Tea Party's Rise Gives Business Pause

The Wall Street Journal ^ | SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 | BRODY MULLINS and NAFTALI BENDAVID

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Tea Party's Rise Gives Business Pause

* BUSINESS * SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

By BRODY MULLINS and NAFTALI BENDAVID

Business leaders and lobbyists are increasingly worried that the election of tea party-backed Republican candidates to Congress might threaten their priorities next year, fearing that these candidates' anti-spending fervor and opposition to special tax breaks would jeopardize prized programs.

Business leaders clearly prefer a Republican-controlled Congress to a Democratic one, judging from their statements, endorsements and campaign contributions. They cite low taxes, less regulation and certainty in the business environment as among their top priorities in Washington, and many see Republicans as more responsive on these topics.

And campaign donations from the business community, along with voter anger at Washington's current leadership, are playing an important role in helping Republicans as they try to regain control of the House and Senate in the November elections....

[Niuhuru]

Pity we can’t recruit hippies with that philosophy. We might end up getting more people from more walks of life than we anticipate.

[Seven plus One]

Isn't that the definition of Fascism - government and business in collusion?

When clinton announced his new and exciting idea of a 'partnership of the public and private sectors', and called it 'The Third Way', I immediately started to inventory my ammo.

This fine fellow originally named his new, progressive political philosophy 'The Third Way'. And for pretty much the same reasons. We are definitely on the right track- the movement is ruffling all the right feathers. Our opponent is actually bigger than most of us ever imagined; the biggest government in human history in collusion with an unimaginably large global corporate empire. This is Codevilla's 'ruling class', and they need to stay in charge somehow. Fascism is as good a name as any for the methods they use to do so.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Large corporations and Wall Street are not true capitalists...they practice crony capitalism at the expense of the average American."

And well the Founding Fathers knew it. They had no love for corporations, given the poor track records of the companies that had been chartered to establish and run the original colonies.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

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[Professional Engineer]

He sure looks funny not hanging from a lamppost by a foot.

[backwoods-engineer]

EVERY special interest piglet who is drinking the free Federal milk from Sowzilla should be in the crosshairs, business or not. I guess these pundits and lobbyists realize that Tea Party patriots might upend their little moneychanger tables. I love the smell of elitist fear in the morning! (er, evening, er, whatever.)