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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Sen. Brown compares anti-union governors to Hitler, Stalin
By Jack Torry Washington Bureau
As he waded into the searing controversy of governors in Ohio and Wisconsin trying to curtail the power of public employee unions to bargain, Sen. Sherrod Brown argued that tyrants such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin eliminated unions.
In a speech Thursday on the Senate floor, Brown, D-Ohio, said that as he looked at “some of the worst governments that we’ve ever had, do you know one of the first things they did? They went after unions. Hitler didn’t want unions, Stalin didn’t want unions, (former Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak didn’t want independent unions.’’
See the video here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SenateSession4685/start/11742/stop/11929
Brown then added, “I’m not comparing what’s happened to the workers in Madison or in Columbus to Hitler and Stalin. But I am saying that history teaches us that unions are a very positive force in society that creates a middle class and that protects our freedom.’’
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TweetNational poll: Voters like President Obama, but not his politics
Nearly three out of four American voters- 74 percent- say they like Democratic President Barack Obama, but a narrow majority disapproves of the president’s policies, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
Voters were given four choices and responded this way:
41 percent like him personally and like his policies.
33 percent like him personally but don’t like his policies.
1 percent likes his policies, but not him personally.
19 percent don’t like the president or his policies.
They were split on his performance as president - with 46 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving.
They were nearly split on whether he deserves a second term - with 45 percent saying yes and 47 percent saying no.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats in Congress fare well. Voters disapprove 57-33 percent of the job Democrats in Congress are doing an disapprove 54-34 percent of the job Republicans are doing.
“President Obama is a charmer,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a press release.
“The American people like him a great deal, but they aren’t nearly as sold on his policies… The question over the next two years will be whether personality or policies will prevail.”
The poll was taken Feb. 21 through Monday, Feb. 28 by live interviewers over land lines and cell phones with 1,887 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
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