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Business Groups See Loss of Sway Over House G.O.P.
New York Times ^ | 09 October 2013 | Eric Liption, Nnicholas Confessore, Nelson D. SCchwart

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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1 posted on 10/10/2013 6:44:39 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

BUY AMERICAN.

Bring back American jobs.


2 posted on 10/10/2013 6:46:11 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Increase Taxes on foreign manufactured products to punish Americans for being more effective in other industries!


3 posted on 10/10/2013 6:48:35 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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To: Lorianne

Business vs. The American People. These executives care more for money than liberty. They don’t understand that without liberty one can not have prosperity.


4 posted on 10/10/2013 6:50:39 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Lorianne

Total NY Slimes Marxist propaganda! The tea party is all about free enterprise!!

Go, tea party!! We’ve got the hun on the run!!


5 posted on 10/10/2013 6:51:12 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Pay higher prices for domestic products to support high-paying jobs for the politically-connected! Your country needs you!


6 posted on 10/10/2013 6:51:14 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Lorianne
The democrats will have the public and private unions, the welfare classes, every grievance group in the nation AND Big Business in their pocket.

What will the meme of the democrats and the MSM be when the only represents taxpayers?

Btw depending upon Boehner's conduct during this shutdown I suspect taxpayers aren't even a sure thing.

7 posted on 10/10/2013 6:51:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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8 posted on 10/10/2013 6:51:48 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Jim Robinson

Of course they are spinning this.
They can’t admit that the tea party movement is not about what they have been telling everyone they are about ... for over 5 years now.

The NYT represents the crony capitalism status quo system. So they have to misrepresent and scapegoat the one group who is doing something to change the status quo


9 posted on 10/10/2013 6:56:09 AM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Lorianne
"Open warfare with the TEA Party faction.....?"

Oopsy, did the NYT commit journalism here? I thought they've been telling us the TEA Party is dead, or at least on life support.

The Times have also been saying that so often that even "influential RINOs" believe(d) it.

Is that why they're heading into flay themselves in front of Obama to prove their worthiness to be in Congress?

10 posted on 10/10/2013 6:56:44 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Lorianne

A lot of these business groups use both parties to carve out anti-competitive legislation. Most of these are barriers against small businesses to prevent a breakout into the larger market. That is why so many laws are predicated on the number of employees a business has. The cost of jumping that barrier is extremely high and often prohibitive to smaller businesses.


11 posted on 10/10/2013 6:57:01 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Lorianne

Related article:

Tea Party Loosens K Street’s Stranglehold on GOP (they should say Congress)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/10/06/tea_party_loosens_k_street039s_stranglehold_on_gop_317209.html


12 posted on 10/10/2013 6:58:19 AM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Lorianne

Its OK, they’ve still got the democrats.


13 posted on 10/10/2013 6:58:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Lorianne

“Occupy Wall Street” has no seats?
No, but the Communist Party has about 120.


14 posted on 10/10/2013 7:01:38 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Lorianne
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.

The Pub party will become a minority party if they abandon the middle class, main street Pubs, who are the bulk of the Tea Party. The idea that everything will "settle down" and the base will still vote for the Pubs if we cut a deal that's good for our business interests is not going to work.

The Tea Party was born out of opposition to obamacare. The destruction of individual liberty and tax burdens created by this law will never be acceptable. The Tea Party has been under attack almost from the get go. The Rats refused tax exempt status to Tea Party organizations. The Rats had the IRS audit large contributors. The mainstream media has denigrated the Tea Party organization and members. The Pubs have only reluctantly given them a voice, but not positions of power within the party. Yet the Tea Party is still here!

If the Pubs abandon us in this fight. I know I will respond by only contributing to Tea Party candidates who are running against establishment Pubs in the primaries. If the Tea Party candidate gets the nomination then I will contribute to them in the general election and vote for them if possible. If the Tea Party candidate is not a ballot I won't be voting.

Enough is enough. I'm embarrassed to say I did vote for McCain, Romney and other establishment Pubs. I knew they weren't what I wanted, but I figured the alternative was worse. I don't care anymore.

15 posted on 10/10/2013 7:02:14 AM PDT by wmfights
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To: Lorianne

Agree completely. The NYT represents the portion of big business that depends upon corrupt big government to get ahead and stay ahead in the game. Our traditional unfettered American free enterprise system works much better for all freedom loving Americans than any corrupt crony capitalist/statist system ever could.

Down with statism!! Up with the grassroots tea party!! Up with free enterprise!! Let freedom ring!!


16 posted on 10/10/2013 7:10:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Lorianne

“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.”

Sitting on the sidelines? Hey, Frenchie—is it not true that your Big Business masters have spent years and tens of millions of dollars in buying off establishment Republicans to vote for amnesty and crony capitalism?

There are some of us who no longer buy the line that “what is good for General Motors (or Google, FaceBook, Microsoft, etc.) is necessarily good for America.”


17 posted on 10/10/2013 7:12:14 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Good ...Maybe we can get rid of ethanol...


18 posted on 10/10/2013 7:12:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Lorianne
Moreover, business leaders and trade groups said, the tools that have served them in the past — campaign contributions, large memberships across the country, a multibillion-dollar lobbying apparatus — do not seem to be working.

Well, that's definitely good news. Republicans need to take closer looks at the long term effects of almost always doing the bidding of business interests. Business interests will, and have, flooded this country with illegal aliens, enticed here with the lure of jobs and little or no law enforcement.

If businessmen think, as in the past, that their interests are best represented by Republicans, then maybe they need start thinking beyond their next payroll to what impact their use of illegal alien labor and support of higher and higher legal immigration is having on the voter pool in the US. They are, along with several well know RINOS, guaranteeing that the Republican party will beocme a long term minority party by continually supporting virtually open borders simply to put short-term, downward pressure on labor costs.

I don't think most businessmen will be too pleased to wake up some day and realize the US government is in firm control of extreme leftists. But that's the precise result they are making major contributions toward.

19 posted on 10/10/2013 7:14:54 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Hojczyk

If ethanol was so great, they wouldn’t need big government to FORCE it on us.

Drill, baby, drill!!


20 posted on 10/10/2013 7:15:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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