An unusual article in The Intercept is noted with the following headline: “House Republicans Planning to Investigate The Chamber of Commerce if They Take Majority.” The article is framed around the statements of an unnamed congressman, who appears –from the sourcing inference– to come from the House Judiciary Committee.
If you have followed the deep political weeds, you know the CoC is the anti-MAGA element within the America-First economic battle. However, it is also true the CoC and the Washington DC UniParty members they feed with lobbying dollars are peas and carrots, this includes the entire republican establishment apparatus.
The republican party investigating the CoC is never going to happen. It would be a move akin to Adam Schiff investigating the origin of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
The CoC is not only an organization made up of lobbyists for Wall Street, but the members within it are also the close personal friends of just about every influential GOP politician.
The framework for the investigation, as written in the article, surrounds the leftist Environmental Social Governance (ESG) outlook of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is factually accurate. The CoC is indeed an organization that is ‘all-in’ to position themselves for the benefits of climate change in the corporate sphere. If there is money to be made from ESG economics, the CoC is the lobbying firm shaping legislation toward that benefit.
However, the CoC is too entrenched with republican party apparatus to ever have their agenda challenged by the “republican” politicians in DC. So, what exactly is going on here? A MAGA-minded republican within the House Judiciary Committee wants to investigate the CoC?
In a way I could envision someone like Jim Jordan (Ohio) wanting to do exactly that. However, the internal republican elements in opposition to that goal would, unfortunately, still be too strong to allow something like a congressional investigation to take place. Therefore, the article as written is best viewed as an agenda surfacing from within the republican ranks carrying some alternative purpose.
Despite the chamber positioning, opposing ESG is a no-brainer for the conservative base.
Any and all attacks against the ESG agenda are unifying efforts that bring conservatives and MAGA-minded America First voters together.
Unfortunately, that political reality also underscores the usefulness of ESG opposition as a political tool, to the professionally republican apparatus. If you have followed the way DeceptiCons operate, now is the time to put on your Machiavellian hat.
The MAGA movement is -like the Tea Party that triggered it- essentially, at its core, a movement based on America-First economics. The goals and objectives of the multinational corporations are against the interests of MAGA. Hence, most corporate-aligned republicans (the establishment, per se’) are not supportive of the national MAGA movement. Corporate republicans are paid by the interests that MAGA supporters despise.
There is one potential 2024 candidate who has pushed back against the ESG effort, at a state level. Putting aside the substance of the pushback, a political talking point containing a history of action against the ESG effort is an arrow in the quiver of the Florida governor. Unfortunately, at the same time as the ESG concern has become a point of policy reference, the Florida governor is taking massive amounts of money from the same people who benefit from ESG.
So, the question becomes: with DeSantis becoming increasingly visible as a corporate republican, is the identified anti-ESG outline of the article a way to enhance the America-First bonafide’s of DeSantis, by creating a unifying economic platform position?
The anti-ESG position would be a way to deflect from being a corporate republican. In the aggregate this approach would diminish the concern of being a purchased corporate republican by giving the illusion of alignment with America First.
(The Intercept) – REPUBLICANS PLAN TO launch a variety of investigations into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many of its largest member corporations if they retake the majority in the House of Representatives this November. The probes, said a GOP member of Congress and multiple Republican operatives who requested anonymity to discuss plans that have yet to be made public, will marry Republicans’ newly formed hostility to the Chamber with the party’s mission to undermine the growth of the ESG investment sector.
The power of ESG — which stands for environmental, social, and governance — criteria to shape company valuations and behavior has become a major source of consternation among conservatives, who argue that companies that follow it are breaking with their fiduciary duty to maximize profits for investors.
The Chamber has infuriated Republicans by endorsing ESG criteria. “Today, for many companies, climate change and carbon emissions impact long-term value, thereby becoming a factor that retirement fund managers should take into consideration,” wrote a Chamber vice president in a typical statement in July 2020.
The congressman highlighted what he saw as the downfalls of that approach. Republicans accuse ESG advocates of using ESG criteria to punish American energy companies, only to then give an advantage to large, foreign energy companies over which the U.S. has little oversight anyways.
