H/T America’s Blog, from Sam Stien at the Huffington Post:
“It could well be” a recipe for disaster in 2010, [AFL-CIO president Richard] Trumka told a group of reporters. “I just came back from southern California. I was in five or six places out there… it is amazing the number of people that come up to you unsolicited and say, ‘I’m really worried about this health care bill.’”
Asked if he thought union and non-union workers will stay at home if health care reform (as outlined by the Senate) is passed into law, Trumka replied: “That could very well happen. A bad bill could have that effect… an [election] where people sit home. It could suppress votes… Look at what happened in ’94.”
Tues AM: Do you think that the rank and file union members will ever forget the Trillion Dollar President taxing their health plans?
How do you think the rank and file union member will react when their union leaders cut a deal with the White House to have their health plans taxed?
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Trumpka's Throwing a Little Hissy Fit
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 6:36PM EST (link)Trumpka is all bluster. This is his little hissy fit over the tax on health care plans. Oh boo hoo hoo.
He has no leverage. He’s not going anywhere. He’s a pathetic hack.
How do you really feel?
Dan Perrin (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 6:54PM EST (link)Inside Democratic circles, what he thinks is relevant.
The more I think about it, the more I realize...
erod (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 7:12PM EST (link)that there are a lot of people the Dems have to please to make this bill go their way. Someone is going to get thrown under the bus and they’re not going to be happy about it.
So they either
A. get a bad bill passed, just for the sake of getting something passed
(most likely scenario)
B. Push this bill into February or March or later attempting to please everyone (they probably will do this if Brown losses)
C. Kill the bill and start over (least likely)
Can’t wait for November 2nd guys, free booze, popcorn and pizza at my house if you can make it to Chicago.
Trumka's Garishly Giving Grist for the Mill Today
LaborUnionReport (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 7:01PM EST (link)“Speaking at the National Press Club this afternoon, AFL-CIO president, Richard Trumka made a bold prediction: The Employee Free Choice Act–the flagship legislation of the labor movement–will pass in the first quarter of 2010.”
“‘I think you’ll see the Employee Free Choice Act pass in the first quarter of 2010,’ Trumka said. ‘You’ll have it have some real effect. We’ll start creating and making new jobs in this country again.’”
http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2010/01/11/is-he-hallucinating-afl-cio-boss-predicts-job-destroying-efca-will-pass-in-first-quarter-2010-and-create-jobs/
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Create Jobs
dwander Monday, January 11th at 9:42PM EST (link)Would someone please explain to me how unions create jobs?
I may be wrong but I thought businesses created jobs.
Separated at birth???
erod (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 7:19PM EST (link)http://ch3guest.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/sgt_20schultz_small.jpg
Pretty funny
Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 5:06AM EST (link)n/t
Ja, wohlolol (nt)
proudmarinemom (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 8:58AM EST (link)May well indeed
10ksnooker (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 7:22PM EST (link)But I think the liberals have exposed their agenda far too much … It’s tyranny … By debt so large it can never be repaid.
The liberals misread the meaning of their ‘hate Bush’ election.
I think they exposed their agenda to the
Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 5:07AM EST (link)independents and other possible swing voters in a way they could have never imagined when the Trillion Dollar President was elected.
Is anyone else worried about Universal Voter Registration?
nvrepub (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 7:33PM EST (link)Apparently, Shumer and Frank intend to propose this in February. This could be the one thing to save the Dems, if it passes….
There are three things that could happen this year
mbecker908 (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 8:37PM EST (link)that will permanently enfranchise Democrats in DC.
1. Nationalizing health care. And that means passing ANYTHING.
2. CardCheck.
3. Universal Voter Registration.
Any of these passes and they will never be repealed and no SCOTUS will touch them with a ten foot pole.
You Forgot Amnesty nt
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 8:41PM EST (link)Good point Swamp.
mbecker908 (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 9:02PM EST (link)I’m guessing that amnesty is near the bottom of the priority list and I personally doubt that it will see the light of day this year.
