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(Gov) Mitch Daniels: Indiana Republicans Should Drop the Right to Work Bill
National Review Online ^ | February 22, 2011 3:59 P.M. | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 02/22/2011 2:05:51 PM PST by A_Niceguy_in_CA

Mitch Daniels: Indiana Republicans Should Drop the Right to Work Bill

Color me extremely disappointed with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels right now:

Gov. Mitch Daniels signaled this afternoon that Republicans should to drop the right-to-work bill that has brought the Indiana House to a standstill for two days and imperiled other measures.

Daniels told reporters this afternoon that he expects House Democrats will return to work if the bill dies. It would be unfortunate if other bills are caught up in the turmoil, he said.

He will not send out state police to corral the Democrats, the Republican governor said. The Democrat minority has right to express its views, he added.

The governor clung to his view that this is not the year to tackle right to work.

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/260410/mitch-daniels-indiana-republicans-should-drop-right-work-bill

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: hoosierrino; indiana; lugarsbuttboy; mitchdaniels; notmymanmitch; righttowork; rino; rinorat
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To: Lakeshark

Check your mail. :)


81 posted on 02/22/2011 4:19:26 PM PST by Clyde5445 (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA

Grow a pair Mitch.
We already have a sissy boy (Obammy) as a beta male.


82 posted on 02/22/2011 4:24:56 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: marstegreg

He should have not put his own agenda ahead of the interests of conservatives nationwide if he wanted to be President. He is undercutting the best chance in the last 100 years of advancing a true conservative cause. This one is reducing the power of public sector unions.

He is done.


83 posted on 02/22/2011 4:25:28 PM PST by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!!)
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To: GQuagmire

“...I choose to believe that our friends in the minority will,...”

How “McCain” of him.


84 posted on 02/22/2011 4:27:58 PM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Well, yeah. When you don't have the votes the only way to get a win is to kill somebody.

Today's modern Demcrats are simply not amenable to discussion. Half of them can't even read due to botox overload, and fur shur none of them can detect that the people are angry with them.

At the rate things are changing around the country there will come a time when the people will be hunting Democrat politicians down in the fields and beating them with broken lumber ~ and then we can get the votes we want.

Unfortunately that time has not yet arrived ~ but it's close. You get $8 gasoline in a few weeks you'll be surprised by what goes on.

85 posted on 02/22/2011 4:39:42 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA

Can we finally eliminate this RINO as a potential Republican Presidential nominee?


86 posted on 02/22/2011 4:42:20 PM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA

What a worm. Glad I never really became enamored with that guy.


87 posted on 02/22/2011 4:42:26 PM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: georgiarat
Duh, the Indiana RTW law is arrayed against unions period.

It's not geared just toward unionized municipal and state workers.

Remember, Wisconsin is just now coming out from under what amounted to a Communist regime. Indiana never went there. The two states have remarkably different histories and conditions.

Here's something to watch for. The Democrats convene a Midwestern Territorial Legislature composed of all the runaway Democrat legislators from Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan, and maybe even Kentucky.

These guys ASK Obama for recognition as the legislature for the whole region. In the mean time the Illinois NG and the state police are deployed to protect this BS melange.

Obama dispatches the 82nd Airborne to form an iron ring around the area where they are meeting ~ and they begin impeaching and convicting Republican legislators from throughout the Midwest.

I know what I'll do first, but what will you do when this happens?

88 posted on 02/22/2011 4:46:49 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA

This is one more bit of evidence for my hypothesis that someone who will sell out innocent, unborn children will sell out anyone on anything, if given the chance.


89 posted on 02/22/2011 4:58:17 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Unions corrupt. Government-sector unions corrupt absolutely.)
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To: fightinJAG

That’s a good analogy. Mitch needs to wise up.


90 posted on 02/22/2011 5:26:00 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA

This of course is the purpose of the protests, to scare weak-kneed pantywaists of which, Daniels is apparently one. Better to smoke him out now.


91 posted on 02/22/2011 5:26:20 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: Dr. Thorne

Thanks for your service, governor - the door is over there.


92 posted on 02/22/2011 5:47:16 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Wanna learn humility? Become a Pittsburgh Pirates fan!)
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To: marstegreg
As I’ve pointed out in another thread, Daniels is asserting his authority over the Indiana House GOP.

They're separate branches of government. He has no authority over the Indiana House.

93 posted on 02/22/2011 5:52:18 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I think he is outing himself as an Obama-wanna-be.


94 posted on 02/22/2011 5:58:09 PM PST by marstegreg
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To: muawiyah
Well, yeah. When you don't have the votes the only way to get a win is to kill somebody.

Don't tempt me anymore than I already am.

I'll agree that there are times when it's more pragmatic to wait for another day.

But I think that the war with public unions is erupting, and it's it time for us to hit them anywhere and everywhere we can, as fast and hard as we can. IMO, we can't fight this battle 5 years from now. Between now and 2012 is the final push for us to have any hope of averting a financial and social collapse.

95 posted on 02/22/2011 5:58:12 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
There are always some battles to win first with the resources you have.

When you have legislation of a type that requires a super majority, or a quorum you can't get out of your own brand, you may well have to defer a bit.

I don't think the battle with the public labor unions is going to go down as a victory for the Leftwingtards ~ they may not havenoticed but the formerly high membership in the private sector labor unions just isn't there anymore which means the teachers and clerks are out there on their own.

Trumka really has nothing to deliver to them these days.

Walker's winning position is that he's going to LAY OFF 1/2 of the state's work force starting next week. Those jobs won't be coming back once their gone. He offered them a chance to save the jobs but they refused.

Won't matter what kind of union they have if there are no employees.

Indiana's RTW battle has been going on for over half a century (since the day they passed Taft-Hartley I believe). It won't be solved overnight.

I suspect the battle that can be won is to prohibit closed shops in Indiana. The Republicans could probably even convince enough Democrats to vote with them to go along with that Wisconsin idea of having public employees vote for representation every year. In Indiana you'd apply that to ALL unions.

That'd give the politicians a push back against the union bosses that hold them to untenable and upopular positions.

Remember, the union bosses don't like rules that tend to make unions honest.

96 posted on 02/22/2011 6:07:36 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I wonder what will happen when they come back. I can’t believe that even their Dem constituencies are very thrilled by them.


97 posted on 02/22/2011 7:18:45 PM PST by livius
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To: livius
The Northern Tier of counties (the Region plus Southbendmishawaukaelkhartgoshen) has very high unemployment rates.

If these guys come back having done nothing but protect state drones it won't be pretty.

They need jobs!

98 posted on 02/22/2011 7:47:43 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Clintonfatigued; Impy; GOPsterinMA; darkangel82; Crichton

One big reason I’d never support Daniels for President.


99 posted on 02/22/2011 8:10:00 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: whatisthetruth

Indiana Republican Old Boy machine...ala COATS.....with the support of guys like Greg Garrison.


100 posted on 02/22/2011 8:26:31 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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