Obama tells unions that Card Check will pass this year
posted at 9:37 am on March 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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After telling Planned Parenthood that the Freedom of Choice Act was his first priority and the unions that the EFCA was his top issue, it seems as though Barack Obama has managed to avoid both in his first few weeks in office. Yesterday, though, the new president sent a video message to an AFL-CIO leadership meeting insisting that he had not forgotten about his union pals. Obama pledged to get Card Check passed this year:
“We will pass the Employee Free Choice Act,” President Obama told more than 100 top labor officials in a closed-door meeting at the labor federation’s winter gathering in Miami, according to people at the meeting.
The bill would make it easier for unions to recruit workers because it would let them join unions simply by signing cards rather than through secret-ballot elections in which companies can campaign against the union. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business organizations have been campaigning against the legislation.
The president’s remarks were taped on Feb. 20, according to a White House spokesman. Following his remarks, AFL-CIO officials held a meeting with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
Separately, on Wednesday, the AFL-CIO is expected to ask the administration to take a controlling stake in banks that receive government funding and a more active role in restructuring their balance sheets. “We believe the debate over nationalization is delaying the inevitable bank restructuring, which is something our economy cannot afford,” reads a draft of an AFL-CIO statement. Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is a member of the White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
After six weeks of market crashes, it’s hard to see how Obama could foul things up any further — but this would do it. Passing Card Check at this time, with its bypass of the secret ballot and the force of government arbitration behind labor disputes, would send the few capital venture groups screaming out of the marketplace. With assets losing value by the minute and consumer spending at a standstill, the last thing the private sector needs is a hike in labor costs, which is exactly what the EFCA would provide, even disregarding its abuse of American workers.
It’s interesting that Obama isn’t talking about this in public. In the context of today’s market turmoil, it’s understandable, but what does it mean? Does Obama intend on pushing Card Check and stripping American workers of the protection of the secret ballot? Or is Obama pandering to union leaders while keeping his powder dry on labor?
I’d bet that Obama isn’t quite foolish enough to push yet another market-killing bill, but then again, I had also thought that the principle of not raising taxes in a recession was pretty well established by now.
Previous posts on Card Check:
- Will Stern strong-arm unions to join the SEIU?
- Video: Labor officials can’t explain why they need to dump the secret ballot
- Card check a dead letter?
- Audio: Sharpton opposing Card Check?
- Card Check loses a vote? Perhaps
- Video: Blago, SEIU, and Card Check
- DeMint conference call: Card Check, bailouts
- Card Check: A direct pipeline to corruption and abuse
- Can Obama get Democrats to support Card Check?
- Video: The Card Check ad CBS doesn’t want you to see
- Irony escapes the House Democratic Caucus
- Guess who used the secret ballot … again?
- Video: Meet Union Boss Bill
- USA Today: Stop Card Check …
- Video: McGovern on Card Check
- George McGovern to fight Card Check in debate ad
- Video: What if Congress passed Card Check for all elections?
- FRC Action Summit: Barbara Comstock on EFCA
- George McGovern: Stop Card Check
- Where did the SEIU get $150 million for politics?
- Right Online Conference: John Fund
- Maybe this is why they need Card Check?
- Video: “I Hate Heroes”
- Johnny Sac takes on the unions
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Live Free or Die…Now More Than Ever.
Dorvillian on March 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM
I bet he is!
Brat4life on March 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Honestly, Obama is a narcissist.
The time to start demanding impeachment of this man is coming soon…
Keemo on March 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM
So looks like someone needs to start a business that advertises Strong Arming Union Thugs that try to force you to join a Union.
theguardianii on March 4, 2009 at 9:41 AM
He has to be stopped. How?
marklmail on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Nice! Another campaign promise about to be fulfilled. The market may have another temper tantrum but, fundamentally, they can’t cut their nose to spite their face forever. Are capital gains rates significantly lower in other markets such that it would make sense to put your money in the London exchange or the Japanese exchange? You’d just be contributing dollars to their health care system, instead of ours. And if the stock market does hit 5000 things will be so cheap Americans of my generation will be eager to put our money in there. Growth won’t be as big in the short term, but clearly, we’ve seen that incredibly rapid short term growth isn’t stable.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Meanwhile on the leftist blogs they’re screaming about how Bush’s Administration was a dictatorship with “proof” from the memos Obama leaked last night.
