{"id":192547,"date":"2009-03-20T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/20\/what-prima-donnas\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T22:30:00","slug":"what-prima-donnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/20\/what-prima-donnas\/","title":{"rendered":"What Prima Donnas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that Senator Evah Bahy&#8217;s (DINO-IN) new moderate caucus is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/nationalpolitics\/ci_11946209\">getting some pushback from their constituents<\/a>, and they are crying like a bunch of &#8220;girlie men&#8221;, to quote the governator.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that  Rachel Maddow covered this, and called them &#8220;conservadems&#8221;, and they are getting some calls from voters in their states telling them to get with the program.<\/p>\n<p>How many calls are they getting?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Maddow&#8217;s five-minute &#8220;conservadem&#8221; segment last Thursday provoked at least 20 calls Monday to Udall&#8217;s office and more than a dozen e-mails to Democratic Party headquarters in Colorado.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now they are crying about how awful people are to them.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, these folks are used to obstructing progressive programs, and then getting a pat on the head from villagers inside the beltway, but now, with someone pointing them out as trying to stifle change, they get <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">20 phone calls<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">more than a dozen emails<\/span>, and they are whining about how people are <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">mean<\/span> to them.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, if you suck up to Wall Street, who destroyed our 401(k)s, and you suck up to large food processors, who put <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">poison<\/span> in our peanuts, because they contribute to your campaign, you deserve whatever flak that you catch.<\/p>\n<p>Cry me a fracking river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that Senator Evah Bahy&#8217;s (DINO-IN) new moderate caucus is getting some pushback from their constituents, and they are crying like a bunch of &#8220;girlie men&#8221;, to quote the governator. It appears that Rachel Maddow covered this, and called them &#8220;conservadems&#8221;, and they are getting some calls from voters in their states telling &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192547"}],"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=192547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}