Recommended: Labor's $60 Billion Payoff

Politicians have always favored their supporters, all the way back to the days of Imperial Rome. But they used to at least have the decency to cloak their favoritism in some sort of high-minded rhetoric.

Not this Democratic administration. As if it weren't bad enough to nakedly buy the vote of the Nebraska Senator on the health care bill by promising to exempt Nebraska entirely from added Medicare costs (a promise that will be promptly tested in court by at least 12 other states if it becomes law), now the administration has just as brazenly bought labor support by exempting labor union members from a tax that will fall on all the rest of us.

I recommend the article Labor's $60 Billion Payoff in today's Wall Street Journal.

Unbelievable. The Republicans certainly haven't impressed me lately, but I'll glady vote enough Republicans back into Congress to at least put a stop to this shameless behavior by the administration. Clearly having a veto-proof majority of either party in Congress is a disaster.