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KARL ROVE AND THE GOP SOCIALISTS

Crossroads, Chamber attack Reaganites.
By Jeffrey Lord – 1.2.14



Happy New Year.

It’s war.

While America was celebrating the holidays, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story the day after Christmas headlined as follows:

GOP, Business Recast Message
Republican Leaders, Allies Aim to Diminish Clout of Most-Conservative Activists

The story said this right up front:

Meanwhile, major donors and advocacy groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce and American Crossroads, are preparing an aggressive effort to groom and support more centrist Republican candidates for Congress in 2014’s midterm elections.

Translation?
Karl Rove (i.e., architect of the American Crossroads SuperPAC), the Chamber of Commerce, and the Washington GOP Establishment have declared war on the Reaganite conservative base of the Republican Party.
Welcome to the 2014 election.
An election which, by all accounts, both historically and in terms of the specifics of President Obama’s sinking ratings, should be a winner — a big winner — for the GOP.
Unless.
Unless there is a deliberate, willful attempt to sabotage the GOP from within. Using the GOP Establishment as a launching pad to ensure that Reagan-style conservatives — the base of the Republican Party — are defeated by Establishment, statist Republicans. Republicans who will in turn so anger the GOP base that the base simply refuses to turn out in November. Thus handing President Obama and the statist forces of Big Government a victory they should never have had and in fact would be unable to earn on their own.
Or? Worse?
The GOP Establishment wins under the ruse of being… honest, they promise, cross-their-hearts-and-hope-to-die… conservative. And then they do the inevitable… the usual… GOP version of the Socialist Deal. Being “realistic”… seeking (Margaret Thatcher’s hated word) “consensus.”
Harrumph, yada yada yada and all of that.
This isn’t rocket science.
Let’s be candid here, shall we?
This is the latest round in the GOP civil war that has been ongoing for decades.
And, while that WSJ story does not mention Mr. Rove by name, the name of American Crossroads — the Rove-created SuperPAC — is mentioned front and center in this story.
We have discussed Karl Rove and American Crossroads before (here and here).
Back in February of 2013 the New York Timesran this story on Mr. Rove’s Crossroads group, describing it as follows:

The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party’s efforts to win control of the Senate.
…The group, the Conservative Victory Project, is intended to counter other organizations that have helped defeat establishment Republican candidates over the last two election cycles.”
The Conservative Victory Project, which is backed by Karl Rove and his allies who built American Crossroads into the largest Republican super PAC of the 2012 election cycle, will start by intensely vetting prospective contenders for Congressional races to try to weed out candidates who are seen as too flawed to win general elections.

The backlash against American Crossroads was considerable. The very fact of the New York Times piece signaled the Reagan base of the GOP — these days called the Tea Party — that the GOP Washington Establishment was out to undercut Reaganites as the war against GOP statists picked up steam.
Now that 2014 has arrived, the WSJ story indicates the war on Reagan conservatives by the Bush/Ford/Rockefeller wing of the GOP is on again in earnest. Over at Breitbart, Tony Lee reported another aspect of this story, headlined as follows:

Karl Rove’s Crossroads Reloading Against Tea Party

Reports Lee:

Even though Karl Rove’s American Crossroads brand has been damaged after the group declared war against conservative candidates, the group will reportedly try to influence the 2014 midterm elections by bullying campaigns and creating groups that, on the surface, do not seem to be affiliated with them.
According to the New York Times, Crossroads “appears to be testing” its “new approach” in Kentucky. The Conservative Victory Project, the group formed to take on conservative candidates, has stayed out of Kentucky’s Senate primary between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin. Instead, a group called “Kentuckians for Strong Leadership” is curiously backing McConnell while getting most of its cash from Crossroads donors. It is “legally separate from Crossroads”; but Stephen Law, the president of Crossroads, sits on its board, and the two groups share a treasurer.
Crossroads may set up “similar groups in races in which its brand may be less appealing to voters or donors.” The Times notes that this is an approach Crossroads may have to take because Rove’s organization has been so tarnished among the conservative base that candidates fear donors will not contribute to any group associated with him.
In other races, Crossroads has been threatening Senate candidates, saying the group and its affiliates will not support them if they accept support from other super PACs. According to theTimes, Law warned a Republican West Virginia Senate candidate (Rep. Shelly Moore Capito) that if her campaign formed its own super PAC, Crossroads would not offer it support.

