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Card Check: So Lame (Duck Session)
If you can’t beat ‘em, sneak it through the back door at the 11th hour when the world has rejected you and your agenda.
That’s the potential scenario envisioned by The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, who is doing great reporting to highlight these statements by leading Democratic politicians:
In the House, Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters last month that for bills like “card check”—the measure to curb secret-ballot union elections—”the lame duck would be the last chance, quite honestly, for the foreseeable future.”
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, chair of the Senate committee overseeing labor issues, told the Bill Press radio show in June that “to those who think [card check] is dead, I say think again.” He told Mr. Press “we’re still trying to maneuver” a way to pass some parts of the bill before the next Congress is sworn in.
Let’s see … “trying to maneuver” a way to pass an unfair, anti-democratic, anti-employer, anti-speech, job-killing law when everyone thinks the world has moved onto a new agenda.
That’s the very definition of lame.
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