Posted on 03/31/2009 7:24:36 PM PDT by Born Conservative
OK, folks. Once again, this isn’t hard.
This “card check” business – unions organizing an employer on the basis of public signups rather than secret ballots – is just plain W-R-O-N-G. Why not just issue labor bosses a few thousand crowbars and clubs and tell them to go out and “organize” to their hearts’ content? Duh.
Then explain why the decision of Sen. Arlen Specter, RINO (Republican In Name Only) of Pennsylvania, to oppose the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” he once co-sponsored was greeted by conservatives with such bowing, scraping, acclaim and adulation.
I get the import of Specter’s announcement – which basically squelched the union power grab for this year – to a right wing waiting to exhale. After all, as at least one conservative honcho has pointed out, card check is way more than a labor issue.
Check this out: The New York Times reported that unions shelled out nearly half a billion bucks to bag the 2008 election for President Obama, while unleashing a quarter of a million “volunteers” to reach 13 million voters in 24 states – in the last four days of the campaign. That’s what I call organizing.
Imagine what the union bosses could do with the compulsory dues of, say, another 10 million members. Buy a mere election? Hah. Peanuts.
How about bankrolling a generation of Democratic rule, complete with a filibuster-proof majority cramming the entire liberal agenda – global warming, gun control, protectionism, abortion, gay marriage, you name it – down America’s throat? Now we’re talking.
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Related thread:
NAMA Calls On Operators To Defend Secret Ballot In Union Elections (`Card Check’ / EFCA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219175/posts
It was not greeted as such by this conservative. He is simply attempting to save his ass from a primary kicking by Pat Toomey. I'll take his vote & work for Pat!
I voted Toomey in the last primary in 2004, and will vote the same next year.
Nicely done.
[Why not just issue labor bosses a few thousand crowbars and clubs and tell them to go out and “organize” to their hearts’ content? Duh.]
That is a great line.
I can forgive Specter a lot, because I’m grateful to him for getting Clarence Thomas confirmed. But voting for that enormous stimulous bill just about does away with the good will he had earned back then.
Arlen is an ass. He stood there on Fox news when Porkulus was about to pass and promised he’d get the healthcare stuff removed before it was signed. What a joke.
Specter makes it easy to hate politicians.
What’s a RICO?
Republican In the Crunch Only. It’s in the article.
Arlen Specter sold his soul years ago and the story will soon come out how he did it. At first you’ll roll your eyes back and say “not that again.” Specter and people like him realize most Americans can’t think anymore, they let the Press tell them what to think.
Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask, I can only be successful if YOU understand the obvious, watch it, it is obvious,isn’t it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpHSyuueMU
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