Just Like Starting Over

摘要

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's headquarters in Washington, D.C., is just across Lafayette Park from the White House. President Barack Obama, however, has only been there twice since he was elected. He had good reason to stay away. During Obama's first two years in office, the trade association's president, Thomas J. Donohue, a 72-year-old as pugnacious as Jimmy Cagney, did everything in his power to derail the President's agenda. He warned that the White House-backed health-care bill would impose "a burdensome mandate on employers." He compared the Dodd-Frank financial reforms to Pandora's box.