In an interview late last week, House Minority Leaeder Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNBC that Boeing should either unionize its production facilities in South Carolina, or shut them down entirely. The more Union workers there are, the more money Democrats get.
"Do you think it's right that Boeing has to close down that plant in South Carolina because it's non union?" asked host Maria Bartiromo. Pelosi's reply: "Yes." So every non-union plant should shut down. Brilliant.
The minority leader quickly added that she would rather it simply unionize and stay open. But barring unionization, by Pelosi's reasoning, it should simply shut down. You can either work for a Union or starve.
Boeing is the target of a suit from the National Labor Relations Board, which accused the company of retaliation against a machinists' union in its decision to open a new plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, instead of Washington State.
Pelosi may or may not know that workers at the South Carolina plant in question voted resoundingly (199-68) to decertify their union two years ago. Government policies that would close the plant for being a non-union shop would simply be punishing those workers for exercising their right to determine union representation for themselves. She doesn't know and doesn't care. She knows what's best for the "Little People".
"The Administration is trying to foist unions on workers, whether they want them or not, whether union representation would help them or not," Heritage's James Sherk noted in response to Pelosi's statement. As for the more general issue of Boeing's suit, Sherk called it "a good way of discouraging businesses from building new factories or plants."
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She'd have been more sympathetic if it'd been a broom factory.
A news story released Monday shows that documents dumped by the Department of Justice (DOJ) contradict statements made by Attorney-General Eric Holder and other DOJ officials concerning what they knew about the Gunwalker scandal and when they knew it. I know this is not new news here.
The documents contain a memo showing that the head of the DOJ's criminal justice division, Assistant Attorney-General Lanny Breuer, knew of the illegal operation as early as April of 2010. This is a contradiction to statements made by Attorney-General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama that no one in the Justice Department had any information of wrongdoing concerning the Gunwalker project. What's news is that it was on the DC news-traffic-weather radio channel this morning. Here's why:
In a memo, Brueuer's deputy wrote him that, in a case called "Wide Receiver" started under the Bush Administration, "ATF let a bunch of guns walk" in an effort to catch the big fish of Mexican drug cartels and said the gunwalking case could be "embarrassing" to ATF. So now we can spin this into another investigation of Bush!
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NPR ran the story this morning. Though the story in electrons is not the one I recall in my half waking state. Lot's of distorted blame Bush spin. But they buried it on their site.
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NYT's version: Throughout the course of his investigation, however, it was brought to light that a very similar operation, Wide Receiver, was run using nearly identical tactics under Bush.
They were nowhere "nearly" like Wide Receiver... -- there were attempts to follow the guns...
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's campaign is staunchly denying reports that the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza was involved in a sexual harassment case, saying the allegations are "questionable." Oh, Herman! Say it ain't so! Not Anita Hill!
Cain's chief of staff, Mark Block, said on MSNBC today that the GOP candidate "has never sexually harassed anyone. Period. End of story." She was a good-looking babe. Herman could tell she was trouble when she swiveled through his door...
"Every negative word and accusation in the article is sourced to a series of unnamed or anonymous sources. Questionable at best," Block said of the Politico report, which found that Cain was accused of inappropriate behavior by two women during his tenure as National Restaurant Association head from 1996 to 1999. "Hello, Big Boy," she said, leaning forward far enough for one of her bosoms to escape from its low-cut restraint. "I need a job!"
Per Politico, "the women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them financial payouts to leave the association. The agreements also included language that bars the women from talking about their departures." "What's your name, toots?" Herman asked, trying to keep his eyes from bulging into the proffered udder.
Block said he is not aware of any cash settlement, and maintained Cain's innocence. "Anita. Anita Hill."
"Mr. Cain has never sexually harassed anyone, period," he said, adding that when he asked his boss of the allegations, he said "the story is not true. Bring me some facts. Bring me the accuser." "Beat it," Herman sneered. "And take your resume with you! This is the National Restaurant Association, not Brandeis University!"
Cain, 65, will address the allegations today, Block said. She pulled herself to her feet, no mean accomplishment, given the size of her mammary apparatus.
When confronted on the trail Sunday about the report, Cain refused to comment, even asking the reporter whether he had ever been accused of sexual harassment. His spokesman dubbed the accusations "garbage" and "a total distraction." "You ain't hirin' me because I'm a woman!" she snarled. "You ain't heard the last of me, buster!"
Cain is in Washington, D.C. today, where he is first speaking about his 9-9-9 tax plan at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and then later at a luncheon at the National Press Club. "I'd be quivering in my boots, toots," Herman said, "if I was wearing boots. Get back to the groves of acadamia with the rest of the nuts!"
At the AEI event this morning, Cain refused to answer a question about the charges, saying that "I will go by the ground rules that my hosts have set," which is discussing just his 9-9-9 plan. "We can leave my sex life, or lack thereof, out of it. I'm 65 years old, fergawdsake! Surely I can be allowed some dignity?"
According to Politico, the conversations between Cain and the two women who accused him of inappropriate behavior were "filled with innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature, taking place at hotels during conferences, at other officially sanctioned restaurant association events and at the association's offices. "He called me... [sniff!]... He called me toots!... Oh, boo hoo hoo hoo!"
"There were also descriptions of physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable and that they regarded as improper in a professional relationship," the article stated. God Gawd! Not overtly sexual? How low can the man go? Well, I'd definitely changing my vote to Nader!
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According to Politico, the conversations between Cain and the two women who accused him of inappropriate behavior were "filled with innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature, taking place at hotels during conferences, at other officially sanctioned restaurant association events and at the association's offices.
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Can anyone imagine Politico, WaPo, NYT, LA Times or NPR putting out a story like this in 2008 that would have involved Obama? Second-hand sources, anonymous sources, speculation, rumor all mixed together about Bambi harassing a woman somewhere?
No?
Me neither.
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Considering the source and the timing... not really worried about it being fact.
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It was as predictable and as inevitable as the next sunrise or next high tide.
Don't you know this is how the Dems keep blacks under control? To the Dems, if you leave the plantations (democratic party) they will smear, lie, and innuendo you to the death of a thousand cuts. The MSM has more people chasing dirt on Cain than they ever had vetting Obama.
I hope everyone sees the blatant racism and hypocracy of this
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Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Gary Hart, JFK, RFK, Teddy, Vince Foster. I suppose there are others too. Talk about hypocrisy.
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According to Politico, the conversations between Cain and the two women who accused him of inappropriate behavior were "filled with innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature, taking place at hotels during conferences, at other officially sanctioned restaurant association events and at the association's offices.
Perhaps they were putting up curtains, discussing a delicious ice cream concoction, or conversing with a certain southern colonel and his family.
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Yawn. At least he is not a rapist or a coke head.
He actually is a man of character but he needs to identify when to make no comment on something or study the report when it comes in and try to recall something from 20 years ago. He handled this miserably.
He represented more than 250 million people when he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association.
He learned of these charges, promptly recused himself, Had the human resource commander and his general counsel handle the matter.
The most he probably was told was to keep it confidential and say no more about it, as well the accusers. It's a nuisance lawsuit. It is difficult to get past manager much less high level manager without something like that happening to you in some cases.
I have seen lots of it happen. And I have seen much of it dismissed.
It is a smear campaign straight up. Levin covered it in detail on Mondays show.
But no worry, there will be plenty of coverage so you may forget that Greece is taking the world for a donkey ride whilst our very own currency collapses under debt by hyper-inflation, and we are in a depression?
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's campaign is staunchly denying reports that the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza was involved in a sexual harassment case, saying the allegations are "questionable."
