> The whole thesis of both US parties as parties of big business would
> be nonsense if "big business" did not have a centralized and conscious
> way of running them. How is it that the DP and RP just happen to act
> so thoroughly as agents of big capital ? It's more than "structural"
> ; and the "structure" did not self-organize. It was put into place by
> class conscious people.
>
> CB
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Tom Donohue is the current head of the US Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.verini.html
Donohue and his senior colleagues downplay the internal disagreements. “You’re never going to have one hundred percent unanimity,” Bruce Josten, the Chamber’s chief lobbyist, told me. “Never. There is inherent tension. There is tension between the oil companies and the gas companies. There is tension between the retailers and the wholesalers. There is tension between what used to be investment banks—we don’t have those anymore—and retail banks. I mean, come on. I laugh every day when someone calls and asks what does the business community think.”