Industries targeted by Obama in speech start lobbying to derail his plans

[EraOfResponsibility]

WASHINGTON -- Industries from health care to agribusiness to mining that stand to lose under President Barack Obama's policy agenda are ramping up lobbying campaigns to derail or modify his plans.

The day after Mr. Obama formally laid out his policy goals in his first address to Congress, the former chief executive of HCA Inc. unveiled a $20 million campaign to pressure Democrats to enact health-care legislation based on free-market principles.

"What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed," former CEO Richard Scott said Wednesday, after announcing the creation of Conservatives for Patients Rights.

Mr. Obama's ambitious agenda -- ranging from expanding health-care coverage to cutting farm subsidies to cutting wasteful defense projects -- touches almost every part of the U.S. economy. It threatens to disrupt the business models of a broad swath of America's biggest companies

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561083268377547.html

[Bullet1987]

1. It shouldn?t come as a surprise that these sectors are fighting back

They lose if Obama gets his way

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Lobbyists who are against progress needs to choke and die.

Repeatedly.

Curses to all of them. So mote it be.

Hawkeye-X

[EraOfResponsibility]

3. We need to mobilize and fight these bastards

[msongs]

4. lots of congress persons for sale to the highest bidders nt

[AyanRand Is Dead]

5. Corporate America will either enslave us or kill us. N/T

[Thrill]

6. We need to be watching the rhetoric from Democrats now on this issue

It should be easy to see, who is taking the money

[EraOfResponsibility]

7. Yep, that's true

[Baikonour]

8. "Conservatives for patients rights"?

:spray:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[rucky]

9. Bring it on, assholes!