White House Hits Back At Liberal Critics of Bill Daley

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

It's not hard to understand why liberals are confused and angry over the choice of Bill Daley to be White House Chief of Staff. The President Obama they know and love spent the last two years bashing Wall Street executives, calling them "fat cats" and lecturing them for their "greedy" ways.

Now, in a turn of events that has the left wing aghast, one of those fat cats will soon be setting policy at the White House. Daley, after all, spent 7 years at JP Morgan where he's believed to have earned at least $5 million a year, possibly much more. He's one of them, liberals cry, not one of us.

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But in an interview in his large corner office in the West Wing, outgoing press secretary Robert Gibbs pushed back against the conventional wisdom that the president is suddenly moving to the political center, setting himself up for a re-election campaign that's focused on moderate voters, leaving liberals out in the cold.

The president, Gibbs said, "knows what his values are." During the health care debate, for example, some senior advisors argued for dramatically stripping it down, or even putting it off until after the economy recovered. Gibbs says the president listened - and then ignored their advice.

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But why bring in a Bill Daley if Mr. Obama isn't signaling a change in direction? Gibbs responded that liberals Robert Reich and Howard Dean support Daley. What the president gets in Bill Daley, he argued, is not a point of view, but someone with vast management experience in government and business, and someone respected on both sides of the aisle, essential in this new world of divided government. And, as the president said, Daley knows how to create jobs, the president's number one priority for the next two years.

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[Tippy]

1. K&R...Daley is a good choice, I support his decision.

[lark]

37. Why would you support a banker,

the scoundrels that brought down our financial world, as the presidents chief of staff????

Truly, I'm curious as I see nothing at all good about this.

[somone]

2. The president "knows what his values are"

The values of Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Pharma, the MIC, health insurance execs.

[hobbit709]

5. Exactly.

[vi5]

3. "White House Hits Back At Liberal Critics"

I hate it when a headline doesn't allow me to differentiate between which day of the week it is. Hell with the frequency of that headline it's getting tough to even tell which month or year it is when I read it.

[yourout]

8. We rarely read..."White House Hits Back At Republican Critics"

[snagglepuss]

21. bingo nt

[harun]

23. We'll see that headline when hell freezes over.

[4dsc]

26. I second that emotion.

[truebrit71]

33. Yup...

..

[DBoon]

45. We rarely read..."White House oofers compromise with liberal critics"

don't I wish he found us significant enough to "triangulate"

[rfranklin]

4. How can he be "respected on both sides of the aisle" unless...

he caves in to the Republicans?

[Doctor_J]

35. True

The Repukes laugh at him, we disdain his appeasement

[closeupready]

6. I like the Daleys, but if Obama thinks he can dispense with liberal support,

fine, go ahead and do that. There are other things we can do, other candidates we can support.

[Purveyor]

24. +1

[xchrom]

7. some one whose best advise was 'quit' when the going got tough. nt

[notesdev]

9. Why would he hire a professional influence peddler?

It seems to me the most straightforward reason is that he plans to peddle influence.

In other words, more of the same, business as usual.

In case there was any confusion, it's not us who get peddled to.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

10. Obama lost votes because he moved too far to the center-right so ....

...what does he do?

MOVE FURTHER TO THE CENTER-RIGHT.

Excuse me but I thought this man was intelligent?

[T Wolf]

11. Obama would have to be possessed by Karl Marx to move back toward the center from the right wing

he has settled so comfortably into.

Just another in the too-long list of sell-outs to those who really run Amerika.

[Horse with no Name]

12. OF course they did..the "Bad Liberals" are the only ones that the WH admonishes

for anything.
Keep it up Obama...you might just piss all of us off before you are through.

[bullwinkle428]

13. "Daley knows how to create jobs" - yes, in China, India, Bangladesh,

Malaysia, Thailand, etc., etc.

[AlbertCat]

14. And, as the president said, Daley knows how to create jobs....

.... in other countries.

[savalez]

15. Looks like the press is trying to divide the democratic party again. n/t

[bowens43]

25. it's not the press, it's the pres.

[Donnachaidh]

36. the press didn't hire Mr. Nafta for a position in the WH

of course, we already know who did THAT.

[No Elephants]

38. You mean the press secretary, Gibbs?

Is the press not supposed to report what the President's press secretary says publicly, on the record?

[Boxerfan]

16. Liberal critics under the bus again-suprise suprise suprise

Oh yeah-he's gonna get all chessy on them just you wait!!!
Sorry but not buying it-by actions he is no moderate or liberal-he is a corporate fascist-the good cop one.
(sarc)

[Deep13]

17. "The president, Gibbs said, 'knows what his values are.'"

So do we. That's the problem.

