HARRY REID: The Founding Fathers would totally dig the NLRB:

“The Founders created a system of checks and balances — three branches of government, for example, and two chambers of the Congress — precisely because they anticipated these passions,” Reid said on the Senate floor.

“Long after that system was created, a new independent federal agency was created in the same spirit of checks and balances,” said Reid. “That agency is the National Labor Relations Board, and it acts as a check on employers and employees alike.”

I’m George Washington, and I approve this power grab? Somehow I don’t think so. And as Jennifer Rubin noted in the item we linked to earlier today, the NLRB could hand the Republicans a potent issue in 2012.

(H/T: Josh Trevino.)

UPDATE: Good question from a reader: If Boeing wanted to move its factory to Nevada, a right-to-work state, would Reid be OK with the NLRB forbidding such a move?

Well, that’s different — somehow.