It is hard not to love the Economist lately as they have overcome their hard on for Obama that lasted during 2008 and woke up to smell the reality that is Barky.

"...despite the howls of indignation from the Democrats over private campaign spending, it turns out that the biggest sugar daddy is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a public-sector labour union that spends almost all of its cash for the Democrats."

Ah, the the beer goggles are off, finally!
Side note re all the Howling from Obama about foreign $, I hope to God that with a Republican House we can get an Independent investigation into Obama's donor fraud and foreign donors that we KNOW funded his 2008 bid against Hillary!
More to come on that soon.
more from the Economist item:

The Democrats are electorally beholden to union support, and this often leads to bad policy.

public-sector unions, which have grown while membership in their private-sector counterparts has flagged. Last year there were more public-sector employees (7.9m) than private-sector workers (7.4m) in unions—the first time this has happened.

"Through their extensive political activity," says Mr DiSalvo, "these government-workers' unions help elect the very politicians who will act as 'management' in their contract negotiations—in effect handpicking those who will sit across the bargaining table from them

Overgenerous contracts, promising lavish pensions, benefits and early retirement, have put states in dire fiscal straits.

The Obama administration has been more generous. Amid savage private-sector job cuts, one-third of the funds from the 2009 stimulus bill went to state and local governments, mainly to rescue public-sector employees.

the pension funds of seven states—Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, Hawaii, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Illinois—will go broke by the end of fiscal year 2020.

An executive order last spring strongly encouraged government agencies to use construction companies with unionised workforces for any federal construction project over $25m.

We've cherry picked a few quotes to sum the story, but DO read the item b/c you should not miss their fine example of how unions are screwing the great state of California out of a future and essentially ensuring one that is third world.
link: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/10/unions_america

And speaking of California: check out this item from the WSJ on a
new Democratic scheme to stomp on what is left of the Golden State:

And lastly, on the theme of why I am leaving the Democratic Party until fiscal responsibility is restored (which will require Mr. Obama's departure from the Oval office to preferably a country he is more comfortable in, say, the Soviet Union in the 60s) this delightful insight into Barky's reparations agenda from the Christian Science Monitor:

As congressional Democrats brace for an electoral shellacking next week, one question still seems to puzzle pundits: “Why didn’t President Obama do more to help the economy?” The short answer is that his goal has always been to redistribute the economic pie – not necessarily grow it.

Take the administration’s signature achievement: enactment of healthcare reform, aka Obamacare. This legislation subsidizes health insurance for low- and middle-income groups with taxes on high-earners, leveling material wealth but dampening economic growth by encouraging everyone to pare back on their work effort.

Of course, Obama is offering welfare insurance to middle class Americans as a way to CHANGE our mentality of pride in not being on welfare--hey look if everyone is on welfare insurance it can't be so bad...but it is bad, and down deep we are still a nation that doesn't want to be like the Soviet Union where everyone works for the same pay and has the same dour apartment, unless of course you bribe your way into a nice dacha and get that good doctor from The West to treat you with the good medicine from the West. Tell you what...when Congress and Obama limit themselves to Medicaid and the few doctors that accept the pittance it pays them...then I will eat some mud pie.

In the meantime, we need to restore balance and integrity to the Oval Office. I know Barky is counting on a lost House to help himself to anther four years in 2012, but if that happens we might as well learn Chinese as well as the love of dog meat, cause that will be our fate if Barky gets another go.