The Chamber of Commerce declares Nuclear Option on Attorneys General

[AnnInLa]

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/newsletters/0000.html




BUSINESS TARGETS LAW ENFORCEMENT
Not too long ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was about what you'd expect it to be -- a Main Street USA sort of organization that was for Mom, apple pie, low taxes and law enforcement. Presumably, the first three still apply but the newly extremist Chamber has put law enforcement on its hit list. Specifically, the Chamber wants to activate the nuclear option for what it calls "activist" attorneys general, meaning those who actually do what they're elected to do -- enforce the law. The Chamber is peeved that outlaws like Eliot Spitzer, Lisa Madigan and Jim Petro -- the attorneys general of New York, Illinois and Ohio respectively -- are not just prosecuting check-kiters and shoplifters but are also going after businesses that violate consumer protection laws through loan-sharking, predatory lending, market timing, kickbacks, bid-rigging and other seemingly common business practices.

It's not all that amazing that business has adopted such a down-and-dirty, winner-take-all attitude in recent years. After all, it's in the nature of capitalism to grab as much as it can until someone pushes it away from the trough. Trouble is, in recent years no one's been pushing back, except for a relative handful of attorneys general who take their obligations seriously. Now the once-respectable Chamber wants to get down into the mud pit and engage in the lie-mongering that lately typifies national politics. It organized a meeting in Washington recently to outline a course of action against the AGs. Conspiring to undermine law enforcement -- when the Mob does that, it's called racketeering, isn't it?

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/newsletters/0000.html

[Toots]

1. The Mob is a bunch of amateurs compared to this bunch

Real power is stealing the election and placing all of your thugs in office and fixing it so no real (fair) elections ever take place again. Diebold forever......

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick

[AnnInLa]

3. Shameful kick....Important to watch out for this in your state

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Two out of three are Democrats

and it sounds like the third (Petro) is having to defend that he has a "conservative vision".

If the US Chambers is anything like the local Chamber that I used to work for (one of the biggest in the country)...well, it's a pack of powerful good ole boys that are very much like the mob.