Desperate Obama: How About a New Government Secretary of Business?

From a guy who spent his entire first term demonizing big business, denying help to small business and campaigning for ObamaCare instead of focusing on jobs, this comes off as a last minute move of desperation.
The Hill reports…

President Obama would like to establish a “Secretary of Business” if he wins a second term.
In an interview with MSNBC, the president said he wants to consolidate a number of business and trade-related agencies, creating a “one-stop shop” for oversight.
Caught in a neck-and-neck run with a GOP challenger highlighting his private sector experience, the president is now pushing his own ideas to help business.
“I’ve said that I want to consolidate a whole bunch of government agencies.”

Four words: Too little, too late.
Erika Johnsen of Hot Air gets it right…

No — a thousand times, no. As much as Democrats like to aggressively peddle the line that “Mitt Romney wants to take us back to the policies that got us here in the first place,” as if tax cuts and deregulation were somehow the prime movers of the financial crisis, the fact is that too much big government is what really got us here.

The Romney Campaign has already responded…

“We don’t need a ‘secretary of business.’ We need a new president who actually understands business and won’t punish it with the job-killing regulations that have been imposed by the Obama administration,” said Ryan Williams, a campaign spokesman. “Mitt Romney spent his career in the private sector as a successful businessman, and as president he will promote pro-growth policies that will create jobs, help small business and strengthen the middle class.”

  Right on!