Why not use Card Check, Democrats?

[cwo_ghwebb]

Senate Democrats have hit the roof after discovering that Harry Reid’s deal with Arlen Specter to get him to switch parties, especially allowing Specter to keep his seniority. The Senate Democratic Caucus has decided that Reid doesn’t have the last word on seniority and assignments and will take a vote on how to apply Specter’s seniority for committee assignments. And with Card Check on the table, they have selected a rather ironic process for that decision:

“We’re going to do as we do every new Congress and pass an organizational resolution that will determine where everybody stands and that will give him an opportunity to find out who his pals are in the Senate,” Reid said at a question-and-answer session sponsored by The National Journal Group.

Senior Democrats who could lose a plum committee or subcommittee post to Specter would almost certainly vote against granting the seniority that he would have been granted as a Democrat elected in 1980.

One senior lawmaker who spoke to The Hill on condition of anonymity said that Reid does not have the power to let Specter keep his seniority earned as a Republican.

“That can’t happen; seniority is decided by the caucus,” said the lawmaker, who said Specter’s place in the pecking order would be decided by secret ballot during the organizational meeting expected after the 2010 election.

Decided by secret ballot. Now, why would they need to do that? Why not just use the same process that the Democrats want to force on the American worker, where they have to publicly sign a card and make themselves accountable to their peers for their choice on whether to organize? Have the Democrats suddenly discovered the vakue of a secret ballot in keeping undue pressure out of the election process?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Why not use Card Check, Democrats?

Good question.

[chernmax (Premo)]

The Democrats deserve Specter and the problems that come with it!!!

[Rommey]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Why not use Card Check, Democrats?

Good question.

More "do-as-I-say-not-do-as-I-do" from our illustrious leaders.

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Why not use Card Check, Democrats?

Good question.

had an interesting town hall mtg about unions and potential unionization ....


it seems the union member ships is down to about 12% of the work force from an all time high of over 30% in 1945 ....

so the premise was, Unions are desperately trying to raise membership by any means .........

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Why not use Card Check, Democrats?

Good question.

I would make the reverse argument; we are a nation that uses and believes in private ballots as a core measure of integrity and validity. If it's good enough for out representatives, why isn't it good enough for everyone? Why are workers not entitled to that same fundamental right?

The way you're framing this may suggest to some that there is some validity to card check. My argument is that the only validity is coercion.