Ironic that the right wingnuts attempted a few weeks ago to make a big stink about a couple of Move-On political ad nominees that morphed Bush into Hitler, when they are now equating unions that legitimately oppose administration policies with terrorists that fly planes into buildings and kill thousands.

Nathan puts it perfectly: This was not a slip of the tongue but a reflection of a mindset in a White House that sees all opposition as treason, all criticism as terrorism.

We see this throughout the administration. Political appointees at the Deparment of Labor and OSHA have proven themselves to be particularly thin-skinned about labor's active opposition such actions as repeal of OSHA's ergonomics standard, and withdrawal of other standards that had been moving toward issuance. They act as if we've attacked the honor of their mothers.

In "response," to labor's audacity, union members have been removed from advisory committees and grant awards to labor unions have been curtailed.

It is a message transmitted from the White House on down and behavior that wouldn't be tolerated if the tables were reversed. Can you imagine the stink if a Democratic cabinet secretary had labeled the Chamber of Commerce as a terrorist organization?

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check out pearlstein's piece in the wapo about the latest outrage toward labor courtesy of the cheap labor conservatives in the white house. (he also had a fairly decent chat, except for the blowhard's comments from scarsdale on the same column today as well)

bush is a facist.

how else do you describe an ideology that is pro-big government, jingoist, pro-corporate and socially conservative?