If it does, it’s absolutely number four though.
Some of these Dem campaigns in 2010 will be fun to follow
bk (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 2:48AM EST (link)“Re-elect me so that we can finish implementing the rest of the stuff you hated that we we didn’t have time to do in Obama’s first two years.”
That's the way I see it
Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 5:10AM EST (link)bk
You could be right...
Third Street (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 2:53AM EST (link)…there are so many Republicans willing to help push through amnesty that maybe the Dems figure they can afford to put it on the back burner and still get it through next year with diminished majorities.
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wrong
writeblock Tuesday, January 12th at 1:09AM EST (link)Especially about the Supreme Court. I doubt health care, if passed, would survive Court scrutiny. Stop making these ridiculous assertions. Anything can be repealed if we retake Congress.
But you have to get SCOTUS to scrutinize it first
nessa (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 1:26AM EST (link)They don’t want to and will use every excuse NOT to. It’s how they work. I thought the SCOTUS was the final protector of the Constitution, oh how wrong I was. My diary on it is here. I’m sure there are better out there but my point lies in “Judicial Review”, itself constitutionally challenged and the doctrine of strict necessity.
The SCOTUS will decide this ONLY if it absolutely MUST, and then along such narrow confines that it may well be utterly meaningless.
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There is precedent for an Dem health care
Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 5:12AM EST (link)that passed and was signed into law that was repealed almost immediately because it was so hated.
But we are not there yet.
The rank and file or their staff may yet wake up.
Registering everyone
lunarmanathome (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 11:20PM EST (link)doesn’t automatically correlate to an actual vote. I do have a problem with the rationale of doing this. It is a responsibility as well as a privilege to vote. This step removes the responsibility of the voter to register- more of the “nanny” ensuring that we do “right”.
Responsibility is anathema to progressives...
nessa (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 11:36PM EST (link)…we can’t have people actually accepting responsibilities, the horror! That would pretty much destroy the entitlement society and the democrat votes that garners. That’s why the gov’t has to take over charitable donations, no need for you to give your money yourself when the dems can buy votes with it. Don’t worry though, they have plans to eliminate all the nasty responsibility, you won’t have any of Liberties that come with responsibilities attached, those are next on the list to go.
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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As a proud bald guy...
azaeroprof (Diary) Monday, January 11th at 10:47PM EST (link)I really hate it when men cover up a beautiful scalp with a wicked ugly piece like his!
I was wondering when someone was going to
Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 5:15AM EST (link)get to that.
Well the unions do hate this bill
char (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 2:52AM EST (link)As do senior citizens. Who do you think shows up for midterm elections apart from partisans? I think he realizes that this bill is not friendly to unions and that unions would prefer Dems to stay in power to stand against free trade. The guy is a hack, but he’s a union first hack. People like him coming out of the woodwork aren’t that surprising as there are elements of the Dem coalition that put other things above healthcare.
This bill knifes them in the back by their own team
Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 5:16AM EST (link)they are angry and will only get more angry when their union leadership caves to the Dems with a “deal” to ge their plans taxed.
My prediction
davidstone Tuesday, January 12th at 5:56AM EST (link)If Brown wins, the house will just eat the senate bill. If Brown loses, the house will compromise a little and agree to raise the threshold for the excise tax on expensive (cadillac) health plans (say to something like 28,000 from 23,000) with the senate compromising a little on raising taxes on people making over 200,000 to offset cost. They might also agree to strengthen the abortion language a little to please Stupak but not enough to alienate Boxer. I believe the first will happen, the second I am not sure.
trumka
sarge324 Tuesday, January 12th at 8:19AM EST (link)a union leader thinks it bad to tax the good health care plans they have.but when it comes to the american people he could care less.stay mad and vote out the liberals that are ruining our country.2010 is a start.
Look For The Union Exemption....
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Tuesday, January 12th at 8:55AM EST (link)This “Cadillac-Tax” will be taken off of Union member health care plans. It will happen about 23 hours before the final bill hits the floor.
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