USNWR: The Party of Sore Losers (AKA the Tea Party) Is Bad for Business

[pampango]

It is time to start referring to the so-called "tea party" by a name it has truly earned: the Party of Sore Losers (POSERS, for short).

The old name always had the quality of one of those cheap knock-offs that seeks to associate itself with the name of something great in hopes that we'll get confused, though it's practically the opposite of the real thing. Indeed, this faction always was an imposter when it claimed affinity with the great Boston patriots of old. It's time to stop dignifying it with the association.

"The Party of Sore Losers," on the other hand, is a name the faction calling itself the tea party has earned. Those of us who grew up playing team sports or board games with kids from our neighborhoods all remember sore losers. Especially the ones who, after the opposing team scored a difficult touchdown or a game-changing point, would throw a tantrum and try to stop the game. Well, now the sore loser has a political faction to call his own.

As long as the GOP remains hijacked by this radical faction, the Republican Party must be written off as a viable source of conservative contributions to our competitive political process. We cannot look to it to keep our government limited if its idea of doing so is to bring the democratic process itself to a standstill. That is just what the Republican Party, hijacked by the POSERS, has done.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/10/15/on-the-shutdown-obamacare-and-immigration-the-tea-party-is-a-sore-loser

Even conservative business forces have given up on the tea party that some in their circles, helped create.