Emanuel Sets a Challenge

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Published 11/19/2008 by Susie at Suburban Guerrilla
Glad to see this: President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming White House chief of staff challenged chief executives and other business leaders Tuesday night to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won’t be acceptable. “When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out of the car and say, ‘We’re OK with minor reform.’ I’m challenging you today, we’re going to have to do big, serious things ...

ThinkFast: November 19, 2008
Published 11/19/2008 by Think Progress at Think Progress
... Incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel “challenged chief executives and other business leaders Tuesday night to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won’t be acceptable.” “I’m challenging you today, we’re going to have to do big, serious things,” Emanuel told the WSJ’s CEO Council. “ ...

Rahm Challenges Business Leaders: Let's Do Real Health Care Reform
Published 11/19/2008 by Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central
Here's some very good news for those who are hoping that Obama moves quickly and ambitiously on health-care reform: President-elect Barack Obama's incoming White House chief of staff challenged chief executives and other business leaders Tuesday night to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won't be acceptable. "When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out of the car and say, 'We're OK with minor reform.' I'm challenging you today, we're going to have to do big, ...

CEOs and Health Care
Published 11/19/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) at Eschaton
CEOs and Health Care One of the enduring mysteries... well, maybe not so mysterious... is the fact that more big companies haven't pushed hard for a national health care system. It's really quite impossible to see their failure to do so as acting in the interests of their shareholders in any way, unless they're health insurance companies, of course. Obviously it's just ideological and part of the rich asshole culture. I doubt Rahm's plea to them will be heard.

Rahm Emanuel Challenges CEOs To Back Reform (VIDEO)
Published 11/19/2008 by The Huffington Post News Editors at The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
... Rahm Emanuel made a rare public appearance at a Wall Street Journal CEO conference last night, where he challenged business leaders to join the new administration in working for real health care reform: ...

Rahm Emanuel Challenges CEOs To Back Reform (VIDEO)
Published 11/19/2008 by The Huffington Post News Team at Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
... Rahm Emanuel made a rare public appearance at a Wall Street Journal CEO conference last night, where he challenged business leaders to join the new administration in working for real health care reform: ...

Transition News 11/19
Published 11/19/2008 by tnr1.com at The Stump
Thomas Friedman worries that the Clinton-Obama relationship could be bad for State. Politico reports that Bill Clinton might drop foreign income to help Hillary become SOS. Karen DeYoung explains what Obama's national security structure might look like.  Why transition is tougher for Obama than for past presidents. Rahm asks CEOs to join in the fight for universal health care. Newsweek looks at how the world is ...

Is Rahm Proposing A Health Care Horse Trade?
Published 11/19/2008 by Noam Scheiber at The Stump
... quick thought on that WSJ article about Rahm's comments to business leaders yesterday. These portions of the Journal piece stood out for me: ...

Daschle Tapped For HHS
Published 11/19/2008 by Jed L at Daily Kos
... Another day, another cabinet appointment. According to CNN's Ed Henry, Tom Daschle will serve not just as Secretary of Health and Human Services, but will also be the administration's point person on the push for a universal health care plan. (A push that Rahm Emanuel apparently has gotten behind.) ...

Emanuel vows to 'throw long and deep'
Published 11/19/2008 by Steve Benen at Political Animal
EMANUEL VOWS TO 'THROW LONG AND DEEP'.... My biggest concern about Rahm Emanuel becoming the next White House chief of staff is his record of incrementalism. With that in mind, it was hard not to find his comments yesterday very encouraging. Talking to a group of CEOs and business leaders, Emanuel said incremental changes wouldn't be enough , and urged his audience to work with the Obama administration's push for universal health care. "When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out of the car and say, 'We're OK with minor reform.' I'm challenging you today, ...

Signs And Portents On Health Care Reform
Published 11/19/2008 by DemFromCT at Daily Kos
... care. And the third, led by Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, will work on insurance coverage.   The above is important because one of the major criticisms of the push during the Clinton years was that it was an executive (i.e WH) crafted program with little input from either Congress or the public. That's what made it so vulnerable to Harry and Louise commercials. This time, it's starting with Congress. Next is incoming CoS Rahm Emanuel, from a WSJ article: President-elect Barack Obama's incoming White House chief of ...

Long and Deep
Published 11/19/2008 by myglesias at Matthew Yglesias
... I’ve seen a certain number of news accounts trying to gin up basically fake tale of deep left-wing disgruntlement with the shape of the Obama transition. Other, more intellectually honest journalists, have written of their own personal frustration at the lack of awesome disgruntlement stories to write. To put that kind of thing in context, you just need to remember that ordinary people care more about policies than about politics and then read stuff like this: ...

Politics and Media Headlines 11/19/08
Published 11/19/2008 by Caro at Corrente
The Black Agenda Report Emanuel Sets A Challenge (Wall Street Journal) President-elect Barack Obama's incoming White House chief of staff challenged chief executives and other business leaders Tuesday night to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won't be acceptable. "When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out of the car and say, 'We're OK with minor reform.' I'm challenging you today, we're going to have to do big, ...

Quote of the day
Published 11/20/2008 by Allahpundit at Hot Air » Top Picks
... challenging you today, we’re going to have to do big, serious things,’ Rahm Emanuel said, speaking to The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, a conference convened to elicit corporate opinion on the challenges facing the new president… He said business leaders should help find solutions to the middle-class squeeze or face a revolt. ‘We need a strategy as a country to make sure they have an opportunity to move up that ladder,’ he said… He stressed that the new administration would ‘throw long and deep,’ taking advantage of the economic crisis to push wholesale changes in ...

Everything's comin' up roses
Published 11/21/2008 at The Sideshow
Rahm has been running around talking about universal healthcare as if it's a good thing, which is actually a lot better than what was going on before the election. Also, the wingers hate Rahm, which is another thing in his favor. ...

Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone On Health Care
Published 11/21/2008 by David Sirota at Open Left - Front Page
... - The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel "challenged chief executives and other business leaders to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won't be acceptable." Emanuel said, "I'm challenging you today, we're going to have to do big, serious things." ...

David Sirota: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
Published 11/21/2008 by David Sirota at Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
... - The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel "challenged chief executives and other business leaders to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won't be acceptable." Emanuel said, "I'm challenging you today, we're going to have to do big, serious things." ...

Obama Chief of Staff Refuses to Talk ‘Card Check’
Published 11/21/2008 at Stop The ACLU
-By Warner Todd Huston The Wall Street Journal reports that in a meeting with business leaders, Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel refused to reassert the Obama administration’s determination to pursue “card check.” He was asked his views on the push by labor unions to allow workplaces to be organized with the signing of cards attesting to union support rather than a secret ballot. Mr. Emanuel declined to say whether the White House would support the legislation, but he said the unions are addressing the concerns of a middle class that has seen U.S. median income slide over ...

Pachacutec: Will a President Obama Fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
Published 12/2/2008 by Pachacutec at Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
... arose after Rahm Emanuel, who has been selected to become Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, recently declined to affirm an Obama administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act when speaking to a group of prominent business leaders. Emanuel's unwillingness to make a statement about the Employee Free Choice Act stood out because Barack Obama made strong, unequivocal statements of support for the legislation during the presidential campaign. According to a Wall Street Journal report on November 19: (Emanuel) was asked his views ...

Events and Announcements: Melody Barnes, Valerie Jarrett meet with community leaders
Published 12/5/2008 at Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog
... From the beginning, President-elect Obama has said that only if we come together as a nation can we meet the immense challenges before us. He’s made reaching out to every part of America a top priority. Three weeks ago Rahm Emanuel, who will serve as the President-elect’s Chief of Staff in the White House, reached out to the business community at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council. He emphasized the need to refocus on the middle class, and told them now is the time for real change: “When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out ...