So even if it appears on the surface that Mr. Rove and the GOP Establishment have taken a pass on primary X, in fact Crossroads, the Chamber and other tentacles of the GOP Establishment may be well present and accounted for by another name. Actively seeking to sabotage conservative candidates exactly as the Breitbart story pinpoints in detail with the Kentucky Senate race.
Let’s be clear.
This isn’t some petty squabble over the personality of candidate A versus candidate B. This is decidedly not about the ineptness of, say, Missouri’s Todd Akin (whom we urged to withdraw after his rape nonsense). Notice that none of the losing moderate candidates from 2012, whether Mitt Romney at the top or in various Senate or House races, are being cited by the Establishment as problems.
This is about whether the Republican Party will abandon its Reagan/conservative base — the base that elected Reagan in two landslides, Reagan’s vice president (running as Reagan’s heir) in a 1988 landslide, the Gingrich Revolution in 1994 and made John Boehner Speaker of the House in 2010 — to become Republican socialists, a paler version of the Obama/statist party. Obama Lite. Unwilling not only to challenge the President’s left-wing agenda but insisting on acceptance of that agenda — just a cheaper, better managed version of it.
This is exactly how the nation got into its $17 trillion debt in the first place — not to mention repeated GOP defeats at the polls — with too many Republicans using their time in office not to keep pledges of limited government but rather to grow the government. And the debt and deficit that went along with it.
As we have noted before, this fight is a mirror image of the battle that occurred in Britain between the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the “wets” — moderates — of her own British Conservative Party.
After the Tories lost the 1974 elections to Labour, in 1975 as she prepared to challenge Edward Heath — the Gerald Ford of British Conservatives — Mrs. Thatcher penned a column for the Daily Telegraph that said, in part, this:

Indeed, one of the reasons for our electoral failure is that people believe too many Conservatives have become socialists already. Britain’s progress towards socialism has been an alternation of two steps forward with half a step back…And why should anyone support a party that seems to have the courage of no convictions?

Americanize Thatcher’s point and this is exactly the problem posed by Mr. Rove, American Crossroads and the Chamber of Commerce.
To Americanize Mrs. Thatcher: Indeed, one of the reasons for our electoral failure is that people believe too many Republicans have become socialists already.
Exactly.
Again, as pointed out before in this space, Mr. Rove is a symbol of this problem. When the Ted Cruz-Mike Lee-led effort to defund Obamacare was gaining steam, the GOP Establishment was out there saying that the way to do this was not to defund Obamacare but to win elections that gave the GOP control of the White House and Congress.
Left unsaid was the fact that once upon a time, when Mr. Rove himself was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the Bush 43 era, the GOP did in fact have control of the House and Senate both.
Was, to pick one example, the Department of Education abolished? No. In fact, Mr. Rove boasts in his memoirs of expanding the Department with the passage of No Child Left Behind, legislation that was passed by partnering with then-Senator Ted Kennedy, the “Liberal Lion” of the Senate. And oh yes, a GOP Congressman named…John Boehner.
In other words, given 100% control of the federal government, something Reagan never had, the GOP went out of its way not to limit the growth of the federal government — but to expand it. As it were, the GOP Establishment joined hands with the other side.
This is exactly the problem Margaret Thatcher spent a career fighting. Not to mention Ronald Reagan. As Mrs. Thatcher’s ally, the late Sir Keith Joseph called it, this was the “socialist ratchet” effect. Assuming office on a so-called “conservative” platform, British Conservatives and American Republicans immediately settled in to assimilate the last spurt of government growth from the preceding Labour or Democrat administration — and then expand it.
Which brings us back to these stories in the Wall Street Journal and at Breitbart.
What these stories are exactly describing is a massive war on the conservative base of the GOP in 2014 by the people Ronald Reagan labeled the “fraternal order” or “pastel” Republicans.
And what happens if they succeed? Assuming they don’t ignite a furious backlash that costs the GOP the election?
The Republican Party can control every last seat in Congress after 2014 and the White House in 2016 — and it will not make a lick of difference. Because just as occurred when Rove was a man with clout in the White House and John Boehner was on an earlier ladder of the GOP House leadership passing No Child Left Behind with Teddy Kennedy — the Washington GOP Establishment will do everything they can to fight efforts to limit the size and growth of the federal government.
Why is this?
The answer is as simple as it is blunt. Follow the money.

http://spectator.org/articles/57314/...gop-socialists

Rove Group Buys $20 Million in Attack Ads

Don't fool yourself. Karl Rove is driven by one thing - $ GREED $.

