Posted on 10/22/2009 9:38:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Obama White House has deliberately placed favored Washington institutions of the Bush years in its crosshairs, a sign of an escalating battle between the Democratic administration and some of the city's pre-eminent power players.
In recent days, the administration has attacked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the insurance industry for opposing key administration objectives, has criticized the nation's largest banks and financial firms for outsized executive pay, and has tried to delegitimize the Fox News Channel by mocking its objectivity.
"When you're on their side, it's all OK, but if you're not, they rain hell down on you," said R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, bemoaning the administration's bellicose response to differing opinions on health care and financial regulatory reform proposals.
But Dan Pfeiffer, President Obama's deputy communications director, said the Democratic White House is not abiding by the rules that defined the nation's capital when a Republican president was in office.
"The insurers, the chamber and other special interests had the run of this town for the last eight years. That's not true anymore," Mr. Pfeiffer said. "And they are reacting to the new reality."
Yet the administration's targets are offended by what they consider misleading vitriol. They also say the tactics are dated and dangerous to serious discourse.
A senior Republican lawmaker on Wednesday raised concern that the White House was creating an "enemies list" in much the same way that the Nixon White House did.
"If the president and his top aides treat people with different views as enemies instead of listening to what they have to say, they're likely to end up with a narrow view and a feeling that the whole world is out to get them," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican.
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THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA AND ITS WAY OF LIFE.
HOW CAN THE PASSIVE AMERICAN HAVE FALLEN FOR THIS FOOL IN THE FIRST PLACE.
ITS TIME TO SAVE AMERICA AND TAKE BACK OUR GOVERMENT IN 2010 AND 2012.
OK! But by the time these dates comes the damage will have mounted to such a huge degree that it would take 10 years or more to reverse to what? By the time most of what has fed the freeloaders and insane nitwits in America the reeducation process will be impossible.
“HOW CAN THE PASSIVE AMERICAN HAVE FALLEN FOR THIS FOOL IN THE FIRST PLACE”.
We’ll never figure that one out.
The WH response to Obama proves Alexander is right. Alexander is a moderate. If you can’t talk to the Tennessee senators you are not talking to the middle of the party.
My Lord, quit the negatives. WHATEVER, HOWEVER and HOW LONG it takes to take back America - it has to be done or die doing it - simple as that. Good thing George Wawshington or Winston Churchill never gave up!
And it’s not just talk.
I posted an article a few weeks ago on Apple quitting the Chamber of Commerce over Climate Change.
Several big liberal outfits have quit the Chamber of Commerce in this political food fight, including two of Obama’s political favorites, General Electric and Johnson & Johnson.
And there’s not much doubt who told them to quit.
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