“How is it again that you can discourage investment in American energy when you own, or when you’re controlling board seats, of an American energy company, but you’re pushing it offshore to a Chinese energy company? Tell me you didn’t violate your fiduciary duty somehow,” said the congressman. “Then you throw that over into Judiciary [Committee hearings] and say, how do you reconcile this from an antitrust perspective? How can somebody actually be duty-of-care to the shareholders of one entity when you’re duty-of-care to the Chinese Communist Party’s-controlled energy company?”
“There is not going to be much to investigate,” said a Chamber spokesperson. “The Chamber is at the forefront of fighting the SEC climate, human capital and similar disclosures and believes fiduciaries must focus on maximizing return.” House Republicans, though, think the Chamber is having it both ways, criticizing the Securities and Exchange Commission rule but supporting the principle. (read more)
The lessons of the Tea Party being corrupted in 2011 and 2012 (collage reference below), through fraud and deceit by the republican establishment, should be the reference point for reviewing any DC centered effort to confront the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
“Unite the Right” is code speak for let your guard down. We need to remove a lot more corporate republicans before we can lower our cynical guard….
While I agree there are probably Machiavellian motives, perhaps it’s good enough to name drop and smear the CoC. What they probably don’t want is any attention. Does it matter if MAGA republicans or leftist not bought by Wall Street shine a light on their activities? Whatever hurts them!!!
Leftists are just as owned by Wall Street as the establishment Republicans.
The Republican caucus did start disinviting CoC from some items because they were campaigning for Democrats.
Need more details on this one. It could be as simple as the GOPe continuing to sabotage 2022 by pissing off donors to the point that the donors flip sides or just sit on the sidelines.
Then we are all agreed, inasmuch as someone is up to no good for some reason.
It was the Chamber who promoted Obama’s Iran deal which was act of clear treason. We gave aid and comfort to our enemy in return for their purchase of some Boeing (CHAMBER +) jets and other Chamber products. Treason is giving money to an enemy. Iran is an enemy because they have killed and are killing Americans today and they threaten to kill Trump and Pompeo. In addition the deal required the obstruction of actual criminal prosecutions and investigations against Iran and its agents for violations of sanction laws. They only way to avoid a charge of treason would have been to have the Senate approve this deal as a treaty but they didn’t have the votes.
I don’t need to even get into the Chamber’s financing of the Trump coup!
Rush Limbaugh famously said he was asked by the Chamber and their Republican senate supporters to support this deal and told them that he wouldn’t commit treason to help Boeing sell some jets.
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Good. Thank you!
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I’m sure the COC gets a strongly worded email from the Republican committee when they’re ready to “investigate”.🙄
The layers of DeSantis are slowly getting peeled back. Hopefully the “top gov” believers are starting to understand the game, and realize Hunter’s painting career is more believable than America First MAGA DeSantis.
De Santis has walked the walk and has a proven and lengthy track record opposing the globalist agenda. Sundance may believe he’ll change and be corrupted but that hasn’t happened yet.
Most notably, he preserved one of the few remaining free states in the world during Covid, something Trump did not do.
Just to be clear, I support Trump and will vote for him if he runs, but he let himself get snookered by the Davos ,Fauci, Gates plandemic crowd.
I love what DeSantis has done but I followed him very closely during Covid and watched a 3 hour conference he hosted regarding opening up. He opened after Trump called for it. He wasn’t strict during the lockdowns but the ONLY Governor to remain open and never locked down was Noem.
Of course, I was disappointed Trump called a National Emergency, 15 days to slow the spread, all of it. What I cannot believe are the people still wearing masks. I don’t think I’ll ever understand
He voted for TPP in the House.
His track record is Globalist.
Knowing that Main Street businesses are hurting big time while the Wall Street firms like the Walmarts and Amazons are doing just fine, this could be as simple as campaign rhetoric – ‘vote for us and we’ll get Main Street back into business’ like another Treeper wrote ‘vote for us and we’ll get rid of Obamacare’. Uniparty doing what Uniparty does.
Yeah, appears that we have seen this rodeo a few times already.
