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Quote of the Day, It’s Just Business, Mary Landrieu. It’s Not Personal edition.

Well, maybe it’s a little personal.  But it’s mostly just business.  Hot Air:

If anything, the end of the general election may have hurt [Senator Mary] Landrieu. The public is still being flooded with advertisements reminding them of everything that’s on the line, and external Republican forces really have nothing else to occupy their time these days, so they may as well make her miserable.

We have a schedule, and this is part of the schedule, so this is the thing that we are doing now. There’s really not all that much more to it than that. But we will keep to the schedule.

Businesses noticing Dems don’t like them very much?

While it’s pleasant to have the people that we’ve been trying to tell this finally get this:

Mr. Seidenberg, officially Verizon’s CEO, moonlights as chairman of the influential Business Roundtable, the “association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies.” That would be the same Business Roundtable that woke up this past month to discover the White House has been playing it for a patsy. It turns out that actively supporting a pro-tax, pro-regulation Democratic majority on issues like health care doesn’t really get you anything save more taxes and more regulation.

This has clearly come as a shock to the Business Roundtable, as Mr. Seidenberg made clear this week with his newsy and newfound criticism of the White House. The chairman revealed in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington that he’d become “somewhat troubled” by a “disconnect between Washington and the business community.” Here he and his fellow CEOs had “worked closely with policy makers”—they’d even pushed ObamaCare. And yet! “We see a host of laws, regulations and policies being enacted that impose a government prescription” on private actors. Truth was, Washington had created a downright “hostile environment” for job creation!

…there’s the problem that it’s not enough to come to your senses; you have to do something about it. I have a humble suggestion for Mr. Seidenberg and his colleagues. Continue reading Businesses noticing Dems don’t like them very much?