The following appeared today on the Wall Street Journal’s on-line opinion page. -”If anyone were still in doubt as to the importance of a Senate filibuster, we’d point them to Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter’s announcement yesterday that he will not support “card check.” Maybe Big Labor won’t be able to up-end the economy, after all.

Mr. Specter’s decision means Republicans now have 41 votes against “card check” — legislation that would do away with secret ballots in union organization elections. The Pennsylvanian was the only Senate Republican to have previously voted in favor of a debate on the bill, and as such had been the target of a furious lobbying fight by unions and the business community. Yet to be seen is whether Mr. Specter’s decision will inspire any number of swing state Democrats to follow his lead, and thereby neutralize an issue for which they are getting pilloried by their home-state business communities.”

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