The AFL-CIO’s swank retreat in Miami Beach is getting some coverage. Joe Biden is there, but we won’t see him talking to labor officials. The White House has decreed no cameras. Putting aside the soundness of that rule with regard to all of Biden’s appearances, one has to question what the White House wants to keep from view.

It is hard to keep telling the unions one thing (“Yes, yes we love card check — full steam ahead!”) while telling Congress and the mainstream media another (“Uh, maybe later.”) Pretty soon the public and the unions catch on to the flim-flam and want to know what the president really intends to do. And hiding the VP and the special interest Big Labor bosses from the cameras is not very transparent, is it?

Moreover, this gambit is not likely to give comfort to those Red state senators. The message they are gathering from the “no camera rule” is that this is a loser with the public — better hide. Good advice, I’d say.