Barack Obama is on a roll. In just one week, he has managed to throw one insult after another to one of his party’s most loyal contributors and voting bloc: the labor unions. Take a bow Anointed One. Nothing says ingrate more than denying shovel ready jobs (Keystone XL pipeline) and at the same time rent a stadium that was made by non-union labor for his impending nomination.Brett McMahon, president of the concrete construction firm Miller & Long DC and the spokesman for the anti-labor, pro-business group Halt the Assault, notes that the stadium where President Obama will formally accept the nomination was built by non-unionized workers.
"It is a great example of a grand monument that was built entirely union-free. Furthermore, unlike many sports facilities, there was very, very little public expenditure for the Panthers Stadium. It stands as an outstanding example of the free enterprise system at work. We are certain that the DNC will hold successful events there for their donors and delegates," McMahon said in a statement.
The unions must be experiencing spousal battery syndrome. Because they were clearly advocating for the pipeline project, as per this statement by the AFL/CIO’s Building Trades Council President, Mark Ayers:[O]ur unions have been steadfast supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that is truly "shovel-ready" and a privately funded endeavor that would put significant numbers of American skilled craft professionals back to work under a project agreement that ensures safe and efficient construction. Regrettably, both of these issues have now been usurped and transformed into political pawns, where political posturing supersedes the need to create sound public policy that benefits working Americans.
….President Obama should immediately grant a presidential permit for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, and congressional Republicans should craft and pass a 'clean' unemployment insurance extension; because partisan politics has never paid a mortgage or put food on anyone’s table.
And today Barack Hussein Obama announced from on high, that this project is denied. That has got to hurt. The unions might want to take some advice Bill Clinton gave to one of his victims: you might want to put some ice on that.
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