[q_an_a]

This strike story has another aspect - the Tin Ear of Rove and President Bush. What is wrong with them??? The Taft Hartley Act would be the perfect Christmas present to NYC and to Sam's Club republicans - but they are leaving the work to the locals. It is just like Katrina, they wait for events when they could get out ahead of them.

I hope all the small business people of NYC send their lump of coal to the White House. What is the point of being President if you don't take action? He gets it over security but not business? Go figure.

[Alberta's Child]

Wow -- now you are REALLY reaching here. The Federal government has nothing to do with this labor dispute, since all of the laws governing these public sector unions are New York State laws.

And even if the President did have the authority to get involved, I don't see why he ought to care about the inconvenience of 7 million transit riders who come from three states (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) that have combined to give ZERO electoral votes to Republican presidential candidates since 1988. The fact that these 7 million people are represented almost entirely by Democrats in the House, and by a total of 6 Democrats and 0 Republicans in the Senate, tells me that nobody in Washington ought to give a sh!t about the situation at all.

In other words, F#%& 'EM ALL.