So there you have it. Obama does more planning on political talking points than on HIS JOB.
Obama does NOT care about the country, only his power base and his plan of change to socialize the country.
God help us all. (No /s tag there.)
Skywise on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM
So if he promised to do it, it won’t happen, right?
Vashta.Nerada on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM
I believe that tells us everything. It’s OK for the politicians and those in power to have secret meetings and ballots, but for us peons we need to ahve everyone know what we said and when we said it.
I find it incomprehensible that so many people think this is a good idea. What could be more American than having a secret ballot?
txaggie on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Obama is sufficiently intelligent for me to conclude that he is evil, not stupid.
BKennedy on March 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Look at the stupid things Mr. President said about the market yesterday. This yutz gives no thought to the actual well-being of Average Americans. He simply wants to remake America using Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. He’ll push card check. It’s part of his plan.
kingsjester on March 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM
“Card Check?” Sounds so neutral.
“Employee Free Choice Act” sounds so very nice, almost makes me want to see it pass…after all, free choice and all that for employees, what could possibly go wrong?
How about “The Being In the Pocket of Unions and Assisting Union Thugs Intimidate Non-Union Employees Into Submission Bill?
Has more of a ring of honesty about it, no?
coldwarrior on March 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Do you even try to write something meaningful, or do you have a program that just generates meaningless drivel?
strictnein on March 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Why is anyone shocked? Obama always has and always will be a Marxist. He doesn’t give a damn about the constitution nor individual rights and freedoms.
jencab on March 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM
And the
hitsPANDERING just keep on coming…FIFMS
Mark Garnett on March 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM
He knows this, it is his plan.
ctmom on March 4, 2009 at 9:45 AM
I’d take that bet.
blue13326 on March 4, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Common sense eludes this man…he will push to pass “card check”, the unions won’t accept “pandering”…they threw their money at him for results, and they will demand results.
Obama is just a mouthpiece, just another “boy” in the White House. Bought and paid for…just like so many of his ancestors.
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Oppose the Employee Forced Choice Act!
Oppose the Funding of Coerced Abortions Act!
BKennedy on March 4, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Since the unions have already eaten all of the meat from the bones of Michigan, they need to move south and destroy the states with foreign car plants now. The only way to override right-to-work laws in the states is via card check. If it passes, 11% unemployment, here we come.
Vashta.Nerada on March 4, 2009 at 9:45 AM
700,000 private sector jobs lost this month, up from 520,000 in January.
Off to a good start!
Chuck Schick on March 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM
He is Caballero.
And that is not a positive comparison.
Dow 3000, here we come. And yes, I will put my money in other markets rather than here, since I’d rather help the EU or UK than the US under this scumbag.
PimFortuynsGhost on March 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Huh? Don’t take this personally, but that post is about as stupid as it gets…nothing personal, mind you, it is just a stupid, ignorant, post.
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM
PARTIAL LIST OF DOCUMENTS THAT BARACK OBAMA REFUSES TO RELEASE -. OBAMA’S SECRECY AND “CLOSED RECORDS” POLICY
Indonesian Passport – Not released
Application for U.S. Citizenship (as former citizen of Indonesia) – Not released
Immigration Records – Not released
Original Vault Copy Birth Certificate – Not released
Certificate of Live Birth – Counterfeit Version on Obama Web Site
Obama / Dunham Marriage License – Not released
Soetoro / Dunham Marriage License – Not released
Soetoro Adoption Records – Not Released
Fransiskus Assisi School Application – Not released
Punahou School Records – Not released
Selective Service Registration – Counterfeit version generated
Occidental College records – Not released
Columbia College Records – Not released
Columbia Thesis – Not released
Harvard College Records – Not released
Baptism Certificate – None
Medical Records – Not released
Illinois State Senate Records – Not released
Law Practice Client List – Not released
University of Chicago Scholarly Articles – None
searcher484 on March 4, 2009 at 9:48 AM
This is pretty scary stuff — the economy is tanking faster than the titanic and this guy wants to pass card check?
He truly is headed for singe-digit approval ratings and a very unpopular presidency. There’s no way he’ll serve two terms if he keeps this up.
