{"id":8247,"date":"2011-01-10T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:48:37","slug":"ralph-nader-cheering-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8247\/ralph-nader-cheering-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Nader Cheering the Tea Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it.\u00a0 In an op-ed for <em>BusinessWeek<\/em>, the scourge of concentrated wealth and power sees a lot to love in the new, Tea Party-infused legislators walking around Capitol Hill.\u00a0 Specifically, Nader isolates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-01-09\/tea-party-republicans-may-crack-party-discipline-ralph-nader.html\" target=\"_blank\">five issues<\/a> that could bring the movement\u2019s limited government mantra into conflict with establishment Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1)\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Paul\u2019s fight to curb the power of the Federal Reserve<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0\u00a0 Heightened criticism for corporate welfare programs (e.g. everything from ethanol subsidies for biofuel to \u201cgreen\u201d initiatives designed to get federal tax dollars)<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0\u00a0 Trimming the military budget (Apparently, Defense Secretary Robert Gates already got the memo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2011\/01\/robert-gates-budget-hawk\/69020\/\" target=\"_blank\">sort of<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0\u00a0 Renewal and expansion of the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, etc.<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0\u00a0 Whistleblower protection for bureaucrats and corporate workers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The limited government foundations of the Tea Party movement will make predicting voting outcomes this session iffier than when Republicans could be assumed to oppose any Democrat plan.\u00a0 If necessary, we\u2019ll see how many of the new Constitutionalists in Congress are ready to buck convention and vote their principles instead of their party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it.\u00a0 In an op-ed for BusinessWeek, the scourge of concentrated wealth and power sees a lot to love in the new, Tea Party-infused legislators walking around Capitol Hill.\u00a0 Specifically, Nader isolates five issues that could bring the movement\u2019s limited government mantra into conflict with establishment Republicans. (1)\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Paul\u2019s fight to curb the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,144,2248,544,742,2246,2247,190,218,2249,28],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-ethanol","tag-federal-reserve","tag-limited-government","tag-nafta","tag-ralph-nader","tag-robert-gates","tag-ron-paul","tag-subsidy","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}