Rahm Emanuel Dispatched To Mend Fences With Chamber Of Commerce

Politico:

The White House continued its fence-mending with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday -- very quietly -- dispatching Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to speak to the group's board of directors.

But the White House didn't widely publicize the session, and Emanuel's remarks were off the record.

Read the whole story: Politico

Comments

[austin4]

test

[takeusaback]

Dear Mr. President , please accept the following comment in the spirit in which it is offered.

SCREW THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE!!!

The Chamber has lobbied hard against health care reform and against clean energy. It's official position is that Global Warming is a left wing liberal conspiracy.

Why would you pander to this low form of life. Let them rise to our standards. Let them join the overwhelming majority of he earths population by using science not ideology.

Start standing tough for those of us in the center of the political spectrum please.

[RoveRoveRoveYourBoat]

Fire Rahm, Geitner, Sumers
ROLL BACK REAGANISM NOW
Supply-side and "free-trade"
For corporations: TAX them, REGULATE them, AUDIT them, BREAK THEM UP,
DECHARTER those offshore, NO PERSONHOOD for them, PROSECUTE illegal employers.
PROSECUTE war profiteers.
Let the chamber of horors scream till they bleed

[holeybuybull]

And be sure to not hold accountable the puppet that selected these people for his cabinet.

[HumeSkeptic]

There ya go. But, first, Biden should resign.

[HumeSkeptic]

How much time do I have to get that done?

[helenwheels]

Fanned!

[cavegal]

Fanned

[chancho24]

The Delivarance guy was giving a speech.

[Bitsko]

"Looks like we got us a sow here instead of a boar."

[DontJustFollow]

Democrats control the White House, the Senate, and the House - - - and can't get anything done.

Of course they blame the republicans, democrats ALWAYS have someone else to blame. Maybe it is the teabaggers, maybe the COC, maybe that evi l R00sh, of course there is Bush/Cheney, in a pinch they can alway conjour up RR or Maggie - but in the end it is always the same old song and dance... Democrats know that outside of a small radical base, Americans want smaller government and lower taxes and try as they might, Democrats need those people to hold power.

Must suuck to be a democrat - - -

[BigAl72]

Suck_this!

[DontJustFollow]

truth stings huh?

[postman66]

69 million Americans disagreed last Nov.

[DontJustFollow]

you can fool some of the people all of the time . . .

[chasethis]

Re--Hume's question on what to do about Blue Dogs. Here's today's petition from BoldProgressives:

PETITION TO SENATE DEMOCRATS:

"Any Democratic senators -- including Joe Lieberman -- who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care reform that includes a public option."

Over 120,000 signatures -- can you help us reach 150,000?

http://boldprogressives.org/majorityvote/p-e4n-t5

[DontJustFollow]

excellent - you go get them!!! MAybe run some Grayson types in their places next cycle. Please

[HumeSkeptic]

I agree with that approach.
I also contribute to MoveOn when they go after Blue Dogs.

[novoorganum]

The environmental movement has been labeled by Republicans as a left-wing socialist threat. Anyone who believes this, is either ignorant or psychotic. How can one label such a nobel movement, whose primary goal is to save the planet, and thus preserve humanity ?

[cavegal]

Done and thanks for posting the link.

[PeacefulRevolution]

Signed, sealed and delivered. Thanks for posting.

[gmailliw]

New main = Outrage po.rn.

[flossophy]

Obama has lost his political capital. No more bullying of private enterprise.

Time for him to play nice in the playground.

[acapo]

yep

[Bitsko]

I'll never understand your devotion to the principles of untrammeled greed propounded by exploitative multinational corporations..

[flossophy]

Because greed in government is far worse.

It's not even close.

[postman66]

Flop will probably have to get as old as Alan Greenspan to realize Ayn Rand was a charlatan

[cavegal]

I don't know about that Flossy, Rahm is hardly known to back down from a fight and can make sailors blush.

