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Woohah! Dingy Harry lost a cloture vote in the Senate. The Craig Becker nomination is finis!
And that 41st vote, represented by Scott Brown, made all the difference today!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

1 posted on 02/09/2010 1:58:55 PM PST by goldstategop
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What are chances Barry will do a recess appointment of Becker on Monday (President’s Day)? That is my fear. Well one of my many fears.


2 posted on 02/09/2010 2:01:40 PM PST by coaltrain
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Gee, apparently Scott Brown being the 41st vote emboldens Dem senators to oppose Obamaniacs.


3 posted on 02/09/2010 2:02:18 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Is anyone in the 0bama administration competent at anything?!!?)
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Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.), and Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) all voted against cloture.

These weasels are already attempting a mid-course correction before the November elections.

4 posted on 02/09/2010 2:02:23 PM PST by Starboard
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Oh my! See Ben and Blanche run.


6 posted on 02/09/2010 2:02:59 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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Guess those dems are just a “joke” then.


9 posted on 02/09/2010 2:05:54 PM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid)
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Looks like Blanche and Ben are pretending to be conservatives. Will it fool the voters?


10 posted on 02/09/2010 2:05:55 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: goldstategop; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


12 posted on 02/09/2010 2:06:01 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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Man, what a difference a day election makes
13 posted on 02/09/2010 2:06:11 PM PST by Ole Okie
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And it has shaken up some of those ‘blue dogs’ who were busy rolling over and playing dead.....interesting


14 posted on 02/09/2010 2:06:17 PM PST by the long march
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That only adds up to 85 votes.


16 posted on 02/09/2010 2:07:23 PM PST by csmusaret (Right wing extremists: Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Paine, and me.)
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Additional Source

Miama Herald link

“GOP blocks Obama labor board nominee”

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1470222.html

Vote tally was 52-33, 8 short of 60 needed to pass.


18 posted on 02/09/2010 2:08:23 PM PST by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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.....just defeated on a cloture vote 52-33. ......

....And that 41st vote, represented by Scott Brown, made all the difference today! ......

The two statements don’t jibe.


20 posted on 02/09/2010 2:11:34 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
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I can hardly wait until November! LOL


22 posted on 02/09/2010 2:12:34 PM PST by A. Morgan (ZER0 is a BIG LIAR!)
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YAY!! And thank God!! ~~~~

* MAY 14, 2009
Andy Stern's Go-To Guy

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Mr. Becker has other ideas. In a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, he explained that traditional notions of democracy should not apply in union elections. He wrote that employers should be barred from attending NLRB hearings about elections, and from challenging election results even amid evidence of union misconduct.

He believes elections should be removed from work sites and held on "neutral grounds," or via mail ballots. Employers should also be barred from "placing observers at the polls to challenge ballots."

More extraordinary, Mr. Becker advocated a new "body of campaign rules" that would severely limit the ability of employers to argue against unionization.

He argued that any meeting a company holds that involves a "captive audience" ought to be grounds for overturning an election. If a company wants to distribute leaflets that oppose the union, for example, Mr. Becker said it must allow union access to its private property to do the same.

Mr. Becker isn't clear about which of these rules can be implemented by NLRB fiat, and which would require an act of Congress, but his mindset is clear enough. He's willing to push NLRB discretion as far as possible to tilt today's labor rules in favor of easier unionization.

26 posted on 02/09/2010 2:13:25 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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I can’t help it...I’m SMIRKING.


28 posted on 02/09/2010 2:14:34 PM PST by SE Mom
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31 posted on 02/09/2010 2:15:21 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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Great news; save for mention of other option per recess appointment; which he may well do. . .That said; it will not be on our 'vote'.

(Dream scenario is that Obama is found 'illegitimate' - if only by 2012; whereby EVERY thing this man has done; signed. . .is undone; made null and void; and every appointment and signing that he invited/approved undone as well.

In a word; everything this man has done while empowered is ERASED. Oh well, best case scenario; but the stuff of dreams.)

37 posted on 02/09/2010 2:18:59 PM PST by cricket (Proud to be in the 'Party of NO')
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“Scott Brown (R., Mass.)”

OOOooooooeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! That capital “R” just before “Mass”... man, it just puts a smile on your face!!


43 posted on 02/09/2010 2:26:40 PM PST by lowtaxsmallgov (This Administration has absolutely no idea how to grow an economy)
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Big Labor, pleased, they be not.

Looks like the unions have been the Democrat Party’s ATM Machine for 25 yrs. and have gotten bupkis in return.


45 posted on 02/09/2010 2:27:20 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Excellent!
The masses are hitting back at 0bama’s insane, anti-American appointees.
46 posted on 02/09/2010 2:32:25 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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