Politics Over Principles

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Today Investors.com posted an article about the latest skirmish in the battle for Boeing to be free to open an assembly plant in South Carolina.  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), now stacked with President Obama's pro-union appointees, is attempting to block Boeing from opening a new assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state, as opposed to Washington, where the other Boeing assembly lines are located. 

Investors.com reports:

"One week after Republican senators introduced a bill to counter the National Labor Relations Board's complaint vs. Boeing (BA), not a single Democrat, not even the ones who represent states with right-to-work laws, have signed on as co-sponsors. According to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., they're not going to get any either, and that probably dooms the bill.

""Whether we can get any Democratic support is very doubtful. They are very afraid of doing anything that antagonizes unions, even if behind the scenes they agree with us," DeMint told IBD. "So I don't really know that we can pass it."

"DeMint said the GOP will continue to push it, but conceded it needs bipartisan support to break the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold. The Democrats "saw what happened to Blanche Lincoln," he said, referring to the pro-business Senate Democrat from Arkansas who was targeted by Big Labor during her 2010 re-election bid. She survived a brutal primary, but was too damaged to win the general election, though she probably would have been a longshot in any case."

This is truly sad.  We have so politicized our government that many elected officials are incapable of making a decision based on fair play. 

The article further reports:

"Boeing has signaled it will challenge the complaint. An NLRB hearing on it is set for mid-June. Should the NLRB uphold the complaint, Boeing can appeal it to federal court. DeMint said he believes that the NLRB does not think it can win an appeal but hopes to put enough of a drain on Boeing to send a message to other companies thinking of expanding to right-to-work states."

Until someone in the Democrat party develops a backbone, the thuggery will continue.

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