From Americans for Prosperity, video of a public sector union protest yesterday on Capitol Hill. After years of steady pay increases, enhanced pension and other benefits and titanium-strength job security, public employee unions are starting to worry that the economic downturn may start to affect them. Poor dears.

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The American Federation of Government Employees has launched a new ad targeting Republicans, or ‘teabaggers’, depicted in a cheering crowd with the faces of House Minority Leader John Boehner, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle, and RNC Chairman Michael Steele- with a sign that reads “Tea Baggers Section.”

According to the website of the union behind the ad:

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Many fine Republicans argue we should privatize Social Security.  Just like George Bush – they are right.  They are noble.  They are dust.  The last time we mentioned it, we found our ass booted around our neck.  An obscene daisy. Ripe for the picking.  Smelling like death.

Not me.  I prefer to get in the mud, fight the weakest midget in the bar, and End Him.  I will fight dirty.  Because “defense of liberty demands extreme vice.” Or something.

Either way, we can always use a trick shot for 2010, and our trickiest shot is GOV2.0.

GOV2.0 loves the GOP.

If we were a boy band, GOV2.0 would throw her panties on stage.   And if we sing her a power ballad and hold all the right notes… GOV2.0 will certainly bring her hot friend, “Private $$ Accounts”, back to our room  for a threesome.

So pull on your spandex, Mike, and let’s go yodel in the valley.

The Social Security Administration has 64,000 employees, spread out over 1,600 local offices.   In 2009, it handled 42MILLION in office visits, and fielded 57MILLION calls.  Each customer makes one call and one office visit per year.

Yawn! The average McDonalds deals with 15X the number of customers an SSA office deals with daily… and they are open on holidays with a smile.

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On Christmas Day, what was intended to be a far worse terrorist attack was narrowly thwarted, thanks to the prudence and bravery of a handful of airline passengers and flight crew.  No one knows yet how Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (aka “Farouk1986″) made it past every airport security checkpoint, with bomb materials literally strapped to his groin, and boarded a Northwest Airlines flight ultimately headed for Detroit.  Nor does anyone know how the 23-year old made it onto one watch list but not the no-fly list.

But the now infamous PantyBomber incident has since sparked a heated debate over workers in the Transportation Security Administration that has both Democrats and Republicans fuming, and labor unions chomping at the bit to wage a war of an entirely different kind.

In October, 2008, then candidate Obama wrote a letter to John Gage, President of the American Federation of Government Employees union, promising collective bargaining rights to TSA workers and vowing to make it a priority for his administration.

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