Just another program to send the taxpayers money.If this goes forward does anyone really believe in will have and value or produce any knowledge of wrongdoing worthy ofthe cost to investigate .? Asking for a friend
Never say never. God always wins, and we have NO idea how He intends to carry out His plans.
People have been saying that for 1000’s of years.
You are in DENIAL of reality and I believe in God by the way.
You are waiting for God to so something.
“God always wins” .
Tell that to the sexually abused children and murdered children of the last few thousand years, how many millions do they number?
Tell it to the innocent victims of wars for profit.
Tell it to the American people who have had their currency and sovereignty handed over to the cabal banking network since 1913 and that one action has led to so much destruction of life, property and liberty in the US and abroad.
Tell it to the holocaust victims.
Tell it to the 20 million Russian Christians murdered by Judeo Bolsheviks.
Tell it to the victims of the Spanish Inquisition.
Tell it to the children abused by priests of all religions.
The Christian religion is about 2000 years old.
Look at the horrors that have occurred in that time.
Life was so bad for the feudal peasants in Europe that they thought the year 1000 would herald the end of the world, life was so bad for many they welcomed it.
Where is this “winning”? As the human race stumbles from one horror and atrocity to the next one, over and over, seemingly without end and people like you say “It’s in God’s hands”.
You’re talking utter BS and that is not being disrespectful to God but to foolish adult humans who keep uttering this tripe.
And you will answer “We do not know his plans”.
Good grief, it’s time the human race grew up and took responsibility for what is going on.
Dude try this say it as many times as you need to until you understand.
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”
Amen
I rail against the machine as often as I can. I wake as many as I can to the efforts currently underway to starve and kill off the weak and old in the third world. All so that there resources can be mined cheaper by the hungry “Artisan miners” (Children in mud puddles washing and seperating the “pretty stones”,cobalt ore).
Fascists hate it when there are to many mouths to feed.
FJB and F them all.
God smote these followers of Satan. Let me bare witness to your vengeance so no other like them may rise again
AMEN
As Tom McDonald says welcome to the system
Don’t blame God for all the horrible, crappy things that people do to each other. He told us not to.
Put John Durham in charge of the investigation, he will “get to the bottom” of it, while Bill Barr plays The Star Spangled Banner on the bagpipes in the background . 🙄🤣🤮
I suggest ‘Amazing Disgrace’ would be appropriate?
Remember John 8:44 when dealing with politicians… imho
Intercept?
Just like the old paper news. The headlines ( the header ) is the capture. Gets your interest then you read and then the words are in your head. Its like planting a seed, this propaganda.
The Intercept: Header, Border Wall Construction Resumes Under President Joe Biden. Some words from the article.
“It’s feeling like I felt during border wall construction with Trump” Traphagen told The Intercept. “I hadn’t felt that on the border in a year and a half, and now it’s like, oh, sh*t, here we go again.
The resumed operation will range from repairing gates and roads to filling gaps in the wall. The walls environmental harms have been particularly acute, where CBP used explosives to blast large swaths of protected land.
I could go on with this drivel. The header makes you think ( O’Boy we are winning, look they are admitting the wall must go up). Its all leftist communist propaganda.
Read the dam propaganda here, if you want to subject yourself to this BS! I got the link from ‘citizenfreepress’. I quit reading the first paragraph. We are in a war people and we better be discerning about what we allow ourselves to be exposed too!
Joe Biden Resumes Construction of Trump’s Border Wall (theintercept.com)
Cannot edit! Got a phone call, so I will reply.
When do you think the CBP used explosives to blast large swaths of protected land? Never, it never happened.
The Chamber has infuriated Republicans by endorsing ESG criteria.
Environmental, Social and Governance Ratings (ESG) equals Hillary Clinton’s promise to West Virginia to take down fossil fuel companies. West Virginia threatens to bar big banks, Blackrock over perceived fossil fuel boycotts. Now remember Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s attorney of record, is on the board of “Blackrock”. Tom Donilon’s Chairman of the BlackRock Investment, President Obama’s former National Security Advisor (NSA) brother of Mike Donilon who is the Senior Advisor to Joe Biden.
BlackRock in The White House
June 20, 2021 sundance
With Joe Biden in the White House you can expect to hear the name “Blackrock” in the headlines connected to a variety of issues from real estate purchasing to green energy projects with massive domestic and international investments.
