Posted on 06/17/2011 11:12:53 AM PDT by jmranchman
White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from business executives Thursday for the Obama administration’s regulatory expansions. Daley also said he didn’t have any good answers for some of what President Obama is doing and expressed frustration about the “bureaucratic stuff that’s hard to defend.”
“Sometimes you can’t defend the indefensible,” Daley said at a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting.
Daley couldn’t answer basic questions and continually faced criticism from the executives in the room. The business leaders even applauded each other’s criticism of the administration. “At one point, the room erupted in applause when Massachusetts utility executive Doug Starrett, his voice shaking with emotion, accused the administration of blocking construction on one of his facilities to protect fish, saying government ‘throws sand into the gears of progress,’” wrote Peter Wallsten and Jia Lynn Yang in the Washington Post.
Americans for Limited Government Communications Director and former Labor Department Public Affairs Chief of Staff Rick Manning told The Daily Caller that Daley’s inability to defend Obama’s regulations is an indication that the administration’s plans aren’t working. Manning also points out that Daley’s meeting may have large political implications.
“Business community to William Daley, your Jedi tricks don’t work on us,” Manning said in an email. “The chickens are coming home to roost from the wholesale assault by Obama on the free enterprise system and the private job creators who make it run. The meeting itself is incredible in that it demonstrates just how vulnerable Obama feels in 2012.”
(As goes the economy, so goes Ohio?)
The Workforce Fairness Institute’s Fred Wszolek told The Daily Caller that Daley’s lackluster performance is even more questionable when comes to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its campaign against the Boeing Company. The NLRB has gone after the Boeing Company for opening a new plant in South Carolina. Boeing’s new plant is an addition to its already-existing production lines in Washington state. The NLRB’s case hinges on whether Boeing made the decision to open the new plant as “retaliation” against machinist unions in Washington, even though no jobs were lost there. In fact, Boeing has added thousands of new jobs in Washington.
As a former Boeing board member before taking on his White House job, Daley voted in favor of opening the new South Carolina plant. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has challenged Daley to come out and defend his vote in the face of the NLRB’s case, but he hasn’t yet done so.
Hillary will.
“Here’s what I’ve learned being SecState . . . “
Then she’ll paint herself as the ultimate moderate, very much in the tradition of her husband. After all, only a liberal politician could have reformed welfare.
That’ll be the line. Sensible liberalism, and fiscal conservatism.
I give it a 25% percent chance - 1 in 4 - that she’ll run. Wall Street’s had it. Campus liberals think he’s an ass and a traitor. Unions are the last bastion for him, and he’s hanging it all on this NLRB case that the unions, for their sake, OUGHT to lose.
The economy’s not coming back, and people are starting to pick Jeff Immelt out of the background of the photos he’s in with Obama. That means NBC will have to dial back the propaganda too.
He’s going to be forced to announce he’s not running for a second term by probably August. Even if we get hit on American soil again in a big way by terrorists, he doesn’t have the cred to rally around during an election year.
He’s done by August. He’ll wear out AF1 going on golf junkets, and Slow Joe will be running things here in the last bit of it.
Any video of this meeting...cause would be awesome!
trying to have it both ways, Daley is there telling these people we are here for you while somewhere across town the administration is meeting with some leftest about those evil corporations and how to put them out of business.
Cognitive dissonance.
Daley is a big lib, but he’s not stupid - and he knows what Obama is doing will never work.
According to the Insider, Daley was forced on Obama by the party. Obama may not have any choice in the matter.
from what I have read, Daley is in the white house to put some limits on the obama/jarrett team’s madness.
Possible, but the “don’t change horses in the middle of a stream” doesn’t seem to work here. Hillary would still have to defend here time working for Obama or explain why, if she disagreed with his policies, she implemented them anyway. Nobody wants to be anywhere near Dumb0 when this explodes.
I never imagined a time when Daley would be the more sane person in the room.
Has anything Ulterman claimed ever happened???
It would be nice to think that he actually has SOME credibility.
Hey Daley you associate with nitwits you become one.
“if Dumb0 doesn’t run in ‘12 who does? “
Dennis The Menace. Guaranteed!
The departure of whazzername - economic advisor. Arrival of Bill Daley to replace Rahmbo. Says Geithner is going soon - we’ll see.
It’s not just what insider says, it’s that it is all so probable given what we know about Dumb0’s ignorance and narcissism.
Every GOP candidate running for every national office in 2012 should have this statement at the top of their policy platforms!
Yep, Obama makes Clinton look reasonable, Nixon look honest, Johnson look peaceful and Carter look smart.
Obama’s administration is falling apart.
Perhaps there’s a reason he’s been saying “some days I only want one term”.
Perhaps, a Hillary third-party run is in the works.
Daley’s no moderate. He’s a bagman and friend to every political entrepreneur in America.
He’d be parking cars today if his daddy didn’t run Chicago.
Someone said they thought the insider might be James Carville.
Hmmm.
Yes, I agree - what keeps me interested is it’s easy to imagine this stuff really going on. Really it’s horrifying that when we desperately need a good strong leader we’ve got this overhyped fool instead. The only thing he’s good at is reading a telepromptor. He should quit trying to run the world and become a reader for audio books.
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