Sorry Tea Partiers -- The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like

[XanaDUer]

The Koch Brothers.

SNIP - The chief comforter of corporate crybabies, however, is Rep. Darrell Issa of California, chair of the wide-ranging government reform committee. He sent letters to 150 corporate interests, asking them to tell him if Obama and his Democratic meanies have imposed any consumer, worker or environmental protections that should be undone. That's like asking a barber if you need a haircut!

The letters unleashed an outpouring of corporate whining -- big banks, for example, wailed that their ability to gouge customers with rip-off debit-card fees had been curtailed. There, there, Issa said soothingly, I'm here now. I'll make it all better for you.

Under the guise of giving government back to the people, the House majority is giving it to the corporate powers who finance their campaigns. This is not just business as usual, it's business way more than usual.

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149585/sorry_tea_partiers_--_the_gop_only_cares_about_their_corporate_paymasters_and_wealthy_elites_like_the_kochs/

God, I hate these people.

[notesdev]

1. Problem is there's no differentiation

in the wake of appointing JP Morgan's Bill Daley as Chief of Staff and GE's Jeff Immelt as head of the national economic council, how does one say "Vote for the Democrat, our opponents will sell you out to the moneyed elites"?

looks like both parties only care about the corporate paymasters and wealthy elites

[emulatorloo]

2. Follow the Money. COC and Rove's Crossroads Money went to Republicans

not Democrats. Their Lie Ads targeted Democrats.

See also:

Contributions mount for House GOP chairmen
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4705334


Source: Washington Post

The new Republican leaders in the House have received millions of dollars in fresh contributions from banks, health insurers and other major business interests, which are pressing for broad reversals of Democratic policies that affect corporations, according to disclosure records and interviews.

Much of that money flowed to the GOP chairmen overseeing banking, energy and other key committees, who will play a central role in setting the House agenda over the next two years.

The impetus behind such largess is simple: Many companies and industry groups hope that House Speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio) and other Republicans will succeed in rolling back Democratic policies they find objectionable, including environmental and Wall Street regulations.

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I will grant you some of your points, but the sheer amount of corporate money coming to Republicans is something you need factor into a "they're all the same" argument.

[rfranklin]

3. The White House is pandering to the business interests because...

they see the handwriting on the wall. They will drowned in corporate financed political advertising in the coming elections if they take a pro-consumer stance.

[emulatorloo]

4. They are going to be drowned any way

Pretty sure they are aware of that.

"Pandering to Business Interests" is a matter of interpretation/spin - there are several statements in the Executive Order re the regulations review that insist the environment, public safety, welfare and safety must be protected.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/obamas-executive-order-and-memo-on-regulations/69711

"Our regulatory system must protect public health, welfare, safety, and our environment while promoting economic growth, innovation, competitiveness, and job creation."

So it is not as one sided as some spinners might have us think. I've seem some writers claim it is wholesale de-regulation when it is nothing of the sort.

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[XanaDUer]

5. Kick

nt.