The Chamber of [Government Run] Commerce

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 19th at 02:00 PM  | 

Recently, some of my friends have expressed shock and dismay over the Chamber of Commerce’s endorsements of big-government establishment Republicans like Dick Lugar and Jon Bruning.  After all, they suggest, isn’t the Chamber a bastion of free-market, pro-growth policies? The answer is really simple.  It is no enigma.  The Chamber of Commerce is not conservative, pro-free-market, or even necessarily pro-growth.  They support the special interests | Read More »

Time to End Bipartisan Profligacy of Transportation Spending

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 18th at 08:35 AM  | 

One of the preferred methods liberals use to tax and spend is to create special “trust funds” for particular expenditures, with the intent of hiding the funds within the Treasury’s general fund.  The system goes something like this: levy a tax that is supposedly earmarked for a specific expense and impounded in a trust fund (lock box); gradually purloin the fund by using it for | Read More »

California Senate Update

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 01:30 AM  | 

It’s getting remarkably rough for the Democrats out here in California. Long, long time Assembly Speaker (and then after 1994 booted him out, San Francisco Mayor) Democrat Willie Brown has no confidence in any of the top Democrats, saying they have no ground operation at all. He applied that to Jerry Brown (Governor), Gavin Newsom (Lt. Governor), and Babs Boxer (Senate). The Chamber of Commerce | Read More »

The Fiorina surge is on

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 15th at 07:30 PM  | 

It’s no wonder that the Chamber of Commerce, feared by Barack Obama, is ready to spend another $1.25 million educating Americans about the dismal failure that Babs Boxer’s 28 years in DC have been. Since Carly Fiorina started her ad offensive and kept piling on, the polls have been moving. The television barrage has come just at the right time. While a month ago it | Read More »

Birthers:Chamberpots::Birth Certificate:Chamber Money

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 13th at 01:28 PM  | 

Read this email from a birther. Then consider changing things like “birth place” dual citizenship” and “natural born status” to “foreign money. From: Kandace Ricotta Subject: Your latest birther comments in today’s Morning Briefing Date: October 13, 2010 10:00:02 AM EDT To: Erick Erickson Dear Mr. Erickson, Why is it that you continue to refuse to look at the VALID questions surrounding Obama’s eligibility? You, | Read More »

Dems take a page from Obama’s deceitful campaign playbook

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  October 11th at 10:30 PM  | 

Engaging in old-school deceive-and-distort politics, Obama and his surrogates have decided to demonize the Chamber of Commerce. Without any evidence, Obama calls the organization, which represents millions of American businesses, “a threat to our democracy.” Obama and company are annoyed that the Chamber is now actively campaigning against the radical Obama/Dem agenda. This latest front in Obama’s expanding, and losing, propaganda war against opponents is based on an unfounded assertion — | Read More »

Barack Obama Is ‘A Threat to Our Democracy’

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 11th at 05:00 AM  | 

“[U]nlike the Chamber of Commerce, the Obama campaign most likely accepted into its campaign coffers donations from foreign individuals and never returned the money.” When you’ve hung around with so many people who idealize communism and socialism and loath the United States, you tend to develop an inner-Soviet voice. Barack Obama sure has. He let it slip with Joe the Plumber and Obama’s talk of | Read More »

CoC and dKos: a look at the progressive caste system.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 6th at 02:28 PM  | 

Let’s set the scenario. The Chamber of Commerce got told – much to their surprise – that they were supposedly funding a group (Americans for Job Security) that produced this anti-Halter ad accusing the progressive candidate of promoting outsourcing.  They further discovered that The Daily Kos was using this (false) allegation to raise money for Halter.  So the Chamber of Commerce did something dumb: they | Read More »