Employee Free Choice Act
Tomorrow (Tuesday) democrats will introduce legislation for the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA. This would essentially make it easier for employees to form unions. Right now employers require employees to hold a secret ballot election to form a union. This act would allow the employees to determine the process by which they form a [...]
Roland Burris Asked to Step Down
Democratic senator Roland Burris of Illinois is already being asked to step down by some fellow democrats. The issue is whether he did favors (not sexual) for Rod Blagojevich in return for his senate appointment. Oh brother, would he really have done something so stupid in this political climate? We’ll see.
Republican Grand Plan: Stop Democrats at Any Cost
I think the democrats should consider that the republicans will do anything to reduce spending and government while the democrats are in power. This not only will stop the democrats from doing anything they don’t like, but will make the democrats look bad, as well. The republicans are clearly viewing this as a war. While the [...]
Senator Barbara Boxer of California (D)
I just watched Rachel Maddow’s interview with Senator Barbara Boxer of California who is a democrat. Watching her was depressing. Her basic statement was “I sure wish we could to something but we’re powerless and this the way Washington works.” When asked about a purely stimulative item being taken out of the bill by a republican [...]
Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska (D)
I just finished watching Rachel Maddow interview Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska who is a democrat. I’ll get right to the point, this man is an idiot who should be fired immediately. Basically he negotiated to take a bunch of stimulative items out of the stimulus bill to gain Republican support. Now if he just admitted [...]
Congress Sucks
I’m just about to start watching Rachel Maddow. But for the last week she’s been heavily covering discussion and the negotiation of the stimulus bill. What I’ve learned is that the members of congress are pathetic. I don’t want these people, Democrats or Republicans, deciding how my tax dollars are spent. It looks like it’s just [...]