Tuesday, October 07, 2008

 

You go, George!

For the first time in my life, I find myself admiring the hell out of George McGovern. During tonight's presidential debate, McGovern will be featured in a national ad in opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, aka Card Check.

What's Card Check, you ask? Erik at Red State has summed it up nicely: "[Card Check" would require that employees vote for or against unionizing while standing in front of union thugs without a secret ballot." That is, secret ballots in union elections will be done away with, and a company's workers will be officially unionized as soon as a majority of members have signed a card. If you're a worker, but you're against a union in your workplace, how likely is it that you're going to politely decline to put your name on a union card when three beefy pro-union fellers thrust one in your face? As Jerry Seinfeld might say, not bloody likely!

Faced with declining union membership, Card Check has become Issue Number One for union bosses. And since the Democratic Party gets a big chunk of its money from public and private-sector unions, Card Check will be Order of Business Number One if B. Hussein Obama is elected. In fact, Obama's promised as much. Thus, doing the bidding of union bosses and abolishing the secret ballot (which has been, at many different levels, a hallmark of our republic from its earliest days) in union elections is going to be one of Obama's top priorities. You know ... that doesn't sound like "post-partisan" or a "new way of thinking" to me.

Here's the McGovern ad:






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