GOP Establishment Grapples With A Tea Party That Won't Budge

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GOP Establishment Grapples With A Tea Party That Won't Budge

by Don Gonyea at NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/10/02/228524707/gop-establishment-grapples-with-a-tea-party-that-wont-budge

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"I think our CEOs are in the same position — just look at this and are aghast at the behavior," says John Engler, a former Republican governor of Michigan who now heads the Business Roundtable, which is made up of the CEOs of the nation's largest companies. "Sit down and work it out. Stop holding press conferences. Talk to each other and get a deal."

But Tea Party groups level some of their strongest rhetoric at big business as the beneficiaries of bailouts and government favors.

So does Engler think the Business Roundtable's pleas are being heard by those leading this revolt against the establishment?

"I'm not sure they care what anybody has to say," he says.

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[gopiscrap]

1. then cut them off and let them form a 3rd party

[RagAss]

2. Actually, the Tea Party has all the power and will eventually cut the GOP loose.

We may get a few of those moderates on our side eventually.

[gopiscrap]

3. ok either way I think a third party would fry each of them

[Rex]

4. So are they too big to fail now?

Pretend like the nation's largest companies didn't JUST cause a global depression!

WTFEVA!

[Thinkingabout]

5. Same old story, garbage in, garbage out. This is what you get when you dine with

buzzards, you can't soar with eagles.

[meow2u3]

6. Establishment repukes should team up with Dems and expel these miscreants from Congress

That way, they'll quash the coup attempt.

[Salviati]

7. The only reason they're struggling...

... is that they want to rein them in, without crushing them.

They want to regain control of the monster, so that they can use it again in the future.

The powers that be may claim that they're aghast, but I wouldn't believe a word they say until they show their willingness to put the monster down. Threaten to pull ALL support from and vigorously primary ANY republican who doesn't vote for a clean CR or who doesn't vote to raise the debt limit, REGARDLESS of whether those votes pass or fail. If they make that threat, then I might believe that they're serious.

[xfundy]

8. The "too big to fails" are about to come running with their tails between their legs.

As will most other big business. Financial failure will be widespread. Personally, my finances failed years ago, and I don;t care if these money grubbers end up eating out of garbage cans. But, the international implications are huge and potentially catastrophic.