MICKEY KAUS: “Isn’t it odd that the defense of unionism on the left by Paul Krugman and Mother Jones‘ Kevin Drum focuses almost exclusively on labor’s role as ‘countervailing’ political power to business–especially its role in supporting the Democratic party with money and manpower?” I’m guessing the money-and-manpower thing is the decisive factor. Given the Dems’ closeness to Goldman, Sachs and GE, they’re not exactly standing up to Big Business.