{"id":1682,"date":"2006-03-08T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/appearances-be-damned\/"},"modified":"2006-03-08T07:45:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T14:45:01","slug":"appearances-be-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/appearances-be-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"Appearances be damned!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/thehill\/export\/TheHill\/News\/UndertheDome\/030706.html\">GOP and tech lobbyists: Appearances be damned!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[O]ne leading Republican in the room was brazen about his cozy relationship with the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) cited a newspaper headline saying <strong>he was in the \u201chip pocket\u201d<\/strong> of the high-tech lobby and said <strong>he \u201cproudly pleads guilty\u201d<\/strong> to helping an industry that has been responsible for so much growth in the gross domestic product in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>A technology-industry insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Dreier has indeed been one of the sector\u2019s best friends over the past few years. He said Dreier\u2019s one of the few who \u201cget it.\u201d But, he cautioned, Dreier likely isn\u2019t in it for the cash because the tech sector is notoriously inept at political giving.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>OK, everything&#8217;s cool as long as the bribe-givers are inept.<\/p>\n<p>If you think the media will follow up on things like this, recall that Randy &#8220;Il Duce&#8221; Cunningham lived on a yacht in DC and drove a Rolls Royce to the Capital and the Washington Press Corp didn&#8217;t seem to notice. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP and tech lobbyists: Appearances be damned! [O]ne leading Republican in the room was brazen about his cozy relationship with the industry. Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) cited a newspaper headline saying he was in the \u201chip pocket\u201d of the high-tech lobby and said he \u201cproudly pleads guilty\u201d to helping an industry that has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/appearances-be-damned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appearances be damned!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}