{"id":328,"date":"2010-02-16T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:49:12","slug":"is-bayh-a-big-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Is Bayh a Big Loss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really. There&#8217;s 99 other guys just like him in the Senate. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muckety.com\/\">Muckety<\/a> for his associations. It&#8217;s the typical mosh pit of banking, defense, pharmaceutical, and special interest groups that fetters every other senator. Check out some of the guys he&#8217;s immediately connected to and who they&#8217;re one jump away from. Like other senators, he&#8217;s just a legal partnership away from a truckload of special interests. A brief search turned up Roche and JP Morgan among the clients of a firm he has a direct relationship with.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, he&#8217;s not a real loss. The next senator from Indiana, be he Demican or Republocrat, will look a lot like Bayh: someone with a much closer relationship with the board of directors of JP Morgan than <em>I&#8217;ll<\/em> ever have. Still, the Muckety link is nice. Check out <em>your<\/em> favorite Congressperson or Senator with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really. There&#8217;s 99 other guys just like him in the Senate. Check out Muckety for his associations. It&#8217;s the typical mosh pit of banking, defense, pharmaceutical, and special interest groups that fetters every other senator. Check out some of the guys he&#8217;s immediately connected to and who they&#8217;re one jump away from. Like other [&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-328","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\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}