William Daley is a good part of the reason why the USA is now a two-class society

[brentspeak]

The rich...and everybody else.

Snarky -- but accurate -- short summary of Daley's career of merging Wall Street with Big Government to help destroy the middle class:

http://gawker.com/5726695/meet-bill-daley-barack-obamas-new-chief-of-staff?skyline=true&s=i

* When he was Bill Clinton's Commerce Secretary, he was the point man on the North American Free Trade Agreement, which gave Mexicans all of our jobs.
* He has spent seven years as a senior executive at JP Morgan Chase, the largest of those damn Wall Street banks.
* He http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122302439.html">publicly chided Democrats for pursuing what he considered a radical leftist health care reform bill, the same one that we on Planet Earth call "Obama's moderate Republican health care reform bill that Mitt Romney invented."
* He lobbied against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was created in last year's financial regulatory reform law.
* He "led the Chamber of Commerce's effort to loosen the post-Enron regulations on the accounting and auditing professions."
* He's on the board of Third Way, a group of rich centrist banker Democrats who are Republicans.

[villager]

1. And Ye Shall Know Them By Their Chiefs of Staff

n/t

[napi21]

2. He is Obama's choice & I will give him the benefit of time

bfore I criticize him. I think we all should do that.

[frylock]

4. right? i mean why rely upon history when blind faith will suffice?

[muffin1]

7. !

:thumbsup:

[napi21]

11. I didn't sa blind faith. I said give him a chance to prove what he's

going to do in this new job. None of the people in the WH are automatons. They ALL take their instructions fro the President. Let's see what both of them decide.

[hulka38]

14. The guy is 62

and has a long and consistent track record. He's as far from being an unknown as there is.

[awoke_in_2003]

25. "None of the people in the WH are automatons"...

one sure seems to be.

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[FiveGoodMen]

10. "Honestly, I think we should just trust our president

in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."

Who said that?

[hulka38]

15. Brittany Spears then

and several million centrist Dems now.

[Dokkie]

17. lol

That was Britney Spears from the Movie Fahrenheit 911

[Lorien]

23. .....

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[valerief]

3. So how is this guy supposed to help ordinary Americans? Oh, yeah, he won't! nt

[Jakes Progress]

5. And now we know which class the president hopes to end up in.

[GSLevel9]

6. and the curtain falls... nt

[awoke_in_2003]

26. the curtain fell in 2000...

that is when the ruling class said "Fuck it" and became blatantly obvious.

[totodeinhere]

9. It will be his job to carry out Obama's policies. He won't make policies on his own.

He was chosen for his ability to work within the system in Washington. His own personal view of issues will be subservient to want Obama wants. So I have no problem with his choice.

[awoke_in_2003]

27. Yeah, just like Rahm...

:sarcasm:

[lilyrl]

30. I suspect this is because you believe that Obama is different then William Daley

But, if was different at all, he would never ever let the likes of William Daley serve in his administration.

Obama isn't controlling these people. He is working for them.

[stranger81]

34. Exactly right.

And welcome to DU.

[frazzled]

12. Al Gore, Howard Dean, John Kerry ... all these guys like him

I frankly don't give a rat's ass what his personal politics are (and most of what is listed is not necessarily his personal politics but the jobs, such as selling NAFTA, that his bosses gave him). He's known as a low-key guy who gets shit done for other people. He's a fixer. That's what the COS's job is. It's not a policy position. It's about deciding who gets on the President's schedule and pushing the President's agenda.

Chill.

[brentspeak]

13. Yeah, relax. He's only destroyed the lives of millions of Americans

And brought the blue-collar and middle class to its knees. So what's the problem?

Other than that, we should just, like, you know, "chill".

[frazzled]

16. Wow

That kind of hyperbole is what makes this place look a lot like a Tea Party convention sometimes.

[brentspeak]

19. Read your own post if you want "hyperbole"

Meanwhile, the facts remain that Daley was a) responsible for implementing NAFTA (millions of lost jobs); b) lobbying D.C. to get Wall St. bailed-out (biggest highway robbery in American political history); c) helping manage Chase while it was (and still is) illegally foreclosing on homeowners (what's the problem with that???); d) successfully lobbying to water-down the Financial Reform bill (more bailouts in the future! another destroyed economy in the future!); e) helped defeat the public option while employed by the Chamber of Commerce.

Are those your kind of "low key" politics?

[MadBadger]

22. Wow, talk about an overreaction

Your the one that gives Critics of this administration a bad name.

[brentspeak]

29. Yes, it's always an "overreaction" to take note of the war on the middle class

And the power players who are behind it. Glad you see it as a trifling matter, Madame Antoinette.

[ClassWarrior]

40. It's SO impolite!

Fucking selfish little people...

:rofl:

NGU.

[lilyrl]

31. Oh please....just like Geithner was going to be a great Treasury Secretary

because he ran Wall Street....

And, that worked out just great.

This eighty millionth level chess and beat em at their own game delusion should have ended long ago.

[flpoljunkie]

18. Pelosi told Ed Schultz she trusted the President's judgment of Dailey pick.

Let's hope this trust is warranted.

[dflprincess]

32. I'd like to know what she's saying in private

None of the party hacks are going to slam this is public.

[ProSense]

20. Corporatist definition

Corporatist:

1. Anyone who opposed health care reform and Wall Street Reform including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

2. Anyone who supported health care reform and Wall Street Reform including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

[golfguru]

21. Was'nt Bill Daley the force behind NAFTA?

[awoke_in_2003]

24. "centrist banker Democrats who are Republicans"...

otherwise known as new "democrats"

[benfranklin1776]

28. Wow I had forgotten just how bad this corporate mouthpiece was

Thanks for reminding me. Point man on NAFTA, opposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and was an integral part of trying to loosen regulations that were enacted to prevent corporate pillaging of America.
Nice. Appears Obama found just the "RIGHT"(wing) person to appease the Chamber of Commerce and those business executives that he met with recently. :puke:

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[brentspeak]

35. .

Thanks to the magic of internet caching, one's IQ can be on display forever.

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14. Hillary's Not A Fanatic About The Truth - Obviously

:rofl:

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O'Reilly Was A Buffoon Last Night & Hillary Was Just Pathetic

Edited on Fri May-02-08 03:28 PM by JimGinPA

JimGinPA: McCain >> Hillary

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15. She's Running On Her "Experience" Though - He (McCain) Has Far More Than She Does

I'm still waiting for someone to justify her experience argument.
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[Union Scribe]

36. In other words, he'll fit in just peachy.

[TheKentuckian]

38. I dunno...he may be more conservative than even the Republicans in the cabinet

Over the past decade or so criminals like Gates have become "moderate", "grown up", and "pragmatic".

I don't care who you are, there is not much sense that pretending Obama and Solis (who is clearly not an insider and clearly is a token along the ideological spectrum) bring balance to a group not much more liberal than a Reagan or Poppy administration. Of course it was the same with Clinton but Obama's group seems a little less ideologically diverse.

The "Team of Rivals" all believe about the same shit, the competition was more who was selling the company line best not a clash in principles, goals, or worldview.

[jeanpalmer]

37. And he probably spends his weekends

robo signing and foreclosing. :)

He's not what we need, but he fits right in with the others.

[lonestarnot]

39. Did he do anything for JD Powers?