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Posted on 07/02/2015 9:04:39 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donahue said something Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, could work on was learning how to 'sit down and shut up' after the firebrand conservative led a Republican effort to defund President Barack Obama's signature health care law resulting in a 16-day federal government shutdown and near credit default.
"He has his right as a member of the Senate to get out and push the things he supports or resist the things he doesn't support and we're going to try to work with him wherever we can," Donahue said during an event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
A reporter said, "people are assuming that the business community would kind of like him to sit down and shut up," Donahue replied, "Well, that might be one thing we could work on."
Donahue said while the Affordable Care Act is deeply flawed, the chamber supports its aims at lowering health care costs and providing access to affordable health insurance. And he said Cruz and other Republicans, should focus more on getting results rather than political grandstanding.
"I sort of think about him as a tennis player. You know if you are going to rush the net all the time you better have a lot of motion to the left and the right and he hasn't proved that to me yet," he said. "Remember the issue – it's not the substance, it's what is the result?"
When asked about the critical remarks, a spokeswoman for Cruz demurred from addressing them directly.
"Sen. Cruz will always work to defend the interests of the Texans who elected him to the Senate and who stand behind his effort to bring relief to all Americans from Obamacare," said Catherine Frazier, press secretary for Cruz, in a statement.
[VOTE: Will Ted Cruz's Shutdown Stand Help or Hurt Republicans?]
Donahue said the chamber, which traditionally supports small government, low tax policies most commonly associated with Republicans, would be supporting some Democrats as well as Republicans in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections.
"We will support, to some peoples' discomfort, numbers of Democrats in both houses," he said. "The bottom line is this is all about the economy, so for us it's all about the American business community and all about the country."
Many business leaders urged lawmakers to oppose the economic brinksmanship engaged in by Cruz and House conservatives in recent weeks that threatened to grind the still struggling economy to a halt.
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Ted Cruz Ping! Unless the CoC buys the ‘Rats, they are
DOOMED.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donahue should learn how to sit down and shut up.
Like most things in America, the so-called “Chamber” has long been hijacked by the persistent left while the uninformed conservatives twiddle their thumbs.
“Donahue said while the Affordable Care Act is deeply flawed, the chamber supports its aims at lowering health care costs and providing access to affordable health insurance.”
Just to remove all doubts about why the GOP has done nothing about it up until now.
I've dealt with you corporate-welfare dirtbags. YOU sit down and STFU.
How about the entire Chamber of Communism shuts up and gets out (of the USA)?
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Please enlighten us, Mr. Johnson. What "results" are you looking for, exactly? Pushing Obama's agenda through (which the GOP is doing, BTW)? Speaking of someone shooting their mouth off, this nitwit doesn't know when to shut up.
‘Donahue said the chamber, which traditionally supports small government, low tax policies most commonly associated with Republicans’
Commonly...traditionally. Blah blah blah
Newspeak for:
‘Used to be we did that’
Now we’re all about cheap labor pouring in from the “border”. They’re like (but worse than) medical insurance companies doing very well under obamacare.
‘Donahue said the chamber, which traditionally supports small government, low tax policies most commonly associated with Republicans’
Commonly...traditionally. Blah blah blah
Newspeak for:
‘Used to be we did that’
Now we’re all about cheap labor pouring in from the “border”. They’re like (but worse than) medical insurance companies doing very well under obamacare.
Anyone calling it the ‘affordable care act’ wants it to stay
This was a year and a half ago.
Never heard of him. Evidently it doesn’t matter if he sits down and shuts up or not. LOL
Nice to know the quality of people running the Chamber.
BTTT
Or is it because the CofC represents the eagerness of some businesses to unload health benefits from their employee compensation to the taxpayer? I’m just askin’.
“U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donahue should learn how to sit down and shut up.”
They are so insular that you can’t e-mail them unless you are a member!
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