Republicans Reject Unions … But Respect Union Refs?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13941/republicans_reject_union_workers_but_respect_union_refs

Web Only// Features » October 3, 2012

Unbelievably, Republicans gave NFL union referees a little respect. Too bad it doesn’t extend to other unions.

BY Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Republicans’ reaction to last week’s Monday Night Football debacle was record-breaking given their decades of hating on union workers.

After replacement refs bestowed on the Seattle Seahawks a win clearly deserved by the Green Bay Packers, GOP standard bearers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and even Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the figurehead for GOP union-busting, called for the National Football League to restore its locked-out union refs.

Wait, what?

Unbelievably, it’s actually the sound of Republicans giving union refs a little respect. A union worker is to Republicans what comedian Rodney Dangerfield was to his stage wife – that is, a guy who can’t get no respect. Republicans have tried to tackle union rights since they were formally granted in 1935. The GOP admires business owners, not the working men and women whose labor is essential for companies to exist. The GOP believes owners and CEOs are indispensable but working stiffs are easily replaced. That’s what the NFL did – locked out the working stiffs and replaced them. That didn’t work out so well. And the GOP big wigs, in calling for the union refs’ reinstatement, admitted it. Amazing.

FULL story at link.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Because football is more important than good paying jobs

to the republicans
One has to have priorities

[Bozita]

2. Inconsistency and hypocrisy are considered virtues inside the GOPer tent

But that does not apply to others.

IOKIYAR!