"Business warms to Democratic leaders; Corporate America partnering on bills" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | May 28, 2009
That is what they HAMMERED REPUBLICANS OVER!
Could there be any clearer example that AmeriKan politics are s*** fooleys (why papers waste so much time on it) and both parties are bought and paid for?
WASHINGTON - Republicans - who, according to recent campaign finance statistics, have lost their dominance among many major business lobbies - insist that the partnership between Democrats and big corporations will be short-lived, and that business will eventually come back to the party that supports tax cuts and less regulation.
Eat it up, lefties! You are no better than them!!!
And it is unclear if industry leaders will lobby for the major energy, healthcare, and financial legislation as it gets closer to the president's desk. But at this critical developmental stage of bill writing, business leaders are working side-by-side with Democratic lawmakers.
Isn't that what they criticized Repuglicans for?
In addition to the leaders of major corporations who have been working with Markey and Waxman on the climate change bill, leaders of business groups that fought a healthcare overhaul mightily in the 1990s now meet twice a week with staff members of Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who is helping to craft a major bill that will probably include new mandates on employers, such as a requirement that large companies contribute to the cost.
Too bad you couldn't get his health care, 'eh?
"[He] has indeed appeared remarkably well for a man with an aggressive brain tumor"
Also see: Kennedy Comfortably in the Hands of Health Corporations
He once was a good senator; I don't know what happened.
And the beleaguered financial services industry is supporting efforts by Representative Barney Frank, a Newton Democrat, to draft legislation to regulate hedge funds and other investments.
Yeah, if beleaguered is getting billions in taxpayer bailouts....
Memory Hole: Barney and Business
Barney Frank is Bush's Best Friend
Barney Frank Benefited From Bailout Bill
Frank Fiddled With Bailout Funds (And Other Frauds)
Slow Saturday Special: Protecting Politicians
With the high cost of employee healthcare, in particular, and an emerging consensus in favor of greater environmental protections, industry leaders also are also softening their positions.
"They know certainty is their friend," Markey said, asserting that industry would rather have a uniform national standard than a hodgepodge of state regulations.
Yeah, you are number one, Ed: Slow Saturday Special: Protecting Politicians
And the hodgepodge seemed just fine when Bush was in charge; they fought to keep it! That's why THIS STINKS!!!!
That was a major reason why automakers agreed to a sweeping deal President Obama announced last week with state officials and environmental groups to increase fuel efficiency standards and lower emissions....
The LIES and DISTORTIONS just NEVER STOP!!!!
In financial regulation as well, business is not balking at efforts toward more regulation....
The Democratic-business detente bodes poorly for the GOP, at least in the short term. Campaign contributions from the energy, healthcare, and financial service sectors shifted dramatically toward the Democrats from the 2006 election to 2008, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Representative Tom Price, a Georgia Republican who chairs the Republican Study Committee in the House, wrote off the trend to short-term politics, saying industry would regret it.
How? You gonna refuse their bribes, 'er, "campaign contributions?"
Democrats see a fundamental shift in the nation's thinking, one that could bedevil the GOP for many years. "The core conservative argument that government is the problem no longer holds," said Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network. "The ideological argument for the Republican Party for the last generation is spent. They're going to have to come up with a new argument."
How about REPRESENTING the PEOPLE and TELLING the TRUTH?
ENDING the EMPIRE and ROLLING BACK the DOMESTIC SECURITY STATE!?
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