Chamber President: Maybe Ted Cruz Could Sit Down And Shut Up

TPM Livewire ^ | October 21, 2013, 10:30 AM EDT | Dylan Scott

[Olog-hai]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue suggested Monday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) should reconsider his role as congressional troublemaker. …

A reporter followed up by noting that the conventional wisdom is that the business community wants the Texas senator “to sit down and shut up.”

“Well, that might be one thing we can work on,” Donohue quipped. …

[indthkr]

"US Chamber of Commerce"

In the Internet / Communcations era, are groups like the Chamber really relevant anymore, other than for backroom inside-the-beltway deals?

No wonder they were so upset with the shutdown; no operating government - no need for their "services".

[Colonel_Flagg]

I like how you think.

[popdonnelly]

If the Chamber of Commerce wants tax reform, they should ally themselves with the Tea Party, not fight it.

[Olog-hai]

Given their origins, that’d be nearly impossible for them to do; given their current leadership, it certainly would be impossible.

[tumblindice]

US Chamber of Commerce: one of the chief violators of our immigration and naturalization laws through enabling illegal aliens and their employers.

[VideoDoctor]

Mr. Donohue, PLEASE stop being such a BIG A$$HOLE. /s

[Wuli]

the Chamber is only “pro business” in the crony capitalist sense of “what’s in it for me” (the tax code and/or regulations favoring an industry, or favoring a buiness or segment of business with an industry, over others; special interest tax exemtions, tax subsidies, import quotas, loans insured by the taxpayers, and other forms of crony-capitalist use of the favors of big government) but NOT in the sense of industry nuetral, business neutral taxes and regulations that make for a transparent level playing field for ALL business at once

[Mastador1]

To quote Eddie Cusack in Code of Silence “When I want your opinion, I’ll beat it out of you.” Ya gotta love the dialog in Chuck Norris movies.

[Memphis Moe]

The Chamber of Commerce will get nothing from me except for criticism.

What a sham it has become.

[ladyjane]

1600 H Street.

But he’s not an insider. LOL

[MinuteGal]

Most folks don't know that the vast majority of doctors don't belong to the AMA....the medical wing of the Democrat party.

Same thing should apply here. Every freeper that belongs to the captive Chamber should quit and let their local group know why...or the action is futile.

And if you have friends in the Chamber, urge them to quit, also...and tell they why they should. They probably don't have the faintest idea what their National is up to.

Leni