I mentioned this last week, but don't remember if I put it into the notes ... and frankly at this late hour I'm too lazy to look it up. So I'll remind you of the article by Michael Barone last week where he noted that "public-sector unions "are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party."

Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.

Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats.