{"id":1223,"date":"2015-06-05T18:59:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T23:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:59:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T23:59:27","slug":"chess-in-washington-whos-the-most-important-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/05\/chess-in-washington-whos-the-most-important-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess in Washington: Who’s the most important piece?"},"content":{"rendered":"

cdub24 @ The Daily Kos<\/strong> has a post entitled “POLL finds 80% of Republicans AGREE with BERNIE SANDERS<\/a>“, which links to a post at PoliticsUSA<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sen. Bernie Sanders is often characterized by the media as an out of the mainstream presidential candidate, but a new CBS\/New York Times poll revealed that 80% of Republicans agree with Sanders on the issue of getting money out of politics.<\/p>\n

The CBS\/NYT poll <\/a>found that:
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\n\u2013 80% of Republicans believe that money has too much influence in our politics.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 54% believed that most of the time candidates directly help those who gave money to them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and etc., all related to campaign finance.<\/p>\n

So, we can look at this and say, Wow, isn’t this amazing, maybe we should elect Bernie and get things DONE.<\/p>\n

But here’s the thing: Presidents are Executives.\u00a0 They Execute the law.\u00a0 They don’t make the Law.\u00a0 They may make War, but even then they are supposed to retroactively get permission – and risk getting booted out, if the Legislature is up to doing its job, rather than playing tribal politics.<\/p>\n

The Legislature makes the law.\u00a0 And that’s where just about all the positions of Bernie’s would need action.\u00a0 (Constitutional Amendments also start in legislatures.)<\/p>\n

So this sort of headline is all hot air and no red meat.\u00a0 It can be used to embarrass your favorite conservative relative, if that’s your conception of politics – tear up the family and friends, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

But what it really needs to be is the extension of a hand to the family and friends and the remark, Hey, I hear your Representative isn’t in step with the conservative movement, yeah, that one that happens to think there’s too much money in politics, that corruption is rampant – what do you think should be done to correct or replace your Representative?<\/p>\n

As entertaining as I find the modern conception of politics to be, the use of embarrassment, contempt, and scorn are the first materials to use – when burning bridges.\u00a0 What do you think should be used when building bridges?<\/p>\n

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cdub24 @ The Daily Kos has a post entitled “POLL finds 80% of Republicans AGREE with BERNIE SANDERS“, which links to a post at PoliticsUSA: Sen. Bernie Sanders is often characterized by the media as an out of the mainstream presidential candidate, but a new CBS\/New York Times poll revealed \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}