{"id":187381,"date":"2013-03-19T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/19\/what-gaius-said\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:58:00","slug":"what-gaius-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/19\/what-gaius-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Gaius Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2013\/03\/dccc-corporatist-opposes-progressives.html\"><b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Donating to the DCCC means helping Dems who vote like Republicans<\/span><\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>The DCCC is<\/b> the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee<\/a>,  the group of congresspeople and staff supposedly responsible for  electing House Democrats. It\u2019s led by \u201cex\u201d\u2013Blue Dog and New Dem Steve  Israel, Nancy Pelosi\u2019s hand-picked choice for the job.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">We\u2019ve written <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2012\/11\/pelosis-hand-picked-dccc-chief-seems-to-have-a-problem-opposing-republicans.html#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about Israel before<\/a>.  To the world his job is simply to elect Democrats, but to the moneymen  and -women behind the corporate wing of the party, his job is to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Elect corporate Democrats to the House<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Keep progressives out of office<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Make sure pro-corporate Republican leaders like Cantor and Paul Ryan never face credible challenges<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.&nbsp; So long as the national Democratic Congressional election infrastructure, and Congressional election fundraising is dominated by corporatocrats, <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">don&#8217;t give to them<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Pick and choose your candidates.  Don&#8217;t let these corporate ratf%$3s make that choice for you.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW,&nbsp; I would give similar advice to Republicans too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really pretty basic, do your homework, and chose whom you support, don&#8217;t let the Beltway crowd make your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donating to the DCCC means helping Dems who vote like Republicans: The DCCC is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the group of congresspeople and staff supposedly responsible for electing House Democrats. It\u2019s led by \u201cex\u201d\u2013Blue Dog and New Dem Steve Israel, Nancy Pelosi\u2019s hand-picked choice for the job. We\u2019ve written about Israel before. To 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":[1094,970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187381"}],"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=187381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}