The American Pundit

Which would explain why union thugs are even willing to beat up conservatives at ObamaCare town halls in an attempt to shut down dissent.

They’re getting quite a payback, courtesy of the Obama Administration, in exchange for astroturfing ObamaCare town halls and intimidating voters.

Antilabor forces say it’s welfare for the UAW and Democrats’ union allies. Labor supporters say it falls short of what’s needed as tens of thousands of union members are pushed into early retirement as employers cut back health care coverage.

They’re both talking about a $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW’s retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans.

It would see the government — at least temporarily — pay 80 cents on the dollar to corporate and union insurance plans for claims between $15,000 and $90,000 for retirees age 55 to 64. …

Greg Mourad of the National Right to Work Committee called it “a shameless case of political payback,” saying Democrats and President Barack Obama are trying “to force the rest of us to pay billions to cover those unions’ health care.”

So the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are essentially handing over $10 billion in taxpayer funds to the unions willing to use thug tactics to shut down dissent on the health care issue. It’s just the left’s latest attempt to pay the unions back for their political activism, coming on the heels of violating the rights of senior creditors in order to benefit the unions in the auto bailout.

We’ve entered into a new era of corruption, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in Washington in recent memory. At least politicians had the decency to pretend that they weren’t being corrupt in the past. Obama and his Congressional allies really don’t even care about whether Americans see their money going to fund liberal allies and pet projects. Mainly because they don’t care what the American people think about anything anymore.

The Commander-in-Thug and his left-wing allies are rapidly forming an oligarchy under our noses.