HERE'S YOUR HAT, WHAT'S YOUR HURRY:

Unions to Obama: Don't abandon us (Steve Early, December 6, 2008, Boston Globe)

IT'S BEEN only a month since hundreds of thousands of union members and their families helped Barack Obama win key battleground states in the election. Yet, some labor supporters of the president-elect fear he may be backing away from a key campaign commitment to workers threatened by recession.

While running for office, Obama said he strongly backed the Employee Free Choice Act, a long-overdue labor law reform measure that should be part of his promised economic stimulus plan. However, when Obama recently introduced his top economic advisers and talked about steps to "jolt" the economy in January, the Act was not part of the package. More disturbing, his new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has declined to say whether the White House will support the Employee Free Choice Act.

They aren't even in the Oval yet and they've perfected the bum's rush.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 6, 2008 8:42 AM