ABC Panel Concurs: Business Community and GOP Allies Are Fed Up with Tea Party

‘The business community, corporations, Wall Street, they decided that the mavericks, the Tea parties are just too dangerous’

KARL: "The headline here is, there won't be a shutdown for at least two years. Did the Republican Party learned its lesson? Is that what happened?"
GINGRICH: "I think it's clear they didn't work. In that sense they learned a lesson ... They have worked very hard
to get to this point. They were very battered by the shutdown. I think he thought, why not?"
NAVARRO: "I think I like the angry-fed up John Boehner a lot than the crying John Boehner. I think he's right to be fed up. He tried for two weeks to accommodate the, you know, this very right-wing faction of the party, and they just couldn't be accommodated. The guy has had it."
REICH: " What happened here was the business community, corporations, Wall Street, they decided that the mavericks, the Tea parties are just too dangerous, the shutdown scared them, but also, the default, the prospect of a default on full faith and credibility of the United States scared them. And a lot of the corporations said to the Chamber of Commerce and a lot of business groups said, we need to get into Republican Primaries and we got to prevent the Tea party from intimidating -- that is the big change that happened."
NAVARRO: "The game-changer here was the shutdown. The Tea party, the naysayers they really overplayed their hand in the shutdown. And in the process they strengthened John Boehner's hand. And I think that's waht we're seeing now. Because it's not only John Boehner who got fed up, it was a lot of other Republicans who got fed up and worried by seeing what was a political destruction of the Republican Party."

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