It all makes sense

It all makes sense now. Obama has to go to Cincinnati to a big union Labor Day event to rally the troops behind his proposed healthcare legislation. The unions have wrecked the major manufacturers (and are starting in on the service industries) with excessive and unreasonable demands and now understand that without some sort of government run healthcare their current way of existence is at an end. The government bailout of the manufacturing sector was a payoff to the unions and a time-buying procedure to slow the unions' death spiral until the Democrats could step in and save their giant reliable voting bloc with health care. It always comes back to vote-buying with these people. The sticky wicket for the Democrats in all of this is that the Unions are already threatening the Democrats with less support in the future if the healthcare plan doesn't include a government-run option and the Democrats are smart enough to know that if they push a healthcare plan with a government option through strictly on Party lines then they know they'll take a beating in November, 2010. I think we're about to see who's the bigger tool.