organization, quote, will be very pleased by what obama is planning. you know, is this a consequence of an election, justin? president obama won, he gets to make the recess appointment. yeah, well, obviously the labor secretary telegraphed that but it s not about the appointment, it s about the fact that he both vice president biden are both former senators, yet in this appointment he s going to disrespect the senate, not respect the role the senate has in confirming these apoims. that s what i find so baffling and iranic. megyn: the afl-c sorry, the nlrb, national labor relations board that he s going to get to appointment to reportedly, it has five members, right now there s two and crnt you know, are those opinions worth anything. they need another appointment on there. president obama saying i got to get somebody on there, i m going to put my guy on. absolutely. why doesn t he do what 41 senators sent him in a letter, there s a democratic nominee and there s also a
you. opposition from both sides of the aisle now to the president s pick for a key labor position. meet craig becker, he s a strong union advocate, and he is president obama s nominee for the national labor relations board. this is called the nlrb, and it oversees critical union matters. critics of this guy call him radical and his nomination failed last month in the senate but now we are hearing president obama could still install him as a recess appointment next week while congress is on spring break and whoa, has that gotten some people upset. joining us now, mary marsh, a democratic strategist and former adviser to senator john kerry and justin safey, a republican strategist who is spokesman for former florida governor jeb bush. this guy, craig becker, all 41 republicans wrote a letter to president obama, pleading with him not to appoint this guy to the 5-member nlrb and even some democrats now are objecting to him, mary ann.
megyn: justin, labor unions spent $450 million to help elect democrats to the white house and congress in 2008. is this payback? absolutely it s payback. if president obama were to recess an appointment after all the bruising battles, partisan battlings we ve seen in congress in the last few weeks over health care reform, to do a recess appointment would fly in the face of his desire to do bipartisanship, it doesn t make sense other than from a political payback perspective to the labor unions and special interests that pumped hundreds of millions of dollars to help the democrats control congress and to get barack obama in the white house. megyn: justin, tell us why becker is so controversial. he s controversial because the national labor relations board is supposed to decide disputes between employers and employees, and he has been a staller scholar who s written extensively on labor issues and one of the things he believes, he s stated before in his writings, is that employers