How Liberals Think

I am constantly amazed at how quirky some peoples' reasoning skills, or lack thereof, can be. I'll give you an example.

First, some background. There is a bill that unions want Congress to pass, and it's known as the "card-check" bill. Under current law, employees at a company sign a petition (basically) that calls for a vote to see if they want to vote on whether or not to unionize the workplace. If enough people say yes, then a vote is taken by secret ballot to see if the majority of the workers want to unionize.

So get that, there are two votes. The first one is public (union organizers know who did and didn't vote "yea") and the second one is private (nobody knows who voted for what. It is not uncommon for people to vote "yea" initially, so as not to cause waves with their friends and coworkers, but end up voting "nay" on the secret ballot.

The card-check bill would remove the secret ballot from the equation, thus making it easier for unions to form. It's a controversial bill that even a Congress stacked with Democrats wasn't able to pass.

Now we're getting to the murky thought processes of liberals. The President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has stated that two Senators who voted against the card-check bill (Senator Leiberman and Senator Nelson) are terrorists.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/60570

Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, took a swipe at Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) Tuesday, calling the senators “terrorists” for their opposition to the card-check bill, which Democrats call the Employee Free Choice Act.

Under the proposed legislation, if union organizers can get a majority of workers to sign union authorization cards, the union is immediately recognized in the workplace, with no further discussion or debate -- and no secret ballot election.

Opponents claim the legislation would bypass free and fair union elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board and could be used to intimidate and coerce workers into signing cards that would authorize the formation of a union.

When CNSNews.com contacted SEIU for clarification of Stern's comments, a union spokeswoman responded: “They weren’t the best words for Mr. Stern to use, and he does regret it.”

That's right, United States Senators who oppose a union-backed bill are terrorists.

If you can make any sense out of THAT particular chain of so-called logic, please let me know. Because from here it just looks... well, kinda loopy.