Unions Say Jump, White House says How High

I thought we are supposed to be bending the cost curve downwards but it seems that organized labor still controls everything like this was still Chicago.

Underscoring the stakes in the dispute, Obama met with about a dozen heads of the country's biggest unions Monday evening at the White House, after a day when labor leaders fired broadsides at the president over the insurance tax.

The president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, warned that Democrats risk catastrophic election defeats similar to those in 1994 if they fail to come up with a health bill labor likes. Disillusioned union members might just not show up to vote, he said.

"A bad bill could have that kind of effect ... where people sit at home," as happened in 1994, when Democrats lost control of Congress, Trumka told reporters.

Wow a direct threat to the White House from organized labor. I wonder if SEIU goons will be "visiting" voters to make sure they "sit at home" if the union doesn't get what it wants? I mean the unions already got partial ownership of two of the three American car makers.

Too bad Obama couldn't just tell them "this is how it is going to be, if you don't like it who are you going to support? Republicans?" and laugh in their faces. Too bad the Dems are in the pocket of organized labor and are going to cave no matter what.