{"id":1610,"date":"2007-11-12T04:51:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T09:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2007-11-12T04:51:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T09:51:41","slug":"failure-is-an-orphan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"Failure Is An Orphan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternate Title:\u00a0 &#8220;<em>They Eat Their Own, Part MLXXXVIII<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 El Rider notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingdebris.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/leftists-call-rahm-racist.html\">niutroots are out for Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s political head<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Okay, if it takes a &#8220;member of the vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; to defend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/emanuel\/\"><font color=\"#5588aa\">Rahm Emanuel<\/font><\/a> (D-IL) then things are not going all that swimmingly over on the other side of the pool. Yesterday, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/11\/9\/113558\/098\"><font color=\"#5588aa\">asked whether<\/font><\/a> Rahm Emanuel is a racist. A few weeks ago I read a comment stream on <a href=\"http:\/\/ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com\/\"><font color=\"#5588aa\">Ellen&#8217;s Tenth&#8230;<\/font><\/a> concerning Rahm and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/kirk\/\"><font color=\"#5588aa\">Rep. Mark Kirk<\/font><\/a> (R-IL) that was bizarre even for those folks. So what the heck is going on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feeding frenzy?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Methinks that some folks are trying to move any blame concerning the current congress away from the more outwardly liberal Pelosi and toward the more centrist Emanuel. Some commenters over at Ellen&#8217;s place and on the regressive Daily Kos don&#8217;t seem to understand what Rahm did last year. He recruited good centrist candidates in vulnerable districts around the nation and not only were those candidates successful but they gave the Democratic Party it&#8217;s current House majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank God for the nutroots\u00a0&#8211; Kos and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotamonitor.com\">regional<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymole.com\">doppelg\u00e4ngers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwegianity.com\">anh\u00e4ngers<\/a> &#8211; or the GOP would be in <em>real <\/em>trouble right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternate Title:\u00a0 &#8220;They Eat Their Own, Part MLXXXVIII&#8220;.\u00a0 El Rider notes the niutroots are out for Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s political head: Okay, if it takes a &#8220;member of the vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; to defend Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) then things are not going all that swimmingly over on the other side of the pool. Yesterday, Markos Moulitsas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}