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.
man, ain’t that the truth! But you can’t have been a banker like he was without having a little bit of capitalist economics rub off on you, and these guys have to know these policies are just drilling bigger holes in a sinking ship.
It still comes down to the question of whether 0bama is a dummass ideologue that can’t see anything outside of the Marxist paradigm he was raised in,
or whether he’s an evil genius that is knowingly destroying the country.
Ideology often clouds intellect.
Most of the time socialists simply cling to the excuse that “it wasn’t done right” or “it wasn’t done completely enough” to justify why the actual implementation of their ideas hasn’t and doesn’t work.
I agree. But the Clinton dems want folks thinking not all dems are progressive commiecrats. The sad thing is Daley looks moderate for half a second compared to Obama and Jarrett.He just tries to play-act character and statesmenship. Obama does not even try to fake it.
For the “Bamster, all this is “unexpected” I’m sure...
Daley has seen enough fraud and fakes....so now he is working for one...a complete fraud.
Bush began to loose private sector support when he (in their eyes) only concentrated on oil and terrorism.
Bush tried to throw them a bone by supporting increasing H1b and amnesty.
CEO’s are now waking up realizing Obummer was only interested in promoting his Union friends, golf and basketball.
I believe that was the pure truth. It fits exactly with what we know about how O and Co do things. And if it isn’t real?
Hey, Didn’t Rather have a quote that fits? ;)
Why in the hell is Ulsterman persona non grata at FR?
“...He should quit trying to run the world and become a reader for audio books....”
That would be a sure cure for insomniacs the world over.
June 17, 2011
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I must have missed that. Not the "a$$ roasting," that I did see, but the screaming and cursing. More info?
Word I got from AdminMod is that Jim seems to know who he is and he was zotted from here last year for something or other. That’s all I know.
LoL! Yes. Although he’s got that droning sing-song thing going on when he’s on teleprompter that drives me nuts.
Insider might be Carville, but he was apparently actually inside the WH at some point. Not sure Carville was ever actually inside. Sounds like a disgruntled Clinonite though.
Do we have a pool on how long before daley gets tossed?
Daley’s not getting tossed, Jarrett is. Rahmbo (and hence the DNC) has all the dirt on both Dumb0 and Jarrett. Jarrett keeps her mouth shut and plays nice with Daley or they throw her under the bus in the Broadway Bank, Alex Giannolis(sp?), Blogajovich, Rezko affair (of course it would be hard to keep Dumb0 out of that mess if it came to that).
Daley was the adult that the DNC sent to keep all the donors from fleeing in panic after they found out what a maroon Dumb0 is.
A “What the [bleep] was that?” ping. Thanks jmranchman.
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