Do you have a union contract with the readers? Wait! You, Alex and a few others are management. You can't go on strike. Your "employees" (contributors) can.

"More pay! Less hours! More pay! Less hours! Management is cheating us!"

Sorry, but I was giving your contributors a head start on the strike. You could always hire scabs blog writers to cross the picket line. Maybe Sue would cross the picket line?

With a number of years in federal sector labor law under my belt, I am well aware that since the two of you flaming liberals cannot be classified as working anywhere but the infamous "nanny state", you really have no right to strike, be you be labor, management, or whatever else there is to be in the blogging industry. Have you considered mediation to resolve your electoral differences? I took a course at a Hampton Inn once (Holiday Inn's are so....so Republican sounding) and have the textbook around somewhere. If nothing else you can take turns throwing it at each other until after the November elections....or at least the August Democratic National Convention in Denver. Interested?

Bil, Monica's right. You're el jeffe. Ergo, no striko. Si se puedo, pero not so much for you. However, to bring back Sue? That would be an act of lunacy that would certainly push the rest of us to go on strike! :^)

Here's a suggested picket sign:

Bil-, and the rest of the -erico
Management are UNFAIR
To Contribitors!

Share profits!

"What do we want?"
"More pay!"
"When do we want it?"
"Right now!"

Just call me a blog writer union sympathizer and agitator.

HEY!!! we contributors GET PAID???

BIL!!!

You're running a sweatshop, Bil. This is why you can't go on strike. But I'm putting you on notice . . . Perhaps we need to bring in an outside mediator to settle contract negotiations. Because really, it's the readers who will suffer.

The strike over at dkos is the dumbest things I've heard of in a while. Some blogs prefer certain candidates. Big deal. There are plenty of blogs out there that prefer Hillary or McCain or Ron Paul or whoever.

For a second there, I thought Alex had written about canidate Ru-Paul, and I thought,
"I didn't see her name on the ballot.".

A strike is as american as apple pie, and truthfully, I have been sick of this whole cruddy business since even before the primaries started.

I has just goten worse too, shriller and more full of small minded bickering and name calling, more reminicent of a kindergarden class president contest than for the nation's presidential election.

Give me a picket sign too Bil, I am with you all the way!

Politics aint it grand btw did ya ignore me when I said it's a contact sport with no rules?Ya should see some of the elections weve had here in Georgia over the years.

Carry on

Cathy

Bil,

I agree with you that the Democrats need to focus on what really matters: taking back the White House and increasing the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.

I say we take aim at John McCain who is getting quite cozy with a number of anti-gay evangelicals like John Hagee.

Bil,
See how powerful certian words can be? At least you caused a rather funny string of comments to be generated.

ke? You can't go on strike. I've read your contract with us and I know for a fact (see my article in the National Enquirer for back up assertions of unproven facts republished there from two online diaries written by unnamed contributors) that you aren't permitted to strike.

You did, though, spark a thought - if we're sick of it (and some of us are), I wonder how the rest of the country feels? It's the first time in ages that so many people have been engaged in the whole process of electing a candidate. Are we at risk of losing those newly invested voters by the time their vote will actually count in something other than a poll?