{"id":189370,"date":"2010-04-08T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/08\/i-call-this-a-good-start\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T00:33:00","slug":"i-call-this-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/08\/i-call-this-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"I Call This a Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The labor union the SEIU is <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/political-media\/its-war-seiu-starting-third-party-in-north-carolina\/\">starting a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party named North Carolina First in that state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are collecting signatures to get qualified as a state party, and the implication is that they will be running candidates in the general against the Blue Dogs Heath Shuler and Mike McIntyre, as well as conservative Larry Kissell.<\/p>\n<p>My attitude is that this is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>To quote James &#8220;I hate that smarmy bastard&#8221; Baker, &#8220;F%$# them, they didn&#8217;t vote for us.&#8221;<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a problem with this.  There is a difference between a conservative Democrat, and particularly in a conservative district, I understand the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Shuler, McIntyre, and Kissell are disloyal democrats, and they can reliably be counted on to vote against healthcare, financial reform, and fair labor rights.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, if they want to go after just one of them, I would suggest going after Shuler.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the whip of the Blue Dogs, and taking him down would make the rest of those guys think twice about playing to Fox News as a political strategy<\/p>\n<p>I would note that my hostility towards Shuler might be a function of his tenure as a Washington Redskins over-priced first round draft pick washout.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, I am aware that Baker said this about Jews and the Republican party while serving in the Poppie Bush administration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The labor union the SEIU is starting a 3rd party named North Carolina First in that state. They are collecting signatures to get qualified as a state party, and the implication is that they will be running candidates in the general against the Blue Dogs Heath Shuler and Mike McIntyre, as well as conservative Larry &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,978,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189370"}],"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=189370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}