The one government agency Democrats favor cutting

This is just so perfect. John Fund finds the one government agency that Democrats are in favor of cutting: the one that provides oversight of labor union corruption. What a non-surprise this is.

The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget It wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law.

In the past six years, the Office of Labor Management Standards, or OLMS, has helped secure the convictions of 775 corrupt union officials and court-ordered restitution to union members of over $70 million in dues. The House is set to vote Thursday on a proposal to chop 20% from the OLMS budget. Every other Labor Department enforcement agency is due for a budget increase, and overall the Congress has added $935 million to the Bush administration's budget request for Labor. The only office the Democrats want to cut back is the one engaged in union oversight.

These Democratic politicians may pretend to be for the little guy in the labor unions but they really are for the labor union leaders who make the decisions on how to use all those millions of dues money to campaign for them. First they worked to try to do away with the secret ballot in union elections and now they're working on stopping the government from exposing corruption among union leaders. As Fund points out, they're trying to block reforms that John F. Kennedy was instrumental in getting passed while he was still a senator.