Posted on 06/17/2011 11:12:53 AM PDT by jmranchman
White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from business executives Thursday for the Obama administration’s regulatory expansions. Daley also said he didn’t have any good answers for some of what President Obama is doing and expressed frustration about the “bureaucratic stuff that’s hard to defend.”
“Sometimes you can’t defend the indefensible,” Daley said at a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting.
Daley couldn’t answer basic questions and continually faced criticism from the executives in the room. The business leaders even applauded each other’s criticism of the administration. “At one point, the room erupted in applause when Massachusetts utility executive Doug Starrett, his voice shaking with emotion, accused the administration of blocking construction on one of his facilities to protect fish, saying government ‘throws sand into the gears of progress,’” wrote Peter Wallsten and Jia Lynn Yang in the Washington Post.
Americans for Limited Government Communications Director and former Labor Department Public Affairs Chief of Staff Rick Manning told The Daily Caller that Daley’s inability to defend Obama’s regulations is an indication that the administration’s plans aren’t working. Manning also points out that Daley’s meeting may have large political implications.
“Business community to William Daley, your Jedi tricks don’t work on us,” Manning said in an email. “The chickens are coming home to roost from the wholesale assault by Obama on the free enterprise system and the private job creators who make it run. The meeting itself is incredible in that it demonstrates just how vulnerable Obama feels in 2012.”
(As goes the economy, so goes Ohio?)
The Workforce Fairness Institute’s Fred Wszolek told The Daily Caller that Daley’s lackluster performance is even more questionable when comes to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its campaign against the Boeing Company. The NLRB has gone after the Boeing Company for opening a new plant in South Carolina. Boeing’s new plant is an addition to its already-existing production lines in Washington state. The NLRB’s case hinges on whether Boeing made the decision to open the new plant as “retaliation” against machinist unions in Washington, even though no jobs were lost there. In fact, Boeing has added thousands of new jobs in Washington.
As a former Boeing board member before taking on his White House job, Daley voted in favor of opening the new South Carolina plant. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has challenged Daley to come out and defend his vote in the face of the NLRB’s case, but he hasn’t yet done so.
I hope you are right, but the Mooch and Valerie Jarrett and the mother-in-law probably have different ideas about what he should do. No way are they going to give up their free trips and luxurious lifestyle without a serious fight. Those women run BO anyway.
I’ve been leaning towards thinking the “insider” is fake.
Trouble is..... the material seems to fit what is being reported elsewhere.
I might wind up drinking the kool-aid on that one.
I’d agree, but that’s the beauty of the SecState position. “I was nowhere near him when he decided that Obama texting Chavez ‘BFF’ was a good idea. . . .”
Hell, Daley did it to him just this afternoon.
“I can’t defend the indefensible.”
Daley’s are bulletproof in liberal circles. The gold standard. Obama is a Chicago product, which to an extend redounds to Daley. Daley turned him out today.
“My question is, if Dumb0 doesn’t run in ‘12 who does? Nobody wants to get slaughtered.”
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Good question, does anyone in the dim party really want the presidency in ‘12. Obama probably does simply because he wants to say he is president but I would say at this point the dims best chance for survival is let the GOP take it all back over and wait for them to screw up again.
“adults in the DNC (what few there might be)”
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I can’t name an adult in the whole party now that Zell Miller has retired.
They may very well have an LBJ moment in mind but HHH did not do well in that scenario, it led to the Nixon administration and while I detest the dims I am NOT one of Richard Nixon’s admirers. Mitt Romney may be close to another Nixon in policy, just not as smart as Nixon. Hillary Clinton’s national health care plan was copied from Nixon’s plan that was never sponsored in congress and Nixon introduced wage and price controls at a time when the economy was in far better shape than now.
“Yep, Obama makes Clinton look reasonable, Nixon look honest, Johnson look peaceful and Carter look smart.”
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That is a lot to accomplish in less than three years.
Neither, he is a PUPPET who is being manipulated to destroy this country. He, like Bill Clinton, would never have become president without the handlers behind the curtain.
Exactly, if the cow manure didn’t improve the taste of the ice cream then they call for three times as much cow manure and a longer mixing time.
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