Comments on: Irony escapes the House Democratic Caucus

By: Ace of Spades HQ

Ace of Spades HQ — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:13:52 +0000

CBS Refuses to Run Anti-Card-Check Ad, Claiming Appearance of Pelosi in Ad Would “Confuse” Viewers…

Well, Pelosi does have that Hypnotic Botox look. But I guess CBS’ viewers are just stupid. What is confusing? Pelosi supports card check. Seems pretty simple to me. What the hell claim is CBS trying to make?……

By: Sultry Beauty

Sultry Beauty — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:17:54 +0000

I think you can use Democratic Gay Activists against Prop 8 as another example of why private voting is important. They’re using the Yes on Prop 8 donor list to bombard and boycott people’s places of employment in order to harass them to change their vote or suffer intimidation and economic hardship. How will this same thing not happen when these radicals go to some business advocating for a union?

By: snaggletoothie

snaggletoothie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:12:10 +0000

The standing O for Ted Stevens says all that needs to be said about how much Congress cares about the rule of law. Their loyalty is first and foremost to each other, the Republic and the public be damned.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:09:43 +0000

If you remove the secret ballot, you make this intimidation that much more effective.

JadeNYU on November 21, 2008 at 1:57 PM

Not regarding your uncle…but nothing like a Molotov cocktail though the living room window to make you change your mind.

By: 44Magnum

44Magnum — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:07:40 +0000

Vee haff vays to make you schtop talking!

By: HornetSting

HornetSting — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:06:41 +0000

I feel SO much better that these buffoons are in charge. Pass the butter and salt.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:01:57 +0000

Whoa..what’s with the “God” reference? Is she some sort of clingy, Bible-thumping religious zealot?

Bishop on November 21, 2008 at 12:44 PM

Oogedy-boogedy. I’m breathlessly waiting for Kathleen Parker to complain about Obama wearing his Marxist religion armband on his sleeve.

By: JadeNYU

JadeNYU — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:57:52 +0000

I’ve told this story on HA before, but it bears repeating.

My uncle fondly remembers his younger days in the Union when he and another guy were sent to follow a coworker (who was causing the union problems) around all day.

They never came near him and they never made any threats, but, it was clear that there was nowhere he could go that they couldn’t get to him.

Of course, the guy had a change of heart and suddenly fell in with the union line.

If you remove the secret ballot, you make this intimidation that much more effective.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:57:34 +0000

“It’s a not a secret ballot, thank the Lord Obama”, said the union thug in 2009.

By: Chewy the Lab

Chewy the Lab — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:29:43 +0000

Im glad Boehner finally grew a set at least on this issue.
I still think the RNC ought to groom Todd Palin to be the mouthpiece on all the talk shows regarding this issue. As a proud member of the union, Todd would have the creds. Hopefully, they’d coach him better than the McCain campaign ~~“handled”~~ muzzled his wife.

By: UltimateBob

UltimateBob — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:21:51 +0000

“It’s a secret ballot, thank the Lord,”

Whoa..what’s with the “God” reference? Is she some sort of clingy, Bible-thumping religious zealot?

Bishop on November 21, 2008 at 12:44 PM

Next thing you know, we’ll be running into Ms. Slaughter at the shooting range!

By: right2bright

right2bright — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:01:32 +0000

Union organizers must be salivating at the prospect of organizing software engineers at Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, IBM, Adobe, et al.

timajin on November 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM

Never thought of that, the software people, whom I suspect overwhelmingly supported Obama, are in for a cold dose of reality.

By: Paradox Drive

Paradox Drive — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:00:24 +0000

as has been said so often about the donkeys – if it weren’t for double standards they wouldn’t have any.

By: L.N. Smithee

L.N. Smithee — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:00:02 +0000

right2bright wrote: They will have to make the decision…people or unions…it will be bloody if the Republicans play it out.

That’s right. It’s a good thing the GOP put somebody else in charge instead of the do-nothings who got them where they are now.

Oh, yeah, I forgot.

By: timajin

timajin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:59:00 +0000

If card check is passed, you will see the final spiral of American competitiveness. The unions will go straight after the high-tech industry where they’ve wanted to organize for years. It’s one of the last areas where we continue to be highly competitive worldwide and they can smell the money. Believe it. With all the innovation in American people, why do you think there has been no successful start-up in the automotive industry? No entrepreneur worth her/his salt wants to deal with a union and cannot build a successful business model with one in place. Union organizers must be salivating at the prospect of organizing software engineers at Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, IBM, Adobe, et al.

By: L.N. Smithee

L.N. Smithee — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:57:48 +0000

He vowed Republicans would stand firmly against the Democrat’s “card-check” legislation – dubbed the Employee Free Choice Act or EFCA. It would allow organizers to unionize a workplace by gathering enough singed cards rather than the current process of employees deciding by secret ballots.

I don’t get it. Why do they have to burn the ballots?

Are they confusing them with draft cards?

By: Puritan1648

Puritan1648 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:57:14 +0000

These idiots work for me.

…the whole recall process for elected officials is messy, and the constituents of the most egregious of these asshats are braindead, anyway…hence Murtha’s 16th or 17th or 35th term….

I’d say we pull a Madame DeFarge and behead them all…not that this would slow any of ‘em down any…it’d only save ‘em the cost of earmuffs in winter….

…but seeing ‘em in tumbrels would delight my wizened old heart….

Nothing they vote on should be in secret.

Tommy_G on November 21, 2008 at 12:32 PM

…except for defense and security matters…which should be kept secret…and which they leak anyway….

…no…guillotines…it’s the only way to be sure….

By: right2bright

right2bright — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:54:01 +0000

This will be the beginning of their Waterloo.
They will feel the pull of the irresistible unions, and the people will revolt.
They will have to make the decision…people or unions…it will be bloody if the Republicans play it out.

By: thirteen28

thirteen28 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:53:44 +0000

Is anyone still thinking that the Dems won’t overreach? They’re doing it already!

By: marklmail

marklmail — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:53:20 +0000

Will the mainstream media cover this up, yet continue to run pro-union stories on the nightly news? Bastards.

By: Puritan1648

Puritan1648 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:50:21 +0000

…during the campaign *PAUSE FOR RESIDUAL MOURNING TO OOZE OUT* I’m sure that I’m not the only one who advocated Mr. McCain campaign by, among other things…er…among any things hanging the Democrat Party around Mr. Obama’s neck….

…but, then, Mr. McCain was running against Mr. Obama as a way of impressing him, actually hoping for a cabinet post I’d imagine…maybe Secretary of Bipartisanship….

…this collection of skunks, profligates, liars and horse thieves makes the prisoners in the dock at Nuremberg look like statesmen…Pelosi is the living embodiment of the “Halloween” movie franchise…Waxman merits his surname….

…would that their secret ballot meant instead that we had a secret legislature, and we didn’t have to hear from these meat puppets until they came up for their mandated reanimation in two years…when the undead of Washington lumber forth, pockets stuffed with lobbiest money, to scare the electorate with their smiling headshot photos and overwhelming stench…”Dawn of the Incumbents”….

…America is in decline…if in doubt, look to Congress for proof….

By: bloghooligan

bloghooligan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:49:08 +0000

Secret ballot for me, not for thee.

By: BadgerHawk

BadgerHawk — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:47:21 +0000

highhopes on November 21, 2008 at 12:39 PM

It’s sad that ‘crossing the aisle’ almost always means our guys moving left.

By: Bishop

Bishop — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:44:32 +0000

“It’s a secret ballot, thank the Lord,”

Whoa..what’s with the “God” reference? Is she some sort of clingy, Bible-thumping religious zealot?

By: Seven Percent Solution

Seven Percent Solution — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:41:38 +0000

………. talk about buyer’s remorse.

How’s that working out for you America?