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12/7/2009

Wanted: Chamber of Commerce President

Filed under: Politics — DRJ @ 8:58 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

A liberal group called the Velvet Revolution is upset that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes President Obama’s policies. However, instead of contesting the Chamber’s message, they’ve decided to attack the messenger:

“Velvet Revolution launched the StoptheChamber campaign in October and started offering a bounty for information on [Chamber of Commerce President Tom] Donohue a month later. A $100,000 reward was increased to $200,000 early this month, thanks to what Zeese called a “handful of larger donors” whom he would not identify.

A full-page print ad that looks like a “wanted” poster out of the wild West began to run in the Washington City Paper this week. It features a head shot of Donohue and offers a tip line for “insiders and whistleblowers possessing information not already in the public domain.”

The tip line is live. When FoxNews.com called, the operator asked for “criminal” information about Donohue.”

This reminds me of MoveOn.org’s General “Betray-Us” ad that candidate Barack Obama refused to condemn. Now that he’s in the White House, I hope President Obama will have the courage to stand up to liberal groups like the Velvet Revolution and demand they stop destructive and unwarranted personal attacks such as this.

— DRJ

28 Responses to “Wanted: Chamber of Commerce President”

  1. I hope he sues the pants off of them.

    Techie (482700)

  2. Maybe we should call and give them criminal information about Obama appointees, like Vann Jones and a few others.

    Mike K (2cf494)

  3. You gotta speak truth to power.

    Even when, you know, you’re the power.

    Wasn’t it someone on the left that decried the “politics of personal destruction?” Who was that?

    Anyway, Joseph McCarthy died in 1957. Yet, he remains the left’s pariah — and it’s standard-bearer.

    Emulating his tactics is a bit like growing up fat, drunk and stupid.

    Ag80 (3d1543)

  4. This isn’t America, DRJ. Not anymore. This will end badly. When people are driven to the point where they’re left hoping the little president man will show courage, you just know this will end badly.

    happyfeet (2c63dd)

  5. You know as much about science as you do about economics.
    I believe it’s Saudi Arabia leading the charge in Copenhagen against the data on global warming. Aided and abetted by Stephen McIntyre, a representative from the mining industry with an MA in what?
    It ain’t science.

    Meanwhile back on planet earth, 22[!] former Bush administration officials who were responsible for climate policy are now lobbying on climate change, or the oil, gas and mining industries.
    http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/43565.

    So it’s a debate. Thousands of self-important geeks with Ph.D’s in climate science who ride to work on bicycles and public transportation (and the odd Volvo) vs multimillionaire businessmen with MBA’s (if that) who ride in limousines and fly around in private jets,
    Educated arrogance vs arrogance with no education on the subject at all compounded by billions of dollars in self-interest.

    But then I’m talking to people who blame the poor (and democrats) for everything that’s wrong with the economy.
    How much are we in hock to China now? Thanks to your boy and your war?

    The debt began years ago, when you weren’t paying attention. And you still want a war without having to pay for it.

    bored again (d80b5a)

  6. That’s kind of atruthic, Mr. bored person.

    happyfeet (2c63dd)

  7. The 111 new programs in the Dem health care bill:

    http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/

    DaveinPhoenix (988dba)

  8. Hold the phone, Richard.

    If someone can explain to me what the boring guy just went off on, look up the area code for Earth.

    Ag80 (3d1543)

  9. Ag80 – Standard leftist pablum. Essentially it said STFU wingNazis, the science is settled, and Bush’s deficits were exponentially worse than Barcky’s.

    JD (ce9ac3)

  10. Obama is nowhere to be found to defend this man. He’s getting ready to go get his shiny bauble in return for handing over more of our money and freedoms.
    While the Obamas party the rest of America is broke, unemployed, or on the battlefield.

    Metallica (e4735c)

  11. “Standard leftist pablum”

    I am Gustavus Alolphus. Hear me roar!
    We are your new Scandinavian Overlords.
    You will learn to love socialism…

    and lutefisk too.

    bored again (d80b5a)

  12. Oh, I see, the MD 20/20 just kicked in.

    Ag80 (3d1543)

  13. I’ve never had lutefisk. One time I was in Bemidji and I wanted to try lutefisk so we went to the store to get some and they were out. Which is ok cause my brother says it’s vile.

    happyfeet (2c63dd)

  14. Lutefisk is some crappy Scandi fish soaked in lye. That’s right, you’re eating bleached fish.

    You might as well eat balut, which at least is an unprocessed egg, or durian, which is an unprocessed fruit.

