Anti-business Obama puts another CEO in charge of America (Wonkette)

[Enrique]

http://wonkette.com/435730/anti-business-obama-puts-another-ceo-in-charge-of-america

In a desperate bid to prove he worships Wall Street enough to be allowed to remain president, Barack Obama has appointed General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to the new White House group that will decide if CEOs are being treated well enough. (Obama is also shutting down the economic recovery panel led by Paul Volcker.) It’s the latest move for a president who is extremely worried that some liberal on the Internet or all the voters who supported him in 2008 might think he’s some kind of commie softy who doesn’t know his place, which is to serve the nation’s biggest corporations with no questions asked. Obama went to the important “net roots” blog The Wall Street Journal earlier this week to assure his masters that the White House would aggressively target environmental laws and other potential problems for the American mega-businesses still doing some operations in America. And earlier this month, Obama picked a new White House chief of staff that better reflects his desire to be a better servant to Wall Street: JPMorgan Chase executive William Daley.

Speaking of our new White House chief of staff, Bill Daley, he doesn’t have to pay taxes on his sale of $8.3 million in JPMorgan Chase shares. This is because of “government ethics rules.”

Meanwhile, legal arrangements are being made in the White House and in Congress so that all the bankrupt states can officially go bankrupt and screw both their creditors and their retired public workers.

[realFedUp]

1. We are the united states of Corporations

doncha know.

He is the Pragmatic President. If you want to make new jobs,
ya better hire some guys who know how to get the jobs done.

Can we get a whole green jobs thingy on the front burners
please sir? Before foreign companies do it for us?

[boppers]

12. Quick question: Who is the largest Wind Turbine company in the US?

Answer: GE.

[msongs]

2. he could just appoint all his republican best friends and get it over with lol nt

[golddigger]

3. He thinks he's gaining votes, but here in Oregon,

he's losing them as fast as you can 'repuke'.

[Imajika]

5. I'm pretty sure President Obama is in no danger of losing Oregon...

...and what is your evidence "he's losing them (votes) as fast as you can say 'repuke'"?

The President's poll numbers are up quite significantly across the board.

Just because some small portion of the progressive base is bitter does not mean Obama isn't more than making up for it with swing voters, moderates and independent voters whom seem to be extremely pleased with the Obama lately.

Some small subsection of the base being angry is not in any way a reflection of the mood of the general public.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. +10,000. And "small subsections" of the progressive base can't create a single job...

outside the angry "left-o-sphere". Unless Firebag Lake/Wonkette/TYT and all the other hyperventilators can put 30+ mil of us back to work, I'm glad Obama's not playing to this element. If only the the rightwing leadership would take the president's lead, we might actually get folks working again, and I applaud the start he's making.

[TheBigotBasher]

7. Wonkette is not part of that bunch

of hyperventilating loonies.

[displacedvermoter]

8. So this appointment is a good thing, then?

I thought he was content to be a one-term president as long as he didn't have to settle for "school uniforms"? If anyone believed that, then I have a bag of v-chips to sell you.

Small portions and small subsections of the progressive base being bitter and angry generates a lot of poutrage, don't you know!!!

Swing voters, moderates, and independent voters on the other hand, well those are a better lot of people anyway.

Thanks god his poll numbers are up, as that is the most important thing.

Christ this is all becoming so depressing.

[grahamhgreen]

13. The uber-rich will not

support him during the 2012 run.

They'll dump him like an old shoe.

[Armstead]

14. Maybe some of us are bitter that the country is being sold down the river

How the he'll can you justify appointing the head of a corporation that has led the way in outsourcing jobs out of the US in charge of reviving American
employment?!?

It boggles the mind how far some will go to rationalize bad things?

[girl gone mad]

15. Sure..

just like it was only a small subsection of people who thought the WMD claims were bogus and it was a mistake to invade Iraq.

The reaction you see from those paying attention right now will be reflected in the mood of the population within two years.

[Fokker Trip]

4. At least he gets a tax break on the $8.3 million.

More of the same shit. Where have all of the die hard Obama supporters gone?

Its just his big game plan after all.

[ProudDad]

9. Not surprising from the latest spokesmodel for the Corporate States of America

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x595997

[Brickbat]

10. As I asked in GD, is Immelt a knight or a bishop in this chess game that continues to unfold?

It's hard to keep it all straight sometimes.

[dflprincess]

11. It doesn't matter - just as long as you remember we are the pawns

and will be sacrificed if that's what it takes to protect the royalty.