My colleagues have put together a great feature on a big Koch-organized confab featuring Glenn Beck, the Chamber of Commerce, various billionaires, and rightwing political strategists all getting together to plot for the midterm elections. One particularly interesting name on the list is Tim Carney from the Washington Examiner.
Carney’s an interesting case because at a time when most have accused Barack Obama’s administration of being full of anti-business leftwing radicals, he’s invested his time in making the much more plausible critique that Obama’s agenda has been unduly favorable to the interests of big business. It’s a plausible critique because I think there’s a lot of truth to it. If you look at TARP or the health care bill or the failed cap and trade proposal, all of these were more “pro-business” than I would have deemed ideal. But even while ostensibly covering the intersection of big business and the political system, Carney’s done a remarkably good job of ignoring the big picture that America has one political party whose agenda is unduly influenced by big business and another party whose agenda is indistinguishable from big business.
You’d think that’s something he might have noticed at the Koch retreat…
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