New documents obtained by Judicial Watch show acting National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Lafe Solomon joking that the NLRB's suit against Boeing would kill jobs in South Carolina. Commenting on a Planet Labor article whose headline suggests Boeing might not be able to open its new plant in South Carolina because of "antiunion behavior," Solomon writes:
The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva and I get a job with airbus. We screwed up the us economy and now we can tackle europe.
Solomon goes on to complain that Obama NLRB nominee Craig Becker may be getting the credit for the Boeing suit: "I didn't read all of the meltwater articles but some of the headlines tie boeing to craig. Unbelievable."
Solomon's colleague, outgoing NLRB Chairwoman Wlima Liebman, replies by soothing Soloman's bruised ego. "None of the articles tie craig to boeing. Just mention his recess appointment. No one is raining on your parade," Liebman wrote in reply.
Becker, who was once counsel to both the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), had his nomination to the NLRB blocked by the Senate. News of his recess appointment to the NLRB coincided with Solomon's suit against Boeing.
In another email, NLRB attorney sent an article from The Economist to NLRB attorney Debra Willen and commented: "Exactly; it just shows you how incredibly reactionary the US is, that the conservative Economist thinks were Neanderthal."
Willen seems to have been a magnet for emails belittling South Carolina. When a former NLRB employee emailed Willen a note mocking Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., as "Sen. Dement," Willen replied: "You retired with your integrity, which makes you far wealthier than Sen. Dement will ever be."
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says the tenor of the emails show the NLRB's case against Boeing isn't supported by the law. These documents provide further evidence that the Obama administrations attack on Boeing is irresponsible and politically motivated, Fitton said. NLRB attorneys come off as juvenile politicos rather than professionals interested in arbitrating a labor dispute. The utter contempt for congressional oversight shows that the NRLB thinks it is above the law. We hope these documents help educate the public about the ongoing abuse of power by this agency.
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Yes -- we definitely should chose our chief executive the way we'd cast a high school musical.
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11/10/2011 9:36 Comments ||
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I think they should be borded up in a house for at least a television season and forced to compete in competitions big brother style.
Or how about a bracket-style competition where we pit the two tea-party favorites against each other, and the two inside the beltway candidates and then the winner of the whole thing goes on to the Presidential election.
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It was no joke. It was a brain fart. Too bad. I still like him.
But then, Newt has been giving some really great answers. Dunno how viable he is with all of his baggage but, wow, he has been extremely sharp in these debates.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
11/10/2011 10:40 Comments ||
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He hasn't done well in a single debate. How many chances do you get?
That kind of gaff in a Presidential Debate would be worse than Nixon's sweating. Sudden Death!
Yes, actually. POTUS is not a dictator, (s)he's a cat herder. This is one thing 0bama doesn't understand. Roosevelt and Reagan did. How well they debate indicates how well they can persuade, and thus lead.
Not necessarily but it's worrisome when the guy fumbles and stumbles with his answers. I'd still vote for him myself but I'm not your typical voter and I'm afraid that by the time the primaries get to California, Romney will have such a big lead that California won't matter. Now that is really, really worrisome.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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I'm still in grief over Pawlenty dropping out and now being left with Romney. He'll get eaten alive in the general when all his flip-flops make a high-light reel on National Television.
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11/10/2011 12:26 Comments ||
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Pawlenty seemed like a good candidate. He just didn't get traction. Probably would make a decent Prez.
I saw the debate. It seems that the Pubs got together and figured out that the MSM was going for a food fight feeding frenzy between candidates. That didn't happen. CNBC moderators seemed pissed off that they could not carry the water for Obama. The mods got chewed up by the candidates. The audience cheered during these chew-toy moments. I thought all the candidates did a good job. Perry is not sharp in debates. The debate format does not serve the candidates or voters. Newt is right--go for a Lincoln-Douglas format. I think Newt would eat Obama's lunch in a debate. Obama would have to resort lying to win any points. But what's new? Newt, unfortunately, has the persona of being the know-it-all smartest kid in the class. I don't know whether he could lead or whether he would just end up pissing everyone off. Romney looked good. The moderator tried to get something going between Huntsman and Romney and Romney did not bite.
These debates need to be wrestled from the lame stream media whose only aim is to get Obama re-elected. Let's have an honest debate instead of debates moderated by panels who try for the go-for-the jugular gotcha moments.
#17
Ugh. Perry is a caricature of a President. He reminds me more of Will Ferrell pretending to be Bush than anything. He would be an unmitigated disaster; third only to Obama and Carter. I'd vote for him over Obama, but ANY of the other candidates, well maybe except Bachmann, would be vastly superior.
#18
The debators should have a chosen team that can speak to them using an earphone. Nobody should be expected to know everything and a president is only as good as their chosen team.
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So what baggage does Newt have. All I know aboutis his divorce and since his ex wife is still alive and his kid said the story is mostly bunk I'm wondering if there is something else.
Making that stupid global warming commercial w. Nancy Pelosi. Although, he's recently acknowledged it as stupid.
Also, I'm sure there are any number of anonymous accusers out there who have yet to come forward and anonymously accuse him of something unspecific but heinous.
It may not be running a Pizza Company, but four years as Speaker of the House might have at least taught him what he can and cannot get through Guvmint.
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Perry was trying to remember three things. He got two of them, the third one didnt bubble up. However, when it comes to anything important like fast and furious, manditory socialist health care, what CHANGE means, Obama, Holder, Janet Nopalitano, Nancy Pelosi will only say, ask the teleprompter, "didn't know anything", got Lady Gaga or 60 seconds of silence instead of the national DHS test message, "we aren't sayin - pass it find out what is in it".
Reckon by those standards Rick is batting 2 out of 3 vs nothing.
#30
Besides, I would rather vote for a candidate that speaks from his heart and mind imperfectly rather than an empty suite that reads a carefully crafted bunch of lies from a teleprompter.
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