Business Bets on the G.O.P. May Be Backfiring
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON — Big business groups like the Chamber of Commerce spent millions of dollars in 2010 to elect Republican candidates running for the House. The return on investment has not always met expectations.
Even though money for major road and bridge projects is set to run out this weekend, House Republican leaders have struggled all week to round up the votes from recalcitrant conservatives simply to extend it for 90 or even 60 days. A longer-term transportation bill that contractors and the chamber say is vital to the recovery of the construction industry appears hopelessly stalled over costs.
Business groups that worked hard to install a Republican majority in the House equated Republican control with a business-friendly environment. But the majority is first and foremost a conservative political force, and on key issues, its ideology is not always aligned with commercial interests that helped finance election victories.
“Free market is not always the same as pro-business,” said Barney Keller, spokesman for the conservative political action committee Club for Growth.
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When the number one goal of the republican party is to make president Obama a on term president, so they have to take the opposite stand on "anything" the president is for, it's king of hard to get anything else done, like passing bills for roads and infrastructure, bills that actually "make" jobs, or any other bills that might help the country get back on track. If the country is doing well, then the president looks good, and republicans hate it when he looks good.
They also put themselves into a position where they have to cater to the crazy tea baggers, which doesn't help either. The republicans made a lot of promises in 2010, to bad they have kept any of them, except of course to continue on down the path obstructing everything they can in order to get their number one goal accomplished, and make the president a one term president isn't going to happen either. Looks like they lose on all counts! Isn't it great? 
