Reply #11: 'Unsavory":

[PDittie]

Much discussed has been Daley's fairly public disapproval of the president's health care reform package, which he castigated as either an overreach or a miscalculation. "The election of '08 sent a message that after 30 years of center-right governing, we had moved to center left -- not left," he told The New York Times.

Equally illuminating, however, is the stance Daley took on the other major piece of domestic legislation passed during the past two years: financial regulatory reform. Daley, reportedly, was not exactly enamored with a new consumer financial protection agency, a key element of the plan and one of the president's most cherished provisions, going so far as to lobby White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to drop the idea.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/william-daley-rumored-chi_n_804254.html

Thinks healthcare reform was a bad idea because it was 'too left'. One of the top guys at JPM Chase -- they took bailout money, didn't they? -- and then decried financial reform, and pulled strings with Rahm to get the administration to shitcan it.

I think the world of Dean -- as indicated in my sig line -- but I can't line up with him on Daley. He's an enemy of the middle class, the working class, and a heavyweight hippie-puncher. CoS is the president's gatekeeper. Someone wrote the other day that Obama has nearly no progressives advising him as it is. Daley is much less coarse than Rahm, but has the same mentality and is probably even worse when it comes to progressive interests.

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