We are occupied by over 20 million illegal aliens from Mexico thanks to Karl Rove and George W. Bush.

Karl Rove and the corporate corruption he represents are the very same traitors today as he was the day he endoresed LaRaza publicly and openly.

CORPORATIONS + LA RAZA = OPEN BORDERS? - Big Corporations, Karl Rove Openly Pander To LaRaza

http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/Vid ... Blog32.php

Included in the video are:

* Corporate sponsors of the event pitching to the Hispanic audience.
* Excerpts from Karl Rove, White House strategist on the Administration's Immigration reform policy.
* Reaction from a sampling of attendees representing Latino and migrant rights organizations.
* Video clips interviews with the Nativo Lopez, president of MAPA a prominent retired Hispanic law enforcement official. L. A. County Sheriff's Sergeant Richard Valdemar.

"Border security is simply IMPOSSIBLE . . without reducing the pressure on the border. As the president likes to say, "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." If you can make fifty cents an hour in Mexico and ten bucks an hour in the United States and you want to feed your family, you're coming to the United States every time ."
Karl Rove speaking to LaRaza, July, 2006

I find myself disgusted with GOP leadership while they pretend to be conservative they vote progressive over and over again,I'm not a fan of Harry Reid and other Dem's however we know what they are, hard core leftist. Carl Rove and his band of idiots say one thing and do another, vote them out or new party.

“Crony Birds” Karl Rove and the establishment GOP take aim at a principled liberty minded Republican

By Nick Sorrentino on January 3, 2014

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.

-Bob Dylan (Times are changing again)

I’m talking about Representative Justin Amash from Michigan. They guy is a force for the Constitution. Is uncompromising in his defense of the document. Is a champion of liberty. Has called the NSA to the floor. He can be counted on to fight crony capitalism. He seeks reduce the tax burden on the average American. He even explains each vote he takes on Facebook. In my opinion, he is absolutely one of the good guys in Congress, and there aren’t that many good guys in Congress.

But the crony wing of the GOP hates Amash. Boehner loathes the guy especially. The Michigander does what he thinks is right, and often bucks leadership. He’s only been in Congress for 3 years and he has become one of the most influential members in the House even though leadership dismissed him from the “official” leadership track. Boehner did this he explained, because Amash has a “high asshole factor.”


Think about that. Probably the most principled small government member in the House of Representatives was frozen out by the leader of the supposedly “conservative” GOP.


Karl Rove, Speaker Boehner, Senator McCain and the other “crony birds” are mad that the real small government people showed up in Washington. For years the crony crowd could talk about how “conservative” they were without anyone holding them accountable. Now there are people like Amash who are exposing the hypocrisy of a party which once touted itself as “the party of small government” but which has never been the party of small government. Rove and company are furious and they are embarrassed. They have been exposed. The GOP is their party, they think, not the “people’s.” Those dirty small government Tea Partiers aren’t going come into Washington and mess things up. Not only is the GOP THEIR party, it’s THEIR congress too. Who invited these small government punks to DC anyway?

The American people did guys. And there are more coming. Get used to it. Better yet, get out of the way.

(From The National Interest)
The Tea Party, for all its faults, came into existence because many Republicans ceased to govern according to the conservative principles on which they campaigned. George W. Bush and a Republican-controlled Congress outspent Bill Clinton. Even conservatives succumbed to situational constitutionalism at best — or crony capitalism at worst.

Enter lawmakers like Amash, who are sticklers for constitutional detail and who use social media to explain their votes to the public. However uncomfortable some Republicans might be with this new way of doing business, there doesn’t seem to be a very good argument for returning to the bad old days.

“I don’t think Justin Amash cares if Bank of America gives to him or not,” a bewildered lobbyist was quoted as saying inarticle about Wall Street’s distaste for the Tea Party. What would you rather your congressman care about: Bank of America or the Constitution?


Click here for the article.

article here:

Is Justin Amash Doomed?

W. James Antle III

| January 3, 2014


Republican bigwigs hope the 2014 elections will be just like the 2010 midterms, except without the great unwashed masses of the Tea Party mucking things up. This time, the Republican establishment is launching a few primary challenges of its own.

