Posted on 07/22/2014 1:43:20 PM PDT by cotton1706
The plot to save Thad Cochran was hatched at Off The Record, the subterranean bar inside the Hay-Adams hotel in downtown Washington.
In mid-June, just days before the Mississippi Senate runoff election, Tom Donohue, the hard-nosed CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was commiserating over drinks with Scott Reed, his senior political strategist, and Chip Pickering, a former Mississippi congressman-turned-telecom lobbyist.
The trio were smarting. After racking up an enviable 10-0 winning streak in midterm races, Mississippi voters dealt the powerful business lobby a major blow: Cochran, a Senate stalwart supported by the Chamber and its allies in the Republican establishment, had stumbled in his primary battle with Chris McDaniel, a smooth-talking state senator backed by tea party groups. The two Republicans were now facing off in a three-week duel that, to many, looked like a lost cause. American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-backed GOP group that had been supporting Cochran, announced that it was pulling out of the race.
Making matters worse for Donohue and his colleagues, McDaniel was a hated trial attorney, a specimen Chamber-types have viewed with blood-curdling contempt.
A key element of the Chamber's playbook this cycle is tapping big-name endorsers to star in television commercials for their preferred candidates. Reed and Engstrom recruited Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio to appear in ads, but they've also looked beyond politics. In Georgia, they booked college football hero Herschel Walker to appear in an ad endorsing Kingston.
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If the US Chamber of Commerce wants the credit for stealing that election, they can have it!
So badly they're willing to blow up our representative republic to get it.
I’ll never forgive these pecker-woods for what they did to Sarah Steelman of Missouri.
Second, they attack conservative/Tea Party types as people who want to blow up the Federal Government and shut the place down, while they pat themselves on the back with the comment "we care about governing".
There are two things wrong about this, conservatives and tea partiers don't what to blow up the federal government and they too are concerned about governing, indeed the long term trends are accelerating toward a collapse of the government and the economy.
That's what the Chamber calls governing, the rest of us call it recklessness on a scale never before seen in history. Somehow, the Chamber does not see this.
The liberals seek their dominance based on their belief that they are morally superior. The Chamber (and RINOs?) seek their dominance based on their belief they are smarter than the rest of us. Both sides join together and run the Federal Government and both sides are disasterously wrong.
Will we be able to collect from the Dem's and the Chamber after the collapse and hold them accountable. Nope, they'll both have already made off with all the plunder. They are destroying this country.
The US Chamber of Commerce feel they are entitled to their earmarks.
Domestic Enemies.
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