If anyone were still in doubt as to the importance of a Senate filibuster, we'd point them to Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter's announcement yesterday that he will not support "card check." Maybe Big Labor won't be able to up-end the economy, after all.It's a shame Specter couldn't come to his senses when the Obama trillion-dollar stimulus bill was up for a vote earlier this year. Forget about Snowe & Collins up in Maine, it was Specter who gave Obama a blank check to spend a trillion dollars on far-left programs disguised as "stimulus."
Mr. Specter's decision means Republicans now have 41 votes against "card check" -- legislation that would do away with secret ballots in union organization elections. The Pennsylvanian was the only Senate Republican to have previously voted in favor of a debate on the bill, and as such had been the target of a furious lobbying fight by unions and the business community. Yet to be seen is whether Mr. Specter's decision will inspire any number of swing state Democrats to follow his lead, and thereby neutralize an issue for which they are getting pilloried by their home-state business communities.
The Congressional Budget Office says only 23 percent of the money allocated for this year will go toward anything remotely close to a job-creation program. The rest will reward Obama loyalists.
Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.
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Thanks to a higher power or luck whatever you wish to believe in, Specter's remaining two working brain cells collided to render his decision. How could any professed American support the removal of a secret ballots, which are monitored by the independent American Arbitration Board in determing the workers right to choose. Could it be choice is only protected for liberal causes? Mandated worker's unions is a closer step toward socialism and we all know what Karl said is the next step. You wanted change you are slowly getting it.
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