{"id":923,"date":"2005-11-29T05:48:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T05:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:28","slug":"why_cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"Why Cunningham Is Far Worse Than Moran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pissed off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/archives\/000015.html\" target=\"browser\">for a while<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/007749.php\" target=\"browser\">general level of corruption<\/a> in national politics, and have spent much of my energy bashing my fellow Democrats for not cleaning up their act, because that would leave the GOP so damn vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>But for all my disgust at John &#8220;MBNA&#8221; Moran (D-VA and several large banks), there&#8217;s something especially sordid about <a href=\"http:\/\/letters.washingtonpost.com\/WARH034CC1640A649C77F3D0145AB0\" target=\"browser\">Duke Cunningham&#8217;s betrayal<\/a> of his fellow members of the military.<\/p>\n<p>Because there&#8217;s just no other word for systematically subverting the military procurement process for cash.<\/p>\n<p>Do you really believe that the soldiers who depend on whatever the hell it is that MZM and ADCS make got the best that could be bought?<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t you think there&#8217;s a special place in hell for an ex-military hero who sold out today&#8217;s soldiers for a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe?<\/p>\n<p><b>[Update:<\/b> Added link.<b>]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Liberal is pretty unhappy with Duke Cunningham&#8217;s betrayal of our military.<\/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\/923"}],"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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}