Sitting atop the target list is Justin Amash, the second-term congressman from Michigan. Dubbed the “most liberal Republican” by Karl Rove, Amash is a favorite of the Club for Growth, Heritage Action, FreedomWorks, and other Tea Party groups. But GOP moderates hope Gerald Ford’s former district isn’t an ideal base for the most influential Ron Paul Republican outside of libertarianism’s first family.

Brian Ellis is Amash’s business-backed challenger and he is opting for a horseshoes strategy against the incumbent; he wants to hit Amash from both the left and the right. When it comes to defunding Obamacare and shutting down the government, Ellis will portray Amash as an uncompromising ideologue. On foreign policy and other issues, Ellis will say Amash isn’t enough of a Republican team player.

For example, Amash has emerged as a leader in the bipartisan coalition to rein in the federal government’s data-gathering and surveillance practices. Ellis emphasizes that he thinks Edward Snowden is a “flat-out traitor.”

So according to Ellis, Amash is too much like Ted Cruz and Ted Kennedy. But he’s careful not to take the critique too far. He says he is just as gung ho against Obamacare. And he is also willing to rein in the National Security Agency.

Ellis dislikes it when Amash votes against seemingly conservative bills based on constitutional technicalities. But some of his complaints against Amash sound awfully technical themselves.

In aninterview with the Weekly Standard, Ellis attacked his opponent’s constitutional scruples in terms that belong in every Amash ad from here until the primary. Amash should stop voting against bills because he thinks they violate the Constitution, he suggested. “If something is unconstitutional, we have a court system that looks at that,” Ellis said.

As the television pop psychologist Dr. Phil might ask, “How’s that workin’ for ya?” A Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees upheld Obamacare, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the majority that pretended the individual mandate was constitutional.

Ellis, whopromises to “protect the rights of the unborn” and “vote 100% pro-life,” might recall that a Supreme Court with a Republican majority also reaffirmed Roe v. Wade. That would be the same Roe decision pro-choice Yale legal scholar John Hart Ely memorably argued is “not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.” Edward Lazarus, a former clerk to Roe author Justice Harry Blackmun, wrote the decision “borders on the indefensible.”

Congress (thanks in large part to Amash) may end up doing more to rein in the NSA, as Ellis says needs to be done, than the courts. Federal judges have so far issued contradictory decisions on the program. If you believe, as most conservatives claim to, that the federal government is limited to its constitutionally enumerated powers, the courts have given precious little relief in the last eighty years.

Is Justin Amash Doomed?
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W. James Antle III

January 3, 2014

Instead of punting constitutional judgments to the courts, the congressional oath of office has members swear to uphold and defend the Constitution. Ellis himself has a section of his campaign website with the heading “Defend our Constitution,” in which he proclaims, “The Constitution and Declaration of Independence are the frameworks that secure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for each of us blessed to be Americans.”

How do they secure these rights if these frameworks mean whatever five Supreme Court justices say they mean?

The Tea Party, for all its faults, came into existence because many Republicans ceased to govern according to the conservative principles on which they campaigned. George W. Bush and a Republican-controlled Congress outspent Bill Clinton. Even conservatives succumbed to situational constitutionalism at best -- or crony capitalism at worst.

Enter lawmakers like Amash, who are sticklers for constitutional detail and who use social media to explain their votes to the public. However uncomfortable some Republicans might be with this new way of doing business, there doesn’t seem to be a very good argument for returning to the bad old days.

“I don’t think Justin Amash cares if Bank of America gives to him or not,” a bewildered lobbyist was quoted as saying inarticle about Wall Street’s distaste for the Tea Party. What would you rather your congressman care about: Bank of America or the Constitution?
Image: Flickr/Gage Skidmore.

http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/justin-amash-9659

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.or...ed-republican/

Report: Unions Funding GOP Super PAC That Targets Tea Party



by Michael Patrick Leahy 9 Dec 2013 318 post a comment


On Monday, the National Journal reported that "documents filed by other groups show that two labor organizations, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Laborers' International Union of North America, directed a combined $400,000 to the Republican group [the Defending Main Street super PAC] in September and October."

