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To: combjelly who wrote (613675)	5/29/2011 9:49:33 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587671

"it was pretty obvious he was pro-business and always has been." sure all community agitators are pro business, like Sharpton and Jesse jackson. They love shaking them down

To: combjelly who wrote (613675)	5/29/2011 12:29:33 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587671

Unless you bought into the meme he is a wild-eyed socialist, it was pretty obvious he was pro-business and always has been. He came into office very nearly a socialist. And he was certainly not "pro business". The first year of his presidency proves this, with the enactment of Obamacare and the waste of a trillion dollars on a failed liberal economic program. Obamacare is tremendously anti-business (see: Waivers) and was a blatant attempt at moving toward socialized medicine (in the end, I suspect what we got was the worst of all worlds, bigger government involvement at higher cost that is unsustainable, not to mention possibly being unconstitutional). The stimulus was pie-in-the-sky, of course -- but essentially an endorsement on an unbelievable scale of long-failed left wing economic policy. Anti-business? Of course. The BP witch hunt -- in which he threw a temper tantrum and coerced BP to commit 30B as hush money was definitely anti-business. BP was clearly doing a fantastic job WRT the spill, did a good job, and the end the spill was essentially harmless (even YOU should be able to admit that dumping 1/3 of a Superbowl full of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is an insignificant event) -- OTHER THAN the damage Obama's anti-business policy has done in the Gulf. His early actions WRT the automakers? That's "pro-business"? Corrupting the way the debt markets work and "taking control" of American businesses? That's not "anti-business"? I don't think you're a stupid person, but you are so colored by your liberal dogma that you honestly can't see past your nose.

To: combjelly who wrote (613675)	5/29/2011 12:48:04 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587671

Sen. Jim DeMint: President has Stocked NLRB with 'Union Thugs' by Mark Hemingway Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C., sat down for an interview with Coffee and Markets, a podcast hosted by Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech. When asked about the National Labor Relations Board's attempt to keep Boeing from building a factory in his state, DeMint had some exceptionally harsh words for the NLRB: DeMint: I mean, they'll lose the first couple of appeals because they go back to the board that the President has stocked with union thugs basically, and – Cianfrocca: "Union thugs", may we quote you? That's a great word. DeMint: Once this gets in front of a fair and impartial judge they'll win, but it's only after millions of dollars in legal expenses and several years of chilling effect. Cianfrocca: Yes. DeMint: What they're trying to do is to tell any company in America, don't even think about moving to a right to work state or expanding to a right to work state or you're going to have to go through millions of dollars of legal expenses and this type of government harassment. It's pretty amazing in America that we're dealing with this type of third world tyranny. That may seem unnecessarily pejorative, but actually DeMint's got reasons to be pointed about Obama's NLRB critique. As I noted in my recent WEEKLY STANDARD article on the decline of the American labor movement: The most direct attempt to influence the labor landscape quickly, however, might be Craig Becker's appointment to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). A former top lawyer for the AFL-CIO and SEIU, Becker was opposed vigorously by the business community, and his nomination was rejected in the Senate with bipartisan opposition. Obama placed Becker on the NLRB with a recess appointment. Within three months, the National Right to Work Foundation had filed 13 motions noting Becker's conflicts of interest in decisions before the NLRB. Oblivious, Becker has participated in handing down rulings in at least 17 cases involving unions he represented as a lawyer. In each of those cases save one, Becker ruled in favor of the unions.