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March 29, 2010
Item #2: While America Was Distracted by March Madness...
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at March 29, 2010 4:46 AM
... Dear Reader appointed 15 hardcore leftists to key administration positions. One of them, an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, is an SEIU lawyer and advocate for coercive unionization (a.k.a. "Card Check), who was too radical to be confirmed even when the Dramacrats had a 60 seat super-majority in the senate.
Becker, a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and SEIU, in many ways fits the mold of a typical Democratic pick for the agency, but there are three reasons to have serious reservations about putting him in such a powerful position. First: His opinions are extreme. He has argued that workers should be allowed to choose only between unions, not between a union and no representation, and he wants employers to be banned from even attending NLRB hearings about union elections. On the subject of the NLRB itself, he has gone so far as to write that "employers should have no right to be heard in either a representation case or an unfair labor practice case, even though Board rulings might indirectly affect their duty to bargain." In other words: "Shut up." Second: He is affiliated with ACORN, a corrupt enterprise that works the intersection of Big Labor and politics for its own benefit. Third: He has lied to Congress about his relationship with ACORN. On all of those grounds, his nomination should be opposed, vigorously.
I wonder if Harry Reid still thinks recess appointments are "an end-run around the Constitution." Actually, I don't.
Also, all of Chairman Zero's picks have been eliminated from the Final Four, including "Syscasuse."
