1. UNION BOSSES BANKROLL OBAMA CAMPAIGN: Labor Bosses Plan To Spend $400 Billion Dollars For Obama During 2012 Presidential Election: “Unions are gearing up to spend more than $400 million to help re-elect President Barack Obama and lift Democrats this … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, Congress, NLRB, Politics, Unions Tagged 2008 presidential election, 2012 election, 2012 presidential election, Big Labor, Boeing, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elections, Lafe Solomon, Lamons Gasket Co., Lewis & Bockius, Mark Pearce, Morgan, Obama Administration, President, Richard Griffin, Sharon Block, South Carolina, Specialty Healthcare Case, Terence Flynn, UGL-Unicco Service Co., Unions, Wilma Liebman
Jonathan Turley, a nationally recognized legal scholar at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. believes the Obama Administration created an “extreme” slippery slope by pushing its recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. Turley writes in a recent USA Today column that the brazen move “dangerously tips the balance of power.” Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, NLRB Tagged Constitution, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, George Washington University, Jonathan Turley, NLRB, President Obama, Richard Cordray
Americans of all political persuasions – even those who support the actions that Obama’s labor board – should realize that this egregious abuse of power fundamentally disturbs the checks and balances at the heart of the Senate confirmation process. Presidents throughout American history have seen the overwhelming majority of their appointments confirmed but, in modern times, the Senate has almost always had some time to review them. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Biden, CFPB, Constitution, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, NLRB, Nominees, Obama, Recess, Richard Griffin, Sharon Block
“As I said, we don’t work for the president. And no president is entitled to the appointment of anyone he nominates. No president is entitled by the mere fact he has nominated someone. That’s why they wrote the Constitution the way they did: It says ‘advice and consent.” — Senator Joe Biden, Committee On Foreign Relations, 5/12/05 Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bosses, NLRB, Politics, Unions Tagged Big Labor, Constitution, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, John Kerry, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, Obama, recess appointments
The Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) today released the following statement in response to news reports that White House lawyers have concluded “President Obama has the legal authority to name Richard Cordray head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) through a recess appointment”: Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, NLRB, Politics Tagged American business, Barack Obama, Business, CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, consumers, labor bosses, NLRB, President Obama, recess appointments, Richard Cordray, Richard Griffin, Sharon Block, Small business, workers