-By Warner Todd Huston
Wondering if a bad liberal idea is dead is sort of an amusing prospect. After all, liberals have been carrying around the stinking carcass of socialism and communism like a dearly beloved child still maintaining that it could work because it just hasn’t been tried right yet. So, saying that card check isn’t dead is sort of a given because bad liberal ideas never die, they just lay in wait like a highwayman ready to waylay an unsuspecting public at a later date.
Still, card check isn’t, dead I mean. And AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka is reminding us of that in stark terms. He might realize that getting it passed legitimately and standing on its own like an acceptable idea is not going to work but that doesn’t mean that he isn’t still scheming to fool the public once again.
Trumka told reporters this week that he intended to see the ideas of the Orwellian named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) with its undemocratic card check feature will get “attached” to any bill he could find to attach it to by what ever compliant, hip pocketed Democrat he can find to float the idea.
“Anything we can get it attached to, there are multitudes of things we can get it attached to, and we will. We will get it done and it will be a good thing for the country.”
Well, it’ll be a good thing for union thugs, but for the country? Not so much.
But this is just more proof of the corrupt bargain that is Congress. Can’t get your two-bit, un-American ideas passed by allowing them to stand on their own merit? Why, then just stick your jobs killing, economy quashing ideas in some other, unconnected bill and hide it there hoping no one will notice it.
This habit of our lawmakers doing their level best to hide their cock-eyed ideas inside bills that have nothing to do with their hidden pet issue is one of the most disgusting things about Washington D.C. and our American legislative process.
This cynical and corrupt sort of practice is one of the things that have so harmed this country.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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