{"id":185060,"date":"2011-10-22T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/22\/it-appears-that-batsh-insane-is-bad-for-business\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T20:40:00","slug":"it-appears-that-batsh-insane-is-bad-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/22\/it-appears-that-batsh-insane-is-bad-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"It Appears that Batsh%$ Insane is Bad for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/10\/house-democratic-committee-dramatically-outraises-gop-counterpart.php\">the big corporate fat cat donors are not supporting the Republicans as one would expect<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee just about doubled the haul of their counterparts, the National Republican Congressional Committee. The DCCC pulled in $6.64 million, while the NRCC brought in just $3.8 million. While the NRCC has more cash on hand (around $12.2 million to the DCCC\u2019s around $9.5 million) and slightly less debt, over the course of the year the DCCC is outraising the team with the big House majority.<\/p>\n<p>The year-long totals show the DCCC raising nearly $48 million to the NRCC\u2019s just over $44 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that the Republican Party Presidential Primary clown show has convinced business executives that Republicans are simply not a good investment, because while one can price risk, you can&#8217;t price uncertainty, and insane motherf%$#er teabaggers are the very definition of uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it looks like the big corporate fat cat donors are not supporting the Republicans as one would expect: Last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee just about doubled the haul of their counterparts, the National Republican Congressional Committee. The DCCC pulled in $6.64 million, while the NRCC brought in just $3.8 million. While the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185060"}],"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=185060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}