Posted on 11/10/2014 4:17:00 AM PST by Timber Rattler
After the 2012 election, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s top political adviser, Scott Reed, surveyed the damage – tens of millions of dollars spent only to lose the White House and a slew of winnable Senate races — and vowed that 2014 would be different.
Some $70 million and a Republican wave later, the business lobby, one of the biggest spenders in the midterm elections, is feeling very good about its return on investment. Its conclusion after 2012 — that they had to take on tea party challengers in primaries and create a more business-friendly slate of general election candidates who could compete with Democrats — has been validated by Tuesday night’s results, Chamber brass say.
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The Tea Party aren't "business-friendly. They are Free Enterprise friendly. Ah, the penny drops, "business-friendly" can be defined as willing to raid the taxpayer in order to give "businesses" money. The Chamber needs to change its name to the "Chamber of Crony Capitalism".
I think the Tea Party folks ought to spread this news every among Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Big Business doesn't like the Tea Party, because they won't do the bidding of Big Business.
I've thought for decades one of the biggest reasons, industrial union Democrats don't vote GOP, is that they see the GOP as the party of Big Business. Let these voters know that Big Business hates the Tea Party, that will open Tea Party candidates in getting millions of Democrats to vote for them. Thank you Chamber.
Agreed... it was once called the Silent Majority and now it is the Tea Party... May God bless them for this huge victory.
RINO - CoC complex is going to overplay their hand and try to shove amnesty down out throats. Get ready to melt the phonelines in the District of Corruption - again.
Mygosh, they should be fired and anyone involved should be unemployable in the future. Their candidate for governor wasn't vetted at all. His scandal....driving without a drivers license for ten years. Little folk call that "jail time". The biggest gripe against Kasich is that he balanced the state budget at the expense of money that communities desperately need. And the opponent? Well, he headed Cuyahoga County while it was giving money town governments desperately needs for stuff like a $5 million scoreboard for the Cleveland Browns! A worse matchup could not be found.
The dems actually found a way to lose 23% of the black vote; they lost the governorship almost 2 to 1. Keep in mind this was with voters Romney wouldn't even campaign for.
Maybe Kasich should be President. This time around, the dems made him the luckiest politician on earth!
I’ve thought for decades one of the biggest reasons, industrial union Democrats don’t vote GOP, is that they see the GOP as the party of Big Business. Let these voters know that Big Business hates the Tea Party, that will open Tea Party candidates in getting millions of Democrats to vote for them. Thank you Chamber.
NFIB?
The Chamber of Corruption’s “conclusion after 2012 — that they had to take on tea party challengers in primaries and create a more business-friendly slate of general election candidates”
“more business friendly”: translation = anti-American citizen workers, pro-third world invasion of the U.S.
Actually, the Tea Party is quite "business friendly" -- if the term was properly interpreted as low tax/minimal regulation/profit is not a dirty word.
Which is one reason I whole-heartedly support anti-trust legislation and breaking up big companies, big companies ultimately wind up in bed with the government.
Piss on your base after last week's mandate, and all the checked pants and fat wallets in the world won't keep your various country clubs from burning to the ground.
Their ONLY concern is lining their own pockets.
The article also fails to mention any of the sleazy, scum-bag tatics these greedy low-lifes used to get Cockroach elected. Can't believe they're trying to congratulate themselves for that.
The Chamber is not conservative.
We will always war with leftists.
” The Chamber of Corruption’s “conclusion after 2012 — that they had to take on tea party challengers in primaries and create a more business-friendly slate of general election candidates”
“more business friendly”: translation = anti-American citizen workers, pro-third world invasion of the U.S.”
WINNER!!
The Chamber of Cronies needs to get their greedy, rent-seeking paws out of politics
lots of treachery in Congress too
When would that point “later” be? I have heard this line since 1990 and we never reach the “later” point.
The Chamber of Commerce is more akin to supporting good old fashioned fascism more than anything. The Republicans won this round based on the fact that the democrats had screwed things up so bad people wanted anything but them. Now they have to actually do something and they usually do what the their $$$ crooks want sadly to the detriment of the people and the country. I hope I am wrong, but this just seems to be the same song, same verse.
Since when is the Tea Party unfriendly to business? I suppose the point being made is that the CoC wanted more electable candidates, but the TP is not against business, big or small.
As Jesse used to say, “Keep your eyes on the prize.” We can fight for turf later.
My target is not the libs, its the industrial blue collar workers, who support the 2nd Amendment and many have other culturally conservative values.
nah the current head of the COC is indeed a commie
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