Documents obtained by Judicial Watch reveal National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Lafe Solomon joking that the NLRB’s lawsuit against Boeing for moving to a right-to-work state has destroyed the economy.

Boeing is trying to open a facility in South Carolina that would create a significant number of jobs, but the federal labor board has sued the company to stop the project, accusing the company of “antiunion behavior”.

Solomon wrote:

The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva and I get a job with airbus. We screwed up the us economy and now we can tackle europe.

He goes on to complain that Obama NLRB appointee Craig Becker, also a radical pro-union activist, is getting the credit for destroying non-union jobs. “I didn’t read all of the meltwater articles but some of the headlines tie boeing to craig. Unbelievable.”

The emails also show NLRB members mocking critical publications and conservative office-holders who oppose the board’s radical agenda.

In another email, NLRB attorney sent an article from The Economist to NLRB attorney Debra Willen and commented: “Exactly; it just shows you how incredibly reactionary the US is, that the conservative Economist thinks we’re Neanderthal.”

Willen seems to have been a magnet for emails belittling South Carolina. When a former NLRB employee emailed Willen a note mocking Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., as “Sen. Dement,” Willen replied: “You retired with your integrity, which makes you far wealthier than Sen. Dement will ever be.”

The documents reveal the administration’s attack on Boeing for not being sufficiently pro-union is politically motivated. The president and his supporters rely on union political support — both active and financial — in order to obtain and maintain office. The administration is punishing companies for not handing unions more power and money, which would then in turn benefit Democratic politicians. All at the expense of workers.