Business Leaders Dis Social Conservatives

Very interesting article in this a.m.'s WashPost about the cooling of Republican business groups on the social conservatism of El Presidente's second term.

"Economic conservatives grew restless during the first Bush term, when federal budget surpluses turned to yawning deficits, federal spending soared and the Republican-controlled Congress passed a Medicare drug benefit that marked the largest new federal entitlement since Lyndon B. Johnson was president."

But rather than fiscal restraint in the second Bush term, we're getting Terri Schiavo, John Bolton, and the "nuclear option," all pushed to a great extent by the American mullahs of the Christian Right.

One informed opinion has it that "the business community is no longer the GOP's base."