Well, well, well, looky looky who filed a brief in the SCOTUS case

[deminks]

For instance, the United States Chamber of Commerce, which spent $36 million on ads and get-out-the-vote activities in 2008, pledged this week to organize the largest, most aggressive election campaign in its history targeting congressional Democrats who support Obama administration proposals to overhaul health insurance and the financial system and limit carbon emissions.

The chamber, as well as the GOP-aligned National Rifle Association, filed briefs in the case supporting the conservative non-profit group challenging the rules, though so did the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations or AFL-CIO. The Democratic National Committee, however, in a brief filed by then-DNC general counsel Bob Bauer, who has since been tapped as White House general counsel, argued in favor of keeping the rules, asserting that opening the door to more corporate spending in elections would discourage the types of small donors who he contends helped power Obama to victory in 2008.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31786_Page2.html#ixzz0dGMEKe2r


The Chamber and its child, the DLC. And you wonder why Harold Ford, corporate lackey carpetbagger, is running with confidence?

[BrklynLiberal]

1. -puke-

There goes the last ray of hope that we will not become a Fascist Corporatocracy.

[G_j]

2. of course!

right on cue

[brendan120678]

3. And I see that the AFL-CIO supported the conservative position as well.

Not too surprised - unions have just as much to gain by donating big bucks to a campaign as corporations do.

[bbgrunt]

9. the problem is that they have no where near

the funds that corps do and their membership has been diminishing for years. I hardly expect them to see any advantage in trying to compete in buying policy and politicians. so yeah, their position seems pretty short sighted to me.....if the interests of their leaders are really with their membership.

[earth mom]

11. At least Unions fight on behalf of the employees they represent.

The same can NOT be said for corporate america who have done everything in their power to squash unions and hold the working class down.

[hughee99]

4. Self delete. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. I am shocked! SHOCKED!

:silly:

[lapfog_1]

6. Got news for Rahm and the DLC types

Used to be that all you had to do to win as a Democrat was have a "D" after your name, buy as much ad space as possible and have your name in front of mostly asleep voters 24 x 7, and go negative on your opponent.

That was conventional wisdom right up until 2006 / 2008.

Now, with the economy in the tank, years of Reaganomics killing our jobs with the help of WTO and NAFTA and all the other TLA treaties and agreements that gave our jobs away, people are PAYING MORE ATTENTION, especially the base of the Democratic party.

The election of Brown where he picked up significant amount of former Obama voters (who, in the polling, said that the health care bill was a disaster and "didn't go far enough") was the shot across bow. President Obama needs to change course, fire Rahm and Geitner, scrap the current Senate bill, rewrite the health care bill and break it into half dozen bills, starting with the "no pre-existing condition" ban on insurance companies. Dare the repukes to oppose it and filibuster. Pass it. Then do the next one. And, finally, pass the expansion of Medicare to 55 and over via reconciliation.

No more side deals with Nelson or Lieberman.

Quit chasing corporate dollars. Those dollars are not as important as they were a few years ago.

[democrat_patriot]

7. That doesn't make sense

Brown picked up Obama voters who didn't think the bill went far enough"?

So they voted for a guy who said he would kill it? No more HCR? I don't get it.

[lapfog_1]

8. Neither did Chris Matthews when he interviewed

Howard Dean yesterday.

It was a PROTEST vote.

Not going to vote for a Democrat until they start doing what we want them to do. What they said they would do in their campaigns.

It was a protest against Obama and the DLC dems. Coakley was just at the wrong place at the wrong time (and she ran a perfectly awful campaign).

[bbgrunt]

10. wrong place....nt