Papantonio: US Chamber Gets a New President – OBAMA

[GoLeft TV]

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Obama and the US Chamber of Commerce will be sitting down together in the next few weeks to discuss a potential "truce." This is the group that spent millions of dollars to defeat every reform that Obama attempted to institute in the last two years, and he wants to play nice? Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz blast the President for his attempt to appease his enemies, instead of launching investigations into their activities.

[ProSense]

1. Here's another perspective

Jonathan Chait

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If you recall, several companies pulled out of the Chamber in 2009 over its hard-line opposition to cap and trade. The Chamber is run mainly by Republicans who are committed to a classic class-solidarity brand of pro-business advocacy, in which business executives emphasize their shared interests in opposing regulation and protecting low tax rates for wealthy individuals. But there are a lot of executives who want to do something about carbon emissions and other national problems that can't be solved simply by concentrating more wealth and power in the hands of business owners and managers, and the Chamber doesn't want competition. So the apparent detente between the Chamber and Obama may be less friendly than it appears.

Peeling off the Chamber's support by rounding up support for the Democratic agenda is actually a great plan. For far too long, businesses have had no alternative coalition and remained with the Chamber simply to push a collective agenda. The businesses that have dropped their membership recently are finding that the Chamber has simply become a political arm of the GOP, regardless of how damaging the Republican agenda is for business.

[mazzarro]

4. Why Is There No Competing Chamber Of Commerce ...

that is more progressive and forward looking that the present one?

[OHdem10]

2. When it comes crunch time, no President has been willing to

stand up against Big Business in the last 30 years.
I wonder why???

[bulloney]

3. "Inheritance Babies" about sums it up for these people.

People who were born financially secure thanks to daddy or granddaddy. Money has come easy for them, but they're not satisfied. They want it come come to them faster and more easily, which is why the Kochs and the other families mentioned by Papantonio are attacking the federal tax code and programs and attempting to take an even larger share of the federal pie for themselves.

[swilton]

5. Papantonio's last sentence

Obama needs to go back to who he is. - I don't think anyone at this point knows the real Obama.

[BlueJac]

6. This is laughable.....

Obama going up against anything, I am falling out of my chair! He will cave and cash the check later.

[ooglymoogly]

7. Sounds like another "I'm not who you think I am moment"

"What can I do to make you love me"