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Getting Back On Grover's Good Side? Small-Business Lobby Joins Anti-HCR Suit
Zachary Roth | May 17, 2010, 3:10PM
Grover Norquist
Is a key business lobby group back on the right-wing reservation?
Earlier this year, Grover Norquist, the long-time majordomo of Washington's conservative alliance, called out the National Federation of Independent Businesses for not doing enough to fight President Obama's agenda. "The biggest hole in the center-right bloc is that the NFIB is not being the tribune of the masses on this," Norquist told National Journal in February. "Why is that? That is a fascinating question."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (8) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: AARP, Grover Norquist, Health Care Reform, NFIB, SEIU, Social Security
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Business Lobby Shifting Back To GOP
Zachary Roth | February 8, 2010, 4:04PM
Grover Norquist
Some of the business interests that had abandoned their traditional conservatism to flirt with the Obama agenda may now be shifting back towards the GOP -- another sign that the president's standing is badly weakened a year after taking office.
During 2008 and much of 2009, Obama enjoyed an unusual amount of support for a Democrat from the business community, much of which had grown disillusioned with President Bush and hoped for a return to the steady growth of the Clinton years. But after a string of political setbacks, high-lighted by Scott Brown's win last month in the Massachusetts Senate race, some key business groups and sectors appear to be shifting back to the GOP column.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (9) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: Barack Obama, Chamber of Commerce, Grover Norquist, Health Care, JP Morgan, Lobbyists, NFIB, Scott Brown, Wall Street
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