Tea party-affiliated groups call for Immelt to resign from GE because of work for Obama

[The Northerner]

General Electric Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt's decision to help the Obama administration by heading a new economic advisory panel has sparked outrage from some conservatives and has led to a renewed campaign to force his resignation by groups affiliated with the tea party.

Calling the appointment "crony corporatism in its purest form," FreedomWorks and the Free Enterprise Project said Immelt would use his new position to lobby for government policies that help GE.

The groups unveiled an online video (above) pn Monday, said they planned also to run ads on cable TV and are asking people to sign an online letter to Immelt requesting he resign from GE because he has "abandoned the tenets of free enterprise to profit from President Obama’s progressive political agenda."

"For too long, corporate elites have lobbied to profit from the size and growth of government at the expense of hard-working Americans," said FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe. "We’re here to let President Obama and Jeffery Immelt know that the days of easy money through backroom deals are over."

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/01/jeffrey-immelt-general-electric-obama-freedomworks-tea-party-economy-jobs-competitiveness.html

[muntrv]

1. Pot calling kettle black. Perhaps Matt is jealous that Immelt is working with Obama

and not the Republican Tea Party.

[meegbear]

4. +1

[Lorien]

2. It's officially bizarro world

this coming from the party that WANTS corporations to rule us all!

[pampango]

6. Most Tea Partiers Think Free Trade Agreements That Tea Party Candidates Support Are Bad For The

Country.

There's a disconnect between the tea baggers and the politicians they elect.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/30/tea-partiers-trade-bad

Earlier this week, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal released a new poll surveying Americans’ views on trade. The poll found that 69 percent of Americans thought that free trade agreements the United States has taken part in have cost the country jobs, and 53 percent of Americans think these agreements hurt the country as a whole.

Interestingly, the poll also found that opposition to free trade agreements is particularly strong among Americans who define themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement. 61 percent of self-described tea party supporters said they thought free trade has harmed the United States, just four percent less than union members:

--While 65 percent of union members say free trade has hurt the U.S., so do 61 percent of Tea Party sympathizers.

[tularetom]

3. Here at DU we've been screaming about this kind of crap for months

And nobody in the government or in the media, said one friggin word.

But now that "groups affiliated with the tea party" are pissed off about it, you can expect to see it all over the nightly news.

We are truly in bizzarro world when we have to depend on tea baggers to get our message out.

[emulatorloo]

5. If we agree with FreedomWorks, maybe we ought to re-visit our position

Dick Armey . . .