{"id":25800,"date":"2012-01-24T05:26:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25800"},"modified":"2012-01-23T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T00:26:48","slug":"the-exposed-id-of-the-democrat-party-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25800","title":{"rendered":"The Exposed Id<\/i> Of The Democrat Party In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small gaggle of House Democrats, led by Dennis Kucinich, are proposing a “Reasonable Profits Board” to control corporate profits (in the energy sector, for the time being).<\/p>\n

“But Mitch”, the liberals will respond, “it’s just Dennis Kucinich! \u00a0It doesn’t matter!”<\/p>\n

What, you think \u00a0anything happens in Congress by accident? \u00a0Without Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer’s direct permission?<\/p>\n

This is at best an attempt to launch a chanting point to throw at Republicans in the fall – “John Kline supports excess profits<\/em>!” – and at most a testing of the legislative waters.<\/p>\n

Chad at \u00a0Fraters Libertas<\/a>\u00a0points out that there is, of course, nothing reasonable about it:<\/p>\n

If the idea of a “Reasonable Profits Boards” run by unelected government bureaucrats doesn’t make you recoil in horror, you must be ingnorant of the long history of such previous efforts by the state to dictate economic activities. But don’t you dare call this socialism. ‘Cause then, YOU would be the extremist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elder gets to the nature of how the Progressive Noise Machine works. \u00a0Like the “Dayton Jerbs Bill”, it’s not about jobs or excess profits; both are about creating chanting points for the left to trot out this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A small gaggle of House Democrats, led by Dennis Kucinich, are proposing a “Reasonable Profits Board” to control corporate profits (in the energy sector, for the time being). “But Mitch”, the liberals will respond, “it’s just Dennis Kucinich! \u00a0It doesn’t matter!” What, you think \u00a0anything happens in Congress by accident? \u00a0Without Nancy Pelosi and Steny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25800","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=25800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25803,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25800\/revisions\/25803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}