HENWOOD posts "But there have also been areas of disagreement between business and the new Tea Party right, about trade and the need for more government spending on infrastructure. Another business lobbyist, who also requested anonymity, said that in private meetings with new Tea Party members, lobbyists were not getting the reception they once had – especially in areas in which lobbyists were seeking greater government spending." GULICK peeps Well, this validates the claim that you (and others) have been making for some time: Obama is finishing Clinton's conversion of the DP into a center-right Fortune 500 party, leaving the RP to the 20% fringe of Christian nationalists, unalloyed minarchists, and unreconstructed racists.