{"id":4461,"date":"2009-03-26T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:22:58","slug":"through-and-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4461","title":{"rendered":"Through and Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in a party and a cabinet that is corrupt, through and through. Senator Dodd&#8217;s wife: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/dodds_wife_a_former_director_o.html\">ties to AIG<\/a>. Barney Frank&#8217;s lover: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,432501,00.html\">ties to Fannie Mae<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/politics\/obama\/chi-rahm-emanuel-profit-26-mar26,0,5682373.story\">One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch board members<\/a> was Chicago&#8217;s <span class=\"taxInlineTagLink\">R<\/span><span class=\"taxInlineTagLink\">ahm  Emanuel<\/span>\u2014now chief of staff to <span class=\"taxInlineTagLink\">President <\/span>Barack  Obama\u2014who made at least $320,000 for a 14-month stint at Freddie Mac  that required little effort.<\/p>\n<p>As gatekeeper to Obama, Emanuel now plays a  critical role in addressing the nation&#8217;s mortgage woes and fulfilling the  administration&#8217;s pledge to impose responsibility on the financial  world.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel&#8217;s Freddie Mac involvement has been a prominent point on  his political r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and his healthy payday from the firm has been no secret  either. What is less known, however, is how little he apparently did for his  money and how he benefited from the kind of cozy ties between Washington and  Wall Street that have fueled the nation&#8217;s current economic mess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the Change<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Jimmy II? Where&#8217;s the Change<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in a party and a cabinet that is corrupt, through and through. Senator Dodd&#8217;s wife: ties to AIG. Barney Frank&#8217;s lover: ties to Fannie Mae. Now this: One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch board members was Chicago&#8217;s Rahm Emanuel\u2014now chief of staff to President Barack Obama\u2014who made at least $320,000 for a 14-month stint at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}