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A disturbing trend is developing in union protests. More and more they are targeting person homes for their protests. In May SEIU protesters terrorized a teenage boy at a banker’s residence to push the finance ‘reform’ bill. And in June union thugs attacked non-union workers with baseball bats.

The financial reform bill expected to clear Congress this week is chock-full of provisions that have little to do with the financial crisis but cater to the long-standing agendas of labor unions and other Democratic interest groups.

Unions spent $400 million during the 2008 elections in support of Democratic candidates, and Barack Obama has been grateful. Obama is making union dreams come true.

The AFL-CIO on Monday began distributing more than 300,000 political fliers to members at 164 worksites in 23 states. Two unions have promised to spend $100 million to protect incumbent Democrats. That should be reason enough to vote them out.

We now live in the Unionized States of America — a phrase that evokes how Obama and company have gone into overdrive to empower their union allies at our expense. Lee O’Hanian, a professor of economics at UCLA, weighs in at the Wall Street Journal on the dire economic implications of this tectonic shift in government policy, noting that employment figures remain very weak:

Who has funded the ascent of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? The top ten individual and PAC donors. The top 7 PAC’s are unions of course.

The discovery that a second labor union has filed inaccurate lobbying reports shows unions are trying to hide their undue influence. Five Years of Faulty Filings Reveal Problems with Lobbying Disclosure.

Stuart Varney on Fox News reported that the war funding bill will include language that a budget is ‘deemed passed’ so they can claim they passed a budget even though there isn’t one. This is the great transparency Obama promised, the ‘most ethical’ congress that Pelosi claimed? What a farce! How can Americans keep returning these people to office?

Where is the fear Ms. Pelosi? Where is the outrage Mr. President? Union thugs are becoming increasingly violent.

Barack Obama is enlisting activists and labor leaders in a push for comprehensive immigration (amnesty) legislation that will showcase Republican opposition and include a speech by the president.