{"id":829,"date":"2005-07-21T19:55:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","slug":"wheres_mr_clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Mr. Clean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve bitched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/archives\/000015.html#000015\" target=\"browser\">(check out this post on MBNA water-carrier, Jew-basher, and Kos client Jim Moran)<\/a> for a long time that the soft ethical standards of the elected Democrats would make it difficult &#8211; or impossible &#8211; for them to run against a core Republican vulnerability, the corporate-lobbyist-friendly policies the GOP loves to espouse.<\/p>\n<p>Dean has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/0705\/04demslobby.html\" target=\"browser\">made this point<\/a>, with some effectiveness, and it&#8217;s nice to see it get echoed over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydd.com\/story\/2005\/6\/9\/151813\/7844\" target=\"browser\">at MyDD<\/a>. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydd.com\/comments\/2005\/6\/9\/151813\/7844\/2#2\" target=\"browser\">comments<\/a>; commenter Gary Boatwright sums up my feelings perfectly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;Unfortunately, Democratic looseness with ethical standards will make it look like the pot is calling the kettle black.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf it was up to me, I&#8217;d hire one of Elliot Spitzer&#8217;s top lawyers and give them the task of cleaning up the Democratic party. Let the chips fall where they may. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve bitched (check out this post on MBNA water-carrier, Jew-basher, and Kos client Jim Moran) for a long time that the soft ethical standards of the elected Democrats would make it difficult &#8211; or impossible &#8211; for them to run against a core Republican vulnerability, the corporate-lobbyist-friendly policies the GOP loves to espouse. Dean has [&hellip;]<\/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\/829"}],"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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}