On NLRB, Obama distances himself from himelf

For those that have not hears yet, Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has told Boeing that it cannot build a manufacturing plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. It has to build the plant in Washington State, a forced unionization state. The NLRB has no such authority, but when has that ever stopped Obama? My last post on the issue: Heh: Senate GOP Embarrasses Dems Over Boeing. And now for the current news via memeorandum: Obama Breaks Silence About Boeing v. NLRB Labor Dispute

President Obama broke his silence today about the dispute between Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board over a proposed plant in South Carolina.

The move by the NLRB to block Boeing's plan to move a plant to the Southern state has incited a wave of indignation from Republicans and the business community.

The President today put distance between his administration and the labor board stressing that it is “an independent agency.”

It's been a long time since I watched COPS, but one thing I do remember is that when lawbreakers were caught, the "what? what? What'd I do?" schtick was standard operating procedure. Not much different here.

“We can't afford to have labor and management fighting all the time, at a time when we're competing against Germany and China and other countries that want to sell goods all around the world,” Obama said at a Wednesday’s White House press conference.

So his solution is to punish the employer and reward his union masters. As Orin Hatch said: Democrats “play politics very, very tough, they play it well, and they don't give a damn about what's right and what's wrong”. Don't give a damn indeed.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit: Ex-NLRB chairman denounces partisan Obama board.