{"id":811,"date":"2005-07-04T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T14:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:14","slug":"operation_yello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Operation Yellow Donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would be funny if it weren’t so predictable; Duncan Black (Atrios) has been waving the “chickenhawk” meme<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d beaten<\/a> this to death and put a stake<\/a> in it. It’s an immoral position, a politically naive position, and one that undermines our polity. Plus it’s just plain rude.<\/p>\n

But let’s play the hand out a bit. As I noted before, as a fellow liberal, I’ll bet he supports higher taxes on the rich (see this Google search<\/a>).<\/p>\n

When Duncan asks his paymaster, George Soros, or his candidate John Kerry, to voluntarily pay higher taxes – because it’s a policy he supports – he can open his mouth try and intimidate a bunch of GOP kids into silence without being such an obvious hypocrite. <\/p>\n

I’m sure Soros could easily write a check for $10 – $20 million, and in seriously encouraging him doing that, Duncan could provide leadership that might actually crack open the taxes issue.<\/p>\n

I won’t be holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would be funny if it weren’t so predictable; Duncan Black (Atrios) has been waving the “chickenhawk” meme again. I thought I’d beaten this to death and put a stake in it. It’s an immoral position, a politically naive position, and one that undermines our polity. Plus it’s just plain rude. But let’s play the […]<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}