Washington Examiner: Prior to its most recent decision [ruling on a 2008 workplace representation election at MasTec DirecTV that was won by the Communications Workers of America on a 14-12 vote], the NLRB has historically set aside elections in which multiple verbal threats were made by either side, including most recently in a 2007 case in which a UAW effort to organize a PPG shop was overturned following a rash

Meanwhile, Boehner and Cantor’s offices are grousing about the “extreme right wing” of the party — you know, those of us who don’t think it a strong “game plan” involves running scared from Harry Reid while the infrastructure for administering ObamaCare is built and financed. Trading the optics of meeting your (tiny) cuts to the budget for an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and keep the government open —

Yet another reason to end public unions. Upon arrival, members of the recall committee were encircled by union protesters carrying signs and a leader with a mega phone who began chanting and ranting loudly. They packed in tightly around the petition collection table so as to prevent those attempting to sign from doing so. At one point, a pro union protester, pretending to be interested in signing the petition, wrote

     “Yep. That  Brown-throated Sand Martin dead.” ~ finis ~

Yeah? Well some say the feeling is mutual. And some are determined to move the GOP back toward conservatism and classical liberalism, and away from the kind of “maverick” pragmatism that has, when coupled with the soft socialism of today’s left, crippled the currency, the economy, the job market, and public confidence in the government to do anything more than enslave them.

President Obama’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Susan Carney has, well, issues with honesty.

Irony may not be dead, but it is wheezing quite a bit, and I don’t like it’s color: President Obama’s only event at the White House that isn’t closed to the press on Wednesday is a ceremony in which he’ll accept an award for being open to the press. According to his public schedule, Obama has four behind-closed-doors meetings from 10 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.: his daily briefing, a talk

The TEA Party spoke. And the GOP House members listened. They just didn’t hear. The current GOP leadership fears a government shut down because they fear what such a thing would do to their re-election chances. They think getting a ~ 2% cut on the proposed budget in exchange for upping the debt ceiling can — while keeping the government open for business — is a big win, optically speaking.