It appears to me that the Republicans’ government shutdown failed even in the rather modest goal of ramping up base enthusiasm. The fundraising boon did not materialize for them, but it did materialize for the Democrats.
“I know a lot of people in New York who are just not going to give again,” said Thomas Scully, who served in the George W. Bush administration and is now both a partner with the private equity firm of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, and a senior counsel with Alston & Bird. Donors to the NRSC were particularly frustrated after 2012, Scully said, when Republicans failed to regain the Senate after conservatives who won primaries went on to lose the general election.
“It’s frustrating to give money to people when you know they’re not going to win,” Scully said. Business leaders fed up over the shutdown have pledged to become more active in primaries, with an eye to backing candidates more in tune with their philosophy of stability and good governance. Some Republicans fret that business donors will also defect to Democrats.
“We should be worried,” said John Feehery, a former GOP leadership aide and president of the lobbying and PR shop of QGA Public Affairs. “I think the biggest worry for Republicans is the fratricide. When it’s Republican-on-Republican violence, the business community will look at Democrats and say: ‘At least these guys are sane.’”
I never get tired of reading these kind of articles.
`At least these guys are sane.’
NOT INSANE! Papoon for President.
I hope you realize what this all means. None of it is good, if you’re for getting people back to work and stuff.
I’ll repeat it..
IF you take a vote 43 TIMES TO REPEAL SAID LAW
You can’t have shyt to say about said law.
Beginning.Middle.End of story.
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GOP shut out of Obamacare briefing
10/22/13 5:46 PM EDT
House Republicans have requested a briefing with Obama administration officials about the implementation of the health care reform law after hearing that House Democrats will get a briefing on the law tomorrow.
“Far too much information about Obamacare’s rollout is being concealed from the public,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner. “This snub is all the more offensive after Secretary Sebelius declined to testify at a House hearing this week. It’s time for the Obama administration to honor its promises of transparency and face some accountability.”
House Democrats will be briefed by Mike Hash, the head of the HHS Office of Health Reform, at 8:50 a.m.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/gop-shut-out-of-obamacare-briefing-98704.html#ixzz2iUSeOWaa
I can go both ways on this, but my GOP terrorist hater side wins. Good. Screw those clowns.
wasn’t that a Barney Frank quote?
You might not like us, but the other guys are nuts?
LOL
I’ll repeat
they don’t have to give to Democrats…
as long as they don’t give to the GOP for two election cycles.
As long the tea baggers gain/retain control of the primary process in the states, there will be more Cuccinelli’s running for office. Also, the tea baggers do not need the GOP for funding as citizens united opened up the deep pockets of the rich.
Who funds the GOP generally? The rich and religious fundies. Even if the Chamber of Commerce funding dries up, that still leaves the Koch Brothers and their fellow travelers.
Plus they have on the ground organizational strengths that they’ve been building for decades.
Where the Kochtopus has fallen short is on slick candidates for the Senate. Candidates that can wink and nod to their fellow travelers and not those that resort to creepy public attacks on lady parts.
While it’s too early to make any prognostications about the midterms, the GOP may not be as vulnerable in the House national polls suggest and it’s possible that the ranks of the teabaggers could increase. And the generic 2014 Senate map gives the GOP an edge with decent enough candidates and enough money.
” I never get tired of reading these kind of articles. “
Me neither please keep them coming…
Act like Democrats instead of Republican-lite, stand for the principles you ran on, and align yourself with the views of the people who voted you into office. Yeah, it might mean a couple fewer invites to really swell cocktail parties, but it could mean a hefty boost to your campaign coffers.
Keep reading them I guess.
But so far the number of survivalists getting Tea Bagger challengers is greeter than the number of Tea Baggers getting survival challengers and as you pointed out one of those was Amash who is a stopped clock and thus very occasionally on the right side.
Survival = Survivalist caucus, or those Republicans who voted to extend the debt limit in the senate and house.
Interesting — suggests that my hunch that the teabag caucus could increase while the GOP loses a few seats isn’t bananas.