{"id":1077,"date":"2011-08-19T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2011-08-19T19:49:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T23:49:39","slug":"let-the-bidding-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Let the Bidding Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/11225514\/1\/bank-of-america-to-rick-perry-we-will-help-you-out.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America made an offer<\/a> to buy a big chunk of Rick Perry. This is how it&#8217;s done, although not usually on camera while the sound is rolling. <\/p>\n<p><object id='cspan-video-player' classid='clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0' align='middle' height='500' width='410'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'\/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=301090-1&#038;start=2402&#038;end=2421'\/><param name='quality' value='high'\/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'\/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'\/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=258969&#038;style=full&#038;start=2402&#038;end=2421'\/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=301090-1&#038;start=2402&#038;end=2421' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' allowFullScreen='true' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=258969&#038;style=full&#038;start=2402&#038;end=2421' align='middle' height='500' width='410'><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The man telling Mr. Perry that Bank of America will help him is James Mahoney, BoA&#8217;s directory of public policy. Since Perry didn&#8217;t say something like, &#8220;Get thee behind me, Satan!&#8221; or &#8220;Us Texans don&#8217;t need no WALL STREET banks to help us out!&#8221; or &#8220;How about you take your dirty money elsewhere!&#8221;, one can only conclude that Mr. Perry will be happy to receive some funding from BoA, most likely in exchange for smiling favorably upon proposals that they place before him.<\/p>\n<p>The going rate for Perry is $25,000 per year, on average. I presume a President Perry would command a higher fee, commensurate with his greater station in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America made an offer to buy a big chunk of Rick Perry. This is how it&#8217;s done, although not usually on camera while the sound is rolling. The man telling Mr. Perry that Bank of America will help him is James Mahoney, BoA&#8217;s directory of public policy. Since Perry didn&#8217;t say something like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}