U.S. "post-recession business" certainly appears to be the true rival of the White House... For a Government in need of tax-funds; they sure spend a lot of time making private business into a hostile environment...
WH policy is making business enemies faster than they can pass bills.
Krauthammer critiques the style...
Video via Jim Hoft
A President who publicly attacks tax-paying private business firms, is actually invoking his power to dissuade businesses advertisers who may be concerned that it will influence their own business holdings. Not illegal, just unethical.
Alexander to White House: Don't Create 'Enemies List' #
Top Senate Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), who served in the Nixon White House, spoke from the Senate floor Wednesday morning, to offer what he said was a “friendly suggestion” to the White House not to repeat the errors he saw committed by the staff of the disgraced former president. “Based upon that experience and my 40 years since then in and out of public life, I...read more.
If that wasn't enough... The wheels are turning the other way, as FDIC head Sheila Bair warns community banks are struggling to compete against their too-big-to-fail rivals...
"Too big to fail has become worse," she said, "it's become explicit when it was implicit before." Bair contends government guarantees create competitive disparities between large and small banks, because "everybody knows small institutions can fail," making it more expensive for them to raise capital and secure funding. read.
'Do What They’re Told’: Obama Takes Swipe at Republicans During NYC Fundraiser: Read.