Not a vice to be "unmanageable"
Published November 19, 2013
by Carter Wrenn, Talking About Politics, November 18, 2013.
Up in the gilded halls of Congress the Tea Partiers went on a tear last month voting against Debt Ceiling increases and budgets that didn’t cut spending but the whole proposition of fighting it out with Obama seemed altogether too risky to the Pachyderm Republicans so after a fortnight they gave up the ghost and passed Obama’s bills.
Then, suddenly, the pillars of Republican Washington – like Mitch McConnell – found themselves facing primaries where folks like the Senate Conservatives Fund (which was founded by Senator Jim DeMint) were on the other side.
That was a serious problem.
So the Pachyderms ran up the distress flag and Big Business, loaded with millions of its own, charged to the rescue.
We want, the President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said, a “more manageable Republican Party.”
Translation: We like Congressmen who vote for corporate subsidies and these Tea Partiers don’t look too ‘manageable.’
Then the Grand Vizier of the National Republican Senatorial Committee piped up and added ‘getting a General Election candidate who can win is the only thing we care about.’
Translation: Forget virtue. Principle. And spending cuts. We mean to win. And the end justifies the means.
Now the Tea Partiers may get buried under an avalanche of big business cash but, judging by their enemies, not being ‘manageable’ may not be a vice.
