Two Democrats joined newly seated Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown Tuesday to uphold the Republican-led filibuster against President Obama’s nomination of Craig Becker to head the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The Democrats that joined the filibuster were Blanche Lincoln (D, Ark.) and Ben Nelson (D, Neb.). Both are thought to face losing their seats in the upcoming 2010 elections over the many left-wing votes they’ve recently cast.

The GOP is against the elevation of Becker to the NLRB Chair because his past statements show that he’ll take the position with a Big Labor agenda firmly in mind.

“Mr. Becker’s previous statements strongly indicate that he would take an aggressive personal agenda to the NLRB, and that he would pursue a personal agenda there, rather than that of the administration,” Senator Nelson said.

The final vote was 52-33, falling short of the 60 that Becker needed to sail out of committee and toward an open vote.

This is excellent news and shows how important Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts was to the conservative cause. Both Big Labor and Craig Becker have made it clear that should Becker take over the NLRB he will start a program of warping labor regulations in favor of Big Labor with a special eye toward surreptitiously putting the Democrats controversial Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) into effect even without any actions by the legislative branch.

This agenda proves that neither democrats nor Big Labor have any interest in the legislative process but intend to get their agenda in place by hook or by crook regardless of what the voters want.

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