Posted on 07/02/2015 9:04:39 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donahue said something Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, could work on was learning how to 'sit down and shut up' after the firebrand conservative led a Republican effort to defund President Barack Obama's signature health care law resulting in a 16-day federal government shutdown and near credit default.
"He has his right as a member of the Senate to get out and push the things he supports or resist the things he doesn't support and we're going to try to work with him wherever we can," Donahue said during an event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
A reporter said, "people are assuming that the business community would kind of like him to sit down and shut up," Donahue replied, "Well, that might be one thing we could work on."
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. And he said Cruz and other Republicans, should focus more on getting results rather than political grandstanding.
"I sort of think about him as a tennis player. You know if you are going to rush the net all the time you better have a lot of motion to the left and the right and he hasn't proved that to me yet," he said. "Remember the issue it's not the substance, it's what is the result?"
When asked about the critical remarks, a spokeswoman for Cruz demurred from addressing them directly.
"Sen. Cruz will always work to defend the interests of the Texans who elected him to the Senate and who stand behind his effort to bring relief to all Americans from Obamacare," said Catherine Frazier, press secretary for Cruz, in a statement.
[VOTE: Will Ted Cruz's Shutdown Stand Help or Hurt Republicans?]
Donahue said the chamber, which traditionally supports small government, low tax policies most commonly associated with Republicans, would be supporting some Democrats as well as Republicans in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections.
"We will support, to some peoples' discomfort, numbers of Democrats in both houses," he said. "The bottom line is this is all about the economy, so for us it's all about the American business community and all about the country."
Many business leaders urged lawmakers to oppose the economic brinksmanship engaged in by Cruz and House conservatives in recent weeks that threatened to grind the still struggling economy to a halt.
Anyone calling it the affordable care act is lying.
Cruz to Victory!!
The Chamber now represents Big Business. They do almost nothing to help the little guy get bank loans.
I agree. There are a number of reasons and most are correct.
Ted, speak PROUD and speak LOUD!!
You’re hitting the marks! Hahaha!
WTH IS the Chamber of Commerce now days?
Business owners are not all corporations and conglomerates. Who does this guy think he is. Small businesses are members, and can’t possibly be all that aligned with Tom Donahue’s elitist attitude and global goals for one world trade at the cost of freedom and liberty in the US.
I really don’t get it. We need a counter to these high hats, maybe a Chamber of American Commerce.
Lying
Sit down and shut up -OR- be a firebrand.?....
Donahue needs a talking to in the rest room..
the kind of talking to that leaves his legs wobbly..
and his hands shaking..
Homofascist liberal loon “corporate interest groups” carry no weight with me.
Corporate liberalism is here today (but maybe not to stay). nearly 400 pro-same sex marriage corporations pressuring the Supremacist Court. Global climate change initiatives. Amnesty for illegals (and no prosecution for hiring illegal immigrants).
Whether they are GOPe or crony communists matters not.
Tom Donahue is a crony capitalist tool.
STFU Crony!
“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. And he said Cruz and other Republicans, should focus more on getting results rather than political grandstanding.”
This is one of the most asinine statement I’ve read in a long time, and and there’s a ton of them to pick from.
Donahue said the chamber, which traditionally supports small government, low tax policies most commonly associated with Republicans, would be supporting some Democrats
ok where are the Republicans who whine when Conservatives stay home cause why aren’t they whining at the CoC for supporting Democrats????????
i was given that book as a kid (it was a prize from my little league football coach for coming up with the best trick play for use in the championship game). i didn't know then that the book was such a sham. JFK didn't even write it. it was ghostwritten in an effort to raise his profile for future political aspirations. he got a Pulitzer Prize for it without doing much (or any?) of the work. come to think of it, does that sound like anyone else we know of??? somebody from Kenya maybe??? hmmm.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/keyword/Profiles-in-Courage
note that to this day, the JFK cultists are still covering up for him. the Kennedys and their sycophants are a pox on this country.
wasn't that the name of Malcolm Forbes' yacht? :p
Ted should come back with something akin to “Spineless toothless jellyfish shouldn’t be barking orders- and telling people; to shut up- it just exposes their partisan aliances with the left- which by the way, I’ve exposed in my new book- feel free to buy a copy- and just know I will NOT sit down and shut up because sitting down and shutting up, like you cowards do is precisely why we’re losing this country you dolt”
Perfect!
Earth to Chamber President: “Sit down, and shut up”.
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