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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 04:38 PM Oct 2012

Obama a polarizing figure? His deficit plan is closer (than Rmoney's) to what CEOs favor

Last edited Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:50 PM - Edit history (3)

so how "polarizing" is THAT?

I know this revelation may not thrill my fellow DUers, but I posted this as a rejoinder to the GOP Big Lie that "Obama is the polarizing figure" (This is what the Republicans say.... and the M$M toadies too demure to demur, dare not mention how the GOP threatened to force a Government default or threatened to force a Government shut-down, or their filibuster to death of the American Jobs act, or that the Repugnants voted against a Deficit Commission THEY proposed because the President endorsed it!).


http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/28/opinion/avlon-ceo-deficit-cutting/index.html


...it was significant to see 80 CEOs of major American companies sign a letter this past week committing to press for a balanced bipartisan plan to reduce the deficit and debt no matter which candidate is elected president on November 6.

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The CEOs in question include prominent Romney donors like AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, whose company gave a $4 million donation to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's conservative 501-C6 organization, which has already put more than $15 million into this election.

What's surprising is that the CEOs' commitment to a balanced bipartisan plan puts them much closer to Obama's deficit reduction plan than to Mitt Romney's.

That's because it also dovetails with the outlines of the Grand Bargain negotiated by Obama and House Speaker John Boehner in the summer of 2011, only to have negotiations fall apart.

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Obama a polarizing figure? His deficit plan is closer (than Rmoney's) to what CEOs favor (Original Post) Bill USA Oct 2012 OP
Democratic pols never seem to draw the right conclusions from this stuff... yurbud Oct 2012 #1
Obama wasn't trying to please business people. he was trying to achieve an agreement with Bill USA Oct 2012 #2
we disagree on the motive, but not the action... yurbud Oct 2012 #3
Right! It's gotten so they (esp. Rmoney) are making up new definitions for words - which are Bill USA Oct 2012 #4

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
1. Democratic pols never seem to draw the right conclusions from this stuff...
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 11:35 AM
Oct 2012

If they do what the business people say they want publicly, the business people will still not love them because they aren't as extreme as the right and in the process, they betray the people who voted for them.

After all the grief Bill Clinton got IN SPITE of playing ball with Wall Street on NAFTA, the telecomm act, repeal of Glass Steagal, you would think Democrats would realize the only time to get close to those guys is to slap on the cuffs and read them their rights.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
2. Obama wasn't trying to please business people. he was trying to achieve an agreement with
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 04:45 PM
Oct 2012

revenue increases as well as spending cuts. His objective was to come up with a agreement that was fair and hopefully,one that both sides could agree to. Of course, the TPers torpedoed that approach soon enough.

I just cited this as a counter argument to the Conservative Alternate Universe fable that they are trying to sell that it is OBAMA who has been polarizing.. Total piece of shit, but it's good to marshal evidence from wherever you find it. In this case - the fact that a number of CEO's proposed an approach which is closer to what Obama proposed than to what Boehner was sliding across the table.

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
3. we disagree on the motive, but not the action...
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:04 PM
Oct 2012

Republicans can't even acknowledge what actually transpires.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
4. Right! It's gotten so they (esp. Rmoney) are making up new definitions for words - which are
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:32 PM
Oct 2012

180 degrees from the generally accepted definition. I guess you could call that 180 degrees of freedom!

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