{"id":188237,"date":"2010-11-04T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/04\/now-the-blue-dogs-have-lost-joke-line\/"},"modified":"2010-11-04T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:42:00","slug":"now-the-blue-dogs-have-lost-joke-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/04\/now-the-blue-dogs-have-lost-joke-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, the  Blue Dogs Have Lost Joke Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Time, Joe Klein is saying that the <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.blogs.time.com\/2010\/11\/04\/blue-dogs-dumped\/\">devastating Blue Dog losses are their own damn fault<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>This year, however, I do feel that there is an argument that, to an extent, the Dogs brought this on themselves by being penny-wise, dogpound-foolish. The argument goes like this: a larger stimulus package might have helped the economy recover at a faster clip, but the Dogs opposed it on fiscal responsibility grounds. A second argument: the public really has had it with Wall Street, but the Dogs helped water down the financial regulatory bill, gutting the too-big-to-fail provisions. There is real merit to both points. If the stimulus had been bigger and the financial reform package clearer and stronger, the public would have had a different&#8211;and, I believe, more positive&#8211;sense of the President&#8217;s agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, when Democrats are bitch slapping the Democratic agenda, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">whole<\/span> party looks week, and voters hate to vote for weakness.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2010\/11\/biting-hand-fed-them\">Kevin Drum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Time, Joe Klein is saying that the devastating Blue Dog losses are their own damn fault: This year, however, I do feel that there is an argument that, to an extent, the Dogs brought this on themselves by being penny-wise, dogpound-foolish. The argument goes like this: a larger stimulus package might have helped 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":[998,1000,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188237"}],"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=188237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}