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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Scott Brown is poised to take over the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s long-held seat a week earlier than he had planned, ending the Democrats’ Senate supermajority and giving the GOP 41 votes they can use to block President Barack Obama’s agenda.

A swearing-in ceremony was set for 5 p.m. Thursday for the little-known Massachusetts state senator who shocked the nation with his upset victory last month over a favored Democrat and put the 2010 midterm elections in play for a possible GOP takeover of Congress. Originally, Brown had said he did not want to be sworn in until Feb. 11.

But in response to criticism from conservative radio hosts and newspaper columnists, he pressed Massachusetts officials on Wednesday to certify his election for the hurry-up swearing-in to fill the last two years of Kennedy’s term. One had dubbed his wait a “three-week victory lap” since the Jan. 19 special election in which Brown defeated Democratic state Attorney General Martha Coakley.

The Senate has another controversial Obama nomination to reconsider. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominee Craig Becker is the linchpin of BHO's Card Check initiative, that important bit of payback to the Labor Unions for supporting Obama during his campaign was renominated, and his scheduled vote was being hurried by Democrats in hopes of beating the Scott Brown deadline.

Becker is as far-left as, well, any of Obama's nominees: he's been a top counsel for the AFL-CIO the SEIU, and he's  a(nother) radical professor pushing Labor's agenda. Just another enabler who will push for more and more easy access to Unions, and hamper American industry, to the detriment of our economy.

John McCain temporarily scuttled Becker's nomination December 28; but he's been re-nominated by Obama.

More on Becker...

Of Obama’s three NLRB nominees, Becker has garnered the most controversy. Senators Orin Hatch (R-Utah) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have both strongly expressed their opposition to Becker’s nomination, as have many in the business community. Sen. McCain had stated that he planned to put a hold on Becker’s nomination. Among other criticisms of Becker, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups have highlighted an article published in 1993 in the Minnesota Law Review in which Becker claimed that “employers should be stripped of any legally cognizable interest in their employees’ election of representatives.” Others have voiced concern that Becker, who is a proponent of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), would be willing to use Board decisions to effectively institute parts of the proposed act.

This isn't about helping employees get better working conditions or wages. This is about mandatory Union votes with employers unable to speak out against the Union's positions. "Card Check" (the Employee Free Choice Act), strongly opposed by the Chamber of Commerce, would damage our already weakened economy.

We don't need "Card Check"; we don't need Craig Becker or any other far-left Obama nominee or Union minion anywhere near our economy. There's lots of straws on the camel's back right now, and it won't take many more before we see a complete collapse.

Get lost, Becker. Back to your cave of Academia. Go write a book or something.

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