Obama And The Unions: A Lawless Alliance?

Rule Of Law: Last month the president called for civility in politics. Yet now he supports the Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin who unlawfully refuse to do their elected jobs — and the union mobs backing them.

Democratic state politicians in Wisconsin are on the run. State troopers are searching from Bayfield to Kenosha for 14 Democratic state senators who in effect are fugitives.

But the state legislators promise they'll stay outside the boundaries of the state, in hiding, for weeks — even if it means government paralysis.

This is the vicious way the left plays. They lose an election after spending a state into oblivion, then instead of submitting to the will of the people they collect their marbles, refuse to continue playing, and go home in a huff — or in this case go off to points unknown.

What horrible sacrilege is it that Republican Gov. Scott Walker is committing? Closing a $3.6 billion budget shortfall with spending cuts, and insisting that long-pampered state government employees pay half their pension costs and 12% of their health care costs.

Like the fearless Gov. Chris Christie in New Jersey, Walker refuses to treat his state's big labor unions as sacred cows. Walker is cutting union pay and benefits, and even restricting collective bargaining privileges, to get state finances back on solid ground.

Last summer, President Obama blasted Senate Republicans for blocking his big-spending agenda. "Too often, the Republican leadership in the United States Senate chooses to filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress," Obama charged.

Well, Wisconsin Democrats' flying the coop makes a filibuster look like a BB gun. Is the president complaining about these Democratic state senators' nuclear version of the filibuster? On the contrary, he is joining in — and helping this legislative lawlessness spread.

As the Washington Post described it Friday, "The president's political machine worked in close coordination Thursday with state and national union officials to get thousands of protesters to gather in Madison and to plan similar demonstrations in other state capitals."

Politico reports the Democratic National Committee is "filling buses and building turnout for the rallies this week in Madison" plus "organizing 15 rapid-response phone banks urging supporters to call their state legislators, and working on planning and producing rallies."

As a result, public sector union mobs are mobilizing by the thousands in Columbus, Ohio against Gov. John Kasich's efforts to curb collective bargaining practices. More demonstrations like the ones in Wisconsin are being planned for Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, say union bosses.

In what dictionary is "civility" defined as "having your political machine bus in union mobs"?

This president, who so often touts himself as uniter, has allied himself with lawmakers within his party whose divisiveness is outweighed only by their contempt for the law.