Tea Party vs. Business

by Idéfix Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:45 pm

For years now, business groups have watched from the sidelines as extremists took over the GOP. Many calculated that the rightward shift of the national polity that comes from one major party lurching to the right would be good for business. Others saw them as an odious but necessary tool in the fight against Obama and his agenda. But the alliance between stupidity and business interests was tested during the budget and debt ceiling crisis, and things seem to be changing.

A battle for control of the Republican Party has erupted as an emboldened Tea Party moved to oust senators who voted to reopen the government while business groups mobilized to defeat allies of the small-government movement.

“We are going to get engaged,” said Scott Reed, senior political strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “The need is now more than ever to elect people who understand the free market and not silliness.” The chamber spent $35.7 million on federal elections in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based group that tracks campaign spending.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-18/republican-civil-war-erupts-business-groups-v-tea-party.html

by indophile Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:54 pm

Are Tea Party-ites really Republican? They sound and act more like Lyndon Larouche (the perennial candidate for President) of the Libertarian Party.

Tea Party vs. Business

Tea Party vs. Business

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