Monday, February 4, 2013

Republican Civil War Moves Into New Phase

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has a good take on establishment Republicans fighting back against tea partiers.

What’s interesting about this development to me is that the establishment counter-attack is so unabashedly establishment in nature. Before American Crossroads, [it's president Steven J.] Law was the Chief Counsel for the US Chamber of Commerce. So extremely establishment money Republicans, the folks who are animated by low upper income taxes and minimal regulation of the private economy don’t really care or generally want to talk about birth control or rape or Muslims or a lot of the other things that really animate the base of the Republican party. And the message is open and direct: we’re going to stop you from nominating these crazy people.

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