It’s going to get harder for Obama’s spin team to keep up the image of the squeaky clean pol who’s opposed to all those nasty special interests when he yucks it up with the construction unions and tells them that he’s a fan of their price fixing scheme.
What price fixing scheme, you ask. It’s called “prevailing wage” legislation. It fixes the price that must be paid for labor on all government projects (an ever-lengthening list, BTW) at the going union rate. It’s as if all the auto dealers got a law passed to prevent discounting from sticker prices.
This WSJ editorial today discusses the cozy relationship Obama has with the unions.
Obama’s PR professionals have sculpted a public image that has millions of naive people thinking that he’s some sort of new species of politician who operates on a higher, nobler plane than do all those ordinary political low-lifes. And at the same time, interest groups that want to continue raiding the treasury look at Obama and say “Ka-ching.”
None of this should be construed as support for McCain, of course.
