Quote:Yet, the partial closing of the government and the looming confrontation over the nation's borrowing limit highlight the remarkable drop in the business community's influence among House Republicans, who increasingly respond more to tea party conservatives than to the Chamber of Commerce.
It looks more and more to me like there will never be a GOP/Tea Party split, but the GOP will become the Tea Party. The more exclusive they get, the more moderates they squeeze out.
It's just like in a religious cult where the crazier the cult leader gets it scares off the somewhat-still-rational people and all who are left are the totally crazy followers who will do anything the cult leader asks.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