    Gregory (f7735e)

  15. Patterico, am I off base when I see this as a blatant solicitation for illegal actions? Isn’t it just like trolling for somebody to kill an unwanted relative?

    {^_^}

    JD (847e52)

  16. The unspoken part is “and if he happens to get “roughed up” a bit in the process…….well, things happen sometimes”.

    Must be one of those liberal dog-whistles.

    And yes, I know, don’t feed the trolls, but this part cracks me up.

    Thousands of self-important geeks with Ph.D’s in climate science who ride to work on bicycles and public transportation

    Trust me, I worked with these types and they staffed a large part of my undergraduate and graduate faculty. They’re not really the hairshirt type as a whole. But….. I do love listing sometimes “taking the bus” as a qualification, as opposed to those EEEVIL Bushitler neo-kkkon thugs, who go to work on the back of slave laborers while randomly chucking pieces of lit coal on the sidewalks.

    [note: released from moderation filter. –Stashiu]

    Techie (482700)

  17. Not really, JD. Which is why I wouldn’t have any problems declaring the members of Velvet Revolution “outside the law”.

    SDN (d66f28)

  18. “Patterico, am I off base when I see this as a blatant solicitation for illegal actions? Isn’t it just like trolling for somebody to kill an unwanted relative?”

    My understanding was they wanted information on criminal things the guy had done, not information which would be criminal to share.

    [note: fished from spam filter. –Stashiu]

    imdw (6dcec0)

  19. If someone can explain to me what the boring guy just went off on, look up the area code for Earth.

    Anyone think bored again is a web bot that spews left talking points at random?

    Gerald A (138c50)

  20. Is that question rhetorical?

    Dmac (a964d5)

  21. Happy, Lutefisk is the Scandinavian cultural equivalent to Scotland’s Haggis. Both can be equally vile to the uniniated.

    While, “Yes, Virginia. There is a Santa Claus.”, Expecting Obama to exhibit having a spine is pure kool-aid driven fantasy.

    PCD (1d8b6d)

  22. #18
    I think it’s a little tricky. It’s sort of like the Turing Test in reverse.

    The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are placed in isolated locations. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. In order to test the machine’s intelligence rather than its ability to render words into audio, the conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen.

    Instead of trying to determine whether a machine can mimic a human thought pattern, here I’m trying to figure out whether a human is indistinguishable from the software. Maybe someone here has expertise in that area.

    Gerald A (138c50)

  23. Whether dealing with hiring practices or other vile behavior on the part of the leftward end of the spectrum, DRJ, I would suggest following the principle found in the film “Waterhole Number 3”. It is the code of the west; do unto others before they do it unto you.

    BarSinister (9a86c3)

  24. Is this any different than when “The Hustler” offered a bounty on info on any Congressional Republican back in the Clinton/Gingrich years?
    This is the black side of op-research that has gone on for years, most demonstrably on the Left side of the political spectrum.

    AD - RtR/OS! (e93189)

  25. Correction: In post #22 I was replying to #20.

    Gerald A (138c50)

  26. Slap the shit outta Kevin Zeese with a Red Velvet glove, holding a “five finger” of lead!

    “The media should be following the money trail behind this scurrilous group instead of giving credence to its outrageous tactics — and we are considering legal options with the ad,” spokesman Eric Wohlschlegel said.

    Don’t consider it, go for it, track their asses down and beat them with a Red Velvet Glove.

    It’s really sad they hijacked what was a great movement in Czechoslovakia to remove a communist govt, over here they are doing it to put one more firmly in place!

    TC (0b9ca4)

  27. If someone can explain to me what the boring guy just went off on, look up the area code for Earth

    I think he was simply being contrarian again with various tangential thoughts, with some points right out of the CRU emails.

    McIntyre, be he a scientist, climatologist, gemologist, or proctologist, knows mathematics and was the one to first demonstrate that the modeling that produced the “hockey stick” was faulty and would produce a similar looking graph no matter what data points were entered. In Congressional committee a few years ago testimony supporting his analysis of the math was given by two eminent US statisticians/mathematicians.

    His work has been downplayed by the CRU crowd because, “he hasn’t published his work in a peer reviewed journal”. Coming from the CRU crowd, that’s a laugher because we know why it wasn’t published, now don’t we?

    Sure the Saudi’s are pursuing self-interests in promoting fossil fuels, at least they have the intellectual integrity to be clear about what they think and why, and the personal integrity to act consistently with what they say.

    MD in Philly (227f9c)

  28. I just can’t get an image of bored again humping a telephone pole in between comments out of my mind. Does anybody else have that problem?

    daleyrocks (718861)


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