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The US Chamber of Commerce is quite pleased with the new tone coming out of the White House. I guess they prefer their Democrats compliant, who knew?
The chamber’s president, Thomas J. Donohue, delivering the trade group’s annual State of American Business address on Tuesday morning, applauded “a new tone coming out of the White House,” which he said had “addressed some of the business community’s immediate concerns.”
Mr. Donohue said the chamber welcomed the appointment of William M. Daley as President Obama’s chief of staff and of Gene B. Sperling as director of the National Economic Council.
“The new people will be helpful,” Mr. Donohue said. He described Mr. Daley as “a real pro.”
Well, at least everyone can work together now. And Donohue singled out a few areas of agreement, particularly infrastructure investment, immigration reform (I think they mainly want cheap labor out of that deal) and, of course, trade deals.
But while the Chamber has commented on the White House’s tone, nobody has commented on the Chamber’s. For instance, most of this speech was dedicated to supporting the repeal of health care reform. Previously, the Chamber said it would not spend money on the push for repeal. Donohue vowed to, if not repeal, scale back financial reform, and block the EPA from carrying out a Supreme Court order to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Donohue also denounced “the regulatory state” in his remarks. This is while they have joined up with those dedicated to roll back regulations on virtually every front imaginable for the past two years. Christy Seltzer of US Chamber Watch emails, “The US Chamber’s campaign against so-called ‘excessive’ regulations, in the last few years alone, has brought us: 29 deaths in the worst mining collapse in decades, the worst oil spill in environmental history, and the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression.”
So in the give-and-take of the Chamber of Commerce, they’re going to continue to fight every single agenda item of the Administration, and in return, the Administration will hire people friendly to their interests to get on their good side.
Even trade.
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Funny, very funny. This White House, man…what a joke
Is it possible that even the dolts at the USC of C (and their ilk) are starting to realize that O is their guy?
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Why didn’t Mr. Donohue just come out and admit to appointing Daley himself?
He’s been their guy the whole time. I think what we’re seeing is a shift in political strategy. I think it’s funny that they can come out in support of health care repeal and praise Obama in the same afternoon.
Good thing they kept the informal shoe shinning ceremony quiet.
~~~Mod Note: Let’s not go any further down this path~~~
Those J-O-B-S banners they hung at their meeting are for those newly minted (gamblers) financiers who will help set up those private 401k accounts that Sperling will set up to take the place of cuts in Social Security benefits. Welcome, to the New Wall Street Order.
“they’re going to continue to fight every single agenda item of the administration”
from where I’m sitting, they’d be fighting themselves because Obama hasn’t done shit for anybody but business. Wall Street bailouts, tax cuts for billionaires and businesses that outsource jobs, continuation of MIC, allowing insurance and big pharma to continue to rape and pillage, stabbing unions in the back, piddling Wall Street reform, complete indifference to working people and on and on …..
Are you sure it was a shoe?
They could bully Obama into declaring that he’s a Republican and hiring Grover Norquist as Chief of Staff and they still wouldn’t let up. The only person who doesn’t seem to understand that is Barack Obama.
‘Scuse the OT, but Emanuel Cleaver, the dem congressman from Missouri, just laid a hammer on Obama:
“It’s realistic for our party to understand the enormous challenge we’re going to have, to get him back in the White House in 2012.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/emanuel-cleaver-obama-reelection_n_806968.html
For Cleaver to make this statement nearly 22 months before the 2012 election is a tacit admission that Barack Obama is essentially a care-taker president who’s been reduced to the status of a trained poodle for the republicans. It is a large step in the direction of the democratic party reminding Obama that he can do the statesmanlike thing, and step down in 2012, or he can run, and drag the party so far into the political shithouse that it may never get out.
My 2c, Cleaver gets major points for speaking reality-truth to power.
It’s just their reflexive response when a putative “Democrat” happens to be in the White House. It keeps both sides of their “base” – the obscenely wealthy elites (who are their main masters) + the idiotic nincompoops willing to vote against their own interests – happy to hear “Democrats” being dissed yet again.
