JEFF JACOBY: “There is no ‘fundamental right’ to collective bargaining in government jobs.” Here’s the zinger:

[President] Obama scolds [Wisconsin Gov.] Walker for trying to restrict collective bargaining by government employees to wages, yet the two million federal civilian (non-postal) workers Obama presides over can't even bargain over that much: With rare exceptions, the wages, hours, and benefits of federal employment have never been subject to union contracts. The president appears to be quite OK with that. Last November he unilaterally announced a two-year pay freeze for all federal civilian federal employees, informing them -- no negotiating -- that they were going to "make some sacrifices" adding up to $2 billion this fiscal year.

Another case of “do as I say, not as I do.”