Union Deal Reached! Health Care can Proceed

I'm glad that unelected union heads get to give their nod of approval. Forget Putin or Ahmadinijoke the only people that can get the White House to quake with fear is the SEIU and and the AFL-CIO. The new Obama motto "Hope the Union Approves of our Change!"

In a major breakthrough, union leaders bowed Thursday to White House demands for a new tax on high-cost insurance plans as part of landmark health care legislation taking final shape in intensive negotiations. "We are on the doorstep" of success, President Barack Obama said.

The tentative agreement on the tax, which included significant concessions by the administration, was disclosed as leading lawmakers set an informal timetable of Friday for a compromise on the health care bill that Obama made a top priority in taking office a year ago.