Raul Laments GOP Big Biz Fondness

The U.S. Export-Import Bank reauthorization isn’t the only business-friendly legislation riling some Republicans these days. “Republicans are always protecting Big Business instead of protecting the market,” fiscal conservative Rep. Raul Labrador (R., Idaho) said in an interview with Washington Wire today — as House Republican leaders prepared to brush past opposition from fiscal conservatives and reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank. “You know what can we do to help Big Business prosper?,” he asked, before answering: “Big Business will always prosper. Rich people will always prosper. We need to figure out how we can protect individuals; family-owned business”/ Siobhan Hughes , Wall Street Journal. More here. (SR file photo: Raul Labrador greets state Rep. JoAn Wood, R-Rigby, at state Capitol in February)

Question: Izzit just me — or is Raul starting to sound like a Democrat?