{"id":189809,"date":"2010-02-10T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/ben-nelson-and-blanch-lincoln-need-to-be-reminded-what-it-means-to-be-a-democrat\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:07:00","slug":"ben-nelson-and-blanch-lincoln-need-to-be-reminded-what-it-means-to-be-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/ben-nelson-and-blanch-lincoln-need-to-be-reminded-what-it-means-to-be-a-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Nelson and Blanch Lincoln Need to be  Reminded What it Means to Be a Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to oppose a presidential appointee of your own party, but Ben Nelson Blanche Lincoln, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_02\/022313.php\">just filibustered Craig Becker to serve on the National Labor Relations Board<\/a>, and that crosses a line.<\/p>\n<p>Their committee chairmanships should be in doubt, though that won&#8217;t happen with Harry &#8220;Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man&#8221; Reid leading the senate.<\/p>\n<p>Note also that Nelson spoke out strongly against filibustering Bush appointees, but he&#8217;s with it when it involves Obama.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, this is where a line should be drawn.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the filibuster?  Because Craig Becker has represented labor unions as a lawyer.  No problem with nominating union busting lawyers, but nominating a lawyer that supports workers&#8217; rights?  So Ben Nelson, and the Senator from WalMart filibustered him.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/80379-afl-cio-goes-after-nelson-for-hypocrisy-on-becker-nomination\">AFL-CIO has blown a gasket over Nelson&#8217;s vote<\/a>, I think that they understand that Lincoln is bought and paid for by WalMart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to oppose a presidential appointee of your own party, but Ben Nelson Blanche Lincoln, just filibustered Craig Becker to serve on the National Labor Relations Board, and that crosses a line. Their committee chairmanships should be in doubt, though that won&#8217;t happen with Harry &#8220;Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man&#8221; Reid leading the senate. Note &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1023,1020,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-labor","category-legislation","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}