The Defending Main Street super PAC was organized at the end of 2012 by former Congressman Steve LaTourette (R-OH), and has very publicly declared war on the Tea Party. It is affiliated with and has offices at the same location as the Republican Main Street Project, which LaTourette currently heads and which former Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA) led from 2009 to 2012.
The group will not be required to file its first financial report with the Federal Election Commission until January 15, 2014, but earlier press reports indicate that it claims to have already raised $4 million of a planned $8 million to defeat Tea Party candidates in Republican primaries.
In October, LaTourette told the National Journal that "we'll go into eight to ten races and beat the snot out of them [Tea Party candidates] . . . We're going to be very aggressive and we're going to get in their faces."
Tea Party activists around the country were not surprised that the Republican establishment has enlisted the financial support of unions in their efforts to defeat limited government policies. Ben Cunningham, founder of the Nashville Tea Party, told Breitbart News on Monday "this confirms our belief that Washington, D.C. is about one thing and that is power. Whatever method will allow those in D.C. to keep power will be used."

Image source: Buildingoneamerica.org

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...gets-Tea-Party

Guess who’s funding the Republican civil war?

Posted by Michael Becker on Jan 4, 2014 in Culture



As we’ve reported, there’s an ongoing Republican civil war with the party leadership and big business on one side and conservatives on the other. The Chamber of Commerce has put up $50 million to defend moderate Republicans against conservative challengers in the upcoming primaries and there’s another new player on the block who will be throwing in cash to defeat conservatives.

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It’s a group called the Republican Main Street Partnership and though they’ve been around for twenty years, they’re flexing their muscles this year.
To give you some perspective, the RMSP was formed in 1994 after the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives. They sought to offset the Gingrich Republicans who they saw as being too radical. We think they just liked being the minority party and getting a few crumbs from the table.
They are “centrist” or “moderate” in their political outlook.
If you go to their website you’ll find that they’ve laid out an “Issues” page in a way designed to avoid upsetting anybody. Their first several issues talk about fiscal responsibility and taxes. Then we get to the nitty gritty.
Healthcare.

We believe that the provisions of Obamacare that are not working should be repealed, that those provisions that are working should be retained, and that additional healthcare reform measures should be passed that will increase access to quality healthcare while at the same time lowering costs across the healthcare system.

Energy and the Environment.

We support a holistic approach to energy policy – one that recognizes the need to utilize every tool available. As such, we encourage and support the use of renewable energy and alternative sources. We also support expanding access to domestic sources of traditional energy.

Those things they refuse to address as “Issues”.
There’s nary a word about immigration reform. The thoughts on “Education” do not include anything about Common Core. On social issues, nothing.
The RMSP is a left of center organization within the Republican Party and their actual support of legislative solutions wouldn’t cause Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or Barack Obama to lose a minute of sleep.
They talk about trimming domestic spending by going after waste, fraud, and abuse, but don’t say a word about eliminating programs or downsizing government. There’s nothing in their wish list that looks like small government, they’re proponents of big, intrusive, know-better, government that’s just run a little more efficiently. Think of it as a faster conveyor belt from the gas chamber to the ovens.
In their fight against conservatives the RMSP has a new ally this time around.

The Republican Main Street Partnership has emerged as an outspoken, deep-pocketed player in pro-business GOP plans to beat back tea-party challengers next year. But the group’s new super PAC has an unexpected source for its seed money: labor unions.
The super PAC, called Defending Main Street, has not yet submitted a major donor disclosure to the Federal Election Commission. But documents filed by other groups show that two labor organizations, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Laborers’ International Union of North America, directed a combined $400,000 to the Republican group in September and October.
Main Street says it has raised roughly $2 million total between its super PAC and an affiliated nonprofit group so far—and that means labor has supplied at least 20 percent of those funds.

Maine’s two U.S. Senators, Susan Collins (left) and Olympia Snowe (right). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Main Street is Main Line and they’re working to build a solid alliance against conservatives with organized labor.
They support the Republican Leadership down the line. In fact, though they won’t tell you on their website, they are pro-amnesty, opposed to effective border security, pro-common core, pro-expansion of the Department of Education, pro-expansion of government in general. In other words, they are Democrats in sheep’s clothing.

If you need more proof, here are some prominent members, or former members, of the RMSP that you’ll probably recognize.

