Bait and Switch Strong; Economy, not so much

The White House began a concerted campaign to lower expectations for the stimulus bill on the Sunday morning news shows today, Reuters reports. No surprise, of course - this is becoming a predictable pattern for the new administration - build up wild expectations to reach the desired goal, then immediately set about deflating them.

One section of the article caught my eye. Recall that Obama plans to sign the monstrosity into law in Denver on Tuesday:

Obama faces a new potential flashpoint next week when two Detroit automakers, General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, must reach agreements with the United Auto Workers labor union to restructure themselves.

Talks between GM and the union broke down on Saturday. Chrysler's negotiations with the UAW are also deadlocked.

Axelrod made it clear the White House would not intervene in the situation until after Tuesday.

Why? Why would Axelrod feel the need to "make it clear" that they would sit on their hands until "after Tuesday?" What is the relevance? Perhaps the comment is taken out of context, but I can't help but wonder what union boosting poison lurks in the 1,100 pages of garbage that is about to become the law of the land.

For the record, I sincerely hope that I'm just paranoid.