George McGovern: Stop Card Check

Hot Air ^ | August 8th | Ed Morrissey

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Voting is an immense privilege.

That is why I am concerned about a new development that could deny this freedom to many Americans. As a longtime friend of labor unions, I must raise my voice against pending legislation I see as a disturbing and undemocratic overreach not in the interest of either management or labor.

The legislation is called the Employee Free Choice Act, and I am sad to say it runs counter to ideals that were once at the core of the labor movement. Instead of providing a voice for the unheard, EFCA risks silencing those who would speak.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Now this is an interesting twist.

Some of you might say 'who cares?', but those of you who say this miss what I think is the larger point:

Isn't it amazing the things that the liberal media omits?

[GeronL]

Its a done deal, the GOP will roll over for a tummy rub

[Northern Yankee]

McGovern certainly would benefit from voter fraud. Of course he would be against voter registration.

He'd make a good Nazi.

[Northern Yankee]

Whoops... should have read further. I take back my comment.

It sounds as though he's standing up for the secret ballot?

If that's the case, good for him.

[shove_it]

Here's McGoverns WSJ article from the 8/8/2008 op page:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121815502467222555.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

A google search reveals some hits in business sources but you're right about this remarkable statement from a died in the wool union pol being omitted from the MSM.

Larry Kudlow, are you listening?

[saganite]

George is an old apparatchik. He’s not up to speed on what the new ideas are and reveals his revisionist thought in this article. Someone should warn him that his Dacha will be reclaimed if he doesn’t get with the program.

[gargoyle]

...Good on yer. At least yer honest and open minded, too often a rarety in this forum. Bravo...

[G.Mason]

Voting is an immense privilege?

Morrissey must be referring to those they wake from the dead to cast votes, and those that get to count them.

Reading anything concerning long deceased socialist dinasaurs, like McGovern, is a waste of eye movement.

[CPOSharky]

The secret ballot will go away for John Q. Public.

But to make up for it, congress will institute a secret ballot for itself.

[B-Chan]

Say what you will about George McGovern. He is a genuine war hero.

[khnyny]

Yes, he is - and nice guy too. I’m glad to see his supprt of the secret ballot. Now if we could only get a MSM source to cover his position...

[Vigilanteman]

I also recall him being a reasonably good loser in 1972. It was his hq being burglarized by Nixon's Keystone Cops, but he wasn't the one leading the charge to bring Nixon down two years later.

Maybe it was the fact that he was in his own senate reelection campaign in 1974, maybe it was the fact that others were more than happy to do the work, but unlike Jimmy Carter, who lost almost as big eight years later, McGovern has had the decency to shut up on most public issues. That's why it actually means something on those rare occasions when he speaks out.

[Northern Yankee]

Thank you!

On occasion I get things right. On occasion....

Cheers!

[chaosagent]

Also wasn’t McGovern the one who after retiring from politics tried to run a bed and breakfast in New England and later commented that as a small business man if he’d known how hard it was to comply with all the government regulations, he never would have voted for them?