The Boston Herald looks at Card Check today in "Earth to unions":

Only 8 percent of private-sector workers are union members today, but nearly half of public sector workers are, and together they pour millions in union dues and “voluntary” contributions into union political funds. The AFL-CIO, the SEIU and other unions have established large and sophisticated political operations over the past several years. But the lever of political clout has been splintering in their hands...Now that congressional Democrats face the prospect of casting not a symbolic vote, knowing that a Bush veto was a certainty, but a real vote that will affect the real world, they started having qualms. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi let it be known that the House would not vote on card check until the Senate acted.

As for the Senate, Specter announced he won’t vote for card check. Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln, up for re-election in 2010, said she wouldn’t, either. Michael Bennet, the Democrat appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat in Colorado, who faces the voters in 2010, said card check can’t pass in its present form. The unions’ 60 seems headed down toward 50 and maybe below.

The unions are blaming this on selfish big business. The real problem is that it’s hard to defend a law that effectively abolishes the secret ballot. When nobody’s looking and it’s not for real, pols may vote that way. But not when it’s for keeps. Moreover, as General Motors and Chrysler spiral toward bankruptcy, it’s not apparent that adversarial unionism is healthy for the economy. There’s not much polling showing that vast numbers of private sector workers yearn to be unionized.

And since Colorado was mentioned in the article, here is the latest ad we are running there: