NLRB: White House Muzzled Us In Budget Debate

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- When House Republicans targeted the budget of the National Labor Relations Board last month, the agency shot back, warning that such cuts would force it to largely cease operations for an extended period of time, creating a backlog of thousands of cases.

It was one of the few counterattacks from the Obama administration, which was otherwise busy proposing its own cuts and endorsing the Republican call for slashing spending -- and it didn't last long. The White House demanded that the NLRB scrub the statement defending the agency from its website, an NLRB spokesperson told The Huffington Post.

The link to the statement, issued Feb. 18, can still be found on the website, under the heading: "Top NLRB officials respond to House budget proposal." But click through and a new statement, dated Feb. 22, appears: "The content in this statement has been removed. For further information on this subject, please see the President's Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) regarding the budget, which can be found on the OMB website."

The Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the White House, reached out to the NLRB and told the agency to back off and take down the statement, according to the NLRB spokesperson.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/09/nlrb-white-house-muzzled-_n_833354.html

[DJ13]

1. No fighting back allowed!

[atreides1]

2. It's getting crowded

under that bus!

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[louslobbs]

4. It's too bad there is no way to muzzle the lot of them, If only to have some

peace and quiet in this country for a while. Imagine the silence, of the liars, the fact challenged, the hateful, the racists, the psychotics, the sociopaths and the entire right wing lunatic fringe. I would give anything for a week of that. Oh hell, even just 24hrs of that. No noise from the right, imagine.
Lou

[ProSense]

5. Reads like nonsensical spin

What's the point? Seems like the OMB made a request based on policy and the NLRB complied. Today, the House bill is dead---every Democrat voted against it.

[blackspade]

6. WTF?!

Pretty bad when the president stabs his own agency in the back and then adopting the rethug memo about the deficit.