QOTD: CEO or King?

QOTD: CEO or King?

by digby


Punishing #Syria for using chemical weapons isn't declaring war. Shouldn't require Congressional approval. POTUS is our CEO.
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) August 31, 2013



If that's the case, the people are the board of directors and they get a say through their duly elected representatives.

If you ever wanted to see the CEO God complex in action, there you have it. It's not so much that he compared the president of the United States to some business functionary, it's that thinks running a company is the same as running a country. I guess these guys really do believe that the nation should be run like a business. Well, except it's not allowed to have revenue or produce anything (but weapons.) But other than that it's exactly the same.