Dear Conservatives,
"I owe those unions. When their leaders call, I do my best to call them back right away. I don't consider this corrupting in any way."
I'm sure you remember Barack Obama's campaign promises. Hope and change. A new era of transparency. An end to special interests.
None of that applied to the Big Labor hierarchy Obama wrote about so favorably in his book The Audacity of Hope.
After the union bosses unleashed more than a Billion Dollars -- backed with forced dues from unwilling workers -- getting Obama and other forced unionism partisans elected in 2008, did he ever return the favor.
In my recent column in the Washington Times, I outline some of the most egregious paybacks and sweetheart deals by the Obama Administration that favor Big Labor: