Republican party strategy backfiring on business? (Senate Republicans for months had blocked a vote)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36045.html


By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 4/20/10 5:18 AM EDT

While the business community looks to its Senate allies to blunt the White House’s legislative agenda, another threat looms that is much more difficult to control: a Democratic-run bureaucracy.

But the decision by Republicans to oppose President Barack Obama on virtually every front has left business groups with few, if any, ways to bargain with or pressure the White House to moderate its policies.


NLRB Chairwoman Wilma Liebman said that at best, the board could tinker around the edges of current organizing rules by expediting union elections. AP

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That evolving dynamic could begin to define the current limits of the business community’s muscle and the Republican minority’s leverage in the ongoing power struggle with the labor movement — especially if Obama shows more willingness to exercise the full powers of his office.

A case in point is the president’s decision to make recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.

Urged on by business lobbyists, Senate Republicans for months had blocked a vote on the two Democrats and one Republican who were nominated to fill vacancies on the board. Their chief complaint was with Craig Becker, a former attorney for the AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union, who Republicans believe would bring a strident, pro-union agenda to the board.

Obama ended the stalemate in March by seating Becker and Mark Pearce, the other Democratic nominee, during the congressional spring break. In a rebuff to intransigent Republicans, the president deliberately didn’t make a recess appointment of Brian Hayes, an aide to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), who had been tapped to fill the board’s open GOP seat.

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I didn't know Obama overlooked a Republican for a recess appointment in favor of the 2 Democrats :rofl:

It's amazing the Republicans have any chance at all in the fall, they are wholly incompetent at either stopping Obama at this point nor can they even help their own cause. Apparently "NO!!" isn't the most effective strategy ever devised :rofl: