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AP: Tea Party Has Unmoored GOP from Big Business
The Associated Press says the Tea Party's growing power and influence has
unmoored Republican politicians from their traditional alliance with Wall
Street in favor of grassroots conservative activists.
AP reporters Charles Babington and Jim Kuhnhenn cited the "corporate
community's waning clout" and "the remarkable drop in the business community
's influence among House Republicans, who increasingly respond more to Tea
Party conservatives than to the Chamber of Commerce."
The shift comes as grassroots activists have re-framed the GOP's old "pro-
business" stance into a "pro-free markets" positioning that eschews the
kinds of corporate welfare and taxpayer-funded crony capitalism found in big
government giveaways to industries that make hefty political contributions.
President Obama and Democrats have seized on the shift and have increased
their already strong courting of corporate executives. On Wednesday, Obama
held White House meetings with 14 top CEOs from some of America's biggest
financial firms. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein then stood on the White
House driveway and scolded those who would "use threats of causing the U.S.
to fail on its obligations to repay its debt as a cudgel."
Former Mitt Romney adviser Kevin Madden told the AP the Tea Party's rise has
shaken up the GOP establishment.
"Now it's more of a bottom-up model, where you see these grassroots
organizations and grassroots voters are now more empowered and they feel
they have a stronger voice," said Madden. |
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