Richard Romano on March 4, 2009 at 9:48 AM
or 15+%…
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Oh, and Hack- the 700,000 jobs lost was the worst ADP has ever recorded.
Just wait’ll the $2 trillion plus deficit hits and we’re taking out mortgages to buy a six pack of Shasta.
Chuck Schick on March 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Finish the sentence any way you want and you still lose.
whitetop on March 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Oh God, not you again… Please stop… I agree with a ton of your thoughts, but let’s wait this thing out… Obama will NOT be removed from Office because of this, not at this time… However, it may and probably will come into play for 2010 and beyond. But for now, give it a rest…
Mark Garnett on March 4, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Could you stop doing that?
Chuck Schick on March 4, 2009 at 9:50 AM
I’d be willing to bet that the further his approval rating slips, the more likely he is to push card check to sure up the Union votes and donations.
If he loses the support of regular voters, he’ll need the base more than ever.
myrenovations on March 4, 2009 at 9:50 AM
It is clear that the filthy liar in particular and his corrupt party in general are less concerned about the economy than fulfilling decades of pent up promises unkept. They are moving so quickly with no regard for long-term consequences to the point they are building their socialist utopia on quicksand.
At some point there will be backlash at the filthy liar and the Democrat party. The quicker they move with stuff like card checks, the more the pendulum will swing the other way. We can only hope the bastard continues to overreach and overestimate just how much political capital he has with the American public.
highhopes on March 4, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Ed, for God’s sake, this stupid guy only posts this copy and paste on every blog…this is at least the 2oth time.
Will you please stop his foolish post, he is annoying.
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM
I can’t recall whether during the campaign Obama-Mugabe promised to crap the bed every single one of his first 100 days.
If so, he has managed to keep that promise.
Is it possible to OWE money on stocks you bought years ago when we actually had an economy?
NoDonkey on March 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM
We can take solace in understanding that Card Check will have little meaning when most of the unionized Industries go belly up, thanks to the nitwit in DC.
And because the vast majority of Union Pension Funds are invested in the Markets, they will go up in smoke as well.
Advice to the Union Leaders, the Government will only be able to bail out pensions for the first few companies that go bankrupt, so jump in early.
there it is on March 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM
You have no idea how badly Unions slow everything down and make everything cost more. In construction, it’s shameful.
Weight of Glory on March 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM
The card check provision is insane in the midst of this meltdown.
Simply insane.
AnninCA on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Just like he promised DC they’d be getting a vote this year….
“good luck”
Bambi promises come with expiration dates.
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I am guessing that the markets will respond negatively to this announcement by the Obama administration. We shall see in about 10 minutes if I am right or not.
How is the market hitting 5000 a good thing? I don’t blame Obama for the mess Bush started with all the bail outs, but I do blame him for his actions since he took office. Investors will never invest unless they believe that they will see a return on their investment. With the government nationalizing some companies and interfering with the free market in general, it will not happen. Markets want stability and predictability. They have only seen intervention and chaos so far.
txaggie on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Your post was so ignorant I felt my IQ dropping just from reading it.
blue13326 on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM
The union leader’s are of course meeting in a very posh Miami hotel…where’s the msm outrage?
DCJeff on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM
How exactly? The filthy liar and his party are pretty much synonomous with the organized crime families known as labor unions. The filthy liar’s party already gets all the money it needs from these syndicates under the table. As to votes, I know perfectly reasonable union members who hate Obama and everything he stands for but, inexplicably, voted for the man because the UAW told them to.
highhopes on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Ed Morrissey, I am not the only one…it is getting obsessive and irritating…this is what screws up a good blog, is letting these guys incessantly post the same thing over and over…
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM
searcher484 was sent by Obama to immunize us. He’s making us immune.
DarkCurrent on March 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM
I take it that intelligence was never been something that ranked high on your parents wish list for their baby.
