Posted on 12/29/2014 8:22:15 AM PST by Bratch
Not only does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce think it is the only reason the GOP won in November, it is now threatening Republicans with opposition next go round if they don’t lay down and give the Chamber precisely what it wants, including on immigration, increased spending on transportation, and economic deals that sweeten the pot for big business.
Naturally, the Wall Street Journal is there to carry the Chamber’s water:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce flexed its muscle in the midterm election, winning 14 of 15 Republican primaries in which it was involved and helping the GOP recapture the Senate. Now it wants the Republican majority in Congress to get to work.
Forget small business, or the average Jane or Joe, the Chamber wants what it wants. Unfortunately, the WSJ either overlooks or is ignorant of how this would leave the GOP completely open to attack from the more populist wing of the Democrat Party. If, for example, a Hillary Clinton could win over that wing, and the GOP ran yet another Bush, totally beholden to corporatist America, 2016 might not be such a good year for Republicans, no matter how much noise the Chamber may make.
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When government is for sale, this is what results. Now, the GOP can run Jeb Bush and be *sure* they will lose, which is what they want. It’s a beautiful plan.
The greedy BIG business boys are claiming credit for the election results in November? Are those clowns on drugs?
OK, go support the Democrats. We dare you!
my vote had nothing to do with the COC
Does anyone else think running the lobbyists out of politics might be a good idea? Just wonderin’...
The Chamber of Commerce has gone full fascist.
The Chamber's position on immigration, at best, illustrates the danger of too narrow a focus. At worst, it is an example of a form of self-destructive insanity. (See Corporate Management Folly).
William Flax
Donohue can always move to Mexico since thats the populace he’s so thrilled about.
Or back to Ireland where he can attack WASP society another way.
Either way, he doesn’t belong here.
The Chamber of Commies will get what they want from slobbering Republicans who are tripping over their own genitals while waiting to have sex with them.
The Chamber of Commerce has nearly become an ‘Anti-American’ organization, at least as far as the American People are concerned. Their interests do not align with ours on many things.
That’s the problem with many of these business interests these days. They seem to no longer operate from the premise of ‘America first’.
Follow the money and then?
Ha ha ha ha. The only reason Republicans won big in 2014 was because of Obama SUCKING and conservatives voting.
The crony capitalists of the Chamber had NOTHING TO DO WITH VICTORY.
Don't
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Crony Capitalism at its best.
This gang of international thieves probably supports the UN and one-worldism also.
Not “nearly”, they are, in the sense that they are globalist, not pro-American.
The GOP in the next Congress will stand up and be counted as either free enterprise Conservatives, or crony-capitalist loving RINOs. The former care about improving the whole economy and the latter worries about improving the economy only for the crony-capitalists that will promise them aid in their next election campaign. The former is favorable to the whole business community and later concerns themselves with only some parts of that community. From the later we get our complex tax code with all its carve outs, exemptions, exclusions and credits, all rendered as “for helping the economy” when in fact they are all for helping some.
Meanwhile, everyone not doing an activity that warrants those loopholes helps cover the difference between what a broad universal flat tax regime would get and what it gets with all the loopholes.
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