Obama, the gift that keeps on giving. Another example of why Obama's record will be the primary campaign issue. Oh !!! We are so ready for 2012 to get here.

From theCharleston Daily Mail:   The Service Employees International Union was an early and important ally of Sen. Barack Obama when he took on Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

He repaid the favor as president by appointing Mark Pearce, a labor lawyer, and Craig Becker, a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and the SEIU, to the National Labor Relations Board.

Becker's term ends this month, and that would leave the five-member board with only two members, one Republican and one Democratic appointee - and thus one person shy of the quorum needed to operate.

By a 2-1 vote, Becker and Pearce made a fundamental change in unionization elections.   Companies no longer will be able to challenge who votes in these elections before the election takes place. Brushing aside such concerns as who qualifies to vote as "unnecessary litigation," Becker and Pearce ruled that companies can sue only after elections.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace immediately sued to stop the NLRB rule from going into effect on April 30.

"This year, Christmas came early for the AFL-CIO, with a huge gift to organized labor from the NLRB," said Randy Johnson, the chamber's senior vice president of labor, immigration and employee benefits.   "This rule has no conceivable purpose but to make it easier for unions to win elections."

Editorial notes:  this president's process for making agency appointments is as ancestral as any president in modern history.  Elena Kagan (Supreme Court) came from Harvard Law School and was Obama's Solicitor General.  Elizabeth Warren,  chosen to plot the organization of the new Consumer Protection Agency (like we need another agency) and was an associate of Obama's before he came to Washington.  In fact,  he appointed her to help oversee the TARP funds created in 2008.  Jeffery Immelt,  CEO of GE and a chief donor to Obama's campaign,  was chosen to oversee the advancement of the Administration's jobs concerns.  The  SEIU president, Andy Sterns,  visited the White House more than 30 times in the first year;  AFL-CIO president,  Richard Trumpka,  claims to talk so someone in the Administration each and every day.  Leaders in the press met with Obama each morning,  on the phone and on occasion,  in White House offices,  all under the purview of his first communication director,  Anita "The Babe"  Dunn.  

And now,  we learn of these appointments to the NLRB.  There is hope that this obvious effort to please the unions will be dealt with, legally,  in the coming months,  but,  if not,  it will become a campaign issue.  There are sooooooo many.  Obama is truly the gift that keeps on giving.