DeSantis becoming increasingly visible as a corporate republican, is the identified anti-ESG but for how long? Just trust me, I won’t change sides – I promise.
The graphics Sundance came up with for this story are AMAZING !
Heard this Just trust me/us far to many times, Unfortunately.
Think that the general populace is remembering these lies/stories/promises.
PDJT “Promises made, Promises Kept”, it’s not just slogans but actions that matter. That is what both wings of the UniParty Fowl hate. The charade is displayed for the masses of people to see.
Donilon — that name, that face, that corrupt anti-American Chamber of Commerce/Blackrock guy is a good reminder of how dishonest the Chamber is. John O’Sullivan’s Law states that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time. Case in point, and a good reminder to us MAGA types to apply that to the Republican Party as well.
The threat from West Virginia, where coal is a major industry, is the latest front in a brewing battle between banks and Republican-led states. Republican policymakers are threatening to curtail access to state business over industry policies they believe unfairly discriminate against certain industries, like fossil fuels and firearms. The pushback is part of a broader controversy over environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues, which the financial industry has been quick to embrace in response to investor demand while critics say it could limit credit to legal industries.
West Virginia is one of several states, including Texas, to adopt or consider new laws aimed at punishing banks they believe to be discriminating against such industries via ESG policies. Moore has the authority to bar banks from state business under a new state law he backed, which the legislature passed in March.
In a May 26 opinion prompted by an inquiry from Ball, officials from Cameron’s office concurred that ESG asset management practices run afoul of Kentucky law.
“This isn’t really about profitability. It’s not about retirement security. It’s not about your investments. It’s about political activism. And they’re doing it in a way that they could not do through the democratic process,” Ball told reporters.
“ESG today is misallocating capital, in that it’s not providing capital where it is desperately needed, in the traditional energy space—and it’s leading to higher gas prices,” Oaks said.
https://ussanews.com/2022/06/14/environmental-social-and-governance-ratings-esg-batter-states-choke-off-capital/
They appear to be able to use ESG to shut down coal mines, for example. With people like Biden and China ready to move in an extract gas from those same mines to make LPG. I do not see, how this has anything to do with the Green New Deal.
Around every corner you can always find a politician ready to make a deal by backing ESG.
With most politicians, it is very important who they take money from because they have no mission of their own and are content to be bought hacks. But DeSantis is so obviously a man with his own agenda — a pro-America, pro-liberty, pro-parental rights, anti-trans indoctrination and CRT indoctrination, pro-energy, anti-crime agenda — so why would I care who he takes money from?
Everybody know who he is. Whoever wants to give him money it is fine with me. It’s better than fine. It’s great.
Sure it would be a disaster if DeSantis were to foolishly get into a battle with Trump, but we can’t not want to have two champions just because they might conflict. We need all of our champions to bed strong and have to trust them help them not to tear each other down.
That danger is always there amongst leadership types. I don’t think that DeSantis is any less than what he appears to be just because he takes money from buttholes.
If a great guy gets the butthole money? That’s a win-win. If only it could always be so.
Maybe you missed this. I trust Sundance’s experience, knowledge & shrewd observations.
We’d all be thrilled if this isn’t true, but my money is on Sundance that it is.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/12/the-managing-of-desantis-five-days-in-the-bunker-and-a-new-press-secretary/
I do trust Sundance. I don’t doubt that the buttholes funding DeSantis imagine that they can control him. I just think that DeSantis has already shown us who he really is, and that that is not going to change.
If there is a surprise in store, I’m guessing that it will be DeSantis agreeing to partner with Trump as VP, at which point he will have full MAGA and Trump financial backing that will extend to his own two presidential runs as well. He won’t need CoC money.
The US Chamber of Commerce, like most Democrat entitled laws is oxymoronic, in that the US Chamber is anti American and anti small business. They are one of the driving forces behind the open borders and abortion and need to have their collective clocks cleaned by congress and the American people.
A thumbs – up for pointing out that it is the national C of C that has anti – small business and pro – illegal alien policies. A majority of the local and regional Chambers are looking after small business.
