Barely breaking the five-minute mark, Rachael Maddow manages to succinctly summarize the Employee Free Choice Act battle currently raging on Capitol Hill, with special wryness dedicated to Republicans who have disconnected themselves from reality.
To my mind, the battle over EFCA exposes better than any other other piece of legislation I can think of (aside from last fall's $700 billion bailout package) the obvious: Corporations control most strings on Capitol Hill, especially the GOP's strings. The hysterical rhetoric Republicans have released on this issue would be funny, if it wasn't actually affecting the fate of EFCA.
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Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.
