>Working to Ban Striker Replacement. In 1994, Vice President Gore worked to
>secure passage of a bill to ban companies from replacing striking workers.
>At a meeting of the Communication Workers of America in Detroit, Gore
>stated that the administration was "pulling out all the stops to secure
>passage of striker replacement legislation."
What a liar! His party controlled the Senate. He himself held the power of the gavel as President of the Senate (his sole constitutional responsibility). But he capitulated to the mere threat of a filibuster. The *first* "stop" to pull out would have been to hold the Senate in permanent 24/7 session--forcing the spectacle of a real filibuster (and giving the country the chance to see Lott, in character, playing the Bilbo role). And if they kept going after the collapse of Thurmond and a few others, mobilizing the power of the Presidency to demand, incessantly, "Why are they holding up all sorts of vital (sic) legislation just to keep the Senate from *voting*?" The whole "striker replacement" charade, like every other "pro-labor" phrase from this administration, was nothing but a fraud.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Shane Mage
"immortal mortals, mortal immortals, living their deaths, dying their lives"
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64