GOPers Remove 'Labor' From House Committee Name

[cal04]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/gopers-remove-labor-from-committee-name.php

Republicans have decided to excise the word "labor" from the name of the House committee handling education and, yes, labor issues.

It's time to say so long to the Education and Labor Committee and hello to the Education and the Workforce Committee, the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reports.

This isn't the first time the name has changed, but the Labor Committee has been named that since Democrats took over the House in 2006. Reports the WSJ:

(snip)
Republicans are planning the name change, and it isn't the first. For years, the committee was called Education and Labor. But when Newt Gingrich and the Republicans took over the House in 1994, they wanted to show that there was a new sheriff in town--and he was not a pro-labor sheriff.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. OK. That's a huge no-no on the Thugs.. Dems will run with it

by removing "Labor" - they want to make us all slaves to the overlords..

Hawkeye-X

[Turbineguy]

2. It was either that

or add "Against".

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Surprised they didn't change "Education" to "Book Learnin'."

[KansDem]

5. Spot on!!!

The "Education and Labor Committee" is renamed the "Book Learnin' and Hired Help Committee."

[SoCalDem]

6. or "Book Larnin' & Other Tomfoolery" Committee..n/t

[SpiralHawk]

7. The No Prole Left with Dignitude committee

"You smelly proles can just STFU and get back to laboring again, while we cut some more taxes on the rich, and slash away at the minimum wage.

- Your RepubliCrony Overlords (R)

[cyclezealot]

8. !

:rofl:

[old mark]

4. They never bother to disguise their intentions, but I am afraid workers

may be in for some even worse times...after all, these are the pols who think people are unemployed because they don't want to work...

Recalls the old days when the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) were referred to as "I Won't Work"....again by the republicans, an era of union busting, company goon squads and starvation wages to workers while the rich got much richer...


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