President Obama Appoints a REPUBLICAN to Head his Jobs Initiative

[jtown1123]

Here you have it folks, our Democratic President appoints a Republican General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Every day it's something new...how much more moving to the right can we take?

From article: Immelt, GE's CEO since September 2001, met with the president earlier this week and attended Wednesday's state dinner with Chinese President Hu Jintao. He will guide the president on a tour of GE headquarters in Schenectady, N.Y., today. Immelt, a Republican, donated to both Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain during the last presidential cycle, but not President Obama, according to Bloomberg.


The rest: http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/ge-s-immelt-to-head-obama-s-new-jobs-and-competitiveness-board-20110121

[Tunkamerica]

1. don geiss?

[jtown1123]

3. haha I had to look that one up. We'd probably be better off sadly.

[girl gone mad]

2. ..

:puke:

[Name removed]

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[arcane1]

5. I loathe the word "Competitiveness" in these contexts

since it usually seems to mean "competing with 3rd world labor"

[conspirator]

37. +1000. For the elite "Competitiveness" means we compete, they get the biggest slice nt

[Capitalocracy]

39. I noticed that too.

Yet more promotion of right-wing ideology, in addition to policy.

When you compete with the third world, even if you win, you lose.

[krispos42]

6. It's a brilliant move

With Repubes in charge in the House and shutting down the federal government, they'll get the blame for the inevitable economic downturn due up in the next 18 months or so.

Maybe once the Democrats have the House and Senate again, Obama and Democrats on the Hill will actually do something progressive before 2014 that will fix the economy.


Or maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic.

[JuniperLea]

7. It's totally a brilliant move!

It's not surprising either, nor is it puke nor hair pulling nor hair on fire worthy either. Big picture, people.

FWIW, the economy, jobs, et al, are pretty well on track and in keeping with the time-line Obama laid out at the beginning of his first term.

I'm really not happy about how this old divide and conquer deal has played out in the alleged Democratic blogosphere. I think we are about as blind and lost as the 'Baggers right now. Ridiculous. In fact, I'm so disgusted, I think I'll shut my computer down and leave it off all weekend... yep. Sounds like a plan.

[Bluebear]

8. If you think "we" are as bad the teabaggers, you definitely need to take a rest.

[Swamp Rat]

12. The 'big picture' for me and millions of others: I have no job, no healthcare, and my food and water

have been poisoned. :(

I am still waiting and hoping for some relief, but I doubt I will receive any with so many corpofascists in charge in D.C.

[Name removed]

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[Swamp Rat]

30. Hard to do

I like tea and bags, and teasing others. :spank:

[whatchamacallit]

15. Ha, bullshit. (nt)

[Change has come]

25. Miss you already!

:hi:

[Forkboy]

27. LOL

I like your plan. See you on Monday. Maybe some common sense will have seeped into your thinking by then.

[CTyankee]

9. Immelt will have to deliver those jobs. He'll be working for the President of

the United States. As a public servant he will have to show respect. This is no small thing. He's gonna have to get the business community in line and get something done. Otherwise the repubs are sunk and they can kiss the 2012 and 2016 elections goodbye.

The American business community is held in very LOW regard by the American people as it is. If Immelt doesn't produce results the repubs will be blamed and I think Immelt knows it...

[blindpig]

11. 'get the business community in line', that's fuckin' hysterical.

And when has the tail wagged the dog? You have got the relationship exactly backwards.

[CTyankee]

14. and that's the problem. If he doesn't and it turns out as you say then

the Republican Party will suffer in the elections. I don't think the people in this country are in any mood to be kind to the business community right about now...

[blindpig]

16. Doesn't seem to matter...

Seems that this is the change we got, politics as we've known it is history, the business agenda will be enacted. Business doesn't care, either party will cater to their needs.

[CTyankee]

17. I hope you are wrong...but I know how you feel...

:hi:

[LooseWilly]

31. Why would Republicans suffer in elections if a Democratic advisor fails?

Are the Democrats going to run ads, when, err... if... he fails saying "Don't blame us— we hired a Republican to take care of this... so if it didn't work you should vote for us... because we promise to hire a Libertarian for the next cycle!!"

Dude, really... that must be some good shit that you're smoking if you think this is sound electoral strategy... or policy strategy... or anything else but triangulation and the hopes that being Republican-Lite might grab some votes (while simultaneously praying to the Diebold Gods that anyone left of Nixon will feel so out of options that they, too, will vote Obama/Democrat).

I am numb to the political betrayals... Obama might as well just {extended metaphorical descriptive deleted for fear of causing the baby Jeebus, not to mention party-loyal Mods, to cry}.

[KG]

32. oops.

[tkmorris]

18. That is pretty out there CT

95% of the American public have never heard of Immelt, and that won't change one bit just because he's been given this post. If jobs are not delivered it will be Obama who takes the blame, and given the moves he's making here I'd say deservedly so.

[CTyankee]

19. Not if the Dems rebut pretty well on Repub attacks..."well, we gave them a chance with Immelt..."

We'll see...

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Immelt is not representing the Republicans

He is Obama's man, regardless of his party affiliation.

[Disintermedia8]

20. |:-(

[Bluebear]

22. +

[AC_Mem]

10. Hey GOP

WHERE ARE THE JOBS?


:)

I'm trusting the President. I think he has a plan here... yes indeed.

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[pa28]

21. He doesn't need to hire a skywriter to tell us who his new constituency is.

He's being very open about "going supply side".

[Kurovski]

23. Well Kumbay-motherfucking-ya.

[boppers]

24. A Clinton Republican?

"donated to both Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain"

[kath]

26. Soooo frickin' great to have a Democrat in the White House!

YAAAAAAYY!
WOOOT!!
So much great hopey-changey stuff that I think I'm going to pee myself!
YAY!

[Honeycombe8]

29. In a way, that sounds okay. Obama wants to learn how to get businesses to shake loose some of their

Obama wants to learn how to get businesses to shake loose some of their enormous stashes of cash and start hiring and investing in capital again. I heard on the news several times that businesses are sitting on tons of cash they've made the last few years, not hiring, and not spending or investing in their businesses. It makes sense to ask a cow what the best way is to coax her into giving up her milk.

It also clips the wings of the Republicans a bit. That they always take the position that THEY are bipartisan, that THEY are the only party that knows how businesses are run and jobs are created.

GE is one of the few, and maybe the ONLY, American company that is also global, so it makes sense that one of their top guys would be chosen as an advisor. But I'm not sure about his being named the "head" of the council. I wonder who else will be on the council. There are Democratic and Independent people running big companies, too, aren't there?

[WinkyDink]

36. Good luck with this theory. BTW: Your last line? Then why not APPOINT a Democrat?

[KG]

33. infinity dimension chess!

:eyes:

[Kurovski]

38. +1

[lonestarnot]

34. No wonder they fired Keith.

[Bluebear]

40. +