{"id":25785,"date":"2012-01-28T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T04:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/poison-for-the-goose-is-poison-for-the-gander.html"},"modified":"2012-02-01T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:31:42","slug":"poison-for-the-goose-is-poison-for-the-gander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/poison-for-the-goose-is-poison-for-the-gander.html","title":{"rendered":"Poison for the goose is poison for the gander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dems are by no means immune to the draw of big money &#8230; or the corruption that can result from it.  My sense is that it is not <i>quite<\/i> the problem it is on the GOP side, but it&#39;s still a problem (as the recent SOPA\/PIPA brouhaha demonstrated).  #ddtb<\/p>\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%2Fimages.politico.com%2Fglobal%2F2012%2F01%2F120127_obama_pelosi2_ap_328.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:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0112\/72104.html'>Dems bash, bank secret cash &#8211; Kenneth P. Vogel and Alexander Burns<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeam Obama blesses a network of super PACs trying to raise the same checks as Romney\u2019s.<br \/>\n\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 Dems are by no means immune to the draw of big money &#8230; or the corruption that can result from it. My sense is that it is not quite the problem it is on the GOP side, but it&#39;s still a problem (as the recent SOPA\/PIPA brouhaha demonstrated). #ddtb Embedded Link Dems bash, bank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/poison-for-the-goose-is-poison-for-the-gander.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poison for the goose is poison for the gander&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,35,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":25785,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":25785,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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