On NLRB vs. Boeing, the buck stops with Obama

President Barack Obama once again left me speechless on Wednesday as he dodged questions about the National Labor Relations Board’s legal attack on Boeing. Boeing wants to expand its operations in South Carolina, a right-to-work state where unions aren’t shoved down workers’ throats.

The NLRB decided Boeing was retaliating against workers in Washington State where unions are shoved down workers’ throats.

Never mind Boeing has the right to increase production where it wants to. Never mind Boeing also expanded in Washington, adding thousands of new jobs.

Legacy media, most of whom give the president a complete pass, appeared to accept Obama’s glib response [he doesn’t have all the facts] during a presser to questions about the suit against Boeing.

Had the same legacy media done their jobs, there might have been one reporter bright enough to remind Obama and the people that the board members and the general counsel at the NLRB are appointed by the president. Bright people know appointees are selected by the president to carry out his policies and agenda. Obama didn’t pull NLRB general counsel Lafe Solomon’s name out of a hat.

If Obama was a Republican, media would be harping on his latest gaffe.

The Labor Union Report blog at Red State (and separate website by the same name) said the NLRB attack on Boeing, for Obama, “is likely to remain a 787-sized albatross around his neck.”

I pointed something out in an earlier column, covering this incident before legacy media finally woke up.

Voters in the Lowcountry area where the Boeing plant is located in South Carolina supported Obama in 2008. The president, during his campaign, stood on historic King Street and promised those people jobs.

Somebody should remind the voters and Obama that when it comes to his NLRB attacking a jobs creator in a state where jobs are sorely needed, the buck stops with him. Even if he is a Democrat.
(Commentary by Kay B. Day/June 30, 2011)

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