{"id":191718,"date":"2009-07-02T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/how-barack-obama-fs-the-progressive-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:27:00","slug":"how-barack-obama-fs-the-progressive-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/how-barack-obama-fs-the-progressive-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"How Barack Obama F%$#s the Progressive in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, freshman Representative Tom Perriello, who was aggressively lobbied to vote for the cap and trad bill, he thought that it was a sellout, and originally intended to vote against it, and is  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/07\/01\/gop.targeted.ads\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">now being targeted by the GOP<\/a> on this vote.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, blue dogs, like Gene Taylor, <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignsilo.firedoglake.com\/2009\/06\/29\/blue-dog-kabuki-why-exactly-do-they-need-protecting\/\">were allowed to vote their <del>campaign dollars<\/del> &#8220;conscience&#8221;<\/a>, and were not aggressively lobbied.<\/p>\n<p>Perriello&#8217;s margin in his campaign, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">just 727 votes<\/span>, while Gene Taylor, &#8220;He won 74.6% of the vote in 2008, and 79.8% in 2006.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is about campaign money.  Rahm Emanuel and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> think that the blue dogs are critical in getting big money campaign donations, and that if you have to sacrifice a few progressive Dems to secure that, they don&#8217;t raise the big bucks, so screw them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, freshman Representative Tom Perriello, who was aggressively lobbied to vote for the cap and trad bill, he thought that it was a sellout, and originally intended to vote against it, and is now being targeted by the GOP on this vote. On the other hand, blue dogs, like Gene Taylor, were allowed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1020,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-legislation","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191718"}],"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=191718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}