Political Quotes

“Mr. President, recently the National Labor Relations Board general counsel issued a complaint against the Boeing Company alleging that the company had violated the National Labor Relations Act. This routine administrative procedure has set off what I call a melodramatic outcry from Boeing, the business community, the editorial writers of the Wall Street Journal, the National Chamber of Commerce, and, of course, our friends on the Republican side of the aisle. A headline in the Wall Street Journal editorial page calls it: ``The death of right to work.'' South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley declared that it was ``government dictated economic larceny.'' At a press conference held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday morning, Senator DeMint from South Carolina referred to it as ``thuggery.'' The senior Senator from Utah warned that foot soldiers of a vast and permanent bureaucracy were trying to implement a ``leftist agenda.'' One would think this one decision by an administrative arm of an independent agency was surely going to bring about the death of capitalism in the world today. This has taken on incredible proportions in terms of the outcry and the mischaracterization of what has happened. Instead of talking about how we get Americans working again, get the middle class on its feet, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are taking their time on the Senate floor and in press conferences downtown attacking the handling of a routine affair--an unfair labor practice charge.…”