Yes. It happened.
Bwaahaaahaa:
As the government shutdown grinds toward a potential debt default, some of the country's most influential business executives have come to a conclusion all but unthinkable a few years ago: Their voices are carrying little weight with the House majority that their millions of dollars in campaign contributions helped build and sustain.
Their frustration has grown so intense in recent days that several trade association officials warned in interviews on Wednesday that they were considering helping wage primary campaigns against Republican lawmakers who had worked to engineer the political standoff in Washington.
Oh, the irony. First, "moderate" Republicans were afraid of being primaried by wackadoo far-right Tea Party groups, so they voted WITH the wackadoodles. And now Big Business, feeling the shutdown pain in their wallets, are threatening to primary the wackadoodles =)
This cannot end well for the GOP =)
I have absolutely no sympathy for these whiners. After all, in their greed and dislike of regulation, they brought this upon themselves:
To some extent, the Chamber itself, along with other lobbying groups, helped create the conditions for Washington's impasse.
After the 2010 elections, the Chamber and other business interests funneled millions of dollars into Republican redistricting efforts around the country, helping draw overwhelmingly safe Republican districts whose occupants — many among the most conservative House members — are now far less vulnerable to challenges from more moderate Republicans.
So...they can DREAM of ousting the very people that they not only pushed to elect, but ensconced in gerrymandered districts...but they probably won't succeed. Because of the success of their evil plan =)
Ah...schadenfreude. Pass the popcorn, please.