Sometimes It Feels Like Obama’s Turned Government into a Syndicate

So, today Instapundit links to a Daily Caller story about members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) riding along with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) when SEIU-friendly workers in non-union businesses make complaints about safety violations (which subsequently aren’t substantiated by inspectors):

OSHA deputy assistant secretary Richard Fairfax wrote in a February 21, 2013 clarification letter that union agents can accompany OSHA inspectors to site visits at companies without collective bargaining agreements. …

Maurice Baskin, an attorney representing the Associated Builders and Contractors and the National Association of Manufacturers, said in testimony before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections that OSHA’s clarification letter violates the OSH Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

Put this in the file for “Obama uses government agency to help unions (which help Democrats).”

The other day, I came across a Washington Times story reporting that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is playing favorites when handing out potential election-fodder:

Twenty-eight of the Democrats’ requests have been completed. Most resulted in the EPA release of documents with some reports that a search yielded no records. The other requests are being processed or await assignment. …

Republican political committees have filed just four requests since 2012, and none of those has been fulfilled. One request that has languished for more than two years sought correspondence between John F. Kerry, a senator at the time, and EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.

File this one under “Obama uses government agency to give Democrats electoral advantage.”

Of course, a quick skim of news stories involving the EPA brings us to another bulging file labeled “Obama uses government agency to change law without changing law.”  Also in the drawer are files for “Obama uses government agency to stop political opposition” and (maybe most ominous) a folder simply labeled “NSA spying.”

I can’t shake the feeling that we now have exactly the sort of government that our founding documents strove so hard to prevent, one that sets the government against the people… or at least those who won’t get in line.

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