{"id":8580,"date":"2010-02-10T07:49:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2010-02-10T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:49:15","slug":"the-hand-that-feeds-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8580","title":{"rendered":"The Hand That Feeds You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going all populist is all the rage these days.<\/p>\n

Which is a fine thing if you’re running for Senate in Nevada, or your supporters are a bunch of out-of-work manufacturing workers.<\/p>\n

Not if your main support is, say, Wall Street plutocrats<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cChuck says, \u2018I\u2019ve been there to help you,\u2019\u2009\u201d says one lobbyist. \u201cWell, that\u2019s when we were playing stickball. Now we\u2019re in a cage match and he\u2019s hiding under his desk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumer’s critics\u2014who accuse him of adopting a populist streak so he can be the next majority leader\u2014have no hope of unseating him, but they can take revenge in other ways, writes Smith in New York<\/em><\/a> magazine. That includes getting behind Harold Ford Jr. as he tries to oust Kirsten Gillibrand\u2014”a virtual ward of Schumer’s”\u2014from her Senate seat. “A lot of what\u2019s fueling the Ford thing is Chuck\u2019s donors, who are furious at him,\u201d says a political consultant. \u201cThey feel he\u2019s walked away from them.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n

But I’m confused; I didn’t think corporations had any influence over Democrat politicians before the Supreme Court scuppered McCain\/Feingold.\u00a0 What happened?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going all populist is all the rage these days. Which is a fine thing if you’re running for Senate in Nevada, or your supporters are a bunch of out-of-work manufacturing workers. Not if your main support is, say, Wall Street plutocrats: \u201cChuck says, \u2018I\u2019ve been there to help you,\u2019\u2009\u201d says one lobbyist. \u201cWell, that\u2019s when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","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=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}