Business, GOP establishment: Tea party is over

[G_j]

http://news.yahoo.com/business-gop-establishment-tea-party-over-163718915--politics.html

Associated Press By DONNA CASSATA 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — A slice of corporate America thinks tea partyers have overstayed their welcome in Washington and should be shown the door in next year's congressional elections.

In what could be a sign of challenges to come across the country, two U.S. House races in Michigan mark a turnabout from several years of widely heralded contests in which right-flank candidates have tried — sometimes successfully — to unseat Republican incumbents they perceive as not being conservative enough.

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"These conservative groups have had it all their own way," said former Republican Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio, head of the new group. "They basically come in with millions of dollars and big-foot a Republican primary and you wind up with these Manchurian candidates who are not interested in governing."

LaTourette said that for the past three years, some "40, 42 House members have effectively denied the Republican Party the power of the majority" that it won in the 2010 election by blocking the GOP agenda.

Defending Main Street is meeting Nov. 5 in New York with wealthy potential donors.

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[muntrv]

1. As a Michigan resident, can we add Tim Walberg as someone to beat?

John Dingell (D) is my rep, but Walberg is within smelling distance of where I live.

[gopiscrap]

2. we'll see..you know they'll come up with some sort of divisive bullshit

[Tx4obama]

3. K&R n/t

[G_j]

4. Manchurian candidates who are not interested in governing."