Comments on: Harkin Seeks Card Check Compromise

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:05:14 +0000

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:42:58 +0000

Two days ago, Specter joined them.

It can’t pass.

By: IJB

IJB — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:09 +0000

In a perfect world, you’re right - Card Check would backfire on the Dems.

But the Dems intend to use Card Check the way the Soviets used Commie Party membership - those in good standing will be “rewarded”, and those not in ‘good standing’ will be hounded and punished by arbitration (which, in many cases, will lead to outright confiscation).

In other words, the Dems have no intention of playing a “fair” game.

Believe me, the Dems won’t care if the economy goes into the tank as a result of this - those with union cards will be rewarded; and all the rest of us that don’t will be sitting in a bread line (or worse).

As to your contention that it won’t pass - I was saying that right up until yesterday.

But the passage of the Obama Youth bill shows that Senate Republicans aren’t patriots - they’re useful patsies who will go along with anything Obama’s Stalinists throw at them.

I’m not nearly so hopeful as I was even a week ago…

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:49:10 +0000

When unions are at 7% of private employees and then they see that that the businesses failing are unionized and then they see that Americans simply are not joiners but rather people defined by the man on a horse, they never had a chance for this

esp after I reported the NON blue dog dems weeks ago that had already declared their opposition.

A forgotten fact: most of the dems in congress elected in 2006 were conservatives…

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:44:23 +0000

of private business is unionized. Unions are anathema to American values and proven failures. The fact is that union leaders are now learning that even with huge dem majorities they can’t get this bill passed.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:41:52 +0000

do cap and trade or the 90% tax on bonuses.

And they won’t be able to do card check in 2011 either.

By: Michael DeWeese

Michael DeWeese — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:41:27 +0000

It is test legislature to set precedence. Imagine political elections resolved in the same manner where the number of political party registrants determins the final person to win office.

By: Michael DeWeese

Michael DeWeese — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:38:37 +0000

Is only a way to start the ball rolling. As time goes by, and compromise that is passed will be ammended until Card Check is in full force. Even if it takes a couple years or more.

By: IJB

IJB — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:33:38 +0000

They need to hit this now. The odds are great that they’ll be in a much weaker position in 2011.

The trick for the Dems is to craft a “compromise” that is, in the details, even worse and more egregious than the original bill, while publicly spinning it as a “sensible compromise”, and then hoodwinking Senate Republicans to go along with it.

Based on what we’ve seen lately from the current Senate GOP, I can easily imagine up to 20 morons crossing the aisle for something even worse (but publicly “softer”) than the current bill.

By: Robert A. Hahn

Robert A. Hahn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:47:45 +0000

My guess is that the unions will now signal that they don’t want a compromise. Instead they’ll wait until 2011, hoping that more Democratic success at the ballot box will get them the whole enchilada.

If they take what they can get now, the subject of “card check” will likely disappear from the legislative radar for a decade.

By: larryp

larryp — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:45:32 +0000

the squishes that are GOP can’t stand up to this “reach across the aise” bs.
Someone will cave. Too bad. The gOP should hang up the phone.