How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

[Warren Dew]

Excellent article describing how the Republican party had been controlled by big business lobbyists on K street, and how Tea Party groups managed to break that control.

Back then, to raise money, Republicans had to go to K Street. Call your former chief of staff who was now at a lobbying firm, have him host a fundraiser. Your ex-aide would show up with colleagues carrying $2,500 checks and with corporate clients handing over $5,000 checks from their political action committees.

Although K Street was the road to campaign cash, the party leadership was often the path to K Street. This helps explain the power dynamic in the pre-Tea Party GOP.

But the Tea Party smashed K Street's monopoly on Republican fundraising....

http://washingtonexaminer.com/tea-party ... le/2536847

[piscator]

So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.

[Tero]

So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.

LOL

I guess the kid is still not clear on how the world is run. Oh to be young, naive and idealistic!

[pErvinalia]

So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.

[Tero]

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/0 ... rat-kochs/

Don't send any of your dollars to tea party, Drew, Koch brothers will take care of it.

[Warren Dew]

So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.

Senate Conservatives Fund and Heritage are not primarily funded by the Koch brothers. However, it's to be noted that the Koch brothers' political activities on behalf of libertarian ideals, like Soros' on behalf of Marxist ideals, are driven by ideology rather than business interests, just as the article says.

[Warren Dew]

Don't send any of your dollars to tea party, Drew, Koch brothers will take care of it.

Who's Drew?

[pErvinalia]

So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.

Senate Conservatives Fund and Heritage are not primarily funded by the Koch brothers. However, it's to be noted that the Koch brothers' political activities on behalf of libertarian ideals, like Soros' on behalf of Marxist ideals, are driven by ideology rather than business interests, just as the article says.

So you substituted big business control for nutjob (businessman) ideological control. Doesn't sound like much of an achievement.

[Robert_S]

[quote="Warren Dew"]Excellent article describing how the Republican party had been controlled by big business lobbyists on K street, and how Tea Party groups managed to break that control.
/quote]

...only to introduce their own brand of ideological purity tests that would make A+ers blush.

[Tyrannical]

Big business has been gravitating towards Democrats for years, ever since they discovered the miracle of low wages + government welfare is the cheapest way to do business.

[Robert_S]

It used to be a good thing about Republicans that, as Neil deGrasse Tyson put it, they didn't want to die poor.

The formerly useful idiots have taken over the party.

[Tero]

The meltdown on Capitol Hill doesn’t mean the end of the Tea Party. In fact, most of those lawmakers accurately point out that they are doing what the constituents in their painfully drawn, one-sided, overwhelmingly white, aging, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, science-denying districts want. Still, there are emerging signs -- from declining poll numbers to the breach with the Republican Party’s traditional business allies -- that the act is getting old. Mess with Democratic totems such as Social Security and nutritional programs for pregnant mothers, send Sarah Palin to Washington periodically to pour salt on open wounds, but don’t mess with Treasury bills and the markets.

Margaret Carlson/Bloomberg

[Audley Strange]

It used to be a good thing about Republicans that, as Neil deGrasse Tyson put it, they didn't want to die poor.

The formerly useful idiots have taken over the party.

Seems to be common across the spectrum and borders. What were Mainstream Political parties of left and right seem now to be a mix of crazy rigid ideologically driven goons and corrupt fuckers looking to fleece it and get out before it collapses around their ears. This may, however, have always been the case.

[Warren Dew]

Bloomberg is late to the story:

Republican Civil War Erupts: Business Groups v. Tea Party

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-1 ... party.html

[Collector1337]

So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN.

LOL

I guess the kid is still not clear on how the world is run. Oh to be young, naive and idealistic!

Yeah, sounds like you.