Being a political ally of the Democratic Party clearly has its financial benefits. Everyone with a so-called “Cadillac” health insurance plan will be taxed under Congressional health care reform legislation. Everyone, that is, except unions who backed the Obama campaign.

The White House on Thursday cut a deal with its closest labor allies to blunt the impact of a new tax on high-cost insurance policies — and blunt their protests against the health reform plan.

Democrats couldn’t eliminate the tax on union members’ high-cost insurance policies altogether but did put off the effective date until 2018, but only for labor agreements and state and local government workers.

And that seems sure to open up Democrats to charges that it took yet another behind-closed-doors bargaining session with a powerful interest group to close the deal on health reform.

Charges? They’re admitting they’re guilty. Democrats have reached the point where they don’t even care if Americans see them cutting political allies special tax deals. They no longer care that the American people can see corruption on a daily basis. They could care less what the American people think or see. Because they and their political allies are better than you.

Via HAH.