board, this has been a systemic approach by the republicans over years to get to this point to totally erase out any kind of labor law. you look at the number of states that are going right to work and all the legislation that s being offered up by radical governors who were attacking wages, blaming middle class workers for the financial woes of each one of their states. they want to put it on the back of the workers. they want to take away their voice in the workplace and now what they want to do is take away the overriding board that decides labor law in this country. they want to destroy it and the way they ve done it is through obstruction, not giving president obama the nominees he wants and so now we re down to one member on the national labor relations board that is supposed to have five appointies that are political, three democratic and two republican based on who s in the white house. but, of course, they won t give that to president obama. so the last person on the labor
nlrb here they are with six republican radical governors who made it their focal point and their future to go after public employees and take away their voices in the workplace, what we saw in measure 2 in ohio. what about the number, fred, of right to work legislation for the states doing this? how can we not view this as some major game plan on their part? well, we have to view it as a major game plan because right to work was historically contained the states in the south but now when we look at the attempts that s been made in places like ohio and indiana where right to work legislation has been put forward then we see this as a spreading phenomena, which give workers the right as we say to work for less which takes away their right to collective bargaining and take away their right to have a voice in the workplace so the irony of this, ed, when we look at what s happening in the congress today and in the senate regarding the appointments by president obama, the irony of this is,
in the middle of these guys because these guys are so extreme that you ve got to now try to get more credibility back toward those who are progressive who look more sane now than in the 90s when clinton was trying to say, we need to pull sides together. how do you pull sides together when they re trying to defund planned parenthood and take people s rights to vote? this is an extreme crowd, so in many ways, the centers had to move because the right is off. there s no the vice presidential nominee from the republicans proposed mandatory ultrasounds against your will and against your doctor s orders federally. so backed up by radical governors. redefining rape. can you imagine, we re redefining rape. you have a vice presidential candidate who actually co-altogethcoh co-authored legislation redefining rape with a man who talked about legitimate rape or not. you want to triangulate with