New Obama NLRB gambit headed nowhere

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Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are set to vote this morning on a full slate of five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. It will likely okay all five, who will then go into the legislative limbo that is the full Senate.

There are plenty of people on both sides to blame for the NLRB’s current dysfunctional politicization. President Obama can start by looking in the mirror. He has often gone to extraordinary lengths to appoint pro-union activists. Republicans aren’t about to do him any favors now.

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