I, likely the most verbose blogger in the western hemisphere, am speechless. I don't know what to say about this. Dianne Feinstein, a prior EFCA sponsor, says she's looking for something "less divisive".

The latest hurdle came Friday, when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she would seek alternative legislation that was less divisive. Feinstein, a past sponsor of the act, cited the flailing economy as a reason; other critics of the bill have said it would drive up operating costs for businesses at a perilous time.

"This is an extraordinarily difficult economy, and feelings are very strong on both sides of the issue," Feinstein said in a statement. "I would hope there is some way to find common ground that would be agreeable to both business and labor."

She just fucked labor because business burped. The next thing they'll start screaming about is that their payroll costs are too high and American workers make too much money. Ms Diane "Fuck Labor" Feinstein will then obligingly submit a bill to lower the minimum wage to $2/hr because the "economy is failing" and Business told her the current minimum wage structure is "driving up their operating costs" and eliminating jobs.

Not that that's true, of course. But then neither is the absurd notion that unionizing will somehow scare all owners and corporate managers into selling off their cash engines or that a card-check union certification system will somehow end democracy as we know it even though decertifying a union by card-check has been legal for decades. No secret ballot necessary then, is there? No right-wing corporate fronts taking out ads about how the lack of a secret ballot during decertification is unConstitutional and the end of civilization as we know it? I didn't think so.

Specter is a Republican and extreme as he is, not extreme enough to keep the far-Right wackos happy who run the GOP these days. One expects him to run for cover almost as soon as he sticks his head out from behind the barricades. For Feinstein there is no possible excuse. She's scum. Bought-and-paid-for scum.

What else is there to say?