Posted on 10/10/2013 6:44:39 AM PDT by Lorianne
WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown grinds toward a potential debt default, some of the country’s most influential business executives have come to a conclusion all but unthinkable a few years ago: Their voices are carrying little weight with the House majority that their millions of dollars in campaign contributions helped build and sustain.
Their frustration has grown so intense in recent days that several trade association officials warned in interviews on Wednesday that they were considering helping wage primary campaigns against Republican lawmakers who had worked to engineer the political standoff in Washington.
Such an effort would thrust Washington’s traditionally cautious and pragmatic business lobby into open warfare with the Tea Party faction, which has grown in influence since the 2010 election and won a series of skirmishes with the Republican establishment in the last two years.
“We are looking at ways to counter the rise of an ideological brand of conservatism that, for lack of a better word, is more anti-establishment than it has been in the past,” said David French, the top lobbyist at the National Retail Federation. “We have come to the conclusion that sitting on the sidelines is not good enough.”
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“The NYT represents the portion of big business that depends upon corrupt big government to get ahead and stay ahead in the game.”
Exactly.
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
--Milton Friedman
False premise. There ain't no debt default. There is a leadership default in the White Hut.
this must explain why Warren Buffet appeared like a delusional old man who has outstayed his welcome.
Investing conservativly is not inteligence.
The media is becoming shrill.
MSNBC even dug up michael eisner to push the democrat line. (he should just stay in the closet)
I call BS on the association threats.
These are “I got mine” liberals and RINOs.
The tea party movement was initially born out of opposition to TARP the auto bailouts and other sundry bailouts and crony subsidies ad infinitum.
They later focused on opposition to Obamacare, a natural progression since it (Obamacare) is a huge bailout/subsidy to big Insurance, Big Pharma and Big Hospital monopolies.
In that these “business groups” tend to be leftist-liberal, and internationalist instead of American nationalist, the Republicans need to divorce themselves from them.
They may be “business groups”, but they are “progressive” ones who are to a great extent responsible for the deplorable state our government finds itself in today.
The rank and file Republicans now realize that these “business groups” are just another wing of the Democrat party, or at least, its agenda.
This is a good thing.
They’ve been tossing our liberty under the bus in exchange for Crony Capitalist cash for far too long now.
I was bothered by the fact boehner’s former aid is working for k street to repeal medical instrument tax. That is ALL he cares about and the voters be damned.
Elitists See Loss of Sway Over Populists
Nice try, NYT.
Not buying it.
Shove it up your smelly collective Obamaholes.
Excellent!
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