{"id":1436,"date":"2007-05-14T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-05-14T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:16:50","slug":"attaboy_to_kevi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Attaboy to Kevin Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin picks up on the same AP story<\/a> I commented on, and his closing line is hard to improve on:<\/p>\n

…that leaves us with the biggest provision of all: disclosure of bundling. The American League of Lobbyists is dead set against it, which is no surprise, since this is a prime loophole that allows special interests to funnel vast sums of money to politicians without ever being identified. Apparently, though, it’s become so radioactive that Dem leaders are planning to drop it entirely, promising that they’ll allow it to come up later as a separate bill. Sure they will.<\/p>\n

\nCome on, folks: show some spine. If Democrats want people to believe that there’s really a difference between the two parties, then show them there’s a difference.<\/b> Put the bundling provision back in and give it a vote. It’s the right thing to do.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Drum asks the Democrats to grow a backbone on lobbying reform…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}