Republicans worthless as teats on a boar.
If and when Republicans take the house we will have so many investigations; I wonder if Congress will accomplish anything useful.
Investigations lead to reports, not legislation. The Republican way.
After starting a company years ago, seasoned persons kept at me to join
C of C. So I did.
The only advantage I found was leaving was even easier than joining. To me, it was nothing more than a reason to be out & do some mutual back-slapping.
Opposition to ESG is growing at the state level. It’s a winning issue for the GOP. It’s too soon to say if DeSantis or others have Machiavellian motives. He and Youngkin have hit on a formula that works at the state level, and not all donors benefit from the America last policies of the GOPe. I just read that a major donor in Arizona, one who heavily supported Bush and similar RINOs, is impressed with Kari Lake and has been funding her campaign and arranged for Youngkin to come to Arizona to rally suburban voters. The donors who don’t benefit from America last policies want a seat at the table and will back whoever they think will win. The MAGA-GOPe divide is more significant than the tea party and won’t go as well for the GOPe. Too many at the state level are figuring out that the GOPe approach isn’t popular with voters and have observed how well the DeSantis-Youngkin approach works.
“If I’m reelected we’re going to stop funding planned parenthood, repeal Obama Care and allow competition across state lines, blah, blah, blah!”
Standard lip service (impeach Biden, investigate the CoC) at reelection time.
Nothing’s gonna change as long as we’re hanging on the BS from this 2nd statist party and there remains no real opposition party.
Another example of the DC bait and switch con.
Therefore, the article as written is best viewed as an agenda surfacing from within the republican ranks carrying some alternative purpose.
That alternative purpose is to gaslight any plan that sticks it to MAGA candidates for Congress this November.
Yah sure and tabulation machines are impartial and can’t decide the vote.
Trump’s SMS messaging code of 80810 has been taken over by the RNC; to extend this argument. I don’t answer any of their questions, just observing.
How about they investigate 1) why we have Jan. 6 citizens languishing in prison for just being at a rally while Antifa and BLM are responsible for millions of $$$ for the destruction of businesses and properties and U.S. citizens. 2) investigate the clot shot that have destroyed many lives. 3) Why have over 2 million illegals been allowed in this country 4) Who should be held accountable for the many Fentanal deaths. 5) Who is responsible for the FRAUD election. Lots of evidence of what happened and who did it. Look into those crimes first. May even give Conservatives some respect for you.
Here’s a simpler explanation: the CoC has pissed off even establishment repubs with their increasing alignment with the demonrats and it’s time to rattle the CoC’s cages.
If the GOP claimed to “investigate” the COC it would be for the purposes of “whitewashing”. I.e. ‘see all that was investigated, all charges were debunked’.
Debunked just to use Killary’s favorite meaningless word.
I’m sure the “investigation” would be as in depth, probing, and factual as a snopes “fact check”.
Sorry to tell all of you……the R’s are just as bad as the D’s. They both tell people what they want them to hear.
The U.S. Chamber of Chinese Commerce deliberately destroyed American Manufacturing, thereby enriching the very few while destroying jobs, families and communities.
Could a Convention of the States be a viable option to start to peel back Uniparty top down control? I’ve been hearing more about it, realizing it may be too slow, but just musing if it’s possible and a mechanism that allows us through Article V to not have to worry if someone is MAGA or Fake Backstabber
conventionofstates.com
Let us just talk about recent crimes of the Chamber and not their path of destruction of the middle class over the last 40 years:
WHY would we NOT want to investigate the Chamber?
Who’s the white haired guy in the pictures?
Tom Cochran, head of the CoC for a very long time, sadly I forget who runs it now.
I would like to believe there are liberals in the USA that fear a Fascist (defined as big government in partnership with multi-national corporations) take over that results in destruction of our individual rights just as much as I (constitutional conservative patriot) do. After all we can argue about policies only if there is a functioning First Amendment in force.
I hope someone parks a van outfitted with speakers that plays nothing but that annoying Mexican radio music at full volume outside the CoC building. Maybe have some MS-13 or La Eme members loitering around their front door. I bet their staff is all white. I bet the cops would be called immediately.