Obama's audacious Boeing tour occurs while NLRB is still attacking job-creators

President Obama, whose radicalized National Labor Relations Board declared war on the Boeing Corporation last year, will audaciously tour one of the aeronautics giant's plants in Washington state later today.

The Boeing scuffle is over, but the NLRB's attack on job-creators continues, with "quickie" elections being its latest attack, as AP reports.

Republicans in Congress launched bids Thursday to nullify Obama administration rules that would speed up union elections and set the first national air pollution standards for toxic mercury pollution from the nation's power plants.

The rarely used tactic, known as a resolution of disapproval, requires a simple majority for passage. Both have only a small chance of clearing the Senate, but a vote would force some Democrats to take a public stand on two volatile issues in an election year.

The power plant resolution was introduced Thursday by Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma. It could force some Democrats to choose between slashing pollution or eliminating jobs, especially those from states with older coal-fired power plants at risk of shutting down because of the Environmental Protection Agency rule. Some states also already control mercury pollution from power plants, giving some lawmakers a reason for voting against a national standard.

"Over the past year, more than a dozen Senate Democrats have claimed that they want to stop EPA's destructive agenda, yet when the time comes, they hide behind alternative bills they know will never pass," Inhofe said in a statement. "It's time for the Senate to do its job and stop this regulatory nightmare."

This one is a two-fer, as the White House has been relentlessly attacking the energy industry as well.

Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) has been leading the charge against this overreach. He spoke about it on the floor of the Senate yesterday.

Also yesterday, 44 senators challenged the "quickie" election rules, as did 65 members of the House.

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