[qdog112]

You're so WRONG. The Chamber will be grinning ear to ear now that they have been accepted back into the picture. They have no standing with everyday Americans.

They are mostly GOP elites who hate the common man. The threat of further exposure will now keep them in line. Watch and learn.

[chancho24]

Wrongssophy, it may appear to you that way, but don't be too sure.

[MaxBob]

I'm going to see if I can take ADVANTAGE of the new entitlement program for present homeowner's. A $6500 tax credit for a subsequent home purchase. WOOOO-WOOOOO. More taxpayer dollars coming my way. Yes, I Can. Change I surely believe in!

[novoorganum]

With the proviso, of course, that you are able to keep your job and get the financing.

[nkhogan]

Thank God a new main. More corporate banking chit.

[NWRICK]

d'oh!

[nkhogan]

Yup, it was going to be that or Afghanistan. But yes, AH went for the banking sheet.

[DontJustFollow]

Lets see:

President Obama gets schooled by the IOC, the RNC is collecting far more money than the DNC, ObamaCare is turning into a 1.3 Trillion Dollar debacle, Tuesday night President Obama realizes that 15 campaign stops cannot help democrats get elected (even though they ran in states he won a year ago), and 2010 is look bleak and Obama 2012 needs to start raising cash since the Stim Payouts are not working . . .

Maybe Rahm should sneak over and start buttering the bun ?

[postman66]

NJ and Va both elect a Gov from the party NOT in the WH. They did the same both of Bush's Presidential elections.

[Da-king]

First off the Yankees are the 2009 World Series Champions. Second do people think that the white House would create enemies with everyone who disagrees with them? I am not surprised that they are trying to patch things up with the C O C. Of course the media won't like that too much becasuse this would be one useless loop out of their irrelevant news cycle..Third We need Health Reform this year call your congressional reps and tell them not delay this thing for next year. With that said how is everybody doing?

[DontJustFollow]

What next - President Obama will send Gibbs over to Fox for an "off the record" site down ?

[parrotkisser]

1. Baseball sucks.

2. Absolutely nothing wrong with attempting to deal with the Chamber.

3. Healtcare reform NOW and it better be good.

4. Doing very well, thanks, how are you?

[Zox]

Nobody watches baseball anymore. Nobody cares.

[Da-king]

How do you know no ones watches it? maybe because you do watch it yourself.

[stunsitfel]

Did Nancy declare victory again today?

[chocolatecity]

Well she does have two more votes than she had on Monday. So yeah, I think she thinks she has a victory.

[gmailliw]

Freedom! Freedom! We want Freedom!

Our plan for health care: Freedom!

We are just going to say it over and over again: Freedom!

I know I'm not really saying anything, I'm just going to keep saying Freedom, because you teabaggers like cliche's and codewords over substance.

Freedom!!!

[digital]

FREEDOM!

(as they vote for people who want to take everything away from them)

LOL

[helenwheels]

They just love voting against their own self-interests, don't they? I guess they think that magically someday they might suddenly be a Rothschild or somesuch... so they vote to protect the 5% elites....*snicker*

[qdog112]

Like Grayson said, freedom to die quickly.

[Da-king]

These brainless goons are getting redundant with this rethoric, its like they don't know what freedom means.

[Bitsko]

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." -- Kris Kristofferson

[Da-king]

Yeah they lost the Presidential election big time last year.

[Bigidea]

It is called the Tail wagging the Dog.

[HumeSkeptic]

Don't let that tail do it to you.

[Bigidea]

Let me offer you a piece of advice. If you can’t say anything nice or interesting, don’t say anything. I compared the chamber of comers to be the tail and the white house (the people of this country) to be the dog. I found it strange that a chamber of comers is able to dictate terms to the white house. That’s why I said, the tail is wagging the dog. You commented “don’t let the tail do that to you”. What do you mean my that? You either didn’t understand the metaphor or you thought you were clever. Either way, it is misplaced comment. Go and get a life. Don’t spend all your life on HP.