{"id":185576,"date":"2014-10-07T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/07\/never-stop-your-enemies-from-stepping-on-their-own-dicks\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T00:44:00","slug":"never-stop-your-enemies-from-stepping-on-their-own-dicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/07\/never-stop-your-enemies-from-stepping-on-their-own-dicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Stop Your Enemies from Stepping on Their Own Dicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Case in point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/10\/07\/gops_georgia_mess_worsens_david_perdue_proud_of_career_spent_outsourcing\/\">David Perdue, Republican candidate for the US Senate in Georgia<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>If you ask me, and you\u2019re not asking me but I\u2019m saying so anyway, Georgia has suddenly become the most interesting Senate race in the country. It was mighty interesting during the Republican primary, but then slipped in status as the race devolved into a plain vanilla case of the Republican Business Robot holding a safe lead over the Centrist Democratic Robot. The Centrist Democratic Robot\u2019s Robotic Centrist Democrat campaign strategy leaked, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/10\/03\/david_perdues_terrorism_assault_the_predictably_pathetic_state_of_georgias_senate_race\/\">and the Republican Business Robot used it predictably to tar the Centrist Democratic Robot as a Terrorist ISIS Mexican Democratic Robot<\/a> \u2014 the worst kind of robot there is. <\/p>\n<p>But now, things \u2014 things are happening. The Republican Business Robot, David Perdue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/10\/06\/gops_outsourcing_mess_in_georgia_could_this_juicy_piece_of_oppo_be_david_perdues_undoing\/\">apparently went on the record some years back describing<\/a> how he\u2019s spent \u201cmost of [his] career\u201d outsourcing. This was in response to a direct question asking him, \u201cCan you describe your experience with outsourcing?\u201d It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/10\/06\/gops_outsourcing_mess_in_georgia_could_this_juicy_piece_of_oppo_be_david_perdues_undoing\/\">unambiguous and it reinforces the central attacks<\/a> on both Perdue and Republican economic priorities. It is the sort of thing on which a late-stage move can be made. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not complicated. You, Michelle Nunn\u2019s campaign, make an ad quoting directly from the deposition. \u201cQ: Can you describe your experience with outsourcing?\u201d \u201cA: Yeah, I spent most of my career doing that.\u201d You just take this dialogue and cut the ad and then make like 10 more and show them all on every channel, for a month. <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.blog.ajc.com\/2014\/10\/07\/michelle-nunn-slams-david-perdue-on-outsourcing-in-new-tv-ad\/?ecmp=ajc_social_twitter_2014_politicalinsider_sfp\">Hey, look at that:<\/a><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5tF0y17qN1U\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perdue&#8217;s defense?  That he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/state-regional-govt-politics\/perdue-proud-of-outsourcing-past-blames-washington\/nhcsk\/\">proud of his sending American jobs overseas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. Senate candidate David Perdue said Monday he is proud of outsourcing he has done in his career as a corporate executive, pushing blame for lost jobs back on Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Perdue, a former CEO for Dollar General and Republican nominee to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss, was stung by his own words last week in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/10\/david-perdue-georgia-senate-race-2014-111589.html#ixzz3FDB0Rptg\">an article on Politico.com<\/a>. The Washington political news website quoted Perdue from a 2005 deposition where he said he \u201cspent most of my career\u201d outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefend it? I\u2019m proud of it,\u201d he said in a press stop at The White House restaurant in Buckhead. \u201cThis is a part of American business, part of any business. Outsourcing is the procurement of products and services to help your business run. People do that all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deposition was taken as part of a lawsuit in the bankruptcy of Pillowtex, a failed textile company where Perdue was CEO in 2002 and 2003. In remarks Monday, he attempted to draw a line between his business decisions and Washington policies.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this is going to go over to all those folks who lost their jobs in the textile industry.<\/p>\n<p>There is a peculiar kind hubris that is a part and parcel to the American management class.<\/p>\n<p>They cannot allow themselves to admit that what they do is not a heroic John Galtesque exercise, because once they do that, the fact that they are parasites (moochers) becomes inescapable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, David Perdue, Republican candidate for the US Senate in Georgia: If you ask me, and you\u2019re not asking me but I\u2019m saying so anyway, Georgia has suddenly become the most interesting Senate race in the country. It was mighty interesting during the Republican primary, but then slipped in status as the race &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1000,1016,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-elections","category-international-commerce","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185576"}],"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=185576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}