{"id":25325,"date":"2012-01-12T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/reinstating-the-eleventh-commandment.html"},"modified":"2012-01-12T18:13:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:13:46","slug":"reinstating-the-eleventh-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/reinstating-the-eleventh-commandment.html","title":{"rendered":"Reinstating the Eleventh Commandment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP establishment is trying to rein in Perry and Gingrich and their attacks on Romney &#8212; or, at least, on Romney&#39;s corporate raider role at Bain. Those attacks have making it sound like <s>making money no matter the human cost<\/s> free enterprise is a bad thing, which is <i>not<\/i> the message the GOP wants out there &#8230; especially as it looks increasingly likely that Romney will be their nominee. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102449423618024963809'>David Kurtz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fassets_c%2F2012%2F01%2Fgingrich-kraken-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/01\/leash-the-kraken-gop-looks-to-shut-down-bain-attack.php?ref=fpa'>Leash The Kraken! GOP Looks To Shut Down Bain Attack | TPM2012<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNewt Gingrich and Rick Perry are getting a harsh reminder of what party they belong to as Republicans of all stripes demand they finally cool it with the Bain layoff talk. The message is loud and clea&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP establishment is trying to rein in Perry and Gingrich and their attacks on Romney &#8212; or, at least, on Romney&#39;s corporate raider role at Bain. Those attacks have making it sound like making money no matter the human cost free enterprise is a bad thing, which is not the message the GOP wants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/reinstating-the-eleventh-commandment.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reinstating the Eleventh Commandment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30252,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/house-gop-learns-a-lesson-from-romney-chutzpah.html","url_meta":{"origin":25325,"position":0},"title":"House GOP learns a lesson from Romney chutzpah","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-12 9:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or maybe the other way around. \u00a0While Romney's camp launches odd attacks against the Obama Administration for supporting requests from GOP governors for flexibility in handling work-to-welfare programs, the House GOP is putting forward legislation to block such requests from GOP governors ... even while conveniently forgetting that they previously\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25262,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/attacking-big-business-from-the-right.html","url_meta":{"origin":25325,"position":1},"title":"Attacking Big Business &#8230; from the Right","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jan-12 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's fascinating to see the attacks being launched on Romney now from his GOP competitors, criticizing him for ... well being a Big Businessman. 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