Tea Party's shutdown lunacy: Avenging the surrendor of the south

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Tea Party's shutdown lunacy: Avenging the surrendor of the south

by Josh Eidelson at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/09/tea_partys_shutdown_lunacy_avenging_the_surrender_of_the_south/

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There’s been some media speculation amid these showdowns that we could see Big Business shifting some support and attention back to Democrats. Do you think there’s a real trend there?

If Boehner’s not able to rally the troops finally, or has a very difficult time doing it and has a lot of turmoil around it, I think business will look to the Democrats as more reliable partners, sure.

Look at what Obama would like to do: Obama would like to keep the government funded and keep us paying interest on our Treasury debt. But he would also like the old Bowles-Simpson “Grand Bargain” of cuts to Social Security and Medicare. He came into office talking about that, and he hasn’t really lost his drive to do it. So he’s got what is essentially an orthodox austerity agenda, which would please most of the mainstream parts of Wall Street and the Fortune 500.

And on the other side, you’ve got these Republicans. Maybe the leadership is fairly rooted in reality, but you have 40 or 60 of them who — to the business mind-set and many other people as well — look completely bonkers.

They will just begin to see the Republican Party as an unreliable partner — they’ve caused nothing but turmoil, and they may have outlived their usefulness. They were very useful in getting tax cuts and deregulation, but the Democrats are now pretty reliable on that agenda — not tax cuts, but deregulation and business-friendly policies and austerity and budget-cutting and all that sort of stuff that business interests like. It may just make the Democrats look more and more like a saner, more reliable partner. And people who are not allied with Big Business, the traditional Democratic electoral base, will have nowhere else to go.



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[Protalker]

1. what about the poor

Its regretable but true that the business community will find a partner with dems. They are so far to the right it's hard to tell where dems start and the republicans stop. Where has the Community organizer gone?

[truebluegreen]

2. This has been concerning me.

Given the Democratic Party's slide into Republican Lite ever since the 80s, and the Republican slide into insanity, where will the Big Money Boyz go? Right into our big tent....

The best we can hope for after the Republican party splits and fractures into itty-bitty pieces, is the Democratic Party will follow closely behind it: breaking into the Progressive and the Center-Right factions. Here's hoping that happens before Big Business solidifies its hold on everything.