With Obama set to unveil the pre-Scott Brown health care compromise for next week’s bipartisan lovefest, the already fragile deal is falling apart. Fresh off a stinging slap to the face in which Obama refused to appoint Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, labor unions are apparently backing out of the deal on the excise tax on high-cost health care plans.

In case you had any doubts the passage of the health care bill will be just as disastrous for Democrats as the rout of 1994, Rahm Emanuel is here to reassure you. It will be just like NAFTA! And Rahm thinks that’s a good thing.

The LieberCare health care bill is an absolutely catastrophe for labor unions. Both the AFL-CIO labor federation and SEIU, one of the country’s largest unions are holding emergency meetings today to decide what to do about the Senate bill

The Communications Workers of America just put out a statement hitting the Senate health care bill, specifically slamming the regressive excise tax on health care plans. CWA appears to have gone one step further than other major unions with this statement.

The news here isn’t that the US Chamber wants to buy off economists to sabotage legislation. It’s that they got caught this time.