What a funny headline: Some Democrats uneasy with attacks on Chamber of Commerce. As if we didn’t know that. The Chamber is spending 75 million dollars to try to help the Republicans retake Congress, and we still have some Democrats complaining that the president is being mean to them. There are two wings to the Democratic Party. One contains what we think of as conventional Democrats. The other contains tools of the Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street. The president comes from the conventional side, but he has to keep the two groups working together. Obama’s attempt to ACORN the Chamber of Commerce is a breach of etiquette for the New Dems and Blue Dogs, some of whom have actually won the Chamber’s endorsement. Most of these fools were going to lose their seats anyway, mainly because they watered down the president’s agenda which made his policies less popular. And then they failed to defend the unpopular policies that they helped to make unpopular. On top of that, in an election cycle where conservatives are highly motivated, these corporate Dems eschewed the one thing that could save them: criticizing the Republicans’ plutocratic agenda by taking on the Big Banks, Big Oil Spillers, Big Insurers, and the Fat Cats asking for tax relief.
They’re not too different from Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) who famously told us to stop being mean to BP during the catastrophe in the Gulf.
Taking on the Chamber is a no-brainer, unless you plan on doing their bidding and winning their support.
Isn’t it interesting that none of the Blue Dogs are willing to go public. Just a lot no-name crying. And then bringing up nonsense about Al Gore and Bill Clinton that happened 10 and 15 years ago? Talk about butt-hurt Blue Dogs. What’s funny is that Blue Dogs will be dropped by the Chamber as soon as a Puke becomes just as viable and they won’t know what hit them.
That’s because they know a shithammer would come down on them.
These are the enemies of normal Americans, and I cannot understand why Obama, the Dems, and others are not attacking them constantly. The mega-corporations are running programs to constantly undercut the American wage structure (the H-1B, J-1, L-1, and H-2B job visas). The banks are destroying the American housing market. The CoC is defending the right of American corporations to seek cheap labor either here or off-shore.
Why is the party of “the ordinary worker” as the Democrats pretend to be not taking aim at this enormous target of opportunity and firing away?
These are the enemies of normal Americans, and I cannot understand why Obama, the Dems, and others are not attacking them constantly.
Do you not ever read anything about Obama? He’s basically of the thinking that the elites are there for a reason, so that if someone is a CEO, he must know what he’s doing, despite there being little actual evidence of it.
I think people do not know what the Chamber of Commerce is. They think it’s like in their small town: a group of little business people trying to stimulate more customers.
This attack might fall on deaf ears. It rings like an anti-business screed.
It’s a little like the difference between the Humane Society of America or the local SPCA. Easily confused.
So they have a good name — The United States Chamber of Commerce — but their goals are quite different than the AnyTown Chamber of Commerce.
you are right, which is why the commercials include FOREIGN CORPORATIONS and FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS in them.
people might not know what the Chamber does…but, they understand the implications of those phrases.
Except big business(more so the banksters) isn’t especially popular right now
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