Joanie Vennochi takes time out of her busy-queen bee schedule to fling some snarkage at the Obama admin's policy of not crossing union picket lines.
This particular howler has a definite Westbrook Peglerian tinge to it:
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said administration officials won’t cross picket lines, ever.That empowers any local union, anywhere, to stop any official Obama envoy from attending any event. The president of the United States reaches out to the world, unless a picket line stands between him and his teleprompter.
Wow Joanie I guess the US Government is somehow in danger of being taken over by union picket lines despite the fact that unionization in the USA is dropping faster than GM's asking price.
What next fulminations against "labor racketeers" and "union fat-cats"?
Permit Humble Elias to speculate that Joanie's bitter outrage today has less to do with Vice President Biden's reluctance to cross a Providence picket line and more to do with the fact that union intransigence could well spell doom for her phony-baloney job on the Globe's Op-Ed page.
And if the Globe closes and Joanie is out on the street what is she gonna do to keep body and soul together?
Meter maid?
Substitute teacher...parking lot attendent at the Lahey Clinic?
The mind boggles....
Still I do think today's column is at last a good indicator of where Joanie really stands on the issues, she is apparently for an shop.
Which is a good thing, this might be the first "positive" proposal Joanie has inadvertently advocated since she started writing that cockamammie column seemingly back in the days of Herbert Hoover and the full dinner pail.
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