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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Chamber Of Whores


Excerpt from the article "Show Him The Money", Washington Monthly magazine, July/August 2010, about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its' President Tom Donohue.
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"In other words, a large part of what the Chamber sells is political cover. For multibillion-dollar insurers, drug makers, and medical device manufacturers who are too smart and image-conscious to make public attacks of their own, the Chamber of Commerce is a friend who will do the dirty work. 'I want to give them all the deniability they need,' says Donohue."

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(The blurb is old, but it's still worth remembering that this bastard will do anything for a price. Donahue is the poster child for everything that's wrong with current "conservatism".)

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