{"id":180672,"date":"2017-02-09T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/09\/people-we-should-not-listen-to\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:57:00","slug":"people-we-should-not-listen-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/09\/people-we-should-not-listen-to\/","title":{"rendered":"People We Should Not Listen To"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoreporter.com\/emanuel-is-the-last-person-to-give-democrats-advice-on-strategy\/\">Rahm Emanuel<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>He likes to claim that he was the genius behind the 2006 Democratic Party electoral success, but his record at the DCCC  belies this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks he has some advice for the grassroots activists who are responding with such urgency to the rise of Donald Trump: <a href=\"http:\/\/my.chicagotribune.com\/#section\/-1\/article\/p2p-92515169\/\">\u201cTake a chill pill.\u201d<\/a>  They won\u2019t listen to him, nor should they. <\/p>\n<p>Emanuel may be uniquely unqualified to comprehend, much less comment on, the <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoreporter.com\/photos-womens-march-and-anti-trump-protests-in-chicago-draw-huge-crowds\/\">progressive upsurge<\/a> seen in the huge Women\u2019s March on Washington, airport blockades in response to Trump\u2019s Muslim immigration ban, and crowds of hundreds corralling members of Congress across the country over the future of health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The truth of the 2006 election was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2010\/09\/so_long_jerk.html\">the top three recipients of DCCC cash \u2013 who together got nearly $10 million \u2013 all lost<\/a>, and of 22 initial candidates backed by Emanuel\u2019s committee, only nine won their elections.  What swung the election to the Democrats was the deep unpopularity of President George W. Bush and the Iraq war, nourished by a new \u201cnetroots\u201d insurgency within the Democratic Party.  Emanuel\u2019s pro-war candidates had trouble catching the wave \u2013 but now he claims the election victory as his own.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And his record as Mayor of Chicago sucks wet farts from dead pigeons as well.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm, and Obama, did their level best over the past 8 years to diminish the perceived successes of the party base, as well as the efforts of Dean&#8217;s 50 state strategy, which took resources and power from the inbred, pampered, and overpaid nomenklatura of the party in DC and devolved it to the state parties.<\/p>\n<p>I so hope that he ends up frog marched out of the Mayor&#8217;s mansion in handcuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahm Emanuel. He likes to claim that he was the genius behind the 2006 Democratic Party electoral success, but his record at the DCCC belies this: Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks he has some advice for the grassroots activists who are responding with such urgency to the rise of Donald Trump: \u201cTake a chill pill.\u201d They &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":[375,364,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-180672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180672"}],"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=180672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}