{"id":4657,"date":"2009-04-27T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:38:32","slug":"i-almost-missed-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"I Almost Missed This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I&#8217;m codifying this as Berg&#8217;s Eighth Law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats will only profess respect for a Republican when it serves their direct interest<em>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The examples are legion; John McCain was every Dem&#8217;s favorite Republican &#8211; until he became a threat.\u00a0 And\u00a0mark my words &#8211; if\u00a0Chuck Hagel had a consertive epiphany tomorrow, he&#8217;s be demonized as well. \u00a0In Minnesota, it&#8217;s the same thing; to the likes of Lori Sturdevant (who is as perfect a totem as exists for the Twin Cities&#8217; media&#8217;s attitude on politics) the only Republicans that count are the ones like Ron Erhard, the ones that are indistinguishable from DFLers.<\/p>\n<p>I found this bit from John Nichols&#8217; exceedingly dim hit piece in <em>The Nation <\/em>just after I published my last one; I add emphasis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Famously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykostv.com\/w\/000352\/\">Maine Senator Collins<\/a>, the <strong>supposedly moderate Republican<\/strong> who demanded cuts in health care spending in exchange for her support of a watered-down version of the stimulus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykostv.com\/w\/000352\/\">fumed about the pandemic funding<\/a>: &#8220;Does it belong in this bill? Should we have $870 million in this bill No, we should not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even now, Collins continues to use her official website to highlight the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/collins.senate.gov\/public\/continue.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Articles&#038;ContentRecord_id=46d6e846-802a-23ad-4ccd-8f37bc42d004&#038;Region_id=&#038;Issue_id=&#038;CFId=960&#038;CFToken=38005608\">she led the fight to strip the pandemic preparedness money out<\/a> of the Senate&#8217;s version of the stimulus measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect Sue Collins, having offended her Democrat masters,\u00a0won&#8217;t be doing lunch in DC for a while.<\/p>\n<p>And in conclusion, a line almost too stupid even for Grace Kelly:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did Rove, Collins and their compatriots want a pandemic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I said &#8220;almost&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I&#8217;m codifying this as Berg&#8217;s Eighth Law: Democrats will only profess respect for a Republican when it serves their direct interest. The examples are legion; John McCain was every Dem&#8217;s favorite Republican &#8211; until he became a threat.\u00a0 And\u00a0mark my words &#8211; if\u00a0Chuck Hagel had a consertive epiphany tomorrow, he&#8217;s be demonized as well. \u00a0In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,63],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-lefty-alt-media","tag-bergs-8th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","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=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33290,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/33290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}