The Biggest Outside Spending In This Election is Not the Chamber of Commerce

It's the unions:

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union has emerged as the largest outside spender of the 2010 campaign season, doling out $87.5 million to help elect Democratic candidates, the Wall Street Journal reports.

"We're the big dog," Larry Scanlon, the head of AFSCME's political operations, told the WSJ. "But we don't like to brag."

Later in the same article, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, declared: "We're spending big. And we're damn happy it's big. And our members are damn happy it's big—it's their money."

The latest revelations blow a hole in several arguments the White House and their liberal allies have been making over the past year.

So all that blather about how the Chamber of Commerce is a threat to democracy is just blather. If Obama doesn't go after the unions the way he went after the Chamber and the Supreme Court, he's a hypocrite.

And though the unions are spending big, they're going to lose big.