The executives said the political attacks are having a broad effect on their business — even though the restrictions are intended to apply only to recipients of federal bailout money — and cancellations have been increasing as the rhetoric heats up.
“We’ve seen companies cancel meetings last minute, leaving 100 percent on the table just to avoid criticism and ridicule,” said Frits van Paasschen, president and chief executive of White Plains, New York-based Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., the third-largest U.S. lodging company, who attended the White House meeting.
Congress = Hypocrisy. Who knew?
I’m shocked. [i] Shocked! [/i]
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
“It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.”
Mark Twain
Anybody caught the new circus act “The flying Pelosis”?