The traditional Republican Party has made a deal with the devil in associating with the Tea Party. It sounds like all out war is about to break out within the Republican Party: the traditional business conservative Republicans vs. the nutjob Tea Party Republicans.
Business executives, who are accustomed to giving the marching orders to their stooges in the House are dismayed that they are having to speak a little more loudly, and are considering fighting back against the Tea Party:
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.
“It’s clearly this faction within the Republican Party that’s causing the issue right now,” said David M. Cote, chief executive of Honeywell.
“What we want is a conservative business person, but someone who in many respects will be more realistic, in our opinion,” said Bruce Josten, a lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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.”
Some warned that a default could spur a shift in the relationship between the corporate world and the Republican Party.
At the same time Tea Party leader Eric the Red is
'warning' that the Republican Party's refusal to be obsessed with undoing Obamacare may force a split of a third party.
Incensed that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) are reportedly abandoning the effort to defund or delay the Affordable Care Act, RedState.com editor Erick Erickson predicted Thursday that Republican leadership is providing fertile ground for the rise of a "real third party movement" that will split the GOP.
"Nonetheless, Cantor, Boehner, and with them Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn are expected to cave in and fully fund, unimpeded, Obamacare."
"In doing so, they will sow the seeds of a real third party movement that will fully divide the Republican Party," he added.
Erickson has been one of the most vociferous advocates of the campaign to gut the health care law, urging Republicans to stand firm even as the government remains shuttered and a potential debt crisis looms.
And despite polling that consistently shows Republicans are paying a political price for the shutdown, Erickson insisted earlier this week that the "GOP is winning" the public opinion battle.
Seems they both despise each other, the only question being who gets to say they're declaring war first and whether the Republican Party gets to kick out the Tea Party or the Tea Party gets to take their ball and go home. Problem is Tea Party, being deranged with 'getting rid of' something, is not a foundation for a political party.
Get your popcorn ready.