thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check

It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. — The Princess Bride

Senator Al Franken has been sworn in, giving Democrats 60 seats in the upper chamber. Senator Franken’s first legislative act was to sign on as a co-sponsor to the seriously unfunny Employee Free Choice, for which the punchline will be lost jobs and fewer rights in the workplace.

Even so, Matthew Cooper at the Atlantic’s blog argues EFCA is still stuck:

But the problem that’s plagued the bill for months still remains: 60 Democrats don’t support it and the Republicans are determined to filibuster the measure, which has united the business community like nothing else in recent memory.

… now, anything that passes is likely to involve compromise that will weaken the impact of the bill further. One labor source tells me that “something” is likely to pass this year but it won’t be the original measure that business seems to be able to kill despite the Democrats having 60 votes.

Cooper notes that he has argued in favor of the bill because it seems to him a “modest” bill. Perhaps, but it may be like seemingly innocuous iocane powder — odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, but among the deadlier policy poisons known to man.

But, as noted above, EFCA is not completely dead. In fact, Senator John Thune yesterday correctly described card check as “undead”:

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) says the

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