Comments on: Don’t Be Fooled Tonight http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519 Just another Firedoglake weblog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:40:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: alank http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2967 alank Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:07:41 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2967 <p>Thanks for your reply, Michael. It’ll be interesting to see how this develops.</p> Thanks for your reply, Michael. It’ll be interesting to see how this develops.

]]> By: Valley Girl http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2955 Valley Girl Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:55:36 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2955 <p>Great diary. I wanted to recommend, but that tab is not showing up.</p> Great diary. I wanted to recommend, but that tab is not showing up.

]]> By: Michael Whitney http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2952 Michael Whitney Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:25:45 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2952 <p>I agree that this is not the end, but we’re not going to see the repeal of Taft-Hartley. What the country needs is to restore the right of workers to form unions, and we need healthcare for every American. Those two pieces alone are enough to pause and assess what _then_ needs to be done to help working people.</p> <p>As for the uphill battle, we already have 52 votes in the Senate. Say a conservative estimate of 4 new Senate seats gives you 56 votes. Given how rough our economy is now, I think that there’ll be enough pressure from the public to make substantive changes to restore the middle class - and a big chunk of that is letting people form unions again.</p> I agree that this is not the end, but we’re not going to see the repeal of Taft-Hartley. What the country needs is to restore the right of workers to form unions, and we need healthcare for every American. Those two pieces alone are enough to pause and assess what _then_ needs to be done to help working people.

As for the uphill battle, we already have 52 votes in the Senate. Say a conservative estimate of 4 new Senate seats gives you 56 votes. Given how rough our economy is now, I think that there’ll be enough pressure from the public to make substantive changes to restore the middle class – and a big chunk of that is letting people form unions again.

]]> By: alank http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2935 alank Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:48:34 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2935 <p>I was thinking of the chap who gets column inches at counterpunch, for one.</p> <p>Returning to the subject, why stop with this act? Why not repeal the Taft-Hartley act. You don’t want Congress to believe their work is done with the current legislation, in the event it’s passed. The hurdles it faces are comparable to what you’d face with the repeal language.</p> <p>So, again, what these cosmetic changes, when the uphill battle would be the same either way?</p> I was thinking of the chap who gets column inches at counterpunch, for one.

Returning to the subject, why stop with this act? Why not repeal the Taft-Hartley act. You don’t want Congress to believe their work is done with the current legislation, in the event it’s passed. The hurdles it faces are comparable to what you’d face with the repeal language.

So, again, what these cosmetic changes, when the uphill battle would be the same either way?

]]> By: Michael Whitney http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2931 Michael Whitney Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:35:42 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2931 <p>No no, we’re thinking of a different one. Too many people with my name!</p> No no, we’re thinking of a different one. Too many people with my name!

]]> By: james http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2928 james Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:25:33 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2928 <p>The Mike Whitney who writes on union and economics issues at Counterpunch is a conservative????</p> <p>Praise the Lord and convert the rest of them!</p> The Mike Whitney who writes on union and economics issues at Counterpunch is a conservative????

Praise the Lord and convert the rest of them!

]]> By: alank http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2924 alank Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:53:07 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2924 <p>If you say so! It never would’ve occurred to me that Mike Whitney was conservative. But there it is.</p> If you say so! It never would’ve occurred to me that Mike Whitney was conservative. But there it is.

]]> By: Michael Whitney http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2911 Michael Whitney Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:26:00 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2911 <p>Thanks Pach! Much appreciated.</p> Thanks Pach! Much appreciated.

]]> By: Pachacutec http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2909 Pachacutec Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:15:37 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2909 <p>Recommended.</p> Recommended.

]]> By: Michael Whitney http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/519/comment-page-1#comment-2908 Michael Whitney Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:02:10 +0000 http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/519#comment-2908 <p>Correct! Different people. Mike Whitney is a conservative writer, I’m a progressive.</p> Correct! Different people. Mike Whitney is a conservative writer, I’m a progressive.

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