GOP Civil War Erupts: Tea Party Freshman Rips Chamber CEO Tom Donahue

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/15/246496/gop-freshmam-chamber-donohue-debt-ceiling/

The Chamber of Commerce, as ThinkProgress has extensively documented, went to great lengths to elect Republicans in 2010, funding attack ads against several Democrats. The Chamber has also launched a series of broadsides against the Obama administration agenda, working with Republicans to undermine everything from the Affordable Care Act to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

This week, though, Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue may have ignited a civil war within the GOP. Many Tea Party freshman within the House Republican caucus have said that they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling, which would force the U.S. to default on its debt obligations. In fact, many said that raising the debt ceiling would be a “betrayal” of the platform that they ran on.

But Donohue sent a message those freshman during a speech before the Rotary Club of Atlanta: Fail to raise the debt ceiling and “we’ll get rid of you.” Today, Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) appeared on Fox News, where he tore into Donohue for threatening House Republicans:

I found Tom Donahue’s comments outrageous, tone-deaf, totally establishment, and doesn’t understand at all where we’re at right now…If Tom Donahue is more comfortable having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker next year because he wants to get rid of all of us tea party, fiscally-conservative freshman who came here on a mission to save our kids from the debt we’re placing on their backs, then fine. He can have Nancy Pelosi as his Speaker.

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[Snoutport]

1. large popcorn please, and some Milk Duds. I'm joining you for the show

[ellie]

8. I really like Sno Caps.

I'll bring those.

[malaise]

2. You'll need a bigger bag

:rofl:

[plumbob]

3. Cannibalism is always sooooooooooooooo interesting.

Isn't it?

:toast:

[TheKentuckian]

4. Money talks, bullshit walks. No Bucks no Buck Rogers.

The Tea morons will do their masters bidding or be dismantled.

[Canuckistanian]

5. They really don't know who writes the checks?

Really? Buh-bye, Tea Party......

[Abq_Sarah]

6. Big Corporations might support Donohue

But the small business owners I know have nothing but contempt for the national chamber of commerce. They, along with their cronies in DC (which include Democrats and Republicans) are more interested in getting legislation passed that helps them stomp out competition.

[Me.]

7. So The Misogynist Coward Uses Nancy Pelosi As His Threat

[pa28]

9. Failing to raise the ceiling means loss and uncertainty for the wealthy.

That's why Obama will win if he just sticks to his position.

On a side note it's just hard to believe the tea-party actually convinced themselves of their own importance. They were used and discarded by the big money interests that actually sponsor and decide policy for the Republican party.

Suckers. Bigots. Violent idiots. You got what you deserved.