[JNB]

The damage that Sweeny has done to t he AFL-CIO is massive. The union under him has become so partisan that Democrats in 2000 had little fear when they voted to admit China into the WTO deal, and the AFL-CIO has ben so anti Republican at levels not even seen in the 40s that many anti globalist and anti constiutionalist Republicans who would be allies with them are disgusted. The AFL-CIO has become a public employee union, and under Sweenys horrible leadership, the private sector workforce has further languished.

[Cicero]

Exactly. The old union leaders were firmly anticommunist and had real working class backgrounds. Their chief concern was more benefits for the workers.

These guys are a bunch of effete new leftists, far to the left of their memberships, whose chief concern is to push abortion and sexual perversion. I don't think that goes over very well with the rank and file. That's why I think Karl Rove is truly stupid not to put more emphasis on the right to life and opposition to gay radicalism.