Obama and Corporate America

[groovedaddy]

President Obama is smart to extend an olive branch to American businesses. Our economic success depends on businesses investing, growing and creating new jobs. From expanding exports to improving infrastructure, government and businesses share important goals.

From a purely pragmatic political standpoint, reaching an entente with corporate leaders will make it easer to defuse the hostility he has faced. Some of it has been purely partisan and ideological, from groups like the United States Chamber of Commerce, which deployed millions to unseat Democrats in the Congressional elections last year.

Still, Mr. Obama must take care not to let his agenda be taken over entirely by corporate interests. They do not belong to the only constituency he serves.

Appointing William Daley to be a business-friendly White House chief of staff seems a good idea; so does drafting Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric to lead his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. It’s fine to promise to weed out stupid business regulations, though past administrations that have done the same have found that most of the regulations aren’t stupid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/opinion/28fri1.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211

[somone]

1. "President Obama should bring his party on board and pass the trade agreements"

is all you need to know about this editorial

[COLGATE4]

3. +100

[Skittles]

7. offshore whores n/t

[earthside]

2. Or, in other words ...

President Obama is smart to keep screwing the shrinking American middle class.

[txlibdem]

4. There's still an "American middle class?"

Don't worry. Our "Democratic" President will take care of that, with help from his buddies in Corporate America. He's reaching an entente with them.

[swilton]

5. Has Obama ever been at war with Corporate America?

When is he going to extend an olive branch to progressives or do they just keep getting thrown under the bus or called retarded?

[Demeter]

6. Obama Should Extend the Handcuffs and Indictments

and stop bowing to the banksters and corporate felons.