GOP Donors Revolt Against Republican-Led Government Shutdown

[applegrove]

GOP Donors Revolt Against Republican-Led Government Shutdown

by David Freedlander at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/03/gop-donors-revolt-against-republican-led-government-shutdown.html

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Walden asked how many of those seated around the table were precinct captains. These were money men, though, not the types to spend night after night knocking on doors and slipping palm cards into mailboxes.


“A lot of the people there didn’t even know what a precinct captain was,” said one attendee.


Not a single hand went up.


“I hear this complaint all the time,” Walden said. “But no one gets involved at the local level. The Tea Party gets involved at the local level.”



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[applegrove]

1. That's right. Teach the $$$$ in the GOP what gerrymandering is and how

it has resulted in the tea party.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Sounds like the shit hit the fan

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[applegrove]

3. Yuck! And very appropriate for the GOP.

[thelordofhell]

4. lol

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. That explains what is being reported

Boehner preparing to pull out the white flag.

[applegrove]

6. I for one would welcome if the banksters felt a little pain for a little while.

Might teach them a thing or two about what is important and how it feels when your government is highjacked by the Koch brothers and they mess up your world. If only so many other people were not being hurt. I do think some business people have learnt a thing or two already. End this now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. We are talking tea party and boehner

Speaker Cruz has the gavel

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Interesting - a bit further down the page

Bobbie Kilberg, a Republican fundraiser who has worked for four Republican presidents, echoed Zeidman. She has hosted fundraisers for ideological warriors such as Reps. Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor, and is hosting Arkansas Senate candidate Tom Cotton later this year, but she said she will not give to the NRCC.

“When you have a small segment who dictate to the rest of the party, the result is what we have seen in the last two days,” she said. “People need to stand up and not be afraid of the Tea Party.”

“This may be a turning point,” she predicted. “People may say, ‘Enough already.’”

And bad - because I hope it's too late for them to find people to "stand up" in 2014. I want the craziest of the crazies running against Democratic Party members next November.

[Cha]

9. thanks applegrove.. from your link..

It is unlikely that the gilded power brokers in the Republican Party are likely to join their local county political club any time soon, but as the stock market wobbles amid the government shutdown and the continued demand for an Obamacare delay, a number of GOP donors are wondering if it is time for a little outside counter-pressure to sap the Tea Party of some of its energy. To be clear, none are considering joining the Democrats, and they find plenty of fault with President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The deficit, taxes, and regulation remain top concerns. But several top GOP donors say figuring out a way to “break the fever”—as Obama once put it—or at least keep their fellow party members from damaging the economy any further has become Topic A in their social set.

Like the "deficit" bothered them when reagan and bush were tripling it..



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023750081

“When you have a small segment who dictate to the rest of the party, the result is what we have seen in the last two days. People need to stand up and not be afraid of the Tea Party.”

“We are finding a marvelous way to grab defeat from the jaws of victory,” said Fred Zeidman, a Houston-based businessman who was a major donor to both of George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns. “The way we are handling this has been a mistake from the beginning. I think we misread where the country was.”

Fred gets the "No shit Sherlock" Award!