sexual abuse, and, of course, being protected by and transferred (as opposed to punished) by their unions, etc etc, and of course, if a small business employee does this, the business is subject to civil liability, if the church does this, the church is subject to civil liability, and if the union does this, they skate free as little birdies. (They do represent “workers”, doncha know.)

So let state GOP’s start stripping that protection. Not only will this, one might hope, foster more responsible behavior, but you know the unions will scream bloody murder, as they ARE entitled to… basically all sorts of things you and I are not. But in protesting such a move by the GOP, it will force them to stand publicly with the most bottom-feeding elements of their organizations, and will show blatantly and clearly yet another set of “rights” that union members are entitled to that no one else in the country ever is!

This would force the battle onto a field that unions would decidedly NOT want to see it go. GOP, take note. They have declared war, and been forthright about it. Any and all fronts are open for the fight, and this is a promising one.
#15 March 17, 2011 at 9:37 am
Ceroth commented:

I really wish we’d start using the crowd control methods they used in the movie “Soylent Green.”
#16 March 17, 2011 at 9:37 am
JimmyT commented:

It’s time to start arresting the leaders of these illegal demonstrations. Not the dumbasses in the streets, the REAL organizers. BTW, has anyone else read about the unions and their communist buds have hired “protesters” as “activist consultants” and bus them to various sites to protest?
#17 March 17, 2011 at 9:40 am
cal rifkin commented:

These extreme lefties have been a pr disaster for the dems…even the mediatards are starting to have some concerns about the ridiculous protests. Polls show that independent voters side with Walker by a wide margin.
#18 March 17, 2011 at 10:11 am
Rick commented:

Obama’s union thugs believe that they can prevail by force, as explicitly stated by Andy Stern many months ago. We will see a lot of disruption and attempts to incited violence from the right as spring arrives.
#19 March 17, 2011 at 10:11 am
burt commented:

Why do you protest Wisconsin policies in Washington D.C.?
#20 March 17, 2011 at 10:20 am
bobdog commented:

If Code Pink and the labor unions are against it, I’m for it. Nothing I like better than stupid, pointless, vulgar mob rage from these guys. It makes their motives all the more transparent.

For all their talk about capitalist greed and dirty, heavy handed politics, that seems to be all they’re about. The profit motive and extortion politics at work.

I don’t suppose anybody there sees the irony in that.
#22 March 17, 2011 at 10:44 am
Freddy commented:

Has anyone seen a protest sign at these union rallies that indicates the measure was about PUBLIC sector labor unions?

I have noticed several new variations of the clenched fist signs. I have not yet seen a nice pink one, but no doubt it will appear shortly.
#23 March 17, 2011 at 10:45 am
Freddy commented:

#19 March 17, 2011 at 10:11 am
burt commented:

Why do you protest Wisconsin policies in Washington D.C.?

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Cause it is a shorter bus ride!
#25 March 17, 2011 at 10:52 am
tommy mc donnell commented:

“solidarity with wisconsin workers.” what workers, the only thing communists do to workers is deny them their right to the fruits of their labor. if the unions don’t stop letting these communists take over their protests they dead.
#26 March 17, 2011 at 10:59 am
Bobbi commented:

According to Ulsterman’s “Insider”, Valerie Jarrett is the puppet master of Obama. She was born in Iran.
#27 March 17, 2011 at 11:14 am
kato commented:

I never understood how leftists could think that they will win hearts and minds by balling up rush-hour traffic. It makes me hate leftists even more than I do.

All that wasted fossil fuel so that a bunch of infantile adults can publicly poop in their diapers.
#30 March 17, 2011 at 11:40 am
joscefi commented:

“…How does making it difficult for people to get home build sympathy for organized labor?”

As Andy Stern put it, “[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work we use the persuasion of power.”
#31 March 17, 2011 at 11:44 am
Valerie commented:

“You can do anything in the United States, except stop traffic.”

I forget who said it, but the statement really struck me at the time, and I have since come to recognize a certain truth in it. These idiots have made a BIG mistake.
#32 March 17, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Valerie commented:

#16 March 17, 2011 at 9:37 am
JimmyT commented:

Jimmy, if you can find the cites, please go ahead and post ‘em here.

#14 March 17, 2011 at 9:35 am
Andrew X commented:

Andrew, further to your comments: The San Diego Teacher’s Union protects malfeasance by teachers, so long as they have been in place for a while. This, insofar as I know, is simple failure to perform their duties. These include:

A high-school counselor that tried to bully an honors transfer student into taking a middle-school science class that the high school didn’t even offer. The student was put in a class with the kids with attitude problems (who were “taking” other courses), no text, no curriculm, no computer, and no teacher.

An official at the District headquarters, referred to by a vice principal, who refused to meet, confer, or even return 4 phone calls from a parent.

An elementary school teacher that brought the proficiency of his class from thirty percent to zero.

A high school teacher that regularly leaves the classroom for extended periods of time, knowing there is a discipline problem in the class.

All of these people are being protected by the union against layoffs, to the disadvantage of some excellent teachers, because, they insist, a) there should be no layoffs and b) if there are layoffs, they should be on a strict seniority basis.

The Governor of California thinks the voters should vote to extend the “temporary” tax increases passed 5 years ago, in order to fund this nonsense.
#33 March 17, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Beachluver commented:

Pretty soon the union thug pig slime protesters will be spread so thin they just won’t know where to bus the ASTROTURF first!!! WOO HOO!!!! Never let up….I will sen a donation to Gov. Walker small bet still alittle bit helps if we all can. it’s tru NEVER STOP TRAFFIC. Side bar: Gotta get protection from these thugs so the tea-party patriots can collect the FLEEBAGGER recal sigs needed.
#34 March 17, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Catherine commented:

Code Pink Medea Benjamin
where does she work??
where does she get all her money??
Where does she live??

let’s protest her where she lives and works!
Catherine
#35 March 17, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Eddie Baby commented:

Stopping DC rush hour traffic over a Wisconsin governor. Winning! Are these the same guys who run illegal alien amnesty rallies? I know they are followers of Dale Carnegie.
#36 March 17, 2011 at 1:47 pm
jimg commented:

One of these days, these thugs are going to piss off the wrong person (or persons) at the wrong time.

And then? It’s on.
#37 March 17, 2011 at 3:03 pm
mamagriz68 commented:

Do none of these people have jobs?