AubieJon on March 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM
“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual”
jed58 on March 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Too busy bashing Rush and fretting over the outcome of The Bachelor.
highhopes on March 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM
FYI: I do not know if this is true,,, but I have been told by someone very close to me,,, that they had a meeting at their job and were given some info on card check and the other union law Obama wants. This person was told by their employer, that the union will only need 30 signatures to mandate a union. A union rep can come into the work place and pass a form around without any meeting whatsoever, just get 30 signatures and that will in effect start the union. No meeting and no voting need ever take place. Also,, if a union rep comes into the work place and has a meeting to form a union,,, and that union rep passes an attendance sheet for the meeting and people sign the attendance sheet,, that attendance sheet will qualify as signatures for a union. Those who sign the attendance sheet then,, will in fact be in the union. They will not have a choice!! All who sign an attendance sheet will by law be in the union regardless! The will not have a choice!!
So,,, be careful what you sign!!!
JellyToast on March 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM
AubieJon on March 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM
They can’t?
A lot of those “fat cat” CEOs can just shut the doors and leave the country.
Why stay in business when you’re going to perpetually lose money, when your government demonizes you continually and you have some goomba Union Boss from the Gambinos up your ass every day?
When the Obama-Mugabe regime kills American business, who exactly is Obama-Mugabe going to collect taxes from?
NoDonkey on March 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM
OPERATION DESTROY RUSH LIMBAUGH!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19596.html
True_King on March 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Is it possible for a President to purposely drive a country’s economy into the ground so that a complete revamp is possible? I thought so.
bloggless on March 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM
I dont know which is a more hasty and unfounded statement…
a) that Obama is an actual marxist, who intends on giving his party control of all means of production…
b) that Obama has already committed impeachable offenses…
I fail to see how batch capturing american’s correspondence amounts to a legitimate action of government…but one of Obamas plans amounts to high crimes…
i mean im not saying what hes doing is the right idea, i think a good chunk of what hes doing is the wrong idea…but given our recent history…i cant call a typical social democratic agenda marxist, and i cant call his policies amounting to high crimes…these rushes to judgement are quite unbecoming, and serve to de-legitimize justified opposition.
ernesto on March 4, 2009 at 9:57 AM
The irony is that in the 1950’s, the unions made a “deal” with the black community leaders, that if they support the unions, support the democrats, then combined they would be able to form a coalition that would keep the democrats in power.
The black leaders agreed, and begin their campaign, the pay-off was that blacks were promised leadership roles in the unions…what happened was the leaders were paid off, their organizations were supported by the unions, but the unions never gave any blacks any real positions of power in the union, they kept them out of leadership positions.
Like always, the blacks were sold out by their leaders, and received nothing in return.
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Putting lipstick on that pig does not make it pretty.
Johan Klaus on March 4, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Ill go with c) arrogant and inept
Chuck Schick on March 4, 2009 at 9:59 AM
I can’t believe that this is happening in America! Why can’t these enemies of freedom be stopped. How did we allow them so much power? They used to be on the fringes now they are running and wrecking our whole basis for being a country.
petunia on March 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Obama’s habit of talking the market down, has cost a lot of elderly people their retirement savings.
Johan Klaus on March 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
What did we expect from a man who was born and bred to hate AMERICA?
bbz123 on March 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
You are truly an idiot.
zeebeach on March 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Actually, Obama’s goals tend to have much more childish flair to them. Obama’s new mission will be DOW 2010. So named because his stated goal will be to increase the DOW while his actual goal will be to beat it down to an actual 2010.
BKennedy on March 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
And that is why passing card check will happen. More union members who inexplicably vote for Obama.
He’ll need that for 2012 because a lot of the independents and swing voters will have turned away from him.
myrenovations on March 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
And watch the market dive to 4,000. Investors do not trust the filthy bastard or any of this stuff he is doing and they are making that clear in the market. That should be a wake up call the bastard whose answer to everything is “I won so STFU.”
highhopes on March 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Rush to judgement?
As this gradeschool amateur, incompetent corrupt bonehead, dismantles our economy, piece by piece?
By any means necessary. Impeachment, whatever, the Obama-Mugabe regime needs “changed”.
NoDonkey on March 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Another America killing policy.
Soon, even rugged individualism will be outlawed, it is already heavily taxed.
TheSitRep on March 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Will this only apply to states that allow unions and not effect right to work states? It would seem you can’t make people join a union and pay dues in these 22 states. If it only applies to the dying union states then why would any business chose to set up shop there instead of in the south and west?
cadams on March 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM
In case you haven’t noticed, we are dealing with a maniac in the White House. Sound judgement, reason, dignified opposition, rational dissent and fair play aren’t in the rule book anymore.
sherry on March 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM
I get it, but tell me how you impeach someone with a 50% plus approval rating?
