Working Life

Really, people are being grossly unfair to Max Baucus, wondering why someone who doesn’t speak Chinese would qualify to serve as ambassador. But, c’mon people, focus on the important lingo Baucus brings to the table: it would be hard to find another Democratic elected official who speaks such fluent corporate shillism…The man has got a perfect pitch. But, there is a silver lining.

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Max Baucus has always been a corporate shill. So, I, for one, am not shedding a single tear that he is retiring at the end of his term (sort of the way I felt when the country was able to rid itself of a scar named Joe Lieberman). But, on his way out the door, he’s ensuring that he’s going to leave a black mark of more phony corporate shilling.

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   This morning, in Pittsburgh (where yours truly is), everyone is awaiting the speech by John Wilhelm, president of Unite-Here who will announce that the union is re-affiliation with the AFL-CIO. This is probably the first step in the end of Change To Win–I’d guess the Laborers and the UFCW will be soon to follow […]

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   There is no other way to say it–Sen. Baucus’ bill is a travesty and an outrage. You want evidence? Here it is in this morning’s Wall Street Journal: Business groups that have opposed House versions of a health bill say they are warmer toward the version emerging from Sen. Max Baucus’s Finance Committee, which […]

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A tried-and-true political tactic in this country to scuttle progressive progress is to explicitly or implicitly tar one’s opponent as "un-American". One can either do it in the darkest of ways–cue Sen. Joe McCarthy. Or, one can do it in a more subtle way by accusing one’s opponents of perhaps one of the worst transgressions–listening […]

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There is a cruel economic hoax being played on millions of American workers, a hoax that unfortunately is being promoted by too many Democrats. The hoax is this: that workers who lose their jobs to so-called "free trade" can simply be retrained to do something else that will be a good substitute for what they […]

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