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WaPo News - Boehner Good, TEA Party Bad
Despite presiding over a chamber that nearly drove the country to a debt default, John A. Boehner still has the enduring support of a group that would have been most harmed by that event: the business community.No, Congress and the White House got us into the position; the TEA Party offered a different way out of it. WaPo wuvs Boehner because he's so compliant... Rather than revisit their strategy of supporting Republicans after this week's Re-elect Rhinos! Boehner, who was once president of a small plastics company in Ohio, has spent much of his career burnishing the GOP's identity as the party of business, building deep relationships since the 1990s with groups like the U.S. Chamber by providing legislative favors and easy access through countless receptions and rounds of golf. At least he hasn't been accused of selling influence to top dollar. He's just the leader of the minority branch of the Fusion Party that wants to run everything in Washington. His biggest crime is that he's happy with taking table scraps after being kicked around... In return, business groups have helped Boehner and his counterparts in the Senate raise millions of dollars to put Republicans in office, including the 2010 election of tea party lawmakers who have now roiled the GOP. TEA Party - the only adults in the room. It's this decades-long relationship that helps explain why even as one wing of the Republican Party threatened to drive the economy off a cliff Just keep pushing the cliff back, boys. Someone else will have to face it! Posted by: Bobby 2013-10-18 |
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