Chamber Kicks Sand In Our Face

Holy Elitist Scum, Batman!
The Chamber of Commerce, through its president, Tom Donohue, has just publically vowed to “punish anti-business candidates”. They spent over $60 million in the last presidential elections, and they promise to top that this time.
"We plan to build a grass-roots business organization so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed," chamber President Tom Donohue said.

The Chamber is concerned about the “populist” tone of candidates. And Donahue and the Chamber are definitely not “populist”. They are very clear that they are “elitist”. They are here to support and defend the rights of the Corporate Elite, and sometimes they even forget to use their code words like, “pro-business” and “pro-economic growth”.

"I'm concerned about anti-corporate and populist rhetoric from candidates for the presidency, members of Congress and the media," he said. "It suggests to us that we have to demonstrate who it is in this society that creates jobs, wealth and benefits -- and who it is that eats them."

In advance of today's news conference, Donohue told The Times of his plans to be active in 140 congressional districts this year, as well as the presidential contest.

What that means is the Chamber will back GOP priorities and candidates.

This from the same group that fought to keep China from passing minimum wage and worker safety laws, because they would have been anti-business and only good for the population of China.

This from the same group that ran thousands of attack ads in elections across the country and then refused to say who had funded those ads.

The Chamber is a front group and Donahue is the attack dog for the corporate elite in this country who want to continue taking resources out of our Communities and putting them into the pockets of a handful of corporate shareholders. They want to ride on our backs, and they are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to do it, because the result is billions of dollars in profits for them.

I guess we should be thrilled that the Elites as sooooooo scared of the populist message of candidates like John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich. We need to take some pride in the fact that even talking about loosening the grip of the Insurance Companies and the Oil Companies and the “Defence” (War) Companies on our Community resources and what should be our government has them so pissed off. But we can’t sit back and let these Elitist Bullies run the show. Last time I checked, the People outnumber these self-proclaimed “Elitists”.

Let’s Hear It for Populists!