Post-Becker Briefing on Card Check

[cross-posted at TheTruthAboutEFCA.com]

The big news of the weekend — was it planned to be dumped with the Friday trash? — was the president’s recess appointment of union attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, where his previous anti-employer (and arguably anti-employee) views could threaten workplace democracy.

That leads the chatter around the blogosphere.

The Daily Caller reported it as “Obama rewards unions with key labor appointee,” while noting all 41 Republican Senators sent a letter to the president urging him not to move forward with Becker’s recess appointment. The wording left nothing to the imagination, saying Obama gave “organized labor a big payback for its help in pushing his health-care reform across the finish line, unilaterally appointing a controversial pro-union attorney…”

Investors Business Daily reflects on the stakes involved and turns to the words of the AFL-CIO’s own Stewart Acuff, “If we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama and Vice President Biden and their appointees to the National Labor Relations Board to change the rules governing forming a union through administrative action.”

Elsewhere, Chris Stirewalt of the Washington Examiner writes: “Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, Democrats promise to take on global warming, card check, immigration and a regulatory crackdown on banks.”