More Hostages

It's part pivot to jobs, part a delayed response to the GOPer created debt ceiling crisis: President Obama came out strongly in criticizing Congress for not funding the FAA, outlining the consequences, including thousands of furloughed workers, tens of thousands of idled workers on airport projects, and $1 billion in lost revenues just by Labor Day (when Congress is due back.) 

But it was other Democrats who said what some felt they could not say during delicate negotiations with the nation's economy at stake during the debt ceiling nonsense.  Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters Wednesday. "... they are holding these aviation workers hostage until they get everything they want."
What GOPers are specifically demanding is to make unionizing harder.  They've gone about it in even a more cynical way than usual.  But Democrats are expressing frustration that goes beyond this debate, including back to the debt ceiling debacle.   For as Senate Leader Harry Reid said,  "The way we have America going today there is no penalty for outrageous conduct."