that means i don t have to come to work this week. as dave weigel noted, the republicans made arrangements in december that after they took over the house, they would work a lot less. they set their schedule so that every two weeks of house business is followed by a week-long recess. a week off after every two weeks you come to work. nice work if you can get it. that s the change that republicans have brought so far in washington. did you ever get like a calendar or a date book where it s really clear that the maker of the calendar didn t want it to look totally blank so they put every imaginable holiday inn there? my date book, palm pilot, i know, i have a date book made in england, marketed to north america as a whole. and my date book includes holidays like ben eat oh war ez day, and st. john bap tsa day in quebec. those wacky americans, who knows what they celebrate. these aren t important to me,
clapping, screaming sentiments of the american people with him? sometimes the only way to get respect from people who are really truly opposed to you is to beat them or at least show them that you can and you intend to. the president today getting all sorts of beltway credit for crossing the street and talking to this business group that did their best to destroy the democratic party in the last elections. the chamber spending more than $30 million in the last elections, and if you re wondering, yes, almost all that money went according to new york times review in october of last year at the end of election season, almost all of it, 93% of the chamber s election ads supported republican candidates or criticized their opponents. 93%, anti-democratic spending of tens of millions of dollars. from the president s tone today, you might have thought it was all a big misunderstanding. yes, we ll see things differently at times. but we re all americans.
differently at times. but we re all americans. i know you love this country. i know you want america to succeed just as badly as i do. that sounds awesome. it is more than just a rhetorical fluish. that is an assertion that can be tested i am peerk cli. ask yourself, are you rooting for america to succeed if you are rooting for businesses here to stop hiring american workers? in fact, if you re rooting for american businesses to fire americans who work for them and instead hire foreigners, because that s where the chamber stands. here is their president and ceo on out sourcing and firing americans and having the work done by people in other countries. there are legitimate values in outsourcing, not only jobs but work. the chamber of commerce prooutsourcing and not shy of it. check this out from 2004. u.s. chamber of commerce president thomas done hue urged
he made a good case for it. but outsourcing american jobs, firing americans from their jobs so people in other countries can do that work instead? that is not something that just happens to us like bad weather, even though nobody is really in favor of it. the chamber of commerce has been openly advocating in favor of offshoring u.s. jobs for years. so if you re against outsourcing american jobs, if you think it is right that american companies should hire americans, and that firing americans to hire foreigners instead is wrong, you re not fighting a straw man. there is somebody else who is taking the other side of that argument. if you think outsourcing is wrong, there is a prooutsourcing lobby that is wrong. the president today true to his style did not say that anybody was wrong. i know you want america to succeed. depending how you define it. they really don t. i mean, they say explicitly they don t. they re not shy about it.
but outsourcing american jobs, firing americans from their jobs so people in other countries can do that work instead? that is not something that just happens to us like bad weather, even though nobody is really in favor of it. the chamber of commerce has been openly advocating in favor of offshoring u.s. jobs for years. so if you re against outsourcing american jobs, if you think it is right that american companies should hire americans, and that firing americans to hire foreigners instead is wrong, you re not fighting a straw man. there is somebody else who is taking the other side of that argument. if you think outsourcing is wrong, there is a pro-outsourcing lobby that is wrong. the president today true to his style did not say that anybody was wrong. i know you want america to succeed. depending how you define it. they really don t. i mean, they say explicitly they don t. they re not shy about it. the president is on the other side of the chamber in this, but