Posted on 10/11/2010 11:11:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you are an American and you travel anywhere in the world in an official capacity, one of your first meetings is likely to be with the local American Chamber of Commerce.
Meeting with AmChams (as they are called) is an essential way to get a better understanding of how American businesses are doing in selling American products overseas. Members of AmChams (who are usually American) have an acute understanding of the local laws, the obstacles that foreign governments often place in the way of trade and the opportunities that exist for further investment.
AmChams are the tip of the spear when it comes to international trade. And without international trade, American business can’t grow. And if American businesses don’t grow, jobs don’t get created back here in the United States of America.
When President Obama talks about the supposed foreign influence that has infiltrated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he is talking about dues that are being paid by these AmChams back to the Chamber.
His argument is complete nonsense. It smacks of McCarthyism. The argument itself is delusional, and it makes me wonder if the president has taken leave of his senses.
Worse for the president, by attacking the Chamber of Commerce in such a violent way, he reveals his hatred for the private sector, which only serves to rile up his opponents even more.
The Chamber of Commerce is not an arm of the Republican Party. For example, it supported the president’s stimulus package. It supported the auto bailout. It supported the small-business loan program that the president signed last month.
The business of the Chamber is to support business, not support the Republican Party. But the Chamber finds itself supporting many more Republican candidates this election cycle because so many Democrats have taken an avowedly anti-business turn to the left, led by President Obama.
The Chamber has no choice, because the Democrats, with their agenda of higher taxes, more regulation, more litigation and more powerful labor unions, are seeking to Hugo Chavez the private sector.
The charge that comes from the president that shadowy groups may have an undue influence on this election is especially hypocritical, given that Obama won because of the influence of George Soros and his compadres.
We know that Soros and his friends in 2006 and 2008 spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding radical, left-wing groups like ThinkProgress and the Center for American Progress (ThinkProgress is the group that made the initial charges against the Chamber). These groups didn’t — and don’t — divulge their donors, but I didn’t hear Obama complain about them once during his campaign for president.
The president’s latest attack on the Chamber of Commerce shows one thing conclusively. He is losing it. And his team is going to lose the elections badly in less than four weeks.
And we're all paying the bill.
One truly frightening possibility is that this clod could turn into such a drag for the Dems that they decide to martyr him - and if that should be the case, you can bet they will have a “right-wing” fall guy set up. When his own party is running away from him and his ego still keeps moving him in the same direction you can bet there will be an internal war.
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Translation: Hillary.
Yep, that's bound to work.
I think they are probably too stupid and too unimaginative to realize how bad it can get for them.
I don't see any Dem in the House or Senate with the sense and cojones to do so.
I don't see any Dem in the House or Senate with the sense and cojones to do so.
Yeah, there maybe a mutiny coming but it but it will only be because they didn’t get everything through. Remember, if it wasn’t for Sen. Brown winning his seat, they would have pushed through everything. Also, remember that this fraud in the white house and all his minions of all political stripes in Washington, wanted to enslave us more through taxation. Taxing every mile we drive, taxing our heat, taxing the air we breath, and so on. It is a shame, but Americans have a short memory when it comes to evil that is trying to destroy us as a Republic.
So many on this thread appear to be so short sighted. Remember all the socialist democrats whom have visited Chavez and China over the past 2 years? The Clintons brewing agendas in stealth with Mexican parties at the end of their term?
There comes a point where by weakening the US substantially, causing internal division, the Marxist recipe for revolution has been slowly brewing by these narcissists for far too long.
It won’t be conservatives to start the problems, but if these leftists in power perceive they are losing power, they will barter away the country to position themselves. They could care less for the country, than for their securing a circle of powerful friends, no matter how treasonous the circle might become.
IMHO, they are more experienced in mobilizing political groups in revolutionary formation than in ever working harmoniously with differing factions. This will be their natural tendency.
I predict that next spring, some Dems. are going to pay him a visit and tell him to step down.
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I don’t see any Dem in the House or Senate with the sense and cojones to do so.
I really don’t either but we can only hope.
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