Business: It would be inconvenient to stand by our actions

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Bruce Josten, chief lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce, explains:

“The major supporters of us in health care last year were confronted with protests at their corporate headquarters, protests and harassment at the C.E.O.’s homes,” said R. Bruce Josten, the chief lobbyist at the chamber, whose office looks out on the White House. “You are wondering why companies want some protection. It is pretty clear.”

The chamber’s increasingly aggressive role — including record spending in the midterm elections that supports Republicans more than 90 percent of the time — has made it a target of critics, including a few local chamber affiliates who fear it has become too partisan and hard-nosed in its fund-raising.

So there you have it. The Chamber’s political finance arm exists, in essence, to help Republicans win elections. But many people are not Republicans! Even George McGovern got 37.5 percent of the vote. So individuals, as consumers and as citizens, may choose to not support businesses that take their money and spend it on a political party they don’t like. Naturally, no sensible business executive wants to do that. Michael Jordan was famously reluctant to get involved in partisan politics because “Republicans buy sneakers too.” Anonymity is so much more convenient.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/10/bruce-josten-and-the-chamber-of-secrets/

[SpiralHawk]

1. It fits the pattern of occultism - the pattern the republicons have made...

Standard Operating Procedure over the last 20 years or so.

Republicons -- and republicon front orgs like the chamber -- are totally into occultism -- hiding reality from the public, because the reality is so shameful,and in so many cases against the interests of American citizens.

[calimary]

2. Isn't it much the same as what they told us when the subject was illegal warrantless wiretapping?

And the TIP program? "Well, if you're not doing anything wrong, then you shouldn't have anything to hide then, 'eh? Shouldn't be a problem for ya! If you're not trying to hide something then you have nothing to worry about!"

CUTS BOTH WAYS, YOU ASSHOLES!!!

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