WP: Business Groups Stand By Boehner, Plot Against Tea Party (groups compare tea party to Taliban)

Washington Post ^ | 10/17/2013 | Washington Post

[MadIsh32]

Despite presiding over a chamber that nearly drove the country to a debt default, John A. Boehner still has the enduring support of a group that would’ve been most harmed by that event: the business community.

Rather than revisit their strategy of supporting Republicans after this week’s near-disaster, influential organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are standing behind Boehner.

More importantly, Boehner’s friends in the business community are getting ready to take sides in a few Republican primary races against tea party candidates in Michigan, Idaho and Alabama who could cause the House speaker more trouble.

[DaxtonBrown]

Um, right now the Taliban is kicking our butt out of Afghanistan. Do they really want to compare us?

[DestroyLiberalism]

sickoflibs wrote:
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Correct, Bohner probably will jump ship end of next year.
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Agreed. Boehner has been a one-legged man in a arse-kicking contest and I can’t imagine he’s enjoying his job as Speaker very much, especially when he continually comes away from every fight on the national stage with his head hanging down, looking beaten and pitiful. He’s a nice guy but just doesn’t have the fire in the belly that’s necessary to go toe-to-toe with the incredibly vitriolic and ruthless Dem party.

[Publius]

What you have witnessed is the merger of the Democratic and Republican parties into the Democratic-Republican Party. This party is owned and operated by an amalgam of Wall Street, the international banking community, Big Business, Big Labor, the Foreign Policy Community and the Military-Industrial Complex. It is financed by a system of legalized bribery set up after the Watergate affair. Its aim is the maintenance of a world oligopoly based on the fiat dollar and Full Spectrum Dominance of the rest of the world. It has no interest in the people, having dumbed them down to the point where they are serfs dependent on government checks. We live in a totalitarian fascist dictatorship that maintains just enough of the trappings of democracy to fool the people, who are kept drugged with reality television and professional sports. It is backed by a surveillance state and a media owned and operated by these interests.

This state of affairs will last until China and its allies are ready to take it down, much as we took down the Soviet Union. The result will not be pretty for the small handful of people who survive it.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Ah, yes, Dirkie ..another Beltway kneepadder

[Zhang Fei]

Standard issue GOP donor record obtained from typing in the last name "Van Dongen" here:

Non-Federal Receipts "Exempt From Limits"

VAN DONGEN, DIRK W
WASHINGTON, DC 20006
NAT'L ASSN OF WHOLESALER PAC

RNC REPUBLICAN NATIONAL STATE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
	01/30/2001	3950.00	21990043566

Total Soft Money:    3950.00


Contributions to Political Committees

VAN DONGEN, DIRK
ALEXANDRIA, VA 22306
HARTWELL CAPITOL CONSULTING

TALENT, JAMES MATTHES     VIA TALENT FOR SENATE COMMITTEE
	12/21/2005	500.00	26020101368

VAN DONGEN, DIRK
WASHINGTON, DC 20008
N A W

WHOLESALER-DISTRIBUTOR PAC OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WHOLESALE-DISTRIBUTORS
	11/11/2004	208.00	24981468130
	12/10/2004	209.00	25980326768
	04/01/2005	277.00	25970845610
	05/06/2005	277.00	25970845610
	06/17/2005	277.00	25970845611
	07/08/2005	277.00	26950133093
	08/01/2005	277.00	26950133093
	09/01/2005	277.00	26950133094
	11/01/2005	277.00	26950133094
	11/30/2005	277.00	26950133094
	12/14/2005	284.00	26950133095
	01/11/2006	208.00	26940054816
	02/09/2006	208.00	26940054816
	03/07/2006	208.00	26940054817
	04/03/2006	208.00	26950231259
	05/05/2006	208.00	26950231259
	06/05/2006	208.00	26950231260
	07/20/2006	416.00	26960454484
	08/07/2006	416.00	26960454484
	09/14/2006	416.00	26960454485

VAN DONGEN, DIRK
WASHINGTON, DC 20008
NAW

GRIFFITH, PRESTON WELLS III     VIA WELLS GRIFFITH FOR CONGRESS
	07/24/2013	500.00	13964608816

VAN DONGEN, DIRK MR.
WASHINGTON, DC 20005
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WHOLESALE

MCCAIN, JOHN S.     VIA JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC.
	04/24/2008	2000.00	13941024358

VAN DONGEN, DIRK MR.
WASHINGTON, DC 20008
N.A.W.

GIULIANI, RUDOLPH W     VIA RUDY GIULIANI PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE INC
	03/15/2007	2000.00	28931502979
	03/15/2007	2000.00	28931502980

VAN DONGEN, DIRK W MR.
WASHINGTON, DC 20008
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

BUSH, GEORGE W     VIA BUSH-CHENEY '04 (PRIMARY) INC
	06/30/2003	1000.00	24962736129
	05/12/2004	500.00	24962806776
	07/02/2004	300.00	24971516900

VAN DONGEN, DIRK W. MR.
WASHINGTON, DC 20005
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WHOLESALE

MCCAIN, JOHN S.     VIA JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC.
	06/16/2008	251.00	13941045073

MCCAIN, JOHN S.     VIA MCCAIN-PALIN COMPLIANCE FUND INC.
	08/27/2008	200.00	13964017865

VAN DONGEN, DIRK W. MR.
WASHINGTON, DC 20008
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WHOLESALE

ROMNEY, MITT / PAUL D. RYAN     VIA ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT INC.
	01/31/2012	2500.00	12970774137
	04/26/2012	2500.00	13962459669

[Tzimisce]

I’m confused.

According to these people, al Queda is bunch of freedom fighters no different than George Washington.

But it sounds like they’re trying to insult us right wingers....

[Colonel_Flagg]

I agree, but what I liked best was your statement that the individual representative needs to be held accountable for the deeds of leadership. We have every right to expect that our representatives hold the leadership to the same standards we use in selecting our own elected officials.

[VerySadAmerican]

It’s time to go “political Galt”. Ignore them. No phone calls. No letters. No emails. No calling in to talk radio. And especially no money. Just pretend the republicans don’t exist. Because they don’t. For nobody to be bitchin’ will scare them more than anything.

We still support Tea Party candidates. But act like they don’t have any opposition. I know this will drive the republicans nuts. Anytime the republican candidate is mentioned say “I’m not aware of who you’re talking about.” If it’s one thing the professional politician craves it’s attention. Without it they will whither and die.

[Windy City Conservative]

I think it is pathetic that these business guys are so reliant on government $ for their success. The only thing they should need government for is laws and regulations that protect businesses. If the economy depends of the government remaining open and increasing debt, then it is a house of cards anyway and someday, it’s all going to come crashing down.

[jwalsh07]

Well Dirk, you just met one you corporatist welfare queen.

[1010RD]

To do that you need to win elections. The next chance will be 2014 and then 2016. Perhaps in 2017 you can begin to do that, but Americans don’t like revolutions. Slow and steady wins the race.

[madison10]

Need a boycott list. Thanks