• Sen. Susan Collins, Maine
• Sen. Mark Kirk, Illinois
• Sen. John McCain, Arizona

• Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island, left GOP in 2007 after being defeated for reelection
• Former Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota, defeated for reelection
• Former Sen. John Danforth, Missouri, retired
• Former Sen. Jim Jeffords, Vermont, left GOP in 2001
• Former Sen. Warren Rudman, New Hampshire, retired
• Former Sen. Gordon Smith, Oregon, defeated for reelection
• Former Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania, left GOP 2009, defeated for reelection
• Former Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine, retired

You get the idea. We can’t recall typing longer list of worthless dreck. We are refraining from comment on the individuals on the list except to say that we’re ashamed that our wonderful state of Arizona (62F at the moment) keeps sending John McCain to DC.
This should give you a good idea about the coming civil war for the soul of the party. Are we going to continue to be Democrat-Lite or are we going to stand for the constitutional republic that the Founders handed off to us?
It’s a matter of life or death for our Nation.


http://joeforamerica.com/2014/01/gue...can-civil-war/

The long line of those working to oppose Tea Party and candidates in 2014

Posted by Darla Dawald, National Director on January 8, 2014 at 7:43pm in Patriot Action Alerts
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By Darla Dawald

According to Wikipedia, The Chamber has emerged as the largest lobbying organization in America. The Chamber's lobbying expenditures in 2012 were more than three times as high as the next highest spender: National Assn of Realtors, at $41.5 million.

Now the Chamber of Commerce has vowed to oppose Tea Party candidates in the primaries and work with John Boehner and the House to pass immigration reform in their favor. It appears the line is getting longer of those opposed to the values of the Tea Party.

It's become obvious that we've definitely hit a nerve.

See the story below:


Chamber of Commerce to oppose tea party in primaries

The Daily Caller Reports:

At the annual State of American Business Address on Wednesday, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue announced that the chamber plans on endorsing against some tea party members in Republican primaries.
“In 2014, the chamber will work to protect and expand a pro-business majority in the House and advance our position and our influence in the Senate,” Donohue said. “The business community understands what’s at stake.”
Donohue explained in an interview with Bloomberg, that while he is skeptical of big government, he opposes politicians who have “hitched their trailer to the tea party wagon.” Donohue blames these lawmakers for shutting down the government in October 2013. Source

The Asbury Park Press NJ Reports:

The nation's largest business-lobbying group "will pull out the stops" to encourage Congress to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, chamber president Tom Donohue said during his annual "State of American Business" speech.
The chamber's move challenges Tea Party-aligned Republicans who incensed business leaders after those lawmakers successfully pushed a partial federal government shutdown last October in effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Donohue said the business group is looking at "half a dozen" House and Senate races involving primaries or open seats to aid candidates who agree with the chamber's positions on the economy, trade, immigration and other issues.
He said he doesn't disagree with Tea Party principles, such as controlling federal spending. But, he said, "people who announce 'I'm going for the House or Senate, and my idea is to burn down the town' â?¦we are not going to be interested in them."
The Senate passed a comprehensive rewrite of immigration laws in June, but no measure has passed the GOP-controlled House, where some Republicans oppose the Senate deal allowing the nation's 12 million undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship.
House Speaker John Boehner is expected to release a blueprint in the coming weeks that outlines the key principles of an immigration overhaul that the House could consider. Boehner also recently hired Rebecca Tallent, a former aide to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has long supported changes to immigration law - raising hopes among advocates that he is willing to move forward.
Donohue said he's "encouraged" by recent developments in the House.
Source
The Daily Caller:
This past November, the chamber financially supported Bradley Byrne over tea party favorite Dean Young in the Republican primary for a U.S. House seat. With the help of business groups and the chamber’s $199,000 backing, Byrne prevailed.
Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash faces a business-backed primary challenger. Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce head Steve Stevens decided againstchallenging Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie.
Donohue also touted immigration legislation opposed by many conservatives.
“We’re determined to make 2014 the year that immigration reform is finally enacted,” said Donohue.

Yes the Chamber has had some successes and has managed to outspend tea party candidates in a few races. However, according to Wikipedia:

Despite more than $33 million spent supporting candidates in Congressional races in 2012, Chamber-backed candidates lost 36 out of the 50 elections in which the Chamber participated

With so many opposing the Tea Party it is clear that we must organize quickly within our local GOP, become Precinct Committeemen, volunteer to assist Tea Party Candidates for Get out the Vote efforts, or run ourselves. What we must not do is divide intro more parties, sit out on the sidelines and expect anything to change for the better.

We need to come together, put our anger, angst, and frustration into a positive channel of energy and be a part of the change we need to see. As I always state, You are the One You have been waiting for. Only You can make a difference. We must not expect that our neighbor, friend or anyone else is going to do the work for us.

I became a PC because I cannot allow the liberals, the evil, the uninformed, and the RINOs to steal all that I hold valuable.

What are you willing to do? United we stand divided we fall!

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