[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Make that *Big Business*, especially Wall Street and Pharmaceuticals.

[hinckley buzzard]

Big Business, Big Labor, Big Gubmint--The three pigs of American politics. All huddling together in the last little house seeking refuge from the wolf of free enterprise and competition.

[TigersEye]

"Big Business is sitting there on fat, pushy duffs looking for government to keep them in business," said Armey in an August interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. Only "incompetent" companies needed bailouts, he added. "People who run corporations are basically taking care of themselves. They're not very reliable people, and they're very comfortable with Big Government that greases the skids for them."

Sounds about right to me.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Consider the source people. Businessweek is the financial version of Newsweek.

[GeronL]

Corporate subsidies and stimulus. Big Business Likes.

Government/Business Social-Facism

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

And so, is this a reason to support or not support the TP? The same TP that opposes a crony, self-dealing political system opposes the same impulse in business. The TP does not have the tired liberal reflexive reaction against “corporations” or “transnationals”. All the TP wants is for the law(s) to be observed. That means those who violate the law get removed from their positions of authority and punished; instead of being rewarded with the highest bonuses and official positions in the administration.

This latest National Security guy is only the latest outrage, but is just as much of a jaw dropping nominee as Eric Holder. Maybe even more. A flat out criminal.

[FrankR]

So (big) business doesn't trust the Tea Party...well I don't either, because for it to be a Tea "Party" it would have to be one of those phoney ones created by that turncoat in Florida.

On the other hand, the "TEA party movement" is comprised of the people. Big Business doesn't trust the people?

I say if a "Big Business" is too stupid to know that the TPM is NOT a political party, then we don't need to trust them manufacturing our medicines or selling stock in companies.

Maybe someone should put the word out to the millions who are supporters and participants in the TPM to revolt back at "big business".

Certainly they know that we're not going to always have the kenyan in DC, and eventually all of their kickbacks and stimulus/Tarp money will dry up...and they'll be back relying on the people again...those "tea party" people.

I've never seen anything like this lefty stupidity. The TEA party movement has been around for a long time, and they STILL don't freakin' get it. Elites my @$$.

[ntmxx]

*Big Business*

56 out of how many, small number...

Name them!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I seem to remember Jimmy Carter quoting Business Week magazine as saying that Reagan’s tax cuts would lead to massive inflation. How did that turn out?

[loveliberty2]

Business people have been their own worst enemies for decades. By and large, with some outstanding exceptions, they have gone about their chosen occupational choices, all the while ignoring the fact that the politicians they supported were growing the government's involvement in their affairs to such an extent that it was destroying the environment for their own success and the cause of liberty in the world.

Finally, after decades of neglect, the individual enterprise system which made America the most prosperous, most free, and most benevolent society ever to exist in the world, has been stifled, strangled, and overcome by the burdens of a too-large government.

Now, the current Administration is openly hostile to business, and the business leaders who have not bothered to study the ideas of America's Founders and to defend the Constitution which those Founders framed--those business leaders are finally waking up, and some of them are involved in the Taxed Enough Already movement.

Not all business leaders have been so clueless, however. In Texas, back in the 70's and 80's, there was Eddie Chiles, former owner of the Texas Rangers, and Walter Davis. In Illinois, there was James R. Evans, who wrote "America's Choice." In North Carolina, there was W. David Stedman, who published magazine ads, free enterprise radio messages, spoke to national manufacturers' associations and business groups, and used corporate profits to publish a book called "Our Ageless Constitution," here, laying out the principles underlying the Constitution and its protections for freedom of individual enterprise.

Today, there needs to be a massive move by America's business leaders to preserve the liberty they inherited and to oppose all who are participating in "killing the goose that laid the golden egg" of plenty in America for over 200 years.

[Dr. Sivana]

I have found BusinessWeek, BusinessInsider, and especially The Economist to take a sneering attitude towards grass roots movements and social conservatism. They do so at their own peril.

[Frantzie]

Business Week was a lefty rag POS magazine when McGraw Hill owned them. McGraw is best known for overpriced school books spewing leftist propaganda to your kids and S&P for giving wortheless mortgage backed securities AAA ratings.

Now Mr. 9/11 Victory Mosque Bloomberg owns the rag.

[JSDude1]

THIS is why we are not more ahead than we are, however the Tea Party needs to dialogue with the business community, WE DO need to dismantle 90% of Big-Government, but there is a right way to do this..(and then there is a destructive way, that WOULD kill many people financially as well as turn many away from free-markets).

We have analy...ze how Big-Government is structured, and cause and effect (how it came to be, if we “pull-the-right-pieces” how it will cause prosperity, over just cutting without affect to cause). WE DO NEED TO DISMANTLE BIG-GOVERNMENT we just need to do it in the right was! ~My 2c, J. J. S.

[Publius6961]

How much clearer can the simple statement be said?

One does not join the Tea Party. It is a political attitude. Your attitude defines whether you are in or out.

Taxed Enough Already!

That is the entire state of mind that defines a member.
No further action required.
It is a conservative, return to our roots movement.

The Left either is or pretends to be retarded, and that includes the Lame Stream Media.

[snippy_about_it]

While many may affiliate the Chamber of Commerce with the Republican Party and its pro-corporate values, the South Carolina chapter recently broke from that tradition by endorsing a Democratic candidate for governor.

On June 23, the Chamber announced it would stand behind state Sen. Vincent Sheheen.

In the primary elections, the Chamber endorsed both Sheheen and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Gresham Barrett.

Barrett was defeated by state Sen. Nikki Haley in the June 22 runoff, and by a decisive 65-35 margin.

SC Chamber supports the Democrat. It's a shame, even though we all know Niki will win. Here is their website.

Thus another reason Glenn Beck's call to support the chamber by sending money today should have fallen on deaf ears in SC.

[KarlInOhio]

Big business will not only sell the communists the rope to be used to hang them, they will also get snippy if anyone calls them on it.

[bilhosty]

And we spend all of our political capitol trying to get these people tax breaks.

[mirkwood]

[bwc2221]

The Chamnber of Commerce supports what's best for the Chamber, not our country. It supports Blue Dog Dems, is pro-amnesty and anti-everify. Glenn Beck sometimes says some really dumb things. Anyone who donates to the Chamber rather than directly to deserving candidates is a fool.

[GunRunner]

The Tea Party's brand of political nitroglycerin, in short, is too unstable for businesses that look to government for predictability, moderation, and the creation of a stable economic environment. "A lot of the agenda is being driven by the extremes," says John Castellani, the former head of the Business Roundtable who left in July to take the helm of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). "This kind of extremism makes it much harder to plan from a business perspective." (So far this election cycle, PhRMA's political action committee has sent about three-quarters of its campaign contributions to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.)

I wish these lefty schmucks would get their talking points in order. I thought the Tea Party was nothing but a puppet for big corporations! Which is it?

[meyer]

Some big business likes big government with its big regulations that raise big barriers to new competitors. It’s easier to be successful when nobody is allowed to compete with you.

We need to break down the “business - government” partnership. It is nothing but a facade for graft and corruption.