Chamber pleads with Congress to step back from the brink

[Faygo Kid]

Source: The Hill

The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday urged Congress not to play with fire by risking a government shutdown or federal default.

In a letter to members, the big-business lobby took direct aim at House Republican plans to use an Oct. 1 shutdown deadline and mid-October debt-ceiling deadline to try to stop the implementation of ObamaCare.

While the Chamber said it agrees that the Affordable Care Act has problems and that entitlement spending needs to be addressed, the group said creating a crisis to force action on those issues is counterproductive.

“It is readily apparent none of these important issues are ripe for resolution. We therefore urge the House to act promptly to pass a Continuing Resolution to fund the government and to raise the debt ceiling, and then to return to work on these other vital issues,” wrote Bruce Josten, the Chamber’s top lobbyist. . . .

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/323067-chamber-to-congress-stop-threatening-shutdown-default

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You lie down with Tea Party dogs, you get up with fleas.

The Chamber bears its share of responsibility for creating this monster.

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Hey! Chamber of commerce dumbfucks! Stop donating to their campaigns! n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

4. +1

They did it to themselves.

[lastlib]

20. K & R!!!!! + 1000,000,000,000,000.....000

[DJ13]

2. LOL

You own them, its up to you.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. This is gonna get interesting.

The Moneybaggers versus the Teabaggers.

Hey--I think I just coined a handy little catchphrase there.

[wandy]

12. My guess is that's more like The Moneybaggers versus the The Moneybaggers...........

Just different Moneybaggers.
On one side you have the wall street backed traditional branch of the GOP. On the other side you have the Koch, Adelson and such, supported teabagger branch of the GOP.
Knowing that congress would likely have blocked their for profit adventure in Syria, its anyones guess who the M.I.C. may spend their money with.

Should get entertaining.

[jeff47]

5. Having a wee bit of trouble with your monster, Dr. Frankenstein? (nt)

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Tough shit, USCOC. You made your bed. . .now sleep in it.

n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I'm guessing that the Chamber figured out how much public money they would lose

if the government shut down.

I would call them kick backs. They call it economic development.

[Salviati]

8. If the chamber wants to dig their way out of the mess they got themselves into....

and shut these lunatics down, then the only way to do it is to announce that they will refuse to donate to anyone who votes to either shut down the government, or refuse to raise the debt ceiling, and in fact will donate to unseat any such members from congress. Then, regardless of whether such votes succeed or fail, follow through.

[Liberalynn]

9. You bought and paid for them Chamber. You're Stuck with Them even though you are

now pretending buyers remorse.

[BlueJac]

10. I hate these assholes too.......

peas in a pod!

[Frustratedlady]

11. Well, that's a surprise. The big, brave Chamber getting too close to the edge of that cliff?

My, my...I about choked when I saw that subject line. They wanted to play with the big boys, but didn't have the stomach to go beyond pulling little boy tricks.

What will the Koch brothers say when you take your ball and go home? Their game is long-term and they don't like quitters.

[leftyohiolib]

13. entitlement spending needs to be addressed, yes like welfare to big pharma , oil and gas , the agri

biz etc

[srican69]

14. The rise of the FrankenTea Monster ...

the created it and now are getting screwed by it

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Meh.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

16. Happens every time this comes up.

This will be ignored until the pressure gets unbearable, then they'll fold. The Republicans, that is. If they actually force a debt default, they know they'll be out of power, well, forever.

[Iliyah]

17. Un-American assholes -

House Republicans who appears to love effing the 99%ers to its fullest. If they go forward in screwing Americans even more, I hope it also hits the 1%ers even harder. Gopers will hurt their red and gerrymandering districts the hardest and heres "hoping also" they take notice - re: 2014.

These house gopers are totally and unquestionable sick in the heart and head.

[JDPriestly]

18. If they take everything and drive all but the richest Americans into a form of serfdom, they

will then have to defend what they have. In the past, that has meant small wars between feudal lords who force the poor to provide them with food and who draft the elites just beneath them into military service for the lord. A few lords join together and pick an overlord of a sort. But in a society in which very few have a whole lot and most others have very little, there is very little technological advancement and a lot of war and destruction.

At least that is what history tells us as I understand it.

People who are driven to acquire are never satisfied with what they have acquired. They always want more, more, more. They are driven by their very desire to possess what they see or what they know is there. They are never satisfied or content. And they are very competitive.

Democracy can keep that obsession to possess in check, but right now among the 1% in America, it is being allowed free reign and is out of control.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Hoist with their own petard, as it were.

[Demeter]

21. Dr. Frankenstein, repenting

[silvershadow]

22. Well, now I can at least say I have agreed with the Chamber at least once. nt

[Cha]

23. Deja vu all over again. You lie down with snakes, you

get up and hope the venom hasn't killed ya.

"Get back to work on other vital issues"? Like JOBS!

If the teabaggers do shut down the government I would thnk the CoC will remember this come election time. One would hope.

[Hubert Flottz]

24. "The Chamber bears its share of responsibility for creating this monster."

I couldn't agree more.

[Snake Plissken]

25. Sure we were willing to play Russian Roulette by supporting the baggers

but we didn't expect the gun to actually be loaded


You helped create this train wreck, hopefully you'll go down with them

http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/02/12/us-chamber-of-commerce.html