{"id":180307,"date":"2017-05-26T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/26\/a-simple-metric-to-identify-democrats-to-be-primaried\/"},"modified":"2017-05-26T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T02:14:00","slug":"a-simple-metric-to-identify-democrats-to-be-primaried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/26\/a-simple-metric-to-identify-democrats-to-be-primaried\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Metric To Identify Democrats to be Primaried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a divide in the Democratic Party now over the political path forward, between those who think that they should hammer the Republicans on healthcare and social programs, and those who think that the party should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/05\/24\/health-care-russia-democrats-2018-focus-238789\">all Putin all the time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Democratic Party is embroiled in a debate over where they should focus their efforts to win back political power: health care or Russia.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The party\u2019s campaign committees and many of Democrats\u2019 leading super PACs have spent virtually all their energy this year on shaming Republicans for their push to repeal Obamacare, an issue that clearly touches voters\u2019 daily lives.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But on the other side of the split, American Bridge \u2014 the party\u2019s outside-group research arm run by <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">David Brock<\/span><\/b>, the well-known Hillary Clinton ally \u2014 is among those convinced the investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign and Russian officials is one Democrats would be foolish to downplay or wait to take advantage of.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Of course David Brock would be at the center all of this and on the wrong side.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since he switched sides, he has had this weird obsessive bromance with Hillary Clinton, and addressing real issues diminishes the polical future of both Hillary and her Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a proxy for a number of other positions.  Basically Brock and his ilk are placing their doing well over their doing good for the country.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article151685007.html\">DNC Chair Tom Perez got booed when he pushed Russian conspiracy theories instead of talking healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are people who have no future in the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a divide in the Democratic Party now over the political path forward, between those who think that they should hammer the Republicans on healthcare and social programs, and those who think that the party should be all Putin all the time: The Democratic Party is embroiled in a debate over where they should &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[581,375,504,374,455,406,403],"class_list":["post-180307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-conspiracy","tag-elections","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}