It will never drop below 40%, the people have too much emotion invested in him.
However, with that being said…wasn’t it a past Louisiana Governor who said that the only way he could lose an election is if he was found with a “dead women in his bed, or a live boy?”…and he is in jail serving his time.
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Keep banging your head against that wall. Americans are not buying this line that this is Obama’s economy. Americans don’t believe history began in Janurary 2009 they are much smarter than that. And here’s a little insight to “real America” (something conservatives don’t understand anymore) Americans were feeling the pains of the failed Bush economy since January of 2008. Check out the job loss numbers for the last 14 months. There’s a reason the economy was the number one issue in the election long before the market first crashed in late September. Your refusal to grasp the very basic fact that history did not begin in January of 2009 explains why you represent that 6% of Americans who think this is the “Obama economy.”
I can’t decide if I your version of non-ODS, ratoinal opposition to remain marginal or to enter the mainstream. On one hand, your accurate labeling of Obama as a European style Social Democrat is so much healthier than what normally passes for criticism around here. On the flip side, the crazies legitimize Obama and I want those Social Democratic policies enacted. Hmmmmm
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 10:04 AM
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Do you even try to write something meaningful, or do you have a program that just generates meaningless drivel?
He definately gets his talking points from some web site…he could not explain face to face half of what he posts…but he doesn’t care…it always gets the blog stirred up
winston on March 4, 2009 at 10:04 AM
How about government take-over of banking?
Johan Klaus on March 4, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Meanwhile, your boy passes a massive bill that he allows no one to read, rushed through congress…doesn’t that serve to de-legitimize him?
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 10:05 AM
This is March.
This crap continues, even the Democrat House will vote to throw Obama-Mugabe out on his ass by August.
This guy is a natural disaster on wheels.
NoDonkey on March 4, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Best if we just ignore him, he rarely is coherent…
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM
You can’t make people join a union in ANY state. Do people not understand how this process works. If you want to join a union, you sign the union membership card, if a majority of workers sign the cards, the union exists. It’s incredibly easy and non-coercive.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM
I think it’s clear by now that this sociopath is not here to lead the US.
He is here to change the US.
It will pass.
katy on March 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Laughable. What mysterious website is this? LOL
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM
If it does pass, it’ll be interesting to see how the states respond. AZ is a strong right-to-work state. There is currently pending in the AZ legislature one of those “10th Amendment” resolutions (essentially warning the federal gov’t that the state is not going to continue tolerating further unconstitutional encroachments upon its power). This card check bill seems to be a good example of the federal government doing just that.
AZCoyote on March 4, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Did I say the economy was Obama’s fault yet?
Im just wondering how this continual stream of idiotic anti-business policies is supposed to help matters.
Seriously- how can you possibly defend a $2 trillion deficit?
You must be getting a little nervous- Ive noticed you’ve gone from denial to acceptance to glee about the cratering market.
Chuck Schick on March 4, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Yes, yes you do.
What good is Card Check going to do when GM goes under and all the Union workers are out of jobs?
PappaMac on March 4, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Keep fooling yourself.
The market does not reflect on the past, it responds to the future.
Americans understand that.
This last omnibus spending bill was aimed at supposedly fixing the problem. It is the biggest spending bill ever in the history of the world.
The market responds to the future.
Americans understand that, and no amount of you pretending that you speak for their intelligence will change that.
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 10:09 AM
You are correct. It has only been Obama’s economy since January. It has been the democrat congress’s economy for the last two years.
Johan Klaus on March 4, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Yeah you keep drinking your kool-aid. Most of us are smart enough to realize that Obama has NOT offered solutions to the economy except BUSH solutions and is enacting plans THIS YEAR that are guaranteed to hurt the economy.
But that’s okay, because you’re going to get your socialist-democratic policies enacted. Something I already pointed out to you doesn’t exist. Because socialism is NOT Democracy.
But enjoy your chocolate rations comrade, Obama is going to increase them.
Skywise on March 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Yup, it was Obama. Not the failure of Bear Stearns/Lehman. Not massive unemployment, not the plummeting housing market, not the latest set of quarterly earning reports. It was Obama being in office that killed the market.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Gee, I don’t recall Obama ever telling us that anything would be difficult.
