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Add expansive trade policies (4.00 / 5)

to no EFCA and you get this, as explained by Thomas Frank:

http://online.wsj.com/article/...

Card Check Is Dead

Some Democrats only care about labor's money.

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Why does labor always get it in the neck?

First, there are those Democrats who don't care much for labor to begin with. Then there is the wide spectrum of Democratic donors and supporters who simply don't understand the problems of blue-collar life. They might dislike the religious right, but they didn't give money to Democratic political campaigns to increase union membership.

Or maybe it's just the money. Consider the lineup of lobbyists that retail giant Wal-Mart has assembled to make its case against EFCA. According to lobbying disclosure forms filed with the House and Senate we find that Wal-Mart's lobbyists include Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti (which employs former presidential candidate John Kerry's liaison to Congress during the 2004 campaign), a former legislative director for Rahm Emanuel, and a former assistant to Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln.

Summers, Geithner, trade, Obama standing in the way of justice on torture, staying in Iraq until the end of 2011.

It all adds up.

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by: Tom Wells @ Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 16:45:31 PM CDT

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