Bipartisanship at last!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/strange_bedfellows_us_chamber.htmlStrange bedfellows: U.S. Chamber and AFL-CIO may team up against House GOP infrastructure cutsBy Greg Sargent
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO -- two powerful players that are often at each other's throats -- are considering teaming up for a campaign against the House GOP's planned cuts to infrastructure spending, spokespeople for both groups tell me.
The two groups rarely agree on anything, and frequently target each other in the harshest of terms, but one thing they agree on is that they don't want the House GOP to make good on its threat to subject highway and mass-transit programs to budget cuts. GOP leaders announced earlier this week that such cuts could not be taken off the table in the quest to slice up to $100 billion in spending.
...
If such a collaboration does take place, it could draw more attention to opposition to such GOP budget cuts, because the press loves "strange bedfellows" stories and the prospect of longtime foes teaming up could dramatize how extensive opposition is to this aspect of the GOP agenda.
On the other hand, House Republicans could point to it as proof that they're not afraid to take on powerful special interests even when they have been very helpful to the GOP, as the Chamber has been. Either way, it suggests the battle over spending could get very nasty.
