Darrel Issa: Corporate America Has A Friend In The GOP

11:35 am EST June 21st, 2010 | Republicans | 19 Comments

It’s pretty easy to caricature the GOP as the party of big business when they come right out and say it.

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19 Responses to “Darrel Issa: Corporate America Has A Friend In The GOP”

  1. Jay says:
    June 21, 2010 at 11:39 am

    Corporate America and “big business” are mutually exclusive.

    I work for a company that is part of “corporate America” but is not “big business.”

  2. Indeed says:
    June 21, 2010 at 11:55 am

    Corporate America and “big business” are mutually exclusive.

    In layman’s terms, two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot occur at the same time (i.e., they have no common outcomes). The best example is tossing a coin, which can result in either heads or tails, but not both. Both outcomes can’t happen simultaneously…
    In logic, two mutually exclusive propositions are propositions that logically cannot both be true.

    If only there were a pop-culture approved movie quote from The Princess Bride that we could apply, logically and otherwise, here.

  3. nicole473 says:
    June 21, 2010 at 11:57 am

    @ Jay

    I think most of us understand that the term “corporate America” refers to the BIG corporations, not the mom & pop business who incorp for tax purposes.

  4. nicole473 says:
    June 21, 2010 at 11:58 am

    “who” should be “which”

  5. Quaker in a Basement says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    Mutually exclusive?

    I could buy “not the same thing” or “just part of”. How on earth is “big business” not part of “corporate America”?

  6. jr says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    BP and Massey Energy have a friend in the GOP

  7. mike in dc says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    I generally think of “corporate America”/”Big Business” as referring to the Fortune 1000–the 1000 largest closely held and public US corps by size/revenue. Companies which don’t make that list aren’t necessarily all that small, but they have way less influence than the biggest 500/1000, as a rule.

    No average citizen wakes up thinking both that “government has too much control over my life” AND “corporations have too little control over my life”. If you put a few drinks into the average Tea Partier, I’d bet you could get them to admit they kinda hate big business too.

  8. Enlightened Liberal says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    Cue Jay saying that there is no distinction and that liberals are against small business.

  9. Enlightened Liberal says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    Most people that aren’t trying to be stupid on purpose would agree on your definition of corporate America.

  10. SaveFarris says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    I guess Democrats really are going to use the Obama/Maher platform of “F*** your jobs!!!”

    Good luck

  11. timmy says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    It’s the black n white thinker thing, just like in the pic. All platitude, no abstract nuance.

  12. Enlightened Liberal says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Yes, ferris, because not unconditionally cowtowwing to corporate rule = everyone losing their jobs.

    Black/white thinking on display again.

  13. Duros62 says:
    June 21, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    “who” should be “which”

    If corporations are people, you were right the first time.

  14. Duros62 says:
    June 21, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    When did that become an Obama platform? When you said it did?

  15. Jay says:
    June 21, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Oh I see. So there’s a bunch of mind readers here now. Everybody just KNOWS Issa was only talking about the HA-YOOG corporations.

    Forgive me for actually providing a distinction and not going along with leftist group think.

  16. The Dark Avenger says:
    June 21, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    `When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

    I won’t use it to have corporate America live in fear that we’re going to subpoena everything.

    That’s the ticket, he was referring to the Obama plan to subpoena all the small businesses!

    Thanks for clearing that up, Jay.

  17. Repack Rider says:
    June 21, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Actually, isn’t that the Carly Fiorina philosophy, which she put into practice while CEO of Hewlitt-Packard?

    If it isn’t, please explain the difference3.

  18. timmy says:
    June 22, 2010 at 12:43 am

    Once again, it’s either yay or nay for Jay.

  19. Dr. Psycho says:
    June 22, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    They’re not.