{"id":3482,"date":"2010-10-22T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/influence-of-billionaires-who-write-the-checks-give-me-some-concern\/"},"modified":"2010-10-22T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T20:37:28","slug":"influence-of-billionaires-who-write-the-checks-give-me-some-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/influence-of-billionaires-who-write-the-checks-give-me-some-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Influence Of &lsquo;Billionaires Who Write The Checks Give Me Some Concern&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/22\/rove-2004-outside-groups\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Rove In 2004: Influence Of \u2018Billionaires Who Write The Checks Give Me Some Concern\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am a firm believer in strong (political) parties, and things that weaken the parties and place the outcome of elections in the hands of billionaires who can write checks and political consultants who can get themselves hired by billionaires who write the checks, give me some concern,\u201d [Karl] Rove said <\/strong>[in 2004]<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, these days Rove isn\u2019t as big a believer in strong political parties, as he works to build a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/roves-shadow-rnc\">shadow RNC<\/a>.\u201d He also isn\u2019t as concerned about the subversion of democracy at the hands of a few wealthy donors. Instead, when President Obama makes the argument that Rove did in 2004, the Rove of 2010 slams him for having an \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1010\/43371.html\">enemies list<\/a>\u201d and engaging in a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/10\/10\/rove-gillespie-slam-obama-spreading-baseless-lie-foreign-contributions\/\">desperate political ploy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/22\/rove-2004-outside-groups\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Rove In 2004: Influence Of \u2018Billionaires Who Write The Checks Give Me Some Concern\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress \u00bb Rove In 2004: Influence Of \u2018Billionaires Who Write The Checks Give Me Some Concern\u2019 \u201cI am a firm believer in strong (political) parties, and things that weaken the parties and place the outcome of elections in the hands of billionaires who can write checks and political consultants who can get themselves hired by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/influence-of-billionaires-who-write-the-checks-give-me-some-concern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Influence Of &lsquo;Billionaires Who Write The Checks Give Me Some Concern&rsquo;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","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=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}