Bussiness; GOP establishment :
Tea party is over
A slice of corporate America
thinks tea partyers have overstayed their welcome in Washington and should be
shown the door in next year's congressional elections.
In Michigan, longtime businessmen
Brian Ellis and David Trott are challenging hardline conservative Reps. Justin
Amash and Kerry Bentivolio in Republican primaries. This comes after three
years of frustration over GOP insurgents roughing up the business community's
agenda. That all came to a head with the 16-day partial government shutdown and
the threat of a national financial default.
The Michigan races are a
turnabout after several years of widely heralded contests in which right-flank
candidates have tried to unseat Republican incumbents they perceive as not
being conservative enough.