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By Julianna Goldman - Nov 20, 2013
During a meeting in the West Wing of the White House this month, President Barack Obamas aides posed an unusual question to business leaders across the table: How can the administration help House Speaker John Boehner?
Obamas interest in helping Boehner is part of a broader White House effort to enlist executives to support Republicans who are willing to deal with the administration. Its also aimed at exposing divisions within the opposition party.
The White House session sought to coordinate efforts to pass immigration legislation, an achievement that would boost the electoral chances of some of Boehners Republicans even as it sparks opposition from Tea Party lawmakers.
As corporate America grows frustrated with Tea Party influence over Republican leaders, the president, who in his first term once derided fat-cat bankers on Wall Street, is now reaching out to chief executive officers for help on issues from the budget to immigration laws.
The White House and Democratic leadership are certainly appealing to the business communitys disenchantment with the GOP, said Kathryn Wylde, CEO of the Partnership for New York City, an association of leaders of companies, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Gothmog
(143,998 posts)I am glad that President Obama is making the effort to stir business away from the GOP. The tea party is in control of the GOP and the business community can not rely on the GOP now
Myrina
(12,296 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)AlinPA
(15,071 posts)Bad assumption. There is nothing that bastard would ever do to help this country or its people.