{"id":188286,"date":"2010-10-26T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/26\/payback-is-a-bitch-2\/"},"modified":"2010-10-26T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T23:25:00","slug":"payback-is-a-bitch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/26\/payback-is-a-bitch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Payback is a Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at the Democratic Party Congressional caucus, the people who are most threatened with losing their jobs are <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304248704575574150456180156.html\">the Blue Dogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>More than half the members of the Blue Dog Coalition\u2014the organization of moderate to conservative Democrats in the House\u2014are in peril in next week&#8217;s election, a stark indicator of how the balloting could produce a Congress even more polarized than the current one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author of the article says that this is worrying because the Blue Dogs are, &#8220;a kind of human bridge, connecting left and right in the House,&#8221; but my take is rather more positive:  It&#8217;s these rat f%$#s that were in large part for blocking and weakening every serious policy initiative that the Democratic party, and it is this perceived lack of accomplishment that has put off voters.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, it&#8217;s not that payback is a bitch, it&#8217;s that payback is making them it&#8217;s bitch.<\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t want to vote for Democrats because they are perceived as timid, and the people who forced this are reaping the whirlwind.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at the Democratic Party Congressional caucus, the people who are most threatened with losing their jobs are the Blue Dogs: More than half the members of the Blue Dog Coalition\u2014the organization of moderate to conservative Democrats in the House\u2014are in peril in next week&#8217;s election, a stark indicator of how the balloting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1051,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-hypocrisy","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188286"}],"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=188286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}