Once again, the wealthy are wasting their money trying to keep wages out of the hands of the middle class workers who make them rich in the first place.

Don't they realize this anti-worker sentiment is what created this financial mess in the first place?

They spen as much fighting higher wages as they would paying them. And when the economy sours, they blame the consumer for not consuming.

Pay them well, they WILL consume. And the economies of the world will grow, and the rich will get richer.

Even more off topic, and maybe something Tena and CT voter would be interested in, are pics of Obama in college (strictly g-rated):

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866765,00.html

He looked kind of cool in a hat!

Thanks for this profile, Greg. The same guy who's against Mothers Against Drunk Driving is against unions. That'd be one of the messages I'd push if I were the Dems.

Doh, sorry about that. Web site is acting a bit jumpy for me today. It's taking ages to submit for whatever reason.

Barack Obama was elected president because that was not a "politics-as-usual" campaign.

Pigs like Rick Berman can only win in a politics-as-usual environment. So to the extent the new politics of the Obama campaign comes to reshape the legislative process, Berman's $30 million will be wasted.

Ah, Rick Berman. The GOP is really committed to this whole "reinventing the Party" thing, huh?

I agree I heard more about the EFCA two years ago than I do now but two years ago it was all pro-news for EFCA and now it's mostly negative-news for EFCA. What gives?

I don't like his latest customer, but forgive me for expressing the view that he just doesn't seem terribly evil to me, given the facts presented here.

Is this guy also a part of the Orwellian-named Center for Consumer Freedom? Sure sounds the same as everything else listed here.

That group was first funded by tobacco companies and now by fast-food and alcohol interests. They got the hamburger bill passed (appropriately named in Orwellian fashion the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act).

They also constantly attack the animal rights group PETA, and others, in a bit of pre-emptive jousting with the scary vegetarians who threaten profits from meat. It may seem counter intuitive, but PETA enjoys the attacks from the CCF as it inevitably allows them to get their own viewpoint out there more. Perhaps this is the way it will shake out with the unions and the CUF.

Ah, another douchebag against democracy, in this case those economic democracies called "unions". I wonder when he'll begin attacking credit unions and coops.

Berman's front is called the "Center for Union Facts." It is a clearinghouse of right-wing propaganda with little regard for the truth. This is a good website with information about it;

http://unionreview.com/center-union-facts-anti-union-lobby-its-worst

Nathan Newman has been doing a great job on this front and how Berman works--you can read it here;

http://www.nathannewman.org/laborblog/archive/003635.shtml

Berman is a prototypical Rovian Republican shill where the means justifies the ends, but the payoff is the most important thing.

I think this just sets up the usual liberal let down. We know that the odds are the Congressional Democrats will cave on EFCA because they are naturally spineless. Leadership will blame it on the blue dogs, and the grassroots, who are predisposed to believing in evil personas, will fume over "Dr. Evil." Since the GOP is on the down side, we can't have a single big evil genius a la Karl Rove, so now we'll have a series of issue-based evil geniuses who will thwart us. I guess we'll see. It's all going to be 100% on Obama anyway. His fortunes will be all our fortunes. Everything else will be a sideshow. He set himself up as the savior and he will be judged as such.

The deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) strips workers of their right to a government supervised, private ballot vote and replaces it with a forced- unionization system, where workers must publicly declare their support for a union and publicly sign a binding contract without seeing the "fine print."After 51% sign up, the remaining 49% of workers never get a choice. They become unionized giving up to 2% or more of their wages to "protect the workers." This will ultimately strip workers of their right to privacy and exposes them to intimidation, deception, and coercion. This is an undemocratic power grab by special-interest union lobbyists it's an outrage! I think this is a good guy that should continue fighting against this bill. He is a smart man who realizes what damage can be done if this bill is to be passed!
Anne Brooks