Crash of ObamaCare means no Card Check this year

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With all of the attention focused on Barack Obama’s agenda on health care this summer, another explosive issue has withered from a lack of attention. Despite the removal of the bill’s most controversial option, the Senate still has no plans to move EFCA, better known as Card Check, any time this year. Not only does the Senate have no time or stomach for another battle with moderates, they don’t have a full complement to guarantee cloture:

Senate efforts to compromise on a watered-down version of the Employee Free Choice Act have been put firmly on the chamber’s back burner — perhaps for the rest of the year — as senators, aides and lobbyists focus on health care and other legislation, participants said.

“We’re not doing anything right now,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said of talks he has led among a group of Democrats since it became clear in late March that a more ambitious “card check” bill to help unions organize could not win 60 Senate votes.

“We’ve got the healthcare bill; we’ve got appropriations bills, and we’re lacking two senators that we need right now,” Harkin said in an interview. “Nothing is happening on that right now.”

The Card Check bill has a number of problems, primarily attendance. Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy have not returned to the Senate, which leaves Democrats two votes short of gaining cloture on party-line votes. Byrd has occasionally re-appeared, but no one can be sure on a day-to-day basis when he’ll be available. Kennedy probably won’t be back, at least not soon, as he is far too ill to conduct daily business on the Hill.

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[glhs837]

Damnit!!! Now how can we bully..I mean logically convince the stubborn a#$holS... I mean brother workers, to fork over....I mean gladly contribute to the self serving.....I mean selfless unions that will ensure they wreck, I mean partner with the industry they work in.

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Originally Posted by glhs837

Damnit!!! Now how can we bully..I mean logically convince the stubborn a#$holS... I mean brother workers, to fork over....I mean gladly contribute to the self serving.....I mean selfless unions that will ensure they wreck, I mean partner with the industry they work in.

But but but.. organized labor polls so well.


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[glhs837]

Yep, if you cant convince em, force'em

[ImnoMensa]

I cant stand Ted Kennedy or Robert Byrd, but even so you would think that these two selfish bastages would resign and allow someone else to fill in for them instead of waiting to die in office.

Thank God they dont, it might save us from some other stupid Democrat passing a crappy bill. Hopefully they live long lives and never vote again.