So, despite the $200 million being spent by Big Business on fighting the Employee Free Choice Act, the public still overwhelmingly supports it.

We released a survey today that shows 78 percent of the public wants to see legislation that protects workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life—the basic goal of the Employee Free Choice Act.

The survey, conducted Dec. 4–10 for the AFL-CIO by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, found:

“Democracy” at work, everyone. Just as the founders intended.

Harry Reid takes credit for expanding the size of the Democratic Senate caucus from 45 to (likely) 59 in four years.

In the face an historic recession, seemingly intractable national energy and health care problems, two wars and a widening conflict in the Middle East, it’s good to see that the Republicans are keeping their eye on the really important stuff.

Democratic leadership in the House on a Thursday conference call — including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, vowed to push forward with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (H.R. 11) and the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R 12).

Choosing not to back her California colleague’s Panetta pique, Senator Barbara Boxer told the SF Chronicle that President-Elect Obama “took the right approach” in choosing an outsider to run the CIA.

President-elect Obama is proposing cuts in Social Security even though it holds enough government bonds to finance the program through 2049. This amounts to a default on the U.S. bonds held by the trust fund.

The New York Times reports that John Brennan, the controversial ex-CIA official who abruptly withdrew as Barack Obama’s CIA director in November, will become White House director of counterterrorism.

This morning, Barack Obama is scheduled to give a speech on the economy which is a designed to push forward work on the stimulus package percolating through Congress. Call it a first pass at pushback against Mitch McConnell’s Do Nothing, “Screw You I Got Mine” Posse.

• Rockets fired into Israel…from Lebanon.
• …while Israel steps up the fighting in Gaza.
• Jimmy Carter: “An unnecessary War.“
• The Red Cross’s “grisly” report.
• They’re not all Likudniks over there.
• Obama to address economy today at 11E…excerpts.
• Reid to send Republicans strongly-worded letter?
• RNC race coming to a head.
• Awww….no Tweety in the Senate.
• Here’s a great stimulus idea: invade the Caymans!