[From October 21, 2013] Chamber President to Ted Cruz: 'Sit Down and Shut Up

USNews.com ^ | October 21, 2013 | Rebekah Metzler

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[Paladin2]

Unless the CoC buys the ‘Rats, they are
DOOMED.

[TBP]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donahue should learn how to sit down and shut up.

[Theodore R.]

Like most things in America, the so-called “Chamber” has long been hijacked by the persistent left while the uninformed conservatives twiddle their thumbs.

[headstamp 2]

“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.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Chamber President to Ted Cruz: 'Sit Down and Shut Up'

I've dealt with you corporate-welfare dirtbags. YOU sit down and STFU.

[Olog-hai]

How about the entire Chamber of Communism shuts up and gets out (of the USA)?

[SunkenCiv]

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]

[Major Matt Mason]

And he said Cruz and other Republicans, should focus more on getting results rather than political grandstanding.

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.

[stanne]

‘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.

[stanne]

‘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.

[stanne]

Anyone calling it the ‘affordable care act’ wants it to stay

[ecomcon]

This was a year and a half ago.

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[SoConPubbie]

This was a year and a half ago.

Yes it was, hence the date included in brackets in the title.

What's your point?

[sparklite2]

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’.

[vette6387]

“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!

[2ndDivisionVet]