Commerce vows to punish anti-business candidates
Alarmed at the increasingly populist tone of the 2008 political campaign, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is set to issue a fiery promise to spend millions of dollars to defeat candidates deemed to be anti-business.Nice. Voters are concerned about an economy that borders on recession, a weak record of job creation, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, declining home values and growing health care crisis, but the chamber isn't worried about our concerns - they're only worried about protecting their shareholders and CEO's.
"We plan to build a grass-roots business organization so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed," chamber President Tom Donohue said.
Reacting to what it sees as a potentially hostile political climate, Donohue said, the chamber will seek to punish candidates who target business interests with their rhetoric or policy proposals, including congressional and state-level candidates.No words of sympathy for workers. No promise from corporate America that they'll work to improve workers' living standards. No thank you for the record high productivity levels. Nothing. Just derision and a promise to bite the butts of the candidates we support until they bleed.
Although Donohue shied away from precise figures, he indicated that his organization would spend in excess of the approximately $60 million it spent in the last presidential cycle.
Thanks, Mr. Donohue. You just helped push more voters toward the populist candidates.
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I think Donohue in going to cannibalize liberals. Check out those teeth.
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Progressives and Unions spend money, we spend money.
http://www.chamberpost.com/2008/01/its-called-demo.html
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Chamberpost, you're right, unions and progressives spend money too. The difference between them and the chamber is that we fight for better working conditions, wages, benefits, environmental standards, etc. We work for the common good. The chamber works for stockholders, CEO's and the wealthy.
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