{"id":134835,"date":"2017-09-22T23:43:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134835"},"modified":"2017-09-23T00:17:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T06:17:55","slug":"gop-facing-donor-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/gop-facing-donor-rebellion.html","title":{"rendered":"The GOP is facing a donor rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d <i>like<\/i> to think that at least some donor rebellion &#8212; especially at the grass roots &#8212; is from more general buffoonery from the Congressional GOP and the President, but evidently, at least from the <i>big<\/i> donors, it&#8217;s because Congress has managed to do largely bupkis in terms of doing anything to further the Republican cause other than canceling a bunch of Obama regulations and approving a bunch of Trump nominees.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, if I were a big-money GOP contributor, I&#8217;d be kind of torqued that they&#8217;ve managed to fritter away several months rather than robbing poor people of health care, giving the monetary savings to corporations and wealthy donors like me, and generally rolling back all change since the Gilded Age.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and look, it&#8217;s Corey Gardner, my (sigh) junior Senator, running the GOP&#8217;s mid-term reelection effort. Well, he doesn&#8217;t have to worry &#8212; he&#8217;s not up for reelection until 2020. Just like Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/22\/us\/politics\/republican-donors-obamacare-repeal.html?utm_content=bufferfb5a5&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer&amp;referer=https:\/\/t.co\/TlKnEqqq8e&amp;_r=0\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/73XhNZGbcPwtosnpQj1gXJ09sKaTteI2h0TzbNdB8f4xpUMa1Gswh-ERY6y0qsi1yjJ_eziKD49yxv1BaYO8H9iT6ZFxdbgJ1vXun39milfoPxVj3vI6ZziYTAwE9Vs-AxzNMx0=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/22\/us\/politics\/republican-donors-obamacare-repeal.html?utm_content=bufferfb5a5&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer&amp;referer=https:\/\/t.co\/TlKnEqqq8e&amp;_r=0\">Behind New Obamacare Repeal Vote: \u2018Furious\u2019 G.O.P. Donors &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDonations to the party are down, and Senator Cory Gardner warned his colleagues that they have to show some results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/KaDuup2hbjM\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to think that at least some donor rebellion &#8212; especially at the grass roots &#8212; is from more general buffoonery from the Congressional GOP and the President, but evidently, at least from the big donors, it&#8217;s because Congress has managed to do largely bupkis in terms of doing anything to further the Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/gop-facing-donor-rebellion.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The GOP is facing a donor rebellion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1140,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2018","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed-30.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18904,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/unblogged-bits-tue-12-oct-10-2331.html","url_meta":{"origin":134835,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 12-Oct-10 2331)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Oct-10 11:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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