With the U.S. Senate rounding the final stretch of health care reform, attention is turning to the Employee Free Choice Act as a legislative priority in 2010. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will be right there to try and stop it. From Roll Call today:

Business lobbyists will focus on others they may be able to pick off, and they plan to play hardball.

"We will take no prisoners when it comes to lobbying the Senators we need to lobby, and they know who they are," said Randel Johnson, chief labor lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "The business community will go to the mat on the Employee Free Choice Act whenever it is scheduled," he said.

Fresh off their quixotic campaigns to kill health care reform, climate change legislation, consumer financial protection, and pretty much anything else that their small group of backers dislike, the U.S. Chamber will renew its pledge to defeat labor law reform.

Remember what the U.S. Chamber's Randel Johnson said about Employee Free Choice earlier this year?

"This will be a firestorm on Capitol Hill, bordering on Armageddon."

And then again on health care reform this summer:

"I would say it's time to unload the powder and fill the musket."

U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Randel Johnson: Chief Labor Lobbyist, Director of Hyperbole and Bad Metaphors. The fact that anyone takes these jokers seriously in Congress sure is something.

More on the U.S. Chamber's extreme, anti-reform agenda here.