When the White House came out and said “Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members’ money down the toilet on a pointless exercise,” following the unions’ quixotic campaign to support Bill Halter over the incumbent Blanche Lincoln in the Arkansas Senate primary, unions were upset.

And what happens when Democratic White House upsets interest groups who gave the party $400 million in the last election cycle? They make nice, no matter how right they were: