The Republican Party has officially started that civil war that you heard about here first. The ideals of the Tea Party have become completely devoid of reason and corporations, the ones in control actually, have started to see that putting in candidates who are completely crazy may not be a winning strategy in the long run, especially for their bottom line. The schitzophrenic Teatards are somehow both against regulations of any sort while at the same time wanting big banks to come under higher standards. Huh? In other words, even within the Tea Party itself, ideas are presented that are not popular with another group within itself. This is not the basis for a sound foundation for any political group and the Tea Party appears to be going through it's death throws.
Ted Cruz has damaged his political career with this stupidity, regardless of the morons who came out to cheer him in his home state of Texas. The main reason is that large companies, you know the ones these idiots say are people and can give as much money to a candidate as they wish through PACs and 501s, are now going to start funding their own candidates against Tea Party incumbents. This is a disaster for the Tea Party, who are constantly threatening moderates with running their own psychos in the primaries, will now be facing better funded candidates. At the very least, the corporate backed GOP candidates will be ruthlessly beating their Tea Party counterparts and vice versa while the democrat challenger will sit by and watch the carnage ensue. This does not end well for any Republican candidate.
The Tea Party stands to lose the most as their special brand of moronic behavior is still not sitting well with the general public who may punish them severely for the stupid government shut down which did tremendous damage to the country, more than most suspect. The fact that big business watched their profits plummet during the shutdown certainly didn't help, along with the fact that several GOP challengers lost badly as they came across as mildly retarded at best. When you have a witch, a woman once called one of the worst CEO's in US history, and several who had a distorted and limited understanding of ladies' private parts, lose to people who never thought they could be re-elected, like Harry Reid, you know the game is up.
When the Chamber of Commerce, one the most right wing organization in the country, says the Tea Party has gone to far, warning flags should go up for everyone. When Business Roundtable joins you, you know you've crossed the Rubicon. Check out this quote from the Washington Times:
“There’s no question that this month’s government shutdown saga has been a spectacular failure,” said David French, senior vice president and lobbyist at the National Retail Federation, whose members constitute the nation’s largest group of employers.
Retailers were particularly frustrated that the long-running feud and standoff between the parties — which has been postponed until early next year — threatens for the second year in a row to spoil the critical Christmas shopping season, when one-quarter of all U.S. retail purchases are made and an even larger share of retail profits are made.
Besides the retail federation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest U.S. business lobby, “will be getting more involved in primaries this cycle,” said Blair Latoff Holmes, the organization’s executive director for media relations.
The fact that the can was kicked down the road to just after Christmas has many retailers worried that people will shop less as the economy drag worsens. And the Tea Party's response to all of this? Scorch the Earth and everyone in it, apparently.
Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party nation, has vowed to fight the establishment candidates, especially RINO's, which are becoming as extinct as their real life counterparts. The Heritage Group, officially losing any resemblance of sanity, has sided with the Tea Party, as has the Club for Growth. Both of these should be renamed the anarchy party as what they want to establish is a state with no laws and everyone fighting for themselves. The fact that corporations want the opposite, with a more business run world, otherwise known as fascism should make anyone still voting for these guys aware of what they want. Are you for lawlessness or ruthless adherence to a set of rules? In the GOP these are the only two choices you get. They are also completely incompatible with each other, thus the tigers at each other's throats.
Even the Koch Brothers, the Tea Party's biggest funders, have released a letter saying they were not happy with the government shutdown either which could be a death blow in 2014 if even these billionaires tell the Tea Party to take a hike. You can't run an election without a ton of money, something the Tea Party fought hard for and is now biting them in the ass. The Tea Party may have outlived it's usefulness and in today's super-competitive government races, without money, they are as dead as the dodo.
Democrats are exploiting this giant fuck up, as many corporations are going to side with them instead now. Democrats love money just like the GOP and will have no problem taking it to crush their competition. Here's more from the Washington Post:
Eager to try to exploit the split, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, has spent the days since the shutdown pointing out that nearly every House Republican voted against business demands for an increase in the debt limit and end to the shutdown, while every Democrat supported it.
“This is the Republican Party,” Mrs. Pelosi said last week. “You know, I used to say, ‘Oh, the tea party has hijacked the main Republicans.’ No. They now dominate. It used to be the tail is wagging the dog. Well, if that’s still the case, this dog’s got a mighty big tail.”
The reaction from business associations to the debt crisis and shutdown ranged from subtle discontent to undisguised outrage.
Jay Timmons, chief executive of the National Association of Manufacturers, announced after the deal that he was “downgrading” Washington for once again barely avoiding an “economic catastrophe” — in a tongue-in-cheek reference to a threat Oct. 15 from one of Wall Street’s top credit rating agencies to lower the nation’s AAA rating.
Many business are questioning the rational of going after health care, which many business owners want fixed to save them a fortune in lost revenue. Why the public option wasn't more popular with corporations, who stood to gain billions if the government took over health care, is beyond me. They like the idea of smaller government and less regulation but hate the way the Tea Party has handled itself in the process. Because of this, 2014 may be RIP Tea Party for real. While I hardly like the fascist ideas that corporate America wants, they still are better off then the Tea Party burning the house down with us in it.
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