Surely the editors on the Wall Street Journal editorial page see the irony--placing their lead editorial decrying "Big Labor" right next to an op-ed entry from Jim Webb, an unlikely new poster boy from the incoming congressional class for workers' rights and economic populism?

How many times has the WSJ ed page run an editorial attacking organized labor for their trade stance and warning the Dems against support for labor? Let us count the ways. Now, with Charlie Rangel about to take over Ways and Means, they're going full force on the trade issue once again. And they are doing it by attacking the AFL-CIO, and I kid you not, actually still using the phrase "Big Labor."

They end the editorial by denouncing organized labor's claim that the election was partly a referendum on the Bush/Rove economic agenda in favor of economic populism--but then, Jim Webb, the very face of a Reagan Democrat, states the same case that the AFL-CIO and others have made  just perfectly in the adjoining column.

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