He promised with his group of super smart, pointy headed ethicists, that everything would turn on a dime!
Our problems were all because Bush was stupid.
And now, when the stock market plunges the second Mr. Brilliant opens his mouth, well, it just takes time. It’s not that easy.
Where was this on the campaign trail? Mr. Brilliant told us he had all of the answers to all of the questions.
The economy is plunging because everything Obama has done since January 20th has been wrong. This guy will be lucky to stay in office until 2012. He has no chance of being re-elected, you heard it here first.
NoDonkey on March 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Sadly, it has come to my attention that ernesto has written something that makes sense and I agree with.
While we could try to impeach someone with a high approval rating, we cannot impeach someone when we do not control congress.
And I don’t think we can impeach someone for killing capitalism if they haven’t done anything illegal to do it. If Obama and Rham are blackmailing CEO’s and manipulating the market through Soros, maybe… But that would take proof.
So far, he is just being the socialist we all (except Brooks, Buckley and Cramer) that we all knew he was going to be. And that is just not an impeachable offense.
Shouting “impeach” six weeks in without evidence of high crimes is a little Daily Kos’ish. Although I will admit that it does feel good to say.
myrenovations on March 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM
You’ve just proved you’re clueless.
Do you understand what the concept of a “closed shop” is?
Skywise on March 4, 2009 at 10:11 AM
says a fan of the closed shop paradigm I’d wager…
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 10:11 AM
That is our only hope. The laws that govern wealth are being trampled. This may be a multi-generation struggle back to freedom and democracy.
Obama may well refuse to give up power, he may play it the way Chavez and Putin have we have to be ready for that. This is amazing how easily this horrible man has turned truth on its head.
Somehow we have to expose and conquer his propoganda machine…Chris Matthews et.al.
petunia on March 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Money talks. Chicago politics alive and well in DC.
scalleywag on March 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Indeed. Unless only 48% sign the cards and 50%+1 is needed.
Then Union Boss Bill makes a house call. Your face gets put on a board until you repent. The union hack harasses you. You WILL sign. You WILL unionize. Resistance is futile: we have box cutters and your plate number. Don’t *&^% with us, we’re looking out for you, whether you like it or not.
BKennedy on March 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Wrong; you can only opt out of the union in a right to work state.
Johan Klaus on March 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM
STALINIST.
James on March 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I get it, but hope and wishing won’t get him.
Too many people are emotionally invested in him. The black community (and their sphere of influence) will never turn their back on him, and along with that are the “elites” and liberals, and white apologists, who are socially cornered by their fear of being a “RACIST!!”.
His polls will never drop below 40%, worse case if everyone turned against him (disregarding whom I have identified), 35%, which will never be enough.
What will happen is a deepening divide of supporters and non-supporters. The gap and frustration will build, and I am afraid the fabric of our democracy will further be torn.
We are moving towards “two countries”, not unlike what Edwards stated, just differently defined.
right2bright on March 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM
In your dream world its non-coercive. You do realize that there are union folks who will benefit from the money generated by unionizing a plant. Of course, there would be no reason to think that they would want to influence anyone to sign that card. I’m sure the union organizer and his “friends” will not intimidate poor joe six-pack as they hand him his card and when he doesn’t sign, they will smile, shrug their shoulders and comment as they walk away, “Well….we tried our best. Such is life.”
genso on March 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Yup, it was Obama. Not the failure of Bear Stearns/Lehman. Not massive unemployment, not the plummeting housing market, not the latest set of quarterly earning reports. It was Obama being in office that killed the market.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Biggest first quarter drop in the history of the market. Worst March 1 in the history of the market. This is Bush’s fault?
Can’t Obama just make a nice flowery speech and fix this?
rockmom on March 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Agreed. We really have nothing to impeach him on.
We have to follow the Democrat model.
First we call for investigations into everything.
Let’s start with Obama’s credit card donations and his campaign financing.
Skywise on March 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Charles Krauthammer’s take on the Obama-Mugabe regimes next idiotic “plan” to kill the American economy:
Obama needs to be thrown bodily out of the White House, ASAP, before he can do further damage.
NoDonkey on March 4, 2009 at 10:14 AM
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