{"id":28234,"date":"2012-05-31T06:51:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28234"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:06","slug":"money-in-politics-has-always-been-evil-winston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28234","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Money In Politics Has <i>Always<\/i> Been Evil, Winston&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Jim Treacher notes in The Daily Caller, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/05\/30\/its-appalling-and-undemocratic-to-raise-more-money-than-the-obama-campaign\/\">It\u2019s appalling and undemocratic to raise more money than the Obama campaign<\/a>&#8221; .<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px;\">Or something. David Axelrod is purporting to be alarmed by\u00a0<a class=\"external\" style=\"text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=0F866DCD-F8DC-436E-B46D-504340FEB315\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a Politico story on how Republican super PACs are planning to spend $1 billion on the election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"margin-top: 7px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 7px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; clear: both !important; position: relative !important; font: normal normal normal 14px\/16px 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif !important; color: #333333 !important; max-width: 550px !important; padding: 0px;\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"twt-border\" style=\"background-image: initial !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: #ffffff !important; 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background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;\">This election aside, anyone who cares about our democracy should be appalled by this:\u00a0<a class=\"link\" style=\"text-decoration: none !important; background-image: initial !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; border-style: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; bottom: auto !important; clear: none !important; clip: auto !important; color: #666666 !important; cursor: pointer !important; direction: ltr !important; float: none !important; font: normal normal normal 12px\/16px 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif !important; height: auto !important; left: auto !important; letter-spacing: normal !important; list-style-type: none !important; list-style-position: initial !important; list-style-image: initial !important; min-height: 0px !important; 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border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; opacity: 1 !important; outline-width: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-color: initial !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none !important; display: block !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important;\">Reply<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"background-image: initial !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; border-style: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; bottom: auto !important; clear: none !important; clip: auto !important; color: #333333 !important; cursor: auto !important; direction: ltr !important; float: left !important; font: normal normal normal 12px\/16px 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif !important; 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height: auto !important; left: auto !important; letter-spacing: normal !important; list-style-type: none !important; list-style-position: initial !important; list-style-image: initial !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; page: auto !important; position: static !important; quotes: none !important; right: auto !important; size: auto !important; text-align: left !important; text-decoration: none !important; text-indent: 0px !important; text-overflow: clip !important; text-shadow: none !important; text-transform: none !important; top: auto !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; visibility: visible !important; white-space: normal !important; width: auto !important; word-spacing: normal !important; word-wrap: normal !important; z-index: auto !important; -webkit-box-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; 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Are these guys going back to saying super PACs are evil, now that we all know their own PAC, Priorities USA Action, sucks? \u201cBeing better at this than we are is a threat to democracy!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5033\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;<em>When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds<\/em>&#8220;) in action; it&#8217;s easier to declare something the Democrats do badly a vice than it is to do it better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px;\">It&#8217;s happening on an even bigger scale in Minnesota, where the DFL and its media enablers have spent the past six months painstakingly attacking the utterly innocuous and mundane American Legislative Exchange Commission as Alita Messinger&#8217;s network of plutocrat-and-union-funded organizations make ready to try to buy this election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px;\">More on that later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Jim Treacher notes in The Daily Caller, &#8220;It\u2019s appalling and undemocratic to raise more money than the Obama campaign&#8221; . Or something. David Axelrod is purporting to be alarmed by\u00a0a Politico story on how Republican super PACs are planning to spend $1 billion on the election. David Axelrod \u2714 @davidaxelrod This election aside, anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,20],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-28234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-democrats","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234","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=28234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28237,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234\/revisions\/28237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}