{"id":198524,"date":"2007-11-01T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/01\/dscc-gunning-for-mcconnell\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T02:33:00","slug":"dscc-gunning-for-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/01\/dscc-gunning-for-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"DSCC Gunning For McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has <a href=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/134\/02vi0.jpg\">decided to target Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good.  When the Republicans decided to target Tom Daschle in 2004, it crossed a line, and payback is not about making anyone feel good, it&#8217;s about making sure that when these lines are crossed, the people get slapped down.<\/p>\n<p>As Sean Connery once said, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" >They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. <span style=\"font-size:180%;\">That&#8217;s<\/span> the <span style=\"font-size:180%;\">Chicago<\/span> way!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You cannot make nice with these folks.  If you want them to visit your grave every months, the only way to do that is because they are <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">afraid that you will come up again<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This needs more than money, it needs balls.  It needs to be nasty, and that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">includes<\/span> a whispering campaign about the fact that McConnel separated from the army after 10 days, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/self-hating-gay-republican-update.html\">allegedly for giving another guy a hand job in the shower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will never respect anyone else, but they are at their core cowards, and they <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">can<\/span> manage fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has decided to target Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Good. When the Republicans decided to target Tom Daschle in 2004, it crossed a line, and payback is not about making anyone feel good, it&#8217;s about making sure that when these lines are crossed, the people get &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198524"}],"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=198524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}