Apparently being quite eager to demonstrate the fact that it no longer supports the American economic system of free enterprise nor the America way of life, it now seems that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is ready to wage what can only be described as being a full scale war on the Tea Party, at least when it comes to 2014 Senate primaries and elections. It will do so by providing a deep-pocketed boost to those it deems as being ‘acceptable’ Republican candidates. "Our No. 1 focus is to make sure, when it comes to the Senate, that we have no loser candidates," Chamber strategist Scott Reed told The Wall Street Journal. "That will be our mantra: No fools on our ticket." I’m not quite certain I quite agree with how they go about determining which candidates to support.
The financial support, which The Hill has now reported, could pour as much as $50 million into the campaigns of those candidates that the group had identified as being "centrist" Republicans, and is all part of what has become a very aggressive approach toward Tea Party Republicans. It’s something that has essentially been underway since the 16-day October government shutdown. The Chamber has expressed its displeasure with Tea Party favorites Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who resisted passing a budget without a provision to defund Obamacare, triggering a stalemate. However, if what is now being undertaken by this the group does anything, it serves to expose its highly questionable agenda. An agenda that is in no way good for America.
It was just a month after what was really only a partial shutdown of the government that we saw the Chamber insert itself into the intra-party GOP voting by choosing to back establishment GOP candidate Bradley Byrne over Tea Party prospect Dean Young in an Alabama special House election. Sadly it was Byrne who came out on top in the contest, and who then went on to an easy victory in the Dec. 17 special election, defeating Democrat Burton LeFlore. And while I suppose it can be said that at least the Republican won, I would argue, was it the best Republican? So, with one victory firmly under their belt, The Chamber is now airing ads for Rep. Mike Simpson in Idaho, where he faces a Tea Party-backed challenger in his race for a ninth House term.
Meanwhile, the head of Heritage Action is vowing to challenge Republican leaders on a number of fiscal issues, and to keep active with grassroots activists. "Lawmakers do not have a monopoly on information, and we will continue to communicate directly with their constituents on important legislation as it moves through Congress," Michael Needham, chief executive of Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation think tank, said in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. He said most lawmakers "will find it difficult to go back home and defend votes that increase spending, increase deficits and undermine the rule of law." It is groups like the Heritage that we must work to support however we can in this battle for the soul of America.
So I think it very fair to say that what The Chamber is now very actively engaged in is not merely a war against the Tea Party, it’s also a war that is, and very aggressively so, being waged against the American people. And we, as freedom loving Americans, can ill afford to allow ourselves to be swayed by such a group, a group that so obviously does not share our values, especially when it comes to something as important as our deciding whom it is that we choose to vote for. I think we’re all able to recognize the fact that there is very little difference between these "centrist" Republicans and your basic, run-of-the-mill, Democrat. So why would we choose to vote for them? The fate of our country is in the balance, and The Chamber of Commerce is not on our side!
"We the People" will need to focus all of our energy on working to rally our own forces and to make it very plain to those who decide to take the same position as The Chamber appears willing to take, that we will not go quietly into the night and we will not simply rollover in the same manner that most of our Republican leaders have a tendency to do. We are willing to fight for that which we view as being ours and it is we, and we alone, who will decide who it is that’s to be the recipient of our vote. But if we are foolish enough to vote for any of these ‘centrist’ pukes that we are being told we must vote for, we will be doing ourselves no favors. What is essentially taking place here is that we are simply being conned by those who profess to be on our side.
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