Really nice the way the NYT article presents “both sides” in a “fair and balanced way” as though both sides were equally powerful and deserve equal consideraton!

Yeah, the lineworker has just as much power as the CEO…Unions and Dems sell out again. They werent “swayed” as the NYT says,—they were bought and paid for.

Frederic—Even been threatened by a Union Busting Attoney? Didnt think so. Many of us have been…I can see why anti-Union, anti-lawsuit people move to the US—Hitchens gives these two reaons for becoming a US citizen.

US—where everyone is bought and sold like a whore.

hippie4said: Personally, I’m nonviolent and never wish harm on others; it’s bad karma. But frankly, the way he’s going, Obama may not reach the end of his term.

I understand that you dont wish for anything to happen to Obama and neither do I. But lets also agree that Obama does not deserve in any way to be harmed. He isnt earning bad karma. There are crazy people out there whether Obama decides to dump billions of dolars into the unions or not.

Unions are Liberal and should be represented by the Liberal Left.

Liberal must return to ONLY being the Left—the Democratic Party must return to being only Liberal; of the Democratic Party’s DNC, only the CONSERVATIVE Blue Dog Democrats and CONSERVATIVE/moderate New DLC Democrats are married to the Republicans; and NO Republican favors unions. UNIONS are liberal. 

Liberals are all that represents the Left; moderates aren’t of any benefit to the Left. Unions are a benefit to the Left.

Liberals to the Left and Conservatives to the Right; which is what politics was until CONSERVATIVE Republican Barry Goldwater managed to get the whole political scene changed, then conservatives and moderates moved in on the Left, divided the Democratic Party and destroyed political balance. No conservatives or moderates should be on the Left; NO real Liberal is allowed to be in the Republican Party, the Republican Party has made Liberal a dirty word to avoid having any Liberal balance in the Republican Party.

For political balance ALL conservatives and moderates need to be sent back to the Republicans on the Right where they belong; and where they were before Goldwater changed politics to where the Right can represent the Right from the Left, which is an improper perspective; for proper perspective the Right needs to be returned to representing the Right from the Right, not the Left. 

Then, the Left’s Democrats will represent Unions.  Republicans-Lite do play like they represent the Left; but, of course, do not.  It is passed time to get all conservatives and moderates totally OUT of the Democratic Party, so that the representatives on the Left actually represent the Left; instead of the Right, then, and only then, will there be political balance between the Left and the Right.  Unions will be represented by the Left when balance exists, as unions represent the Left.  Currently the Right has all the weight, which must be changed.  The Right must be removed from the Democratic Party, so that the Democratic Party will be able to represent the Left.

Saw this one coming 3 months ago. We’re fucked!

Democrats in Hawaii must not have gotten the message: They passed this law. Then Uber Governator [Lingle is a cross between Schwarzenegger, Lieberman, and Palin] vetoed it.

A couple of days ago, the Leg over-road the veto, and it is now on the books. Of course, it helps to live in a place with strong unions and few Republicans - They are in a serious minority, poor dears.

After Lingle is done [term limits] the Republicans are going on the Endangered Specie List.

What should we expect from a president and a system that favours the powerful over the weak, and favours those who have over those who have not, despite the rhetoric.
This system is not about the working class, it is about those with money, power, and influence. Obama is squandering a huge opportunity to really make some changes of substance. Instead he is pandering to the interests that have been running this country for the last 30-odd years.
I am glad that McCain and his mistake are not in the White House, but if they were, at least we would know what we were up against. Instead, women, gays, and average working people are pandered to, told to be patient, and treated as if we do not exist. I am really sick of the whole system and sorry I contributed any money and my vote to Obama and his team of Wall Street robbers. I will not be voting for another Obama term.

More Friedman Fascism from the New Republicans. I agree, Folktruther, it is a shocking and dreadful sellout, as was the LGBT sellout, the Foreclosure Consumer sellout, the national health sellout, what did I forget? Oh yes, the Big Sell for War in Afganistan.

Personally, I’m nonviolent and never wish harm on others; it’s bad karma. But frankly, the way he’s going, Obama may not reach the end of his term. Lots are hurting, being evicted, living hand-to-mouth: every week there’s more pinkslips going out. Maybe it’s because I grew up in an era of assassinations that while I do not advocate it, indeed despise such violence, I still wouldn’t be surprised.

And I could not vote again for Feinstein, Boxer, or Woolsey (her cannabis position is ludicrous). Obama?

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

Surprise
Hardly
When all they have done the past year is bail out the wall street criminal class - what more can we - should we expect. 

Anyone who votes for a Democrat or a Republican in the future, deserves what they get.  It is past time to dump the bs system and start back over again.  If we don’t do it, it will happen on its own, but there will be less control.

This is one of the most dreadful sellouts.  The working class made their voices felt through unions, which is why the ruling class largely destroyed them by globalization.  Obama said he was for it and then didn’t support it, leaving it to be eviseerated by business.

This is part of the general depowerizing of the American population begun by Bush and continued by Obama.