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A hard-left site is reporting:

Earlier this month, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis intimated that Craig Becker, a nominee for the currently non-functioning National Labor Relations Board, would get a recess appointment to the body. Now Tom Harkin is saying the same thing, telling CQ

Over at NPR sits an interesting argument: The president can have a “hinge” moment “to do something he hasn’t done particularly well during his first year in office: successfully defy his opponents and, at the same time, reassure his most loyal supporters.”

The way he can achieve such a political victory? Force through the installation of the Card Check King, otherwise known as National Labor Relations Board nominee — and SEIU and AFL-CIO lawyer — Craig Becker.

Unfortunately for employers, employees, and everyone else, Becker is off the wall. Those aren’t our words, they’re the words of a top Senator, Orrin Hatch.

So, we ask: Would winning a Becker battle be a “hinge” moment or a “fringe” moment? We think the facts speak for themselves, but ask yourself one final question: If Becker weren’t so far outside the mainstream and so dedicated to decreasing employer and employee speech at the expense of union power, would the powerful SEIU rest so many of its hopes on him?

Our friends at Shopfloor.org put as a question to Sen. Orrin Hatch whether the President should continue pushing for Craig Becker to sit on the National Labor Relations Board.

The answer? Nope. No. Nein. The Senator said:

The man is off the wall. He

Carter Wood has a fantastic post over at Shopfloor on politicizing the National Labor Relations Board and points to a rash of rash press statements made by the Board’s Chair, Wilma Liebman. That an NLRB chair is even making such statements is cause for concert, let along her championing the nomination of another individual (let alone, again, that of far-out Craig Becker).

Wood offers:

These are all familiar discussions in the political sphere and in policy disputes. But the NLRB is a quasi-judicial agency,

Brian Johnson, writing over at The Daily Caller:

Although over 75 percent of Americans disapprove of card-check, the NLRB can implement identical policy, making the vote for Becker so significant. Labor viewed his defeat as a defeat for de-facto card-check, as Becker could change labor law via an appointment to the board. Specifically, Becker would help the unions get more of the type of card-check certifications they already can achieve under law, by ignoring or dismissing the complaints filed by employers and individual workers. This gives the unions a much freer hand to exercise their extortionate and deceptive means of getting signatures and pressuring employers to accept the signatures in lieu of votes.

Who, outside of labor lawyers and policy wonks, can remember the last time Americans knew the name of a nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, usually an obscure body?

Now we get “Unions Push White House to Appoint Becker” as a headline in the Wall Street Journal.

The proximate issue — the nomination of an individual whose writings have shown contempt for employers to a seat in which we expect impartiality between unions and employers — is of course very critical. The functioning of the Board, as well as its integrity, are on the line.

But more than that, it speaks volumes that the president has nominated someone so far outside the mainstream that it has raised sufficient furor to raise the Board’s profile in the public mind. That doesn’t speak well of … well, many things.

It also suggests the Board’s rulings, should Mr. Becker be appointed, will be scrutinized more than ever and have doubt immediately cast about their fairness. It also suggests that future nominees will have doubt cast about their qualifications to govern effectively and fairly.