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« Reply #150 on: July 29, 2009, 03:01:54 pm »

            A group of 33 Senators (25 Republicans and eight Democrats) writes Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and ranking Republican member Judd Gregg asking that they oppose use of the budget reconciliation process to pave the way for Obama’s cap-and-trade taxes. (Budget reconciliation allows a simple majority of Senators to approve a usually minor amendment to the budget without the possibility of being blocked by a filibuster.) The letter argues, “Legislation so far-reaching should be fully vetted and given appropriate time for debate, something the budget reconciliation process does not allow,” and charges “Using this procedure would circumvent normal Senate practice and would be inconsistent with the Administration’s stated goals of bipartisanship, cooperation, and openness.” [1949]

            The Heritage Foundation reviews Obama’s budget proposal, compares White House deficit estimates with those of the Congressional Budget Office, and confirms that the administration’s massive spending plans will cause record-setting deficits and an incredible increase in the already gargantuan national debt. [2086]

            Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) indicates he will oppose the “card check bill” (the intentionally misnamed Employee Free Choice Act) if brought up for a vote in its present form. The bill would allow unions to organize companies without a secret ballot, thus enabling the bullying of workers to get them to vote for union representation. Because the Democrats will likely be unable to get the bill passed without the support of liberal Republican Specter, organized labor is staging an all-out effort to pressure him into supporting the legislation (which Obama has promised union leaders he will sign). The AFL-CIO tells Specter it will encourage Democrat members to switch to Republican ballots in the 2010 primary to help Specter fight off expected challenges from conservatives. Several Democrats in the Senate may also have trouble supporting the bill, especially Blanch Lincoln and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who will be reluctant to vote for a bill that causes Wal-Mart’s growth to slow and its profits to shrink. (Wal-Mart is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas and is the largest employer in the state; it is also non-union). A Gallup poll reflects that 53 per cent of those polled favor the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, but the generally left-leaning Gallup organization conveniently neglects to mention that the law would eliminate secret ballots, and merely asks, “Generally speaking, would you favor or oppose a new law that would make it easier for labor unions to organize workers?” If the question had instead been, “Would you favor a law that eliminates the right to a secret ballot in union organizing elections?” the poll’s results would certainly have been different. Employees at Dana Corporation in Albion, Indiana are among those who have experienced tremendous pressure and threats from organized labor’s thugs during a card check sign-up campaign. [1950, 1951, 1959, 2088, 2389]

            Democrats who support the Employee Free Choice Act may have forgotten their admonishment of Mexico in 2001, when many of them said, “The secret ballot is absolutely necessary in order to ensure that workers are not intimidated into voting for a union they might not otherwise choose.” In 2008, the highest court in Mexico affirmed the right to a secret ballot. Obama and some U.S. legislators apparently do not believe that American workers deserve the same protections afforded to Mexican employees. [1955]

            Secretary Treasurer Geithner asks Congress for the power to take control of large insurers, investment firms, and hedge funds, and not be limited to seizing banks. “The proposed resolution authority would allow the government to provide financial assistance to make loans to an institution, purchase its obligations or assets, assume or guarantee its liabilities and purchase an equity interest,” Geithner tells the House Financial Services Committee. Obama says he hopes “it doesn’t take too long” for Congress to give Geithner the unprecedented (and unconstitutional) powers. But even Democrats may be reluctant to turn over such power to one man, especially one whose performance has been considerably less than impressive. Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke tells the same committee he wanted to sue AIG to prevent the executive bonus payments, but was told by legal counsel that was a risky course of action because the laws in Connecticut (where AIG is based) would award the employees substantial punitive damages if the government were to lose the lawsuit. Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin, author of the best-selling Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, correctly states, “There is no Constitutional authority…” for giving Geithner the power he has requested. “We have an administration full of czars, full of people who don’t comply with the Constitution. The question today is, ‘What is your authority, Mr. Secretary, to do this? I would like to know what’s the president’s authority to do this?’”  [1953, 2051]
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