Russ Feingold speaks truth to power. He calls out one aspect of the Obama administration’s crony-capitalist, big-government-corporatist, welfare-state liberalism—the relationship between the Obama White House and its favorite pet CEO, GE’s Jeffrey Immelt. Russ has a petition—see below—calling on Immelt to resign from, or for Obama to fire Immelt from, his position as chair of Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Sign the petition. And why not go further? Get rid of the Council, period. Surely Russ and his fellow progressives would agree on that too.
In January, THE WEEKLY STANDARD’S own Fred Barnes wrote, “In General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, President Obama may not have picked the worst possible corporate executive to head his new panel on job creation. But Immelt is pretty close.”