[onehandle]

18. Shaddap, stoopid libruls. nt

[russspeakeasy]

19. FTWW........................

[maxsolomon]

20. CBS says "bash", I say "mildly scold".

"The President Obama they know and love spent the last two years bashing Wall Street executives, calling them "fat cats" and lecturing them for their "greedy" ways."

the premise of this article is MSM beltway full-on center-right bullshit.

[No Elephants]

40. Yes--coming straight from Gibbs.

[eridani]

49. And gave them what they wanted regardless of what he called them n/t

[bowens43]

22. 'that the president is suddenly moving to the political center,'?

"that the president is suddenly moving to the political center," Huh? The president STARTED in the center has has moved steadily and undeniably to the right.

[mvd]

29. If the President hadn't continually appointed people like..

Emanuel, Geithner, and Summers, I might buy the "administrative" excuse more. But it is a trend.

[Autumn]

27. Yes he "knows what his values are." I know mine,

and the gulf is getting wider and wider between our individual values.

[ProSense]

28. There's zero hitting back at anyone in that article

The headline says one thing and then supports it with the WH's justification for hiring Daley.

Typical MSM tactic: attempt to marginalize liberals.

[Kall]

30. LOL

Yeah, thank God his health care bill wasn't dramatically stripped down or anything. And doesn't the "We'll Fix It Later" slogan for health care imply you're putting off really addressing the problems? I guess they figured fixing the problems would be more easily accomplished with a Republican House stating they'll be starving it of funding and uniformally united in opposition.

Anyways, we know what this President's values are too. He's amply demonstrated them for 2+ years, and they're bankrupt. I'm sure the fact that Gibbs said in one breath that Daley is being hired not for his policy views but his management skills, then argued in the next breath that he "knows how to create jobs" just escaped his notice entirely - tends to happen with mealy-mouthed press secretaries. As NAFTA demonstrated, he knows how to create jobs, just not in America.

[MisterP]

39. well, it's not like they kept us in Iraq and Afghanistan, let Bush's criminals go, shielded BP

from photographers, made sure people keep getting thrown out of their houses, sell our jobs abroad, sell off our public education to hedge funds, express a desire to abolish Social Security, and tried to enslave us to vampiric insurers, and then scream that we should beg for forgiveness because all of those things never happened and we just want our pony after only 1 year only 2 years only 3 years

[Bragi]

31. Must Liberals line up for more punishment?

Just wondering if we're supposed to go to Washington for more ass-kicking by the White House, or will local reps come to our houses and smack us around as needed?

[sulphurdunn]

32. In a two party system comprised of

two right wing parties, who cares if liberals vote or for whom they vote? :shrug:

[Doctor_J]

34. Still waiting for them to hit back at McTurtle

Starting to turn blue.

[No Elephants]

41. Bullet. Foot.

Meanwhile, Rethugs have been all over TV saying Obama's is THE most corrupt administration in history. Gibbs have anything to say about that?

Rethugs also saying Obama's is the most "hard left" administration since FDR (which made LBJ/Humphrey roll over in their respective graves in unison, probably FDR and all the Kennedy brothers, too).

On both counts, LIARS!

ETA: How many times have Republicons chided and/or cursed at their base?

Way to---whatever is the opposite of "fire up the base."

[DeSwiss]

42. "For what would it profit a president to gain a bankster and lose his base?" - n/t

[Amonester]

46. uh... millions? (nt)

[No Elephants]

43. P.S. Don't know about Reich, but I saw Dean interviewed on Daley. Support is way

too strong a word.

Does the expression "damning with faint praise" ring a bell? Plus, Dean looked so uncomfortable, it made me sad for him.

[alarimer]

44. Obama "bashed" Wall Street mildly maybe.

But he sucked up to them almost from the very beginning, by putting the fat cats in positions in his government. He is a corporatist first and foremost so this appointment only confirms that we should not have elected this guy.

[western mass]

47. Dear Liberals: He's just not into you

"but he loves us! he'll change!"

[eridani]

48. If Daley and all his overpaid fuckbuddies knew jackshit about creating jobs

--then why are we on track to have 15 years of near zero net job growth?

[IScreamSundays]

50. Do you fugging get it??????

You are owned!!!

The President's chief of staff just cruised over from JP Morgan. Obama is a good looking well spoken puppet.

A puppet for the TBTFs.

The sh#t is hitting the fan, the fan is on high.

For reals, I recommend reading zerohedge on a daily basis.

You can't vote the stench out.

[Luciferous]

51. The guy who implemented NAFTA is put in charge of job creation?

This administration gets worse and worse every day.

[icnorth]

52. Daley is well educated to smooth out

the bumps for the administration in their "symbolic" battle with Congress and its agenda of legislated corporatocracy.