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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBig Business Sees Loss Of Influence Over House GOP - NYT/MSNBC
Big Business sees loss of influence over House GOPEric Lipton, Nicholas Confessore and Nelson D. Schwartz =- NYT/MSNBC
10/10/13
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As the government shutdown grinds toward a potential debt default, some of the countrys 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 Washingtons 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.
Some warned that a default could spur a shift in the relationship between the corporate world and the Republican Party. Long intertwined by mutual self-interest on deregulation and lower taxes, the business lobby and Republicans are diverging not only over the fiscal crisis, but on other major issues like immigration reform...
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More: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/big-business-sees-loss-influence-over-house-gop-8C11367077
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Big Business Sees Loss Of Influence Over House GOP - NYT/MSNBC (Original Post)
WillyT
Oct 2013
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joeybee12
(56,177 posts)1. Good...not that I'm a fan of big business...
Still, this is good.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)2. And the GOP will be torn asunder. Couldn't happen to more deserving
Ass clown