FASCISM ALERT: CORPORATIONS LINING UP BEHIND MIERS.

[jody]

This is a repost to generate more discussion.

Emerging supporter of Harriet Miers: businesses

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"Having two justices, Roberts and Miers, who we expect to join him shortly, that's adding two to nothing from the point of view of that kind of experience. That's big for the business community," says Bruce Josten, the top lobbyist for the US Chamber of Commerce. He predicts that other business groups, many for the first time in their histories, will take a higher profile role in court fights.

"Business is getting involved for the first time because, in the last decade, we've had a litigation explosion in this country that is unmatched in the industrial world - $250 billion in annual tort costs, much of it paid by the business community," he adds. "There's a concern in having with an understanding of business and commercial law from a real-world perspective."

For more than a year before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, the US Chamber had been evaluating potential candidates from federal circuit courts on the basis of their record on business issues and making its views known to the White House. "We were very proactive," says Josten, who says that Miers was not among those ranked, because she had never been a judge.

While the Chamber and other business groups, such as the National Association of Manufacturers, have yet to formally endorse Miers, they are talking up her business credentials.
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Benito Mussolini said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."

[politicaholic]

1. Where did the republicans get this notion that Dems were stupid?

Like we wouldn't see right through the motive and the agenda here.

[blm]

3. The GOP media waves the prolife flag to hide the pro-fascism agenda

from their duped audiences.

[gademocrat7]

2. The Chamber of Commerce is a shill for that is rethuglican.

Miers is not qualified to be Supreme Court justice. They can scream all they want. She is unsuited to serve on the nation's highest court. Big corporations be damned.

[jody]

4. I agree. It's sad that Repugs think she is a weak Repug appointee but she

is really a strong Corporate Party appointee.

The Corporatist Party controls our government while encouraging Democrats and Republicans to think they are fighting for control, see Corporatism

[blm]

5. That's a good way to put it.

I have long argued that Bush is not a real Republican or a conservative. His actions are those of a fascist imperialist.

[LittleClarkie]

6. kick!

:kick:

Hey, this needs attention!

[blm]

7. I agree. Even savvy Dems get roped into the abortion/evangelical aspect

when the fact is that's BushInc's SMOKESCREEN of choice to cover up the fascism.

[Redstone]

8. Those people are assholes. Local chambers of commerce are good deals,

but the nation one is full of shit, and has always been.

Redstone

[blm]

9. The national Chamber is the one that catapults the propaganda for fascists

and their agenda. The local chambers are usually made of those duped into believing that the chamber exists for the small busibessman, while the national chamber is actually working AGAINST small businessmen.

[rbajai]

10. Basically American companies

want to rip people off and scam them any and every way they can. Then they cry and whine when they get caught, "Oh, the litigation costs! Oh the lawsuits! Oh the horror!"

The American companies dream is to abolish labor unions, move jobs overseas where they can get slave labor who won't unionize and who they won't have to pay squat (no benefits either), get by with using the lowest quality materials sold at the highest cost, screw any environmental restraints, trap the customer into long contractual obligations where the customer is stuck with a HUGE fine if they back out (as in cell phones)...and on top of all that - continually fatten the wallets of the higher-ups with bonuses, salary increases, and extended severance packages.

[jody]

11. Bulls eye!

:thumbsup:

[blm]

12. heh...now if only we can get others to sound the alarm.

Maybe a LTTE campaign by DUers to add this dimension to the public debate on Miers.

We should also urge left-leaning journos to discuss this point.