Just call him Work-for-Less Terry!

BushAmerica seems to have a national religion: so-called "right-to-work" laws.

These laws are designed to suppress wages and weaken labor unions. Kentucky has no such law, but most states in the South and mountain West (which have loomed large in national politics for 25 years) have them. I call them work-for-less laws.

Lately the Democrats have become almost as bad as the Republicans in supporting these illegal laws. Virginia's new Sen. Mark Warner (a supposed Democrat) supports work-for-less, as I reported in September. Former Democratic National Committee chair Terry McAuliffe supports it too.

McAuliffe recently announced his support for Virginia's right-to-scab law, as he mulls running for governor of that state.

Smooth move, Terry. As if it isn't hard enough already for a Democrat to win (even today), it would be even harder if McAuliffe was the nominee: The Democrats will bleed supporters to third parties precisely because of his support for work-for-less laws.

Losing support is true to form for Terry McAuliffe. His ineptness when he ran the party in the early 2000s contributed to the party's repeated defeats in elections that they should have won in landslides. Further burnishing McAuliffe's DLC credentials is his chairing of Hillary Clinton's ill-fated presidential campaign.

Who'd have ever thought there'd be so much worship of right-to-scab laws in the DEMOCRATIC Party, of all things? You expect this shit from the Republicans, but I used to think the Democrats were better.

On election night when Mark Warner won his Senate seat, the news people were fawning over how much Warner was adored by both Democrats and Republicans. Then someone said to me, "But not by a certain Green in Kentucky." There's a reason for that: The Warner/McAuliffe wing ruined the Democrats. McAuliffe led the whole damn party just a few years ago, and Warner is held up as the party's future - yet they support union busting!

Work-for-less laws were first authorized 60 years ago under the Taft-Hartley Act, which lets states pass such laws to keep wages artificially low. It's time to repeal Taft-Hartley and rip the rug right out from under the "right-to-work" cult.

(Source: http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--apday-governorsr1202dec02,0,5434004.story)