{"id":4058,"date":"2011-06-18T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2011-06-18T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:17:07","slug":"ouch-white-house-chief-of-staff-calls-presidents-economic-policies-indefensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/18\/ouch-white-house-chief-of-staff-calls-presidents-economic-policies-indefensible\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch: White House Chief of Staff Calls President&#8217;s Economic Policies &#8220;Indefensible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/06\/17\/daley-can%E2%80%99t-defend-obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98indefensible%E2%80%99-economic-policies\/comment-page-1\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from business  executives Thursday for the Obama administration\u2019s regulatory  expansions. Daley also said he didn\u2019t have any good answers for some of  what President Obama is doing and expressed frustration about the  \u201cbureaucratic stuff that\u2019s hard to defend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you can\u2019t defend the indefensible,\u201d Daley said at a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Daley couldn\u2019t answer basic questions and continually faced criticism  from the executives in the room. The business leaders even applauded  each other\u2019s criticism of the administration. \u201cAt one point, the room  erupted in applause when Massachusetts utility executive Doug Starrett,  his voice shaking with emotion, accused the administration of blocking  construction on one of his facilities to protect fish, saying government  \u2018throws sand into the gears of progress,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-houses-daley-seeks-balance-in-outreach-meeting-with-manufacturers\/2011\/06\/16\/AG177yXH_print.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> Peter Wallsten and Jia Lynn Yang in the Washington Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch, talk about throwing your boss under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>We could spend days talking about how President Obama\u2019s attempts to impose his political agenda by through regulatory extremism has strangled business and stifled economic growth. But we don&#8217;t have to, the President&#8217;s own Chief of Staff admits the President&#8217;s policies are &#8220;indefensible&#8221;&#8230; If nothing else this helps illustrate just how much of an uphill fight the president is going to have in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/planet-gore\/269473\/federal-judge-rebukes-epa-kathleen-hartnett-white\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Judge Rebukes EPA<\/a>&#8211; Kathleen White, Nation Review Online<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/43441924\" target=\"_blank\">How Miserable? Index Says the Worst in 28 Years<\/a> &#8211; CNBC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Caller: White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from business executives Thursday for the Obama administration\u2019s regulatory expansions. Daley also said he didn\u2019t have any good answers for some of what President Obama is doing and expressed frustration about the \u201cbureaucratic stuff that\u2019s hard to defend.\u201d \u201cSometimes you can\u2019t defend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,7],"tags":[57,1182,1181,1183,462,502],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-economy","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-daley","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-national-association-of-manufacturers","tag-obama-administration","tag-white-house","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-13s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3855,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/white-house-hey-let%e2%80%99s-tap-into-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve\/","url_meta":{"origin":4058,"position":0},"title":"White House: Hey, Let\u2019s Tap Into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve","author":"Jeff","date":"March 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"President Obama\u2019s Chief of Staff Bill Daley floated what might turn out one top ten stupidest ideas of 2011 during an appearance on Meet the Press yesterday... suggesting the Obama Administration may tap into the strategic petroleum reserve as way to help ease soaring oil prices: White House Chief of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":999,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/change\/","url_meta":{"origin":4058,"position":1},"title":"Change?","author":"Jeff","date":"November 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting bit of political trivia from Newsmax.com: Of the 47 appointees named so far to transition or staff posts, 31 have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one member of the 12-person Transition Advisory Board. 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