Diss rhymes with hissssssss, ya know, sorta like speaking in parseltongue ‘n all…
I am not snarking either!
http://www.globe-democrat.com/news/2011/jan/10/next-government-takeover-after-healthcare-universa/
In the United States, the Third Way — Daley is a board member — underpins corporate-statism, in which both of the two dominant parties serve the global capitalist agenda, as evidenced by this country’s historic levels of wealth inequality and increasing household/community insecurity.
Speaking of “tone” — vitriolic/violent right-wing propaganda serves to obscure this corporate-statism by stoking the anti-tax, anti-government fire in the belly of those who fear and hate “anti-gun tree-hugging socialists, etc., etc.”
I just wonder how much more they think they can squeeze US for? Will they be satisfied when most of the populace in living in tin shacks?
They seem to think we can afford these dubious products. Well, I can’t.
I can’t afford to do anything but eat and have a roof over my head. Apparently they want those thing s as well.
I was listening to ED ( I know) and he was talking about the rhetoric from the right and I had to say, I agreed with a lot of it. I think the actual PEOPLE are being used for corporate patsies, but I do think the whole country is going fascist….in a hurry.
Faster under Obama even than Bush
Arcades, I think that the repubs understand that Barack Obama is now their wholly-owned subsidiary, but if they start to chortle about it, it won’t be just the progressives who are looking for someone to replace him in 2012; it will be most democrats, and then they won’t have him to point to in 2012 while saying:
“There he is, folks; the leader of the democratic party. Would you like another 4 years?”
And if he bails on a second term, there goes their ace in the hole.
Washington Journal had a C of C puppet on this morning bitching about the employer mandate in the healthcare bill, but he’s apparently ok with the individual mandate. Obama owns this pos, if it costs him the White House maybe the next Democrat will learn something. Nah, never mind.
Obama’s “negotiating strategy” reminds me of that scene in “Blazing Saddles” where the new sheriff takes himself hostage.
THAT is a VERY scary article. Especially since we know the banks will crash again.
anybody see a potential FDR on the horizon? I don’t
What’s next? A government takeover of NASA and NIH?
total capitulation: its the obama way.
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“will they be satisfied when most of the populace is living in tin shacks?”
I don’t know about satisfied, but they will sure as hell be indifferent. They haven’t cared, don’t care, and won’t care.
imho, the whole country isn’t “going” fascist, it’s already there. Kinda like puttin’ that frog in a pot of water and turning up the heat, before he realizes what’s happened, he’s a “goner”.
Bien sur.
It’s probably from a ‘right wing’ perspective, so take it with a grain of salt. But there is also some truth to the claim that these are Wall Streeters whose ‘novel’ approaches recycle market solutions.
not at all surprising. I mean really, Obama, as a “New Democrat” loves corporations, maybe more than people??
Remember we can vote with our dollars, where we spend them. So, all you folks who think you can’t do without Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, J Michael’s, Chevron, Exxon, etc, you might want to reflect on your choices…….
You’re right. Our votes don’t count. what we expressly want doesn’t count. But what the banks, etc want, the banks get.
Oh, I’m reflecting. I wonder what these corporations will do when half their customers can’t afford them anymore?
pro
–adverb
1. in favor of a proposition, opinion, etc.
–noun
2. a proponent of an issue; a person who upholds the affirmative in a debate.
3. an argument, consideration, vote, etc., for something.
4. a prostitute
You are bringing this up to point out that Obama is not very smart and a bad negotiator. But the denouement of the scene proves exactly the opposite. In fact the whole movie sort of validates Obama, he’s more interested in what actually works to get something done.
Getting what done exactly? Just because you can do something doesn’t mean it’s worth doing.
In short, business as usual. I think it’s better to be Obama’s enemy than a friend. If you’re his enemy he’ll give you what you want.
Anyone thinking of wasting another vote, please read above.
How it works:
good cop Obama, bad cop Fox -identical team, plan, script and objective
Barak Obama’s transparent filth has clarified the former USA
“Gelding” is too generous, “tool” is too dignified and Barry W. Bush compared to an ordinary prostitute is an insult to prostitutes.
Barry was always GOP’s girl