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By: hanoverfist

hanoverfist — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:33:07 +0000

I dont think its just Honda’Toyota and other car mfgs. they want.
I think the big one they want to ruin is Walmart.

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:26:08 +0000

So they were for it before they were against it? I doubt the polling data will stop this from getting passed, and I look foreward to hearing the Union members gripe.

By: On the Right

On the Right — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:14:40 +0000

Let’s Hope Democrats Engage In Short-Term Thinking…

Card Check a dead letter?
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By: petefrt

petefrt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:56:04 +0000

I’m not quite as sanguine about this new found respect for the secret ballot as the WSJ.

That puts you well ahead of me, because my sanguinity level is zilch.

I’m confident that before the Dems lose control, they’ll find a way to pass card check. Like their immigration proposals, it operates to give the left a permanent, irreversible majority, and that’s the predominate goal of our new government.

By: Kini

Kini — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:27:42 +0000

How ironic is it that democrats ( and some very stupid RINO’s) find cutesy names for suppression of freedoms.

Free Choice Act and Fairness Doctrine are hardly free or fair.

By: Just A Grunt

Just A Grunt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:59:42 +0000

Here is the excerpt from the Chris Wallace interview with Steny Hoyer on the question of card check.

WALLACE: Big labor’s top priority is what’s called union card check, and that would be eliminating the right to a secret ballot in determining whether or not you’re going to organize, unionize, a working place.

I love the way that you’re smiling already. Are you going to move on that in the first month?

HOYER: I’m smiling because of the way you phrase it. It’s the Free Choice Act, of course, and what it does is…

WALLACE: Well, union card check, free choice. Both sides have their best — their euphemisms.

HOYER: Of course, and you used one side. That’s why I was smiling.

WALLACE: And you used the other. OK.

HOYER: Well, my point being that we believe that one of the problems that has existed in America is that working people have had a very, very difficult time in getting represented by unions in the workplace.

Workplace has resisted that. The NLRB has not been very vigorous in assuring the lack of unfair labor practices. So we believe that the employees — if over 50 percent of them sign and say, “We want to be represented by a union,” they ought to be able to be represented by a union.

Let me say that many, many employers currently under existing law recognize such signatures right now and start to bargain and have a union representative.

WALLACE: Whatever you call it, Congressman, are you going to pass it in the first month?

HOYER: I don’t know about the first month, but we’re going to pass it early.

By: Club for Growth

Club for Growth — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:51:23 +0000

Quote of the Day…

From Ed Morrissey: Until now, support [for Card Check] came easy for people like Mark Pryor as long as they knew that Republicans would block the bill from becoming law. Now that they have an almost filibuster-proof majority, Democrats have begun to th…

By: DL13

DL13 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:47:21 +0000

One of the biggest rip-offs of the taxpayer is the unions that represent government teachers and workers. They are a political monopoly that cannot be resisted by normal “union busting” methods. The result is their wages have all gone up disproportionately to the rest of the workers, and, what they deliver has gone down. There is little or no accountability.

By: Just A Grunt

Just A Grunt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:46:54 +0000

Steny Hoyer (D) House Majority Leader was on Fox News with Chris Wallace yesterday saying he hoped to have the card check legislation approved in early February. Of course he called it something else like “Frredom in voting Act” or some such nonsense.
I am sure there is a clip of it up by now from Fox.

By: angryed

angryed — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:36:29 +0000

I think this will pass. Here’s why; for the majority of people out there, this is a non-issue. Union membership is what 13% or something like that? So for 87% of people, they’re probably neutral since they don’t think it affects them. So let’s say they poll 50/50 on the issue. But then you have the 13% who poll 80/20 in favor of it. And since they are the only ones really paying attention, there will be no blowback by passing it form the 87% who don’t care one way or the other.

This issue is almost like a farm bill. Nobody outside of farmers every know or care or even understand farm bills. Yet they always pass even though they are some of the worst bills out there.

By: kurtzz3

kurtzz3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:27 +0000

Perfect way to kill Card Check is to remind democRats that it would allow the evil EMPLOYERS a way of finding out how their vascile, serf-like, minion employees voted.

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:16 +0000

I was hoping they’d continue to push Card Check. It would be an easy win for conservatives and a great demonstration of the anti-democratic mindset of liberals.

Bugler on January 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM

As Wethal pointed out, they are more likely to hide it inside some other bill, in order to avoid a fight and to give cover to their own members.

By: Bugler

Bugler — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:57:59 +0000

I was hoping they’d continue to push Card Check. It would be an easy win for conservatives and a great demonstration of the anti-democratic mindset of liberals.

By: gator70

gator70 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:57:23 +0000

Well lets see….wouldn’t it help if the workers stood up for themselves against the unions? Isn’t this how unions were born in the first place? Workers standing up for themselves? There are a lot more workers than there are Union goons. Government isn’t going to fix this crap, the people will have to do it. I think we are heading towards a time in our history again when we have to get our fists a little bloody.

By: Buckaroo

Buckaroo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:50:33 +0000

donks stabbing a “key constituency” in the back? who knew?

By: cs89

cs89 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:45:25 +0000

Here’s hoping. Card check is one of the “biggies” I’m worried about with Obama. If it goes away, I can enjoy the fireworks (Blago, Richardson, Wright, ad infinitum) with less sadness.

By: Wethal

Wethal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:42:53 +0000

They may attach it to some bill that enough of the GOP wouldn’t vote against, say, a “stimulus” bill.

By: Vashta.Nerada

Vashta.Nerada — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:41:29 +0000

Without card check, how is the UAW going to unionize Toyota, Honda and Nissan in the south? The union has eaten all the meat off of GM and Chrysler, and spent a good deal of money on dems the past two cycles, basically for card check. Talk about a huge broken promise.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:40:57 +0000

Another promise by Obama tossed out?

By: Mr. Joe

Mr. Joe — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:38:44 +0000

Well thank goodness for little favors.

Of course expanding unions requires business.

Obama’s plan is expanding government unions, where the real growth will be.

By: Mr. Joe

Mr. Joe — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:37:54 +0000

Every circus needs a clown, that’s why we elected you.

Al Franken. Al Franken.

It’s becoming a bad joke, so it makes sense to have you.

Al Franken. Al Franken.

Caligula at least sent the whole horse, Minnesota just the back.

Al Franken. Al Franken.

Now excuse me while I vomit, I can taste it in my